Within this book you'll meet some of Philadelphia's fiercest black women leaders. They range from the first black woman known to be born in Philadelphia (1694)-who ran a ferry business during colonial times-to the woman whose childhood experiences led her to become a surgeon and medical advisor to celebrities. All of the women "bring it" as activists- in community and movement work, business and civic institutions, education, churches, medicin...
Ökologisch denken und handeln, umweltgerecht planen und energieeffizient bauen – dies muss der Anspruch unserer Gesellschaft sein, die mit den Folgen des Klimawandels und dem absehbaren Ende fossiler Brennstoffe konfrontiert ist. Architekten und Stadtplaner gehen diese Aufgabe an, da die Mehrheit der Menschen bereits in Städten lebt, sind diese heute zum Haupthandlungsort geworden. Die Ausstellung und die Zeitschrift "Post-Oil City – Die Stadt...
Natwar Gandhi began life in a dusty Indian village that had no paved streets, no electricity, no telephone and no running water. When he was 17, his father put him on a train to Mumbai in hopes that he might find work and send money home to help support the family. In Mumbai he barely made a living, but through countless long days of work, relentless determination and good luck he was able to take a plane to New York at the age of 25, where he...
Emily's Numbers is a story about a girl who learns to express her creativity through counting. Her journey explores the deep patterns of everyday numbers and why the primes occur as they do.
Queen of Angels contrasts Shakespeare with gritty and profane 1970s New York, exploring themes of love, sex, violence, death, faith and coming of age: "These violent delights have violent ends." The novel captures the angst of teenage love striving for maturity within the context of a high-school production of Romeo and Juliet, crossing the precarious border between flesh and fantasy experienced and observed by the author as a Brooklyn teenage...
Why is creativity so often pushed to the front of the auditorium yet to the back of the classroom? This question can validly be asked across a wide swath of society, from relationships to careers. People seem ever reluctant to break out of the accepted norm (or perhaps more accurately, the accepted mold) to explore fresh alternatives and perspectives. Yet when applied with integrity and respect, creativity can open up a wide range of possibili...
Psychopath Brian Olmstead (from Arch Barnes' "Unconscious") escapes custody while being evaluated for fitness to stand trial, and he goes on a killing rampage. This time, his victims are mostly those people who played a part in his arrest, along with his own mother. Will he be captured again before he reaches his own brother, and Professor Towncraft?
Der Klassiker von Rem Koolhaas! Manhattan ist der Schauplatz für das Endstadium der westlichen Zivilisation. Durch die Bevölkerungsexplosion und die Invasion von neuen Technologien wurde Manhattan von 1850 an ein mythisches Laboratorium für die Erfindung und Erprobung eines revolutionären Lebensstils: der Kultur des Staus.
Delirious New York, 1978 zuerst erschienen, ist eine polemische Erforschung dieses Manhattans: Es dokumentiert das symbiot...
