| Author | : Frances L. Higgins |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 270 |
| Release | : 2004-01-01 |
| Genre | : Chatham Region (Mass. : Town) |
| ISBN | : 9780936972213 |
Southern California Parks, Lakes, Forests, and Beaches
| Author | : Mickey Little |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 192 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : California |
| ISBN | : 0884152464 |
Packed with maps and information on 87 state and national parks, lakes, beaches, forest, and recreation areas. For quick and easy access, this guide divides Southern California into three regions so you can better plan your vacations, holidays and weekend getaways.
New York Recentered
| Author | : Kara Murphy Schlichting |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 329 |
| Release | : 2019-04-23 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 022661302X |
The history of New York City’s urban development often centers on titanic municipal figures like Robert Moses and on prominent inner Manhattan sites like Central Park. New York Recentered boldly shifts the focus to the city’s geographic edges—the coastlines and waterways—and to the small-time unelected locals who quietly shaped the modern city. Kara Murphy Schlichting details how the vernacular planning done by small businessmen and real estate operators, performed independently of large scale governmental efforts, refigured marginal locales like Flushing Meadows and the shores of Long Island Sound and the East River in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The result is a synthesis of planning history, environmental history, and urban history that recasts the story of New York as we know it.
Camps of Geneva Lake
| Author | : Carolyn Hope Smeltzer |
| Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 233 |
| Release | : 2016-03-28 |
| Genre | : Travel |
| ISBN | : 1439655022 |
Geneva Lake camps provided education, activities, spirituality, and community in a healthy environment away from the city. The first sites were located on the western shores of Geneva Lake, with Camp Collie established in 1874; seventeen more followed. Although most camps were spiritually based, they differed in what they offered and who they served. People attending the camps came from all income levels and many cultures. Adult- and family-oriented camps provided a setting for vacations or conferences, and children's camps prided themselves on fostering responsibility and solid values. Images of America: Camps of Geneva Lake highlights 18 camps in the days of woolen bathing costumes, steam yachts, and platform tents.
Resorts of Berrien County
| Author | : Elaine Cotsirilos Thomopoulos |
| Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 132 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780738534077 |
For over 125 years, Berrien County has beckoned visitors with its magnificent beaches, attractions, and events. During the early 20th century, some visitors to southwestern Michigan were upper-class industrialists, while others were working-class families belonging to close-knit ethnic communities. As the area developed into a resort haven, elaborate mansions shared the beach with the cottages of Irish, Czech, Swedish, Jewish, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Italian, and African-American communities. This book chronicles the early history of Berrien County's resort culture -- from the twinkling amusement parks of Silver Beach and the House of David and the marathon dances at Shadowland Pavilion to the mineral baths at the Whitcomb Hotel and the fruit orchards found throughout the "Heart of the Fruit Belt."
Ghana
| Author | : Philip Briggs |
| Publisher | : Bradt Travel Guides |
| Total Pages | : 454 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : Ghana |
| ISBN | : 1841623253 |
Ghana is an ideal destination for first-time visitors toAfrica; rich in little-visited national parks, forestreserves, cultural sites and scenic waterfalls, blessedwith bleached white beaches and lush rain forests of theAtlantic coastline. This stand-alone guide, the only oneavailable, caters for both the budget backpacker and ......
The Nonviolent Coming of God
| Author | : James W. Douglass |
| Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 255 |
| Release | : 2006-04-01 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1597526118 |
In this, his most eloquent and far-reaching book, James Douglass explores the haunting parallels between the situation of Jesus and our situation today. Jesus, who lived in anticipation of the impending destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans and suffered from this vision, called urgently for a radical conversion to avert the tragedy. The choice then -- as now -- was between nonviolence and nonexistence. This choice is even more stark in the nuclear age. Whether describing the visions of Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., Archbishop Romero, or the witness of his own community against the White Train carrying warheads across the country, Douglass can discern the sights of a second coming, a nonviolent coming of God. The possibility for a different future depends on a different kind of humanity, renewed and transformed by the nonviolent cross of Christ.
