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A part of Belt's City Anthology Series, this collection explores Akron, Ohio's past and what may happen there in the future. A portrait of the "city's rich, mysterious, odd-leaning inner life." Between 1910
Examines how contemporary American working- class literature reveals the long- term effects of deindustrialization on individuals and communities
The author "wanders the Chernobyl Zone of Alienation, first on the Internet and then in person, to figure out which version -- the real or the virtual -- is the actual forgery. She also takes us to the basement of a hotel in Seattle to examine the personal possessions left in storage by Japanese Americans on their way to internment camps in 1942. In Uman, Ukraine, we hide with Brown in a tree in order to witness the male-only Rosh Hashanah celebration of Hasidic Jews. In the Russian southern Urals, she speaks with the citizens of the small city of Kyshtym, where invisible radioactive pollutants have mysteriously blighted lives. Finally, Brown returns home to Elgin, Illinois, in the industrial rust belt, to investigate the rise of "rustalgia" and the ways her formative experiences have inspired her obsession with modernist wastelands."--Jacket flap.
“Timely . . . [the collection] paints intimate portraits of neglected places that are often used as political talking points. A good companion piece to J. D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy.”—Booklist The essays in Voices from the Rust Belt "address segregated schools, rural childhoods, suburban ennui, lead poisoning, opiate addiction, and job loss. They reflect upon happy childhoods, successful community ventures, warm refuges for outsiders, and hidden oases of natural beauty. But mainly they are stories drawn from uniquely personal experiences: A girl has her bike stolen. A social worker in Pittsburgh makes calls on clients. A journalist from Buffalo moves away, and misses home.... A fathe...
Analog Game Studiesis a bi-monthy journal for the research and critique of analog games. We define analog games broadly and include work on tabletop and live-action role-playing games, board games, card games, pervasive games, game-like performances, carnival games, experimental games, and more.Analog Game Studieswas founded to reserve a space for scholarship on analog games in the wider field of game studies."
'The Minimalists show you how to disconnect from our conditioned material state and reconnect to our true essence: love people and use things. This is not a book about how to live with less, but about how to live more deeply and more fully.' Jay Shetty, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Like a Monk 'Joshua and Ryan have penned an urgent manifesto for the growing movement away from the material and towards the meaningful. An important book for our current moment.' Cal Newport, New York Times bestselling author of A World Without Email and Digital Minimalism AS SEEN ON THE NETFLIX DOCUMENTARIES MINIMALISM & LESS IS NOW How might your life be better with less? Imagine a life with le...
Those facts. Those dates. Those four walls. Those still and petrified fossils of traditional history courses. Sure, it's history, but do we have to turn to tradition for guidance? Let's make it worth the students time. Let's give them something to take beyond their high school experience. Let's reboot history. The goal of the social studies is to provide students with the tools necessary to be active and productive citizens. History teachers need to assist their students in developing problem-solving skills for real-life scenarios, and this can be done whether we teach students about Ancient Athens or modern Akron, Ohio. The ancient Mediterranean, the Italian Renaissance, and the British East India Company are very distant concepts, far from what our students find as relevant. The same skills can be acquired by studying something nearer to the students' interests and everyday life. So, take a moment to take a step back from the history curriculum, and ask yourself: "What skills will my students need in five years?"
Guide to method for doing public engagement (such as for urban planning or public policy) in a more effective, productive and meaningful manner.
來自反烏托邦的報導,充滿哀愁又引人入勝 獲獎無數的歷史學家寫下未忘之地的歷史 ◎《大西洋雜誌》(The Atlantic)2016年最佳圖書 「衛兵打開行李箱,往裡頭瞧了瞧,關上行李箱,檢查我們的傳真許可文件,然後揮揮手,讓我們進入車諾比隔離區。我關心車諾比隔離區近十年,卻到了這個時候才得以進入一窺究竟。我想起安德烈.塔可夫斯基(Andrei Tarkovsky)1979年的電影《潛行者》(Stalker)禁區(the Zone)裡的荒涼景象。在塔可夫斯基的電影及我的想像裡,禁區四處可見生鏽的工廠廠房、倒塌的電話線與被陰暗森林占據的...
Jak vést vědomější a radostnější život? Jak proměnit pohled na sebe samé? Jak získat od života to, po čem toužíme? Nikdy dřív v historii nebyli lidé tolik zahlceni věcmi jako dnes. Často kvůli tomu zanedbávají své blízké. Světově proslulá dvojice The Minimalists v této knize zkoumá, jak se nám život a vztahy zlepší, poté co se zbavíme materiálních přežitků. Především ale ukazují, jak přehodnotit a napravit sedm důležitých oblastí našich životů: vztah k věcem, pravdě, sobě, penězům, hodnotám, tvořivosti a lidem. Vycházejí přitom z vlastních zážitků i zkušeností dalších zastánců minimalismu a předkládají čtenářům praktický návod, jak žít plnohodnotně a smysluplně. „Vše začíná věcmi, a jakmile jich budete mít méně, ukážeme vám, jak si udělat místo na to, čeho byste naopak měli mít více.“