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Innovation Investment and Intellectual Property in South Korea Park to Park

The Park Avenue Cubists Gallatin Morris Frelinghuysen and Shaw

Park Maker Life of Frederick Law Olmsted

Park Maker Life of Frederick Law Olmsted

On April 28 1858 municipal officials announced the winner of the design contest for a great new park for the people of New York City-Plan no. 33 Greensward by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux. Though the appropriated ground for what was to become Central Park was nothing more than a barren expanse occupied by squatters in a matter of a few years Olmsted turned the wasteland into a landscape of coherence elegance and beauty. It not only surpassed the design ingenuity of its existing European counterparts but gained the designer national acclaim in a profession that still lacked a name. Olmsted was an American visionary. He foresaw the day when New York and many other growing cities of the mid-nineteenth century would be plagued by what we presently term urban sprawl. And he was convinced of the critical importance of adapting land for the recreational and contemplative needs of city dwellers before the last remnants of natural terrain were engulfed by monotonous straight streets and piles of erect angular buildings. As a result of his early efforts to revolutionize the design of public parks many cities today are able to preserve the recreational space and greenery within their urban limits. In addition his thoughts and words on wilderness areas still echo across a century of preservation in the wild. This lively and insightful account of his prodigious life features many of his outstanding landscape projects including the Biltmore Estate Prospect Park (Brooklyn) the capitol grounds in Washington DC the Boston Park System the Chicago parks and the Chicago World Fair as well as measures to preserve the natural settings at Niagara Falls Yosemite and the Adirondacks. It traces his early years and describes events that were to form his artistic intellectual and deeply humanistic sensibilities. And it restores this lost American hero to his prominent place in history. In addition to being the acknowledged father of American landscape architecture Frederick Law Olmsted helped shape the political and philosophical climate of America in his own time and today. Elizabeth Stevenson is the author of the Bancroft Award-winning Henry Adams: A Biography; The Glass Lark a biography of Lafcadio Hearn; and Babbitts and Bohemians: From the Great War to the Great Depression all available from Transaction. | Park Maker Life of Frederick Law Olmsted

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500 Common Korean Idioms

The History of Live Music in Britain Volume II 1968-1984 From Hyde Park to the Hacienda

Global Medieval Contexts 500 – 1500 Connections and Comparisons

Global Medieval Contexts 500 – 1500 Connections and Comparisons

Global Medieval Contexts 500–1500: Connections and Comparisons provides a unique wide-lens introduction to world history during this period. Designed for students new to the subject this textbook explores vital networks and relationships among geographies and cultures that shaped medieval societies. The expert author team aims to advance a global view of the period and introduce the reader to histories and narratives beyond an exclusively European context. Key Features: Divided into chronological sections chapters are organized by four key themes: Religion Economics Politics and Society. This framework enables students to connect wider ideas and debates across 500 to 1500. Individual chapters address current theoretical discussions including issues around gender migration and sustainable environments. The authors’ combined teaching experience and subject specialties ensure an engaging and accessible overview for students of history literature and those undertaking general studies courses. Theory boxes and end-of-chapter questions provide a basis for group discussion and research. Full-color maps and images illustrate chapter content and support understanding. As a result this text is essential reading for all those interested in learning more about the histories and cultures of the period as well as their relevance to our own contemporary experiences and perspectives. This textbook is supported by a companion website providing core resources for students and lecturers. | Global Medieval Contexts 500 – 1500 Connections and Comparisons

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Jewish Women in the Medieval World 500–1500 CE

The Routledge Handbook of East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages 500-1300

North America's Natural Wonders

North America's Natural Wonders

Although millions of Americans and international travelers take road trips through North America every year most have no understanding of how the landscape came to be. North America’s Natural Wonders provides everything these travelers need to understand the landscape. Written by a career geologist with decades of experience in the field it guides readers through the most iconic geologically significant scenery in North America and explains what they are seeing. Volume I focuses on western North America including the Canadian Rockies the Southwest Great Basin and Tetons-Yellowstone Country. The trips detailed in this volume include stops at the glaciers and mountains of Banff National Park the Grand Canyon numerous parks in Utah and the geysers and hot springs of Yellowstone. It also features lesser known but equally interesting geologic formations and how to access these sites. Volume II focuses on central and eastern North America including the Appalachians of Virginia and West Virginia the Colorado Rockies Austin-Big Bend Country and the Sierra Madre Oriental of Mexico. The trips detailed in this volume include stops at the Blue Ridge in Shenandoah National Park Carlsbad Caverns National Park Big Bend National Park Garden of the Gods and Pikes Peak the Colorado Mineral Belt Aspen and the Maroon Bells giant salt-cored uplifts of the La Popa Basin Mexico and many others. It also features lesser known but equally interesting geologic formations and how to access these sites. This detailed guide will help the curious layman the rock hound the geology student and the professional geologist understand what they are seeing when they look at a roadcut quarry or landscape. A full understanding of natural formations will enhance the traveler’s experience beyond simple sightseeing. | North America's Natural Wonders

