Native to Nowhere: Sustaining Home And Community In A Global Age

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Meaningful places offer a vital counterbalance to the forces of globalization and sameness that are overtaking our world, and are an essential element in the search for solutions to current sustainability challenges. In Native to Nowhere, author Tim Beatley draws on extensive research and travel to communities across North America and Europe to offer a practical examination of the concepts of place and place-building in contemporary life. Tim Beatley reviews the many current challenges to place, considers trends and factors that have undermined place and place commitments, and discusses in detail a number of innovative ideas and compelling visions for strengthening place.

Native to Nowhere brings together a wide range of new ideas and insights about sustainability and community, and introduces readers to a host of innovative projects and initiatives. Native to Nowhere is a compelling source of information and ideas for anyone seeking to resist place homogenization and build upon the unique qualities of their local environment and community.

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Interesting, but perhaps a bit too elitist.......2007-02-20

I am currently using this as a textbook for one of my classes, and a general consensus among the students is that the author sounds almost excessively elitist in his content. While offering some highly favorable suggestions for the development of place and space (and describing in great detail the difference between the two), much of the focus, while on developing American landscapes-- presumably-- is on Western European urban designs, some of which would not fit well with our North American context. Likewise, while many of his suggestions would work exceptionally well-- it would seem-- in suburban landscapes, he seems to overlook-- or disregard-- the urban landscapes, which are those that seem to require the MOST change. For example, the emphasis on green space is pleasant enough, but one must also stop to think what this green space would be replacing in certain areas. The consequences of such deeds and suggestions does not seem to have been considered to the extent it should be; furthermore, the discussion of "home" and what "home" should be seems greatly deterred when one finds themselves bogged down with the realization that these representations of what is "best" for "home" seem to be based on Beatley's own desire for home ... not, in other words, the greater populace's ideas or desires for the matter! Again, interesting and educational matter, but I'd suggest taking it with a grain of salt when it comes to application.

What elements constitute a real community?.......2005-05-09

What elements constitute a real community, and how is that sense of community changing in the wake of global connections? Timothy Beatley's Native To Nowhere: Sustaining Home And Community In A Global Age uses research and the author's own travels to communities across North America and Europe to examine concepts of place in modern life. Trends which have undermined these roots, new ideas set forth to maintain connections, and descriptions of designs, technological considerations, and new political structures for sustaining these modern ideas of community are all considered in chapters which will appeal to college-level students of social issues as well as concerned general-interest adult readers.

Green urbanism.(Native to Nowhere: Sustaining Home and Community in a Global Age)(Book Review) : An article from: Issues in Science and Technology

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Astronomy and Astrophysics Abstracts appearing twice a year has become one of the fundamental publications in the field of astronomy, astrophysics and neighbouring sciences. It is the most important English-language abstracting journal in the mentioned branches. The abstracts are classified under more than a hundred subject categories, thus permitting a quick survey of the whole extended material. The AAA is a valuable and significant publication for all students and scientists working in the field of astronomy and related sciences. As such it represents a necessary ingredient of any astronomical library all over the world.

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Astronomy and Astrophysics Abstracts is devoted to the recording, summarizing and indexing of astronomical publications throughout the world. Two volumes are scheduled to appear per year. Volume 66 records 12,108 papers covering besides the classical fields of astronomy and astrophysics such matters as space flights related to astronomy, lunar and planetary probes and satellites, meteorites and interplanetary matter, X rays and cosmic rays, quasars and pulsars. The abstracts are classified under more than one hundred subject categories thus permitting quick surveying of the bulk of material published on the same topic within six months. For instance, this volume records 169 papers on minor planets, 195 papers on supernovae, and 715 papers on cosmology.

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Mind Over Golf Whether you struggle to break 100 or consistently break par, you've already discovered that golf is the most mentally demanding of all sports. Dr. Richard Coop, one of the foremost sports psychologists in the country, has developed a unique mental approach to the game, helping both skilled pros and beginning amateurs alike to play better. Mind Over Golf examines all the demanding psychological challenges of golf and explains in detail how to conquer them. Golfers have discovered that there are ways to lower their scores that go beyond getting tips on their swing and stance. In order to play better, you have to find the key that allows your natural athletic ability to come to the fore, without being impeded by anxiety about making a poor shot. By following Dr. Coop's principles and ideas you'll be in the strongest possible position, both physically and mentally, to put your best swing on each shot. As Payne Stewart says in his foreword to Mind Over Golf, "Not everyone can swing like a tour pro, but most everyone has it within himself or herself to think like one, and Dr. Coop lays the foundation for that within these pages." Visit us online at http://www.mcp.com/mgr/macmillan

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How to Use the Mind to Play Better.......2001-02-17

Coop has worked with some prominent players, especially Payne Stewart who writes a forward.

