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The Akron Anthology
An evocative collection of essays, poetry, photography and more from some of Akron, Ohio’s best authors, artists, and activists. Between 1910 and 1920, Akron, Ohio, tripled in size, making it the fastest growing city in the United States. Its period of rapid growth coincided with the expansion of the rubber and tire industry, which in turn corresponded with the automobile boom. But since the mid-1970s, industry has abandoned Akron, and the city has lost thirty-one percent of its population. Once-opulent neighborhoods are now swaths of abandoned homes, and the factories that made Akron the Rubber Capital of the World lie dormant. Edited by Jason Segedy, and bringing together established writers like Rita Dove and David Giffels with the work of emerging voices, The Akron Anthology collects essays, poems, and photographs from the writers, artists, and activists who call Akron home. Here you’ll find stories that include: The diaries of a doorman The trials and triumphs of refugees who have relocated to the city A portrait of Jamie Stillman, world-renowned effects pedal manufacturer Archie the talking snowman.
Dispatches from Dystopia
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.
The Half-Life of Deindustrialization
Examines how contemporary American working- class literature reveals the long- term effects of deindustrialization on individuals and communities
Voices from the Rust Belt
“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 Studies: Volume I
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."
Rebooting Social Studies
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?"
Love People, Use Things
'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...
Why This Work Matters: Wisdom from the People Who Are Making Communities Better
Guide to method for doing public engagement (such as for urban planning or public policy) in a more effective, productive and meaningful manner.
덜 소유하고 더 사랑하라
그 많던 미니멀리스트는 어디로 갔을까? 덜어내기만 하면 더 나은 삶을 살 수 있을까? 우리 삶 속 비움과 채움에 대한 소고 ‘미니멀리즘’이 유행한 지 10년이 지났다. 그사이 ‘미니멀리즘’이라는 단어는 우리 곁에 확실하게 자리잡은 반면, 그 열풍은 수그러들었다. 우리 주위에 그 많던 미니멀리스트 친구들은 어디로 숨어 버린 걸까? 우리는 왜 미니멀리즘을 지속하기 힘들었던 걸까? 넷플릭스 다큐멘터리 ‘미니멀리즘' 시리즈의 주인공인 저자들은 삶에서 불필요한 것들을 정리한 후, 꼭 채워야 할 것들이 있다고 말한다. ...
惡托邦記
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...
