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Fields of Play

…towns, settlement houses, municipal swimming pools, state game lands, stadia, and the city’s landmark rivers were all sites of struggle over inclusion and the meaning of play in the Steel…

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Youghiogheny

…/ Middle Atlantic DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA) Nature / Ecology Nature / Ecosystems & Habitats / Mountains Nature / Ecosystems & Habitats / Rivers Nature / Ecosystems &…

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The Thicket

|9780822966647|Poems| The Thicket opens into intimate encounters with the more-than-human world—rivers, birds, stones—and with a “you” that is not a person, necessarily, but also not not a person: maybe God,…

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The Spencers of Amberson Avenue

…of the growing number of middle-management employees in American industrial cities in the 1880s and 1890s. His income, which supported his family of nine, a cook, two regular nurses, and…

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Ties That Bind

…two hundred years. He focuses on water, electric, and cable television utility networks and on experiences in four major American cities — Boston, Seattle, San Francisco, and Pittsburgh, arguing that…

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