He explains what major role our thinking brings to the course, then proceeds to talk about this mental side in our moving from the practice tee to the first tee, preshot routine, even a chapter on the mental side of hitting the ball long.

This book has some great helps, but I found it a little overwhelming in terms of the amount of stuff to try and remember and work on mentally.

Find Bob Rotella's advice more basic and easy to retain and apply. However, this book might just ring more bells with some than me.

mind over golf how to use your head to lower yout score.......2000-01-30

great information--simple but effective-- keys to taking it to the next level---a must read for those wanting to become a single digit handicap! WOW!

mind over golf how to use your head to lower yout score.......2000-01-30

great information--simple but effective-- keys to taking it to the next level---a must read for those wanting to become a single digit handicap! WOW!

A worthwhile read.......1998-08-28

This is a very helpful book for that intangible side of the game that captivates yet frustrates us so much. It's got some really solid tips for improving mental attitude and toughness out on the course, and speaks to developing a comforting routine, mental "recovery" techniques and the barriers to lowering scores. Of all the golf books I've read, this one may have actually had the most effect.

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Good for true beginners.......2001-04-14

I bought this dictionary before going to Japan, but I now find it to be too basic. There are lots of entries on different verb forms, so if you don't know the plain form it can be very helpful. But as you get better, you'll probably find that there aren't enough sophisticated words. Good for looking up colloquial words, but not a good choice for anyone but beginner level.

Limited.......2000-10-20

This book is wholeheartedly recommended for beginners and short-term travellers. Beyond that, however, this book just isn't enough. I brought this book with me to Japan, and while I never left home without it until it was replaced, it proved all too limited. The word selection is eclectic but restricted (e.g. it has "subactue myelo-optico neuropathy", but neither "oak" nor "saxophone"). Additionally, the book itself is not suited for the long term: after two months of everyday use, the binding fell apart and the cover began to peel. All the entries are in roman characters, which further restricts its usage to native English speakers who have not learned their hiragana and katakana (so forget about handing this book to your new, inebriated Japanese friends). Nonetheless, the size is just about right for portability, and you won't ruin your eyes by trying to read a small font or your back by carrying a thirty pound hardcover. All in all, think about what it is you need before you buy this book. It could fit the bill, but it might not.

Not Enough Words!!.......2000-09-08

I lived in Japan for 5 years and bought this to help teach Japanese students English (to look up words they had a problem understanding) - Very frequently it did not have the words I was looking for - ended up buying a different dictionary - there are others out there!

Martin's Concise Japanese Dictionary.......2000-08-26

This dictionary is more like a travelers guide. It would be great for someone that is planning to go to Japan.

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Liberty and freedom: Americans agree that these values are fundamental to our nation, but what do they mean? How have their meanings changed through time? In this new volume of cultural history, David Hackett Fischer shows how these varying ideas form an intertwined strand that runs through the core of American life. Fischer examines liberty and freedom not as philosophical or political abstractions, but as folkways and popular beliefs deeply embedded in American culture. Tocqueville called them "habits of the heart." From the earliest colonies, Americans have shared ideals of liberty and freedom, but with very different meanings. Like DNA these ideas have transformed and recombined in each generation. The book arose from Fischer's discovery that the words themselves had differing origins: the Latinate "liberty" implied separation and independence. The root meaning of "freedom" (akin to "friend") connoted attachment: the rights of belonging in a community of freepeople. The tension between the two senses has been a source of conflict and creativity throughout American history. Liberty and Freedom studies the folk history of those ideas through more than 400 visions, images, and symbols. It begins with the American Revolution, and explores the meaning of New England's Liberty Tree, Pennsylvania's Liberty Bells, Carolina's Liberty Crescent, and "Don't Tread on Me" rattlesnakes. In the new republic, the search for a common American symbol gave new meaning to Yankee Doodle, Uncle Sam, Miss Liberty, and many other icons. In the Civil War, Americans divided over liberty and freedom. Afterward, new universal visions were invented by people who had formerly been excluded from a free society--African Americans, American Indians, and immigrants. The twentieth century saw liberty and freedom tested by enemies and contested at home, yet it brought the greatest outpouring of new visions, from Franklin Roosevelt's Four Freedoms to Martin Luther King's "dream" to Janis Joplin's "nothin' left to lose." Illustrated in full color with a rich variety of images, Liberty and Freedom is, literally, an eye-opening work of history--stimulating, large-spirited, and ultimately, inspiring.

