Lokalhistorie

Secret Christchurch explores the lesser-known history of the town of Christchurch through a fascinating selection of stories, unusual facts and attractive photographs.

A stunning collection of photographs taken through the year in Dorset and the New Forest showing the changing seasons in beautiful landscape.

This book explores the transport systems of Manchester, including the buses and rail network.

København i begyndelsen af 1900-tallet. Den såkaldte jødiske ghetto er en labyrint af smudsige gyder og faldefærdige rønner, hvor bordeller, værtshuse, kriminalitet og fattigdom hører til dagens orden. Blandt disse overfyldte lejligheder og skidne baggårde finder en række bestialske mord sted. Københavns politi sætter den unge frøken Nathansen – Nathan blandt venner – til at undersøