City of Towers

2010-04-07 Fiction

Author : Keith Baker
Release : 2010-04-07
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 593/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis City of Towers by : Keith Baker

Download or read book City of Towers written by Keith Baker. This book was released on 2010-04-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The City of Towers launches a brand new novel line set in the world of Eberron, Wizards of the Coast’s newest D&D® campaign setting. Author Keith Baker’s proposal for the exciting world of Eberron was chosen from 11,000 submissions, and he is the co-author of the Eberron Campaign Setting, the RPG product that launched the setting. The Eberron world will continue to grow through new roleplaying game products, novels, miniatures, and electronic games. AUTHOR BIO: Keith Baker is a freelance writer and game designer. In 2003 his proposal for the world of Eberron was selected as the winner in the Wizards of the Coast fantasy setting search. From the Paperback edition.

City of Stormreach

2008 Dungeons and Dragons (Game)

Author : Keith Baker
Release : 2008
Genre : Dungeons and Dragons (Game)
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 031/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book City of Stormreach written by Keith Baker. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Explore the most important frontier city of Xen'drik, where opportunity and peril walk hand in hand. Whether you're looking for shadowy ruins, sinsiter organizations, or a treasure-laden dungeon, Stormreach is the place to start. This Dungeons and Dragons supplement brings Stormreach to life with information on the movers and shakers, both in front of and behind the scenes; ready-to-use adversaries to challenge your characters; adventure hooks to spice up your game"--P. [4] of cover.

Tenements, Towers & Trash

2017-10-03 Comics & Graphic Novels

Author : Julia Wertz
Release : 2017-10-03
Genre : Comics & Graphic Novels
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Book Rating : 220/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Tenements, Towers & Trash written by Julia Wertz. This book was released on 2017-10-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book of 2017! Here is New York, as you've never seen it before. A perfectly charming, sidesplittingly funny, intellectually entertaining illustrated history of the blocks, the buildings, and the guts of New York City, based on Julia Wertz's popular illustrated columns in The New Yorker and Harper's. In Tenements, Towers & Trash, Julia Wertz takes us behind the New York that you think you know. Not the tourist's New York-the Statue of Liberty makes a brief appearance and the Empire State Building not at all-but the guts, the underbelly, of this city that never sleeps. With drawings and comics in her signature style, Wertz regales us with streetscapes "Then and Now" and little-known tales, such as the lost history of Kim's Video, the complicated and unresolved business of Ray's Pizza, the vintage trash and horse bones that litter the shore of Brooklyn's Bottle Beach, the ludicrous pinball prohibition, Staten Island's secret abandoned boatyard, and the hair-raising legend of the infamous abortionist of Fifth Avenue, Madame Restell. From bars, bakeries, and bookstores to food carts, street cleaners, and apartments both cramped and grand, Tenements, Towers & Trash is a wild ride in a time machine taxi from the present day city to bygone days of yore.

In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower

2021-03-30 Social Science

Author : Davarian L Baldwin
Release : 2021-03-30
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 917/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower written by Davarian L Baldwin. This book was released on 2021-03-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across America, universities have become big businesses—and our cities their company towns. But there is a cost to those who live in their shadow. Urban universities play an outsized role in America’s cities. They bring diverse ideas and people together and they generate new innovations. But they also gentrify neighborhoods and exacerbate housing inequality in an effort to enrich their campuses and attract students. They maintain private police forces that target the Black and Latinx neighborhoods nearby. They become the primary employers, dictating labor practices and suppressing wages. In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower takes readers from Hartford to Chicago and from Phoenix to Manhattan, revealing the increasingly parasitic relationship between universities and our cities. Through eye-opening conversations with city leaders, low-wage workers tending to students’ needs, and local activists fighting encroachment, scholar Davarian L. Baldwin makes clear who benefits from unchecked university power—and who is made vulnerable. In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower is a wake-up call to the reality that higher education is no longer the ubiquitous public good it was once thought to be. But as Baldwin shows, there is an alternative vision for urban life, one that necessitates a more equitable relationship between our cities and our universities.

When Ivory Towers Were Black

2017-03-01 Education

Author : Sharon Egretta Sutton
Release : 2017-03-01
Genre : Education
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Book Rating : 139/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book When Ivory Towers Were Black written by Sharon Egretta Sutton. This book was released on 2017-03-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This personal history chronicles the triumph and loss of a 1960s initiative to recruit minority students to Columbia University’s School of Architecture. At the intersection of US educational, architectural, and urban history, When Ivory Towers Were Black tells the story of how an unparalleled cohort of ethnic minority students overcame institutional roadblocks to earn degrees in architecture from Columbia University. Its narrative begins with a protest movement to end Columbia’s authoritarian practices, and ends with an unsettling return to the status quo. Sharon Egretta Sutton, one of the students in question, follows two university units that led the movement toward emancipatory education: the Division of Planning and the Urban Center. She illustrates both units’ struggle to open the ivory tower to ethnic minority students and to involve those students in improving Harlem’s slum conditions. Along with Sutton’s personal perspective, the story is narrated through the oral histories of twenty-four fellow students who received an Ivy League education only to find the doors closing on their careers due to Nixon-era urban disinvestment policies.

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