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They'll Always Wave.......2005-12-26

I read this big book because David Hackett Fischer is a historian I greatly admire and if he finds a theme worthwhile, I consider it a mandatory assignment. Liberty and Freedom eschews philosophy; it studys the symbols that arouse and sustain the national spirit: flags, liberty poles, anthems, medals, seals, catch words, documents and statues.

I admit this was not an easy read for me. I have always found parades tedious. I am tone deaf to martial music. Flags are a piece of cloth flapping in the wind. My love of country is expressed in different ways. In my youth, that included military service in our most (or perhaps second-most) misguided war. I feel repelled by gatherings of still delirious veterans. As years passed, I came to distrust politicians who cheered for flags or other symbols. It was usually a sign that they had scant understanding of their country's history and were feigning patriotism to garner votes. I appreciate symbols as necessary to the human condition, but for me they're tools of the hornswoggler.

The best part of this book is the post WWII history that I lived through. Fischer treats all the prime cultural/political movements as symbols that changed our conception of liberty/freedom. McCarthyism, the Civil Rights Movement, the 60s hippie counterculture, the women's movement, the return of conservatism, and more get chapters. His encapsulations of these events are quite precise. I think this book will grow in importance as years go by. It is truly important, and for a huge hunk of the country, this is the extract of Americana. And I do love it.

America's finest historian outdoes himself.......2005-12-11

David Hackett Fischer's Albion's Seed established him as one of the finest historians writing for a general audience. Since the publication of that landmark history, Fischer has produced a number of outstanding books, including among them Paul Revere's Ride, and Washington's Crossing, each of which skillfully demonstrates how cultural forces, reflected in individual decisions and actions, affected the course of events at a critical fork in the historical road.

This latest work from Fischer compares favorably to his greatest works, and is a plausible candidate for his finest effort yet.

To be great history, a work must succeed on several levels. One is that it must be interesting -- the reader must feel compelled to press on. Another is that it must be informative; it should educate, ideally in a fair way, conveying what is most important, and minimizing the influence of author bias. But the acid test of what makes for a great history may be whether it enables the reader to understand his world in a fundamentally new, insightful way. Albion's Seed and Fischer's other great works accomplish this. So too does Liberty and Freedom, in spades.

Fischer aims to trace the development of the concepts and values of Liberty and Freedom throughout American history. To lay the foundation, he studies the terms themselves. Liberty, Fischer finds, derives from the classical Latin world, with connotations relating to the release from bondage. Consequently, in later history, it carries overtones of meaning the ability to move and to act without interference or constraint by others.

Freedom, on the other hand, relates to the Germanic "Freiheit," and has different connotations, specifically the possession of the full rights of citizenship, of belonging to a society. We see its connotations in phrases such as "the rights of free-born Englishmen," the sense that in belonging to a community, each member is accorded certain rights and freedoms.

Fischer argues that the English language is unique in carrying these twin concepts within the language in parallel, with the result that English-speaking cultures have long pursued both conceptions, and only more recently have begun to use the terms more interchangeably. The suggestion is made that the dual conception arises in part from the historical fact that both Romance and Germanic language and cultural influences implanted themselves in England many centuries ago.

Fischer traces the flowering of the concepts of liberty and freedom in America, with great attention to how these have been expressed through popular culture and political argument. His history is one of broad participation; elected leaders make cases for their visions of liberty and freedom, but so too do the teeming masses express their evolving views of liberty and freedom in ways that shape the country's direction.

Someone who is considering buying this book should be aware that this is just about the quickest 800 pages you will ever come across. I devoured it in just a few days on my commutes. His writing is brisk, the volume handsomely illustrated. The chapters are brief and thematically very tightly organized. If there is a slow patch in the book, I cannot recall it.

