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Dream cities : seven urban ideas that shape the world
\"A lively, unique, and accessible cultural history of modern cities--from suburbs, downtown districts, and exurban sprawl, to shopping malls and \"sustainable\" developments--that allows us to view them through the planning, design, architects, and movements that inspired, created, and shaped them. Dream Cities explores our cities in a new way--as expressions of ideas, often conflicting, about how we should live, work, play, make, buy, and believe. It tells the stories of the real architects and thinkers whose imagined cities became the blueprints for the world we live in. From the nineteenth century to today, what began as visionary concepts--sometimes utopian, sometimes outlandish, always controversial--were gradually adopted and constructed on a massive scale in cities around the world, from Dubai to Ulan Bator to London to Los Angeles. Wade Graham uses the lives of the pivotal dreamers behind these concepts, as well as their acolytes and antagonists, to deconstruct our urban landscapes--the houses, towers, civic centers, condominiums, shopping malls, boulevards, highways, and spaces in between--exposing the ideals and ideas embodied in each. From the baroque fantasy villages of Bertram Goodhue to the superblocks of Le Corbusier's Radiant City to the pseudo-agrarian dispersal of Frank Lloyd Wright's Broadacre City, our upscale leafy suburbs, downtown skyscraper districts, infotainment-driven shopping malls, and \"sustainable\" eco-developments are seen as never before. In this elegantly designed and illustrated book, Graham uncovers the original plans of brilliant, obsessed, and sometimes megalomaniacal designers, revealing the foundations of today's varied municipalities. Dream Cities is nothing less than a field guide to our modern urban world.\"--provided from Amazon.com.
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Music in Black American Life, 1600-1945
This first volume of Music in Black American Life collects
research and analysis that originally appeared in the journals
American Music and the Black Music Research
Journal , and in the University of Illinois Press's acclaimed
book series Music in American Life. In these selections, experts
from a cross-section of disciplines engage with fundamental issues
in ways that changed our perceptions of Black music. The topics
includes the culturally and musically complex Black music-making of
colonial America; string bands and other lesser-known genres
practiced by Black artists; the jubilee industry and its audiences;
and innovators in jazz, blues, and Black gospel.
Eclectic and essential, Music in Black American Life,
1600-1945 offers specialists and students alike a gateway to
the history and impact of Black music in the United States.
Contributors: R. Reid Badger, Rae Linda Brown, Samuel A. Floyd
Jr., Sandra Jean Graham, Jeffrey Magee, Robert M. Marovich, Harriet
Ottenheimer, Eileen Southern, Katrina Dyonne Thompson, Stephen
Wade, and Charles Wolfe
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Dream cities : seven urban ideas that shape the world
Beginning as visionary concepts. the blueprints for the world we live in today were gradually adopted and constructed on a massive scale in international cities from London to Dubai to Ulan Bator to Los Angeles. Wade Graham uses the lives of the pivotal dreamers behind these archetypes, as well as their acolytes and antagonists, to deconstruct our urban landscapes--the houses, towers, civic centers, condominiums, malls, boulevards, highways, and spaces in between--exposing the ideals and ideas embodied in each.--back cover.
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The Python workshop: a practical, no-nonsense introduction to Python development
Cut through the noise and get real results with a step-by-step approach to learning Python 3.X programmingKey FeaturesIdeal for the Python beginner who is getting started for the first timeA step-by-step Python tutorial with exercises and activities that help build key skillsStructured to let you progress at your own pace, on your own termsUse your physical print copy to redeem free access to the online interactive editionBook DescriptionYou already know you want to learn Python, and a smarter way to learn Python 3 is to learn by doing. The Python Workshop focuses on building up your practical skills so that you can work towards building up your machine learning skills as a data scientist, write scripts that help automate your life and save you time, or even create your own games and desktop applications. You'll learn from real examples that lead to real results.Throughout The Python Workshop, you'll take an engaging step-by-step approach to understanding Python. You won't have to sit through any unnecessary theory. If you're short on time you can jump into a single exercise each day or spend an entire weekend learning about Python scripting. It's your choice. Learning on your terms, you'll build up and reinforce key skills in a way that feels rewarding.Every physical print copy of The Python Workshop unlocks access to the interactive edition. With videos detailing all exercises and activities, you'll always have a guided solution. You can also benchmark yourself against assessments, track progress, and receive free content updates. You'll even earn a secure credential that you can share and verify online upon completion. It's a premium learning experience that's included with your printed copy. To redeem, follow the instructions located at the start of your Python book.Fast-paced and direct, The Python Workshop is the ideal companion for Python beginners. You'll build and iterate on your code like a software developer, learning along the way. This process means that you'll find that your new skills stick, embedded as best practice. A solid foundation for the years ahead.What you will learnLearn how to write clean and concise code with Python 3Understand classes and object-oriented programmingTackle entry-level data science and create engaging visualizationsUse Python to create responsive, modern web applicationsAutomate essential day-to-day tasks with Python scriptsGet started with predictive Python machine learningWho this book is forThis book is designed for professionals, students, and hobbyists who want to learn Python and apply it to solve challenging real-world problems. Although this is a beginner's book, it will help if you already know standard programming topics, such as variables, if-else statements, and functions. Experience with another object-oriented program is beneficial, but not mandatory.
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Braided waters : environment and society in Molokai, Hawaii
\"Braided Waters sheds new light on the relationship between environment and society by charting the history of Hawaii's Molokai island over a thousand-year period of repeated settlement. From the arrival of the first Polynesians to contact with eighteenth-century European explorers and traders to our present era, this study shows how the control of resources--especially water--in a fragile, highly variable environment, has had profound effects on the history of Hawaii. Wade Graham examines the ways environmental variation repeatedly shapes human social and economic structures and how, in turn, man-made environmental degradation influences and reshapes societies. A key finding of this study is how deep structures of place interact with distinct cultural patterns across different societies to produce similar social and environmental outcomes, in both the Polynesian and modern eras--a case of historical isomorphism with profound implications for global environmental history\"--Provided by publisher.
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The Python Workshop
More than just a Python guide for beginners, The Python Workshop takes you through the full spectrum of basic to advanced topics, equipping you with the skills you need to get started with data science and more. Filled with practical step-by-step examples and interactive exercises, you'll learn by doing as you grow your new Python skillset.
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