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Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City

Arguably the most influential document in the history of urban planning, Daniel Burnham's 1909 Plan of Chicago, coauthored by Edward Bennett and produced in collaboration with the Commercial Club of Chicago, proposed many of the city's most distinctive features, including its lakefront parks and roadways, the Magnificent Mile, and Navy Pier. Carl Smith's fascinating history reveals the Plan's central role in shaping the ways people envision the cityscape and urban life itself. 

Smith's concise and accessible narrative begins with a survey of Chicago's stunning rise from a tiny frontier settlement to the nation's second-largest city. He then offers an illuminating exploration of the Plan's creation and reveals how it embodies the renowned architect's belief that cities can and must be remade for the better. The Plan defined the City Beautiful movement and was the first comprehensive attempt to reimagine a major American city. Smith points out the ways the Plan continues to influence debates, even a century after its publication, about how to create a vibrant and habitable urban environment. 

Richly illustrated and incisively written, his insightful book will be indispensable to our understanding of Chicago, Daniel Burnham, and the emergence of the modern city.

The Plan of Chicago

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Three Shows from 1957-58, released in original black and white

The Mickey Mouse Club Volume Five VHS

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The Complete Guide to All 59 National Parks

An award-winning guide. Completely updated for the 2017 edition and includes over 450 new photographs, 160 revised maps, and 50 hiking tables, making it the only guidebook you will need to explore the United States National Parks. An all new design with the same intuitive layout keeps the step-by-step itineraries, child-friendly activities, and most popular ranger programs at your fingertips to help plan your next family holiday. Thousands of hotels, restaurants, and attractions beyond the parks and 11 suggested road trips make it the ultimate dashboard companion. Exhaustive activity information -- including hiking tables, easy-to-find trailhead markers, outfitter details, and backpacking essentials -- serves as blueprint for an adventure of a lifetime. With something for everyone, this is Your Guide to the National Parks.

Your Guide to the National Parks

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This book has no handwritten notes or highlighting but does have the original owner's name printed on the inside cover. Some minor water marks. #intropsychology #psych101 #highschoolpsychology

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Electives

High School Pysch 101

Fundamentals of Psychology

Stories of the men who went to the Moon. #hardcover #space #moon #astronauts #menonthemoon #spacetravel

The astronauts who went to the moon and their thoughts about it.

An extremely readable history of the space program of the United States from its beginning to the Apollo moon mission.

For All Mankind

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International Version (c.1978). Overall excellent condituin.

Holy Bible

#musicbusiness #music #business Signed on front leaf from original giver


A Practical Guide to the Music Industry for Publishers, Writers, Record Compani es, Producers, Artists, Agents

Features information on such topics as recording companies and artists, music publishers and writers, and industry forms and contracts.

This Business of Music

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English

The 200 Best Novels in English Since 1950 

If readers have ever been too frightened to start Hannibal, couldn’t wait for The Long Goodbye to end, or wondered what should be next on their summer reading list, this fascinating book is exactly what they need. Readers will find short and insightful entries on 200 of the greatest novels and authors of our time including John Updike, Thomas Harris, Harper Lee, Annie Proulx, and more.

A Brief Guide to the Modern Library

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The Ten Barriers to Brilliant Decision-Making and How to Overcome Them

Two experts in business management show how to avoid the ten common pitfalls that ensanre decision makers. The very latest research in the fields of business and psychology has been distilled into practical training methods that will save readers from ever making a bad decision again.

Decision Traps

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A Practical Guide for Making Better Decisions

