Although Rome has triggered countless books, Rome Works is the first to view the city through the lens of environmental sustainability. Presenting seven case studies in sustainability from across a range of historical periods, it explores in detail Rome’s impressive history of low-impact urban growth. Tom Rankin draws on his 20 years of experience as a professor and practitioner of architecture in Rome to examine this tradition from several vantage points. He considers the fabric of the built infrastructure, urban mobility and the ways that Romans have dealt with the challenges posed by transportation, energy use, water supply and waste removal. He also explores the roles that political and economic forces and, most importantly, civic values, have played in shaping Rome’s development. The seven studies are less finished models of sustainability, the author writes, than complex and messy but instructive laboratories of experimentation and adjustment over time. As he writes about the systems that allowed Rome to function in the past and which continue to do so today, Rankin also weaves in stories of his own passionate but at times exasperated relationship with the Eternal City. Rome Works posits that development in Rome stands at a fork in the road. It can proceed along its current, growth-based trajectory, inspired by the American development model, or it can take an historically-grounded, authentically Roman path toward a greener economy.

Rome Works: An Architect Explores the World's Most Resilient City

Arts & Photography

Rankin, Tom

Architecture

Peruzzi Press

Product Description Taylorism has been the dominant mode of organizing paid work since early in the twentieth century. Tom Rankin argues that industrial unionism is inextricably linked to Taylorism, and Taylorism is breaking down. In its place is developing a new paradigm of organization. If unions are to survive and prosper they will have to develop a form of unionism better suited to the new paradigm.Rankin uses a socio-technical systems framework to analyse the transition, arguing that it encompasses similar views put forward by other disciplines such as production management. Focusing on one case study as an example, he explores the possibilities for unions to sustain themselves while adapting to a new work pattern.Ranking concludes that adaptation requires a fundamental change in traditional union policies and practices, but that it is achievable. The result is a new, post-industrial form of unionism in which a strong and independent union and a new pattern of work organization can be mutually reinforcing. About the Author Tom Rankin is Senior Consultant, Ontario Ministry of Labour.

New Forms of Work Organization: The Challenge for North American Unions (Heritage)

Business & Money

Economics

University of Toronto Press

Tom Rankin's black-and-white photographs explore the heartfelt religious expressions of African-Americans in the Mississippi Delta. No single institution in this region has had a more profound cultural impact than the countless African-American churches that accent the landscape.Landmarks to some, places of spiritual refuge to others, "home church" to devoted members, these sacred spaces have been planned, built, decorated, and maintained by local communities. They provide a sustaining force in both symbol and practice.The forty duotone plates in this book include landscapes with churches, church interiors, cemeteries, baptismal lakes and bayous, and black congregations. This is an elegant testimony to the persistence, creativity, and communal symbolism of the church and its affiliated expressions.In the accompanying text Rankin draws upon his interviews with preachers and church members and upon documentary recordings of church services. In the introductory essay Charles Reagan Wilson examines the symbolic meanings of sacred space and discusses the historical and cultural importance of the African-American church in the Delta.

Sacred Space: Photographs from the Mississippi Delta

Religion & Spirituality

Univ Pr of Mississippi

An essay by Charles Reagan Wilson introduces this collection of black &amp; white photos depicting traditional black churches and churchgoers of the South those who "represent the transition between slave times and the modern black church" from the foreword. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Photography & Video

Deaf Maggie Lee Sayre: Photographs of a River Life

Maggie Lee Sayre was born deaf near Paducah, Kentucky, in 1920. She lived 51 years of her life on a river houseboat as her family made a living fishing throughout Kentucky and Tennessee. This collection of her photos, accompanied by descriptive captions from Sayre, reveals a traditional river culture that is rooted in subsistence living.

Biographies & Memoirs

Sayre, Maggie Lee

Arts & Literature

Grammar: A Linguists' Guide for Language Teachers

Traditionally, there has been a disconnect between theoretical linguistics and pedagogical teacher training. This book seeks to bridge that gap. Using engaging examples from a wide variety of languages, it provides an innovative overview of linguistic theory and language acquisition research for readers with a background in education and teacher training, and without specialist knowledge of the field. The authors draw on a range of research to ground ideas about grammar pedagogy, presenting the notion of Virtual Grammar as an accessible label for unifying the complexity of linguistics. Organised thematically, the book includes helpful 'Case in point' examples throughout the text, to illustrate specific grammar points, and step-by-step training in linguistic methods, such as how to analyse examples, which educators can apply to their own teaching contexts. Through enriching language teachers' understanding of linguistic features, the book fosters a different perspective on grammar for educators.