One of Fischer's more interesting conclusions pertains to the role of America's military conflicts in shaping the progress of American freedom. His general thesis is that each conflict has led at first to a curtailment of individual freedom, but then has resulted in its considerable expansion. Consider, for example, that the Civil War began with the suspension of habeas corpus and ended not only with its reinstatement but with the (then) radical 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments, establishing emancipation and equal protection of the laws. WWII began with the incarceration of Japanese Americans, but its end ushered in the integration of America's schools, armed forces (and major league baseball.) Even the Cold War, which has become equated in Hollywood's popular memory with the early abuses by Joseph McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee, produced the boomerang effects of Miranda Rights, the Civil Rights act, and many other expansions of liberty in the 1960s.

Fischer's message is a hopeful one in the climate of America's current conflict. He reminds us not only that each of America's conflicts has produced an initial constraint on individual liberties followed by their subsequent expansions, but also that each conflict has advanced the ball relative to the one before. The restraints on individual freedoms, for example, that occurred in the context of World War I far surpassed those that occurred in either WWII or the Cold War.

Fischer saves his most powerful lesson till the end, when he documents that political power flows to those who publicly dedicate themselves to liberty and freedom, not to those who promise cradle-to-grave security, government-provided benefits, or any variant thereof. Americans' commitment to the twin conceptions of liberty and freedom remains strong even as Americans disagree on what these concepts mean and how they should apply to our daily lives. But the politician who ignores these fundamental values does so at his/her own peril.

Introduction Excellent-Rest of Book SO-SO.......2005-12-08

The introduction is excellent, comparing the word "freedom" with "liberty" and noting that the English language was the only one to use both words at the time of the American Revolution. This artifact of language formed a necessary foundation for American thinking. The rest of the book is more like a collection of separate essays, loosely linked with the theme of images and iconography. The concluding chapter of the book is weak and fails to tie together a central theme. The book can be considered a reference work for images relating to freedom and liberty in America.

Iconography of Liberty and Freedom.......2005-01-04

This is the third book in the four book (projected) that Fischer began with the seminal "Albion's Seed".

Liberty and Freedom is devoted to those two concepts, which Fischer holds are key to understanding the culture of America. Fischer uses quilts, flags, photos, paintings, sculpture and pretty much anything else under the sun(toilet decorated with a bald eagle, anyone?) to illustrate this thesis.

Clearly, Fischer is concerned with the idea of America. What is most novel about this book is the way that Fischer tries to assimilate some of the newer teachings of social history with the the method of traditional history(focus on military events/political leaders).

Never one to shy away from histiographical concerns, Fischer illustrates these varying approaches in a short appendix.

This book is of high quality, copiously illustrated and is published in conjunction with a touring museum exhibition that is travelling as far west as St. Louis (as a Californian, I am a little upset that it isn't coming out farther).

The chapters of the book are short to the point of being anecdotal: two pages on Emerson, four pages on Thoreau, three pages on Martin Luther King. However, that is in line with Fischer's central concern which is to document the imagery of the ideas of liberty and freedom in American history.

The heavier intellectual lifting is towards the front of the book. In the first hundred pages, Fischer produces a nifty chart that documents the differing origins of the concepts of liberty and freedom (Did you know that liberty derives from the Roman republic/empire whereas Freedom comes from Germanic/Anglo tribal roots?). He then relates these concepts to the cultural groups that settled America (and to which Albion's seed is entirely devoted).

While it is possible to quibble with the result, I will save that for the real historians. Suffice it to say, this book is an awesome achievment, and Fischer is once again to be commended, not only for his attempts to bravely reconsile two competing schools of history, but also for his large spirited message, that groups which turn away from the concepts of liberty and freedom ultimately lose the battle in America's "marketplace of ideas."

A must for cynics and believers alike.

A WINNER FOR THE SYMBOL-MINDED.......2004-12-01

If you're interested in American symbols of all kinds and/or in the varied and changing attitudes Americans have had toward liberty and freedom, this is a must-have book. Well-organized, easy to read but profound, with over 500 illustrations, this book again marks David Hackett Fischer as an author with a unique understanding of how the country's present has developed out of a past few Americans understand. Bravo, David!

LIBERTY AND FREEDOM: A Visual History of America's Founding Ideas

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