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Reciprocal Landscapes Stories of Material Movements

Reciprocal Landscapes Stories of Material Movements

How are the far-away invisible landscapes where materials come from related to the highly visible urban landscapes where those same materials are installed? Reciprocal Landscapes: Stories of Material Movements traces five everyday landscape construction materials – fertilizer stone steel trees and wood – from seminal public landscapes in New York City back to where they came from. Drawing from archival documents photographs and field trips the author brings these two separate landscapes – the material’s source and the urban site where the material ended up – together exploring themes of unequal ecological exchange labor and material flows. Each chapter follows a single material’s movement: guano from Peru that landed in Central Park in the 1860s granite from Maine that paved Broadway in the 1890s structural steel from Pittsburgh that restructured Riverside Park in the 1930s London plane street trees grown on Rikers Island by incarcerated workers that were planted on Seventh Avenue north of Central Park in the 1950s and the popular tropical hardwood ipe from northern Brazil installed in the High Line in the 2000s. Reciprocal Landscapes: Stories of Material Movements considers the social political and ecological entanglements of material practice challenging readers to think of materials not as inert products but as continuous with land and the people that shape them and to reimagine forms of construction in solidarity with people other species and landscapes elsewhere. | Reciprocal Landscapes Stories of Material Movements

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Valuing U.S. National Parks and Programs America’s Best Investment

Valuing U.S. National Parks and Programs America’s Best Investment

This book provides the first comprehensive economic valuation of U. S. National Parks (including monuments seashores lakeshores recreation areas and historic sites) and National Park Service (NPS) programs. The book develops a comprehensive framework to calculate the economic value of protected areas with particular application to the U. S. National Park Service. The framework covers many benefits provided by NPS units and programs including on-site visitation carbon sequestration and intellectual property such as in education curricula and filming of movies/ TV shows with case studies of each included. Examples are drawn from studies in Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area Golden Gate National Recreation Area Everglades National Park and Chesapeake Bay. The editors conclude with a chapter on innovative approaches for sustainable funding of the NPS in its second century. The framework serves as a blueprint of methodologies for conservationists government agencies land trusts economists and others to value public lands historical sites and related programs such as education. The methodologies are relevant to local and state parks wildlife refuges and protected areas in developed and developing countries as well as to national parks around the world. Containing a series of unique case studies this book will be of great interest to professionals and students in environmental economics land management and nature conservation as well as the more general reader interested in National Parks. | Valuing U. S. National Parks and Programs America’s Best Investment

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Why Cities Need Large Parks Large Parks in Large Cities

Why Cities Need Large Parks Large Parks in Large Cities

The large parks and green infrastructure presented here illustrate the diverse uses and many benefits of large urban parks across 30 major cities. Demand for large urban parks emerged at the height of the First Industrial Revolution in the mid-1800s when large urban parks represented new ideas of accessible public spaces often established on land previously owned by aristocracy royalty or the army. They represented new ideas on how city life could be improved and how large green spaces could enhance urban citizens’ physical and psychological well-being (e. g. Birkenhead Park in Liverpool Bois de Boulogne in Paris Tiergarten in Berlin and Central Park in New York City). Today large urban parks are habitats for biodiversity and spaces of climate change adaptation. For people living in cities this biodiversity may represent high cultural recreational and aesthetic values but is also important for other aspects of health and well-being for example by reducing the urban heat island effect air pollution and risks of flooding. At a time when we are seriously reconsidering how we live in cities and our urban quality of life while also grappling with serious challenges of climate change the authors of this book detail the much-needed evidence pathways and vision for a future of more liveable resilient cities where large urban parks are at the core. This book will help park managers NGOs landscape architects and city planners to develop the green city of the future. | Why Cities Need Large Parks Large Parks in Large Cities

GBP 35.99
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The Man Farthest Down