Reference

Whong, Melinda

Words, Language & Grammar

Cambridge University Press

Traditionally, there has been a disconnect between theoretical linguistics and pedagogical teacher training. This book seeks to bridge that gap. Using engaging examples from a wide variety of languages, it provides an innovative overview of linguistic theory and language acquisition research for readers with a background in education and teacher training, and without specialist knowledge of the field. The authors draw on a range of research to ground ideas about grammar pedagogy, presenting the notion of Virtual Grammar as an accessible label for unifying the complexity of linguistics. Organised thematically, the book includes helpful 'Case in point' examples throughout the text, to illustrate specific grammar points, and step-by-step training in linguistic methods, such as how to analyse examples, which educators can apply to their own teaching contexts. Through enriching language teachers' understanding of linguistic features, the book fosters a different perspective on grammar for educators.\nBook Description\nAn engaging guide to grammar, this book introduces linguistic theory and language acquisition research to language teachers.

Though artistic and ambitious, Paul Kwilecki (1928-2009) chose to remain in Bainbridge, Georgia, the small Decatur County town where he was born, raised, and ran the family's hardware store. He had always been interested in photography and taught himself how to use a camera. Over four decades, he documented life in his community, making hundreds of masterful and intimate black-and-white prints. Kwilecki developed his visual ideas in series of photographs of high school proms, prison hog killings, shade-tree tobacco farming, factory work, church life, the courthouse. He also wrote eloquently about the people and places he so poignantly depicted, and in this book his unique knowledge is powerfully articulated in more than 200 photographs and selected prose. Paul Kwilecki worked alone, his correspondence with important photographers his only link to the larger art world. Despite this isolation, Kwilecki's work became widely known. "Decatur County is home," he said, "and I know it from my special warp, having been both nourished and wounded by it."

One Place: Paul Kwilecki and Four Decades of Photographs from Decatur County, Georgia (Documentary Arts and Culture, Published in association with the ... for Documentary Studies at Duke University)

Kwilecki, Paul

The University of North Carolina Press

25 Under 25 showcases twenty-five of America’s most promising photographers, twenty-five years old and younger. Illuminating and sometimes startling, the collection introduces work by an emerging generation of photographers at the start of their careers. These talented artists’ exploration of the medium is surprisingly sophisticated and engaging—their approaches to the art include photojournalism, highly personal essays, art constructions, candid snaps, portraits, still lifes, and photographs with a message. 25 Under 25 is a window into the dreams, anxieties, and ambitions of these innovative young photographers, of whom we will be seeing much more in years to come. This vibrant collection reveals how these photographers are looking at the world and how they see themselves. Whether “straight photography” and documentary essays or highly personal and expressionistic stories, the work covers as broad a range of intriguing subjects and places as their titles suggest: “Dirt Track” (Andrew Rogers), “Cake and Hot Dogs” (Andreanna Lynn Seymore), “Working at Sloan” (Daniel Ramos), “Miss All-Star” (Colby Katz), “I Looked Like a Kid from Far Away” (Chana Warshauer-Baker), “Orphanage” (Misty Keasler), “Mother’s Unrealized Vacations” (Deirdre A. Scaggs), “Reason to Stare” (Hank Willis Thomas), “Postcards to Bangladesh” (Jason Goodman), “Between Monsoons” (Alex Ambrose), “After Midnight, Before Six A.M.” (Jen Moon), “Residue” (Isabelle Lutterodt), “Soviet Military Base, Former East Germany” (Brian McKee), “Harvard Works Because We Do” (Greg Halpern), “Broad Stripes, Bright Stars” (Kristin Posehn), “Under One Roof” (Jessica Ingram), “Abe” (Brett Myers), “Slight Apprehensions” (Laurel Ptak), “4th and Goal” (Kambui Olujimi), “Expressions of Self” (Justin Lively), “Spiritual Sites—A Caribbean Study” (Wyatt Gallery), “If I Could See Your Face I Would Not Need Food” (Eric Gottesman), “#36005-054” (Carrie Levy), “Lady Like” (Bayeté Ross-Smith), and “Girls’ School” (Laurel Nakadate).

25 Under 25: Up-and-Coming American Photographers

Greenfield, Lauren

Hill, Iris Tillman

A Lyndhurst Book

Graphic Design

powerHouse Books

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Rome Works: An Architect Explores the World's Most Resilient City

New Forms of Work Organization: The Challenge for North American Unions (Heritage)

Sacred Space: Photographs from the Mississippi Delta

Sacred Space: Photographs from the Mississippi Delta

Deaf Maggie Lee Sayre: Photographs of a River Life

Grammar: A Linguists' Guide for Language Teachers

Grammar: A Linguists' Guide for Language Teachers

One Place: Paul Kwilecki and Four Decades of Photographs from Decatur County, Georgia (Documentary Arts and Culture, Published in association with the ... for Documentary Studies at Duke University)

25 Under 25: Up-and-Coming American Photographers