Smart Choices

#paperback #fiction #annetyler #1959 #historical #family 

A Novel

"NEW YORK TIMES" BESTSELLER - SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE -NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY "PEOPLE" AND""USA TODAY"" -NAMEDONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY "The Washington Post "NPR "Chicago Tribune St. Louis Post-Dispatch The Telegraph BookPage" "Look for special features inside. Join the Random House Reader s Circle for author chats and more. " It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon. . . . This is how Abby Whitshank always describes the day she fell in love with Red in July 1959. The Whitshanks are one of those families that radiate an indefinable kind of specialness, but like all families, their stories reveal only part of the picture: Abby and Red and their four grown children have accumulated not only tender moments, laughter, and celebrations, but also jealousies, disappointments, and carefully guarded secrets. From Red s parents, newly arrived in Baltimore in the 1920s, to the grandchildren carrying the Whitshank legacy boisterously into the twenty-first century, here are four generations of lives unfolding in and around the sprawling, lovingly worn house that has always been their anchor. Praise for "A Spool of Blue Thread" An act of literary enchantment . . . Anne] Tyler remains among the best chroniclers of family life this country has ever produced. "The Washington Post " Quintessential Anne Tyler, as well as quintessential American comedy . . . She] has a knack for turning sitcom situations into something far deeper and more moving. "The New York Times Book Review" By my count I ve now reviewed around fifty books for "USA Today." I ve never given any of them four stars until today: to "A Spool of Blue Thread, " the masterful twentieth novel by Anne Tyler. "USA Today " By the end of this deeply beguiling novel, we come to know a reality entirely different from the one at the start. "O: The Oprah Magazine" Well-crafted, utterly absorbing and compelling . . . probably the best novel you will read all year. "Chicago Tribune" A miracle of sorts . . . tender, touching and funny . . . an] understated masterpiece. Associated Press Exploring the] dichotomy the imperfections that reside within a polished exterior is Tyler s specialty, and her latest generation-spanning work accomplishes just that, masterfully and monumentally. "Elle" The story of any family is told through the prism of time. And no storyteller compares to Tyler when it comes to unspooling those tales. "St. Louis Post-Dispatch" Vintage Anne Tyler . . . The Whitshanks are] rendered with such immediacy and texture that they might be our next-door neighbors. "Los Angeles Times" The magic of Tyler s novels is that] youimagine these characters carrying on, muddling through, enduring the necessary sorrows and quiet joys of their lives somewhere beyond the page. " The Seattle Times" The sort of novel that s hard to disentangle yourself from. Warm, charming and emotionally radiant, it surely must be counted as among Tyler s best. "The Miami Herald" Prose so polished it practically glows on the page. " Houston Chronicle""

A Spool of Blue Thread

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From Antiquity to Modern Times

African Civilization Revisited

Written in the early twentieth century for her children and grandchildren and first published in 1975, these eloquent memoirs detail the life of General Ulysses S. Grant's wife. First Lady Julia Dent Grant wrote her reminiscences with the vivacity and charm she exhibited throughout her life, telling her story in the easy flow of an afternoon conversation with a close friend. She writes fondly of White Haven, a plantation in St. Louis County, Missouri, where she had an idyllic girlhood and later met Ulysses.

In addition to relating the joys she experienced, Grant tells about the difficult and sorrowful times. Her anecdotes give fascinating glimpses into the years of the American Civil War. One recounts the night President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. Grant insisted she and her husband turn down an invitation to the theater. Her decision saved her husband's life: like Lincoln, he too had been marked for assassination.

Throughout these memoirs, which she ends with her husband's death, Grant seeks to introduce her descendants to both her and the man she loved. She also strives to correct misconceptions that were circulated about him. She wanted posterity to share her pride in this man, whom she saw as one of America's greatest heroes. Her book is a testament to their devoted marriage.

This forty-fifth-anniversary edition includes a new foreword by John F. Marszalek and Frank J. Williams, a new preface by Pamela K. Sanfilippo, the original foreword by Bruce Catton, the original introduction by editor John Y. Simon, recommendations for further reading, and more than twenty photographs of the Grants, their children, and their friends.

The Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant (Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant)

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The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing

Presents a guide to cleaning and organizing a living space, discussing best methods for decluttering and the impact that an organized home can have on mood and physical and mental health.