Classification and Examples of Differential Equations and their Applications

Classification and Examples of Differential Equations and their Applications

Classification and Examples of Differential Equations and their Applications is the sixth book within Ordinary Differential Equations with Applications to Trajectories and Vibrations Six-volume Set. As a set they are the fourth volume in the series Mathematics and Physics Applied to Science and Technology. This sixth book consists of one chapter (chapter 10 of the set). It contains 20 examples related to the preceding five books and chapters 1 to 9 of the set. It includes two recollections: the first with a classification of differential equations into 500 standards and the second with a list of 500 applications. The ordinary differential equations are classified in 500 standards concerning methods of solution and related properties including: (i) linear differential equations with constant or homogeneous coefficients and finite difference equations; (ii) linear and non-linear single differential equations and simultaneous systems; (iii) existence unicity and other properties; (iv) derivation of general particular special analytic regular irregular and normal integrals; (v) linear differential equations with variable coefficients including known and new special functions. The theory of differential equations is applied to the detailed solution of 500 physical and engineering problems including: (i) one- and multidimensional oscillators with damping or amplification with non-resonant or resonant forcing; (ii) single non-linear and parametric resonance; (iii) bifurcations and chaotic dynamical systems; (iv) longitudinal and transversal deformations and buckling of bars beams and plates; (v) trajectories of particles; (vi) oscillations and waves in non-uniform media ducts and wave guides. Provides detailed solution of examples of differential equations of the types covered in tomes l-5 of the set (Ordinary Differential Equations with Applications to Trajectories and Vibrations Six -volume Set)Includes physical and engineering problems that extend those presented in the tomes 1-6 (Ordinary Differential Equations with Applications to Trajectories and Vibrations Six-volume Set)Includes a classification of ordinary differential equations and their properties into 500 standards that can serve as a look-up table of methods of solutionCovers a recollection of 500 physical and engineering problems and sub-cases that involve the solution of differential equationsPresents the problems used as examples including formulation solution and interpretation of results

GBP 44.99
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Regreening the Built Environment Nature Green Space and Sustainability

Regreening the Built Environment Nature Green Space and Sustainability

Regreening the Built Environment examines the relationship between the built environment and nature and demonstrates how rethinking the role and design of infrastructure can environmentally economically and socially sustain the earth. In the past infrastructure and green or park spaces have been regarded as two opposing factors and placed in conflict with one another through irresponsible patterns of development. This book attempts to change this paradigm and create a new notion that greenspace parks and infrastructure can indeed be one in the same. The case studies will demonstrate how existing gray infrastructure can be retrofitted with green infrastructure and low impact development techniques. It is quite plausible that a building can be designed that actually creates greenspace or generates energy; likewise a roadway can be a park an alley can be a wildlife corridor and a parking surface can be a garden. In addition to examining sustainability in the near future the book also explores such alternatives in the distant and very distant future questioning the notion of sustainability in the event of an earth-altering cataclysmic disaster. The strategies presented in this book aim to stimulate discussions within the design profession and will be of great interest to students and practitioners of environmental studies architecture and urban design. | Regreening the Built Environment Nature Green Space and Sustainability

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Codebreaking and Signals Intelligence

Codebreaking and Signals Intelligence

Despite publicity given to the successes of British and American codebreakers during the Second World War the study of signals intelligence is still complicated by governmental secrecy over even the most elderly peacetime sigint. This book first published in 1986 lifts the veil on some of these historical secrets. Christopher Andrew and Keith Neilson cast new light on how Tsarist codebreakers penetrated British code and cypher systems. John Chapman’s study of German military codebreaking represents a major advance in our understanding of cryptanalysis during the Weimar Republic. The history of the Government Code and Cypher School – forerunner of today’s GCHQ – by its operational head the late A. G. Denniston provides both a general assessment of the achievements of British cryptanalysis between the wars and a tantalising glimpse of what historians may one day find in GCHQ’s forbidden archives. The distinguished cryptanalyst of Bletchley Park the late Gordon Welchman describes in detail how the Ultra programme defeated the German Enigma machine while another Bletchley Park cryptographer Christopher Morris reminds us in his account of the valuable work on hand cyphers that wartime sigint consisted of much more than Ultra. Roger Austin’s study of surveillance under the Vichy regime shows the continuing importance of older and simpler methods of message interception such as letter-opening. Taken together the articles establish sigint as an essential field of study for both the modern historian and the political scientist. | Codebreaking and Signals Intelligence

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Partings Welded Together Politics and Desire in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel

The Immersive Worlds Handbook Designing Theme Parks and Consumer Spaces