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Norfolk's history has been described as one composed of a series of challenges and responses to those challenges. Burned to the ground in early 1776, financially ruined barely 30 years later, decimated by yellow fever in 1855, occupied by a hostile Army during the American Civil War, Norfolk has always found a way to rise to its feet and rebound stronger than ever.With a selection of fine historic images from her best-selling book, Historic Ph...

Los Angeles attracts dreamers as well as schemers. Angelenos love their sunshine, beaches, movies, celebrities, cars, and freeways. Through words and historic photos, this book follows the story of Los Angeles from its origins through the phenomenal growth that transformed a desert into a dynamic metropolitan super-city. Remembering Los Angeles includes ample reminders of Hollywood's golden age and examples of L.A.'s tradition of architectural...

Nearly 200 years ago, settlers arrived in Alachua County to grow cotton and other crops. By the middle of the nineteenth century, enough people resided in the area today known as Gainesville that they decided to create a town to be the center of business and government for the county. In 1906, the focus changed with the arrival of the University of Florida. Although it then barely exceeded a hundred students, it has grown to be one of the nati...

Dela-where? is a joke that all too often hits a nerve with residents of the second smallest state, but Dela-here is a great place to be-amid all the big cities of the Eastern Seaboard but just far enough from the beaten path to have its own unique identity. With a selection of fine historic images from her best-selling book, Historic Photos of Delaware, Ellen Rendle provides a valuable and revealing historical retrospective on the growth and d...

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Bay breezes from the Gulf of Mexico sweep into this sparkling city by the sea. The sound of the wind, waves, and shore birds transport harmonic music to the ears of those who walk its beaches and parks. Corpus Christi, Texas, one of the most pristine coastal cities, lies at the mouth of the Nueces River, and from its humble beginnings as a simple nineteenth-century trading post, it has developed into a major city. Farming and ranching, the rai...

El Paso is a city with an international history and culture that is tied to the Rio Grande. Native Americans followed the river and traded with other groups that lived near it. In 1598, Don Juan de Oñate traveled north with a large caravan from Zacatecas, Mexico, to what became known as El Paso del Norte. Near San Elizario, Oñate claimed the area for Spain, and it became a trade center along El Camino Real, the Royal Highway, which went north ...

Monsterburg is a funny comic strip. This is the second book.

Die besten Geschichten, über die Münster in den letzten 13 Jahren gelacht, gestaunt und gesprochen hat, gibt es nun endlich in diesem Buch! Sortiert in sechs Rubriken, erweitert um Erinnerungen an die Recherche und Anmerkungen zum heutigen Sachstand. Das Gespür für die etwas anderen Münster-Geschichten und gnadenloser Humor gehen dabei Hand in Hand und ergeben so ein Münster-Panorama abseits von Kiepenkerl, Töttchen und Prinzipalmarkt, das für...

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Provides an overview of the various methods for understanding and implementing sustainable practices at local levels. This book argues that, while local planners and local authorities are willing to act, many are unaware of the range of options available to them.

Human error is cited over and over as a cause of incidents and accidents. This book takes you behind the human error label. It begins by summarising the most significant research results. It explores how a changing understanding of accidents and an embracing of systems thinking has radically impacted ideas about human error.

Offers a perspective on the development and cultural practice of print in early modern Britain. This title features fifteen essays that explore the different methods by which contemporaries of the sixteenth through nineteenth-centuries collected and 'appreciated' the early modern popular forms.