Pittsburgh’s explosive industrial and population growth between the mid-nineteenth century and the Great Depression required constant attention to city-building. Private, profit-oriented firms, often with government involvement, provided necessary transportation, energy resources, and suitable industrial and residential sites. Meeting these requirements in the region’s challenging hilly topographical and riverine environment resulted in the dramatic reshaping of the natural landscape. At t...

Over 170 years, Pittsburgh rose from remote outpost to industrial powerhouse. With the formation of the United States, the frontier town located at the confluence of three rivers grew into the linchpin for trade and migration between established eastern cities and the growing settlements of the Ohio Valley. Resources, geography, innovation, and personalities led to successful glass, iron, and eventually steel operations. As Pittsburgh blossomed into one of the largest cities in the country...

Daniela Meir discovers a secret at her solitary "dreaming place" on Mount Carmel, overlooking the port of Haifa, in 1930's British-ruled Palestine. She vows never to reveal a silent voice that gives her advice or warns of imminent danger. Mature beyond her youthful and energetic nature, she dreams of taking a cargo ship to discover a world far beyond tiny Palestine. And where do they take her?Swooped up by a suave Czech bachelor, she sails away to find herself tossed against the br...

The revised and updated third edition of The Making of Urban America includes seven new articles and a richly detailed historiographical essay that discusses the vast urban history literature added to the canon since the publication of the second edition. The authors’ extensively revised introductions and the fifteen reprinted articles trace urban development from the preindustrial city to the twentieth-century city. With emphasis on the social, economic, political, commercial, and cultura...

Edited, abridged, and with a critical Foreword by Hans-Friedrich MuellerIntroduction by Daniel J. BoorstinIllustrations by Giovanni Battista PiranesiEdward Gibbon’s masterpiece, which narrates the history of the Roman Empire from the second century A.D. to its collapse in the west in the fifth century and in the east in the fifteenth century, is widely considered the greatest work of history ever written. This abridgm...

This classic text retains the superb scholarship of the first edition in a thoroughly revised and accessibly written new edition. With both new and updated essays by distinguished American and Canadian authors, the book provides a comprehensive historical overview of the formation and growth of North American regions from European exploration and colonization to the second half of the twentieth century. Collectively the contributors explore the key themes of acquisition of geographical kno...

This outstanding volume brings together 5 of the greatest Christian Classic Biographies from the years 1700-1900. These writings not only shed light on the lives of each of these incredible individuals, they will also challenge and encourage your life as you glimpse their passion for God, perseverance in trials, and faith in achieving great things for God! - The Life and Diary of David Brainerd – by Jonathan Edwards (1749) - The Biography of Robert Murray McC...

Issue framing is the way that people, especially politicians, get other people to view a particular problem or issue. By framing the issue in a particular way, the goal is to get people to think about the issue, to believe that an action is required and, most importantly, to believe that a particular action (the one being proposed by the framer) is the right one. The use of language and imagery is an essential part of issue framing and has been an integral part of the presidency since our ...

Adéntrate en un viaje transformador a través de las profundidades de la fe verdadera. Este libro excepcional te guiará por las enseñanzas de gigantes espirituales como Hooker, Spurgeon, Pink, Mueller y Edwards, revelando los secretos de una vida abundante en Cristo. Descubre cómo la fe inquebrantable en Dios puede liberarte del yugo del pecado, abrazar la salvación eterna y experimentar la plenitud del propósito divino. Con pasajes bíblicos cautivadores y reflexiones perspicaces, "Fe Verda...

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Beyond the Numbers presents a thought-provoking series of essays by leading authorities on issues of population and consumption. The essays both define the poles of debate and explore common ground beyond the polarized rhetoric.Specific chapters consider each of the broad topics addressed at the International Conference on Population and Development held in September 1994 in Cairo, Egypt. The essays are supplemented by sidebars and short articles featuring more-impassioned...

This is my story of a swordfishing adventure to the fishing grounds of the Windward Passage."We smoked a joint on the stern and turned in for the night. In my bunk I lay down and thought of what to expect of the next few days, watching the lights of Cocoa Beach drift by, thinking of all the blond babes in the nightclubs and bars on the strip, watching the castle lights of Ron Jon-the biggest surf shop on the East Coast-pondering what would lie ahead. When would I return? Would I ev...