Boston

A basketball game in the NBA is 48 minutes long, right? Wrong. There is so much more drama behind the scenes and so much more at stake than another victory in every NBA game that the average fan is never entitled to witness and experience but this book does the best job I've ever seen in taking you there. It doesn't hurt that a classic confrontation between the then-mighty Celtics and the upstart Cavaliers is the matchup taken into focus by this great literary effort of showing what life in the NBA is like (at least during the 1980s). No personal fouls here... just a sure shot for all basketball fans who are also bookworms at heart and are not limited to enjoying the game of basketball on the television or on the court. Like I said, nothing but net..

Every season of a Boston sports fans' waking day is covered in this excellent book. The highs and lows of each of the 4 major Hub sports teams are chronicled here, capturing the moods,the history, and tradition that is truly unique! Boston Globe columnist Ryan shares his passion that the true sports fan of New England feels. Whether Boston fan or foe,this is the ultimate guide that realistic captures the flavor of the love affair of a sports town and it's fans! A great read!!!!

Cynthia Zaitzevsky leaves nothing out of this heavily-illustrated explanation of how and why Boston's Emerald Necklace parks were constructed. In addition to the history, she includes draft plans, planting lists, and a full survey of all the architecture and bridges orginal to the park system. After reading of all these accomplishments, you will want to visit the parks to see what remains today.

This is a wonderful, fun book that teaches you historical information while you have fun reading a book. It is also good if you are ever taking a vacation to Boston it give you a map of Boston and it also helps you to know what historical sites to go see. If you are someone who doesn't like to learn about historical things, this book is perfect for you. It discuises it in the story.

This collection of essays is an excellent source for any student struggling with creative essay writing, and for any teacher looking for examples to show his/her students. Also, a great way to get inside the mind of college students today!

Vale's marvelously detailed history of public housing in Boston from the early Puritan settlements to the present day tells the story of our "alternating current of compassion and hostility" toward the poor in the U.S. Through his exploration of public housing in Boston, Vale writes a compelling sociological history of the tensions inherent in the American dream of home ownership, government subsidy vs. free enterprise, and most valuable of all explores the ideology of homeownership and its bearing on citizenship. Dense, meditative, often wryly humorous, this is a deeply researched work which yields uncommon insights about mythic American values of community as expressed through public housing and public spaces.

Particularly well-rendered is the recurring theme of how the government used its powers to dispense and dispose of land to reward certain Americans. The U.S. soldier was the first, and continues to be, a singular actor in this drama of service and reward. In the Jeffersonian post-revolutionary war period, veterans were rewarded with grants of land. In so doing, the government empowered these men to do the work of settling the frontier -- who better to perform such a task than those already trained in war? Civil War veterans were similarly rewarded.

From there, other "deserving" populations were rewarded with housing -- those who demonstrated their commitment to an American standard of behavior: industriousness, cleanliness, responsiblity being some of the key attributes for qualification for early public housing. Vale describes, for instance, how public housing developments in the Depression and postwar era were also used by politicians to reward their supporters, especially deserving working-class poor families who fit a traditional dual parent, father/provider schematic.

The early chapters exploring the city fathers erection and administration of jails, insane asylums, shelters for the poor, and the concomitant rise the settlement movement and the social worker are particularly well-rendered. Great illustrations, too!

Among the MANY B&B guides to the Northeast, I found this one the most helpful for deciding where to go from Boston. Helfpul facts include travel times to the destinations, Nantucket vs. Martha's Vineyard, and other off-the beaten track locales (outside of Massachusetts). The book has helpful editorial, but more meaty that the general "quaint inn, hospitable couple serves muffins".

Seasholes must have combed every archive and walked every inch of Boston to produce this monumental book. Not only is it exhaustive, but it is entertaining as well. Although this is a handsome book it is not a cooffe table enterprise. This is a book you will want to take with you as you walk the streets of Boston. This book is destined to become dog eared and underlined. It is simply a must for anyone interested in the history of this great city.

This is a book of essays contributed by numerous historans, philosophers of science and scientific researchers especially focusing on Goethe's scientific work as well the philosophy of nature inherent in his approach to studying natural phenomena.

The book is separated into three parts: I. Goethe in the history of science, II. Goethe in Scientific methodology and Ontology and III. The contemporary use of Goethe's approach.

Each section has contributions which are deep analytical studies in their area, recapitulations of Goethe's stance and in some instances a remarkably insightful and philosophically/spiritually deep comprehension of the scale of Goethe's aim in science which explains the degree to which he himself considered his scientific work as more important than his artistic achievements.
As an example consider (not all):

Jeffrey Barnouw: a study on Helmholtz's comments on Goethe's work.

Douglas E. Miller: Goethe's colour science and its translation from the German into English.

Carl Friederich von Weizsaecker: a very deep study of Goethe's concept of metamorphosis.

Dennis L. Sepper: Sepper's superb, in depth, study of both Newton's Optics and The Farbenlehre which led to the book published by CUP.

Arthur G. Zajonc: The comprehension required in order to know what Goethe meant when saying that "the phenomenon is already the theory".

Ronald H. Brady: The understanding of both form and cause in Goethe's phenomenology.

Frederick Amrine: A study of the contemporary work of Jochen Bockemuehl in plant metamorphosis.

and finally a postscript summarising the individual contributions and their overall standing regarding the current view of Goethe's scientific contribution.

This is a must book for anyone wanting to not only get some understanding of Goethe's contribution to science, the philosophy of science but of the spirit of science as well. Ever since reading the superb book "The Wholeness of Nature" by Henri Bortoft I have attempted to purchase a copy of this text which unfortunately has been much too expensive. Luckily I obtained one second hand. It has been worth it. Along with the aforementioned book by Bortoft, Portmann's work on "Animal Forms and Patterns" and Jack Turner's "Abstract Wild" it becomes a member of essential items in my library.

This book's sweet illustrations tell the story well. Children will love to sing the refrain and look at the growing "caravan" of adorable animals and people heading to Boston Common. As it's set in the early 20th century, it would be great for older preschoolers just beginning to learn about different places and times. I highly recommend it!