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up

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Explains the art of living in harmony with natural and man-made environments and discusses how arranging one's surroundings can enhance personal relationships, business success, health, and happiness

Feng Shui (Complete Illustrated Guide)

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An aging British secret service agent looks back on his covert past, recalling the suspicion, danger, excitement, deception, and failure that marked his thirty-year career as a spy

The Secret Pilgrim

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The Soviet invasion of Iran triggers the deployment of American troops and the fury of modern war, but the stakes are raised immeasurably when it is rumored that Iran is building a nuclear device

Sword Point

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The Soviet Union and United States Star Wars race escalates, Colonel Mikkail Filtov, America's agent in the Kremlin, is about to be betrayed, and only Jack Ryan can save Filtov--and world peace

The Cardinal of the Kremlin

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#strategicpricing #pricing #leadership #profits

A Guide to Profitable Decision Making

Practical in focus and lively in style, this book provides a comprehensive, managerially-focused, integrated, step-by-step guide to pricing analysis and strategy development. Numerous walk-through examples show how companies successfully or unsuccessfully implement pricing strategies.  Strategic Pricing; Costs; Financial analysis; Customers; Competition; Price-center strategy; Life Cycle Pricing; Managing Value Perceptions; Segmented Pricing; Pricing in and through Distribution Channels; Competitive Advantages; Customer Research for Pricing; The Law and Ethics.  For Marketing Managers, Product Managers, Managers of Pricing, Managers of Strategic Planning.

The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing

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How to Align Purpose, Strategy, and Structure for Speed

Inspired by such corporations as Motorola, General Electric, Citicorp, and others who have cut production time in half, many companies struggle to become time-based competitors. Christopher Meyer demonstrates that fast-cycle time is achieved by aligning the organization to learn faster, instead of merely working faster. He describes how to assemble multifunctional teams into integrated production systems by empowering workers with an eight-step process and tool kit to reduce non-value-added activities, and shows why fast-cycle time is the competitive requirement for any industry in the 1990s.

Fast Cycle Time

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Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't

The Challenge Built to Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the verybeginning. But what about the company that is not born with great DNA? How can good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies achieve enduring greatness? The Study For years, this question preyed on the mind of Jim Collins. Are there companies that defy gravity and convert long-term mediocrity or worse into long-term superiority? And if so, what are the universal distinguishing characteristics that cause a company to go from good to great? The Standards Using tough benchmarks, Collins and his research team identified a set of elite companies that made the leap to great results and sustained those results for at least fifteen years. How great? After the leap, the good-to-great companies generated cumulative stock returns that beat the general stock market by an average of seven times in fifteen years, better than twice the results delivered by a composite index of the world's greatest companies, including Coca-Cola, Intel, General Electric, and Merck. The Comparisons The research team contrasted the good-to-great companies with a carefully selected set of comparison companies that failed to make the leap from good to great. What was different? Why did one set of companies become truly great performers while the other set remained only good? Over five years, the team analyzed the histories of all twenty-eight companies in the study. After sifting through mountains of data and thousands of pages of interviews, Collins and his crew discovered the key determinants of greatness -- why some companies make the leap and others don't. The Findings The findings of the Good to Great study will surprise many readers and shed light on virtually every area of management strategy and practice. The findings include: Level 5 Leaders: The research team was shocked to discover the type of leadership required to achieve greatness. The Hedgehog Concept (Simplicity within the Three Circles): To go from good to great requires transcending the curse of competence. A Culture of Discipline: When you combine a culture of discipline with an ethic of entrepreneurship, you get the magical alchemy of great results. Technology Accelerators: Good-to-great companies think differently about the role of technology. The Flywheel and the Doom Loop: Those who launch radical change programs and wrenching restructurings will almost certainly fail to make the leap. “Some of the key concepts discerned in the study,” comments Jim Collins, "fly in the face of our modern business culture and will, quite frankly, upset some people.” Perhaps, but who can afford to ignore these findings?

Good to Great

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The New Steps for Planning Quality into Goods and Service

This is a step-by-step guide on the application of the concepts of planning, controlling and improving, the Juran Trilogy, to quality leadership. Each concept is accompanied by a series of actions, and Juran gives criteria for selective project-by-project improvements and for picking a team to carry them out. The author offers a time-table for their implementation and directs the formation of an ongoing quality council.

Juran on Leadership for Quality

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Straight from the Gut

The CEO of General Electric looks back on his distinguished career with the corporation and shares his personal philosophy of business and innovative managerial style. (Business & Finance)

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