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With an increasing interest in quality of nutrition and health, urban food production has begun to occur inside the growing cities worldwide and risks to compete with other urban needs. The book introduces typologies, tools, evaluation methods and strategies, and shows the practical applications of the methods. Multiple projects illustrate solutions that augment quality via the insertion of food production entities into the urban realm.
"A landmark achievement that will no doubt be cited again and again for years to come. It is a thoroughly-researched and authoritative work."--Allen J. Christenson, author of Art and Society in a Highland Maya Community "While this book explains what brought about the Maya uprisings in Chiapas and Guatemala and answers questions about the role of the Catholic Church in the development of the uprisings, the heart of the book is about the Mayan quest to live with dignity as Maya in the modern world."--Christine Gudorf, author of Catholic Social Teaching on Liberation Themes In his most recent book, The Maya and Catholicism: An Encounter of Worldviews, John Early examined the relationship betwe...
Determined to help her amnesiac patients recover their lives, Boston psychiatrist Cristina Silva is achieving near-miraculous results by prescribing Recognate, a revolutionary new memory-recovery drug now in trials. She understands her patients’ suffering better than most, because she’s lost her memories, too. Desperate to become herself again, she pops the same experimental drug she prescribes to her patients. And, like them, she remembers a little more each day. Until one of her patients, a successful accountant, jumps from an eight-story window to his death. And as Cristina’s memories return, with them come violent visions and an incessant voice in her head. Maybe the drug isn’t s...
Some memories are meant to be forgotten—especially when they’re not yours. In this medical thriller series, Psychiatrist Cristina Silva is achieving miracles by prescribing a new memory-recovery drug. Until one of her patients jumps from an eight-story window to his death. Book 1: Adverse Effects Boston psychiatrist Cristina Silva understands her patients’ suffering better than most, because she’s lost her memories, too. Desperate to become herself again, she pops the same experimental drug she prescribes to her patients. And, like them, she remembers a little more each day. Until one of her patients, a successful accountant, jumps to his death. And as Cristina’s memories return, w...
Watch out, vampires! There's a new hunter in town! Nicoleta has never taken a life before, but she will have to make her first kill soon. Typical of girls her age, she spends a lot of time thinking about boys and college. But when she takes a trip to Romania with several of her former classmates to celebrate graduating from high school, Nicoleta is going to discover who she really is. When Nicoleta learns that she is adopted and that her biological parents live in Romania, it's just the tip of the iceberg. Finding out that her birthright is hunting and killing vampires, Nicoleta has to decide whether to remain in Romania and fulfill her destiny or go back home to America and try to forget ab...
John Morringside is having terrible nightmares. Aside from that, life seems to be pretty normal. He has recently graduated High School and even has a love interest. However, things are about to change. His nightmares are becoming more and more lifelike, almost as if they are real life happenings. Determined to face his demons, John goes to the Spontania City Cemetery for some answers. What he finds here is possibly even more terrifying than the nightmares themselves. When the truth comes out, all hell is unleashed on his hometown. John starts to ask himself, if maybe, just maybe, the boogeyman is real?
Ralph is a newbie in the real estate business taking on his first house-flipping project in the town of Bowling Blue, Ohio. Ralph adds to the property a group of mixed pets, ranging from a terrier puppy to a cow, from a rooster to a kid donkey. Cortney, Kayla, and Abby are pretty, hardworking ladies. They become acquainted through the university and stick with each other whenever they can outside their busy lives. Timmy and Troy are handsome brothers, born and raised Bowling Blue, and Jason is their best buddy. These six students move into Ralph's farmhouse and immediately begin repairs on their new home. Meanwhile, a daughter, traumatized and diseased in her youth, is on the loose from civilization, brain-bent on misguided notions of survival and Child Rescue Aide Cherrie Welkins is hot on her case. The Deeds of a Landlord series contains copies of lost questions and lost literature Does a horror wear a dress? Does a horror wear a tuxedo? Horror is sexy.
Looks at the work of four canonical architects who "made strange" with the most resistant aspect of architecture - construction. This title explores the strangeness in the material menagerie of Scarpa's Querini Stampalia, the wood light frame construction of Wright's Jacobs House, the welded steel frame of Mies' Farnsworth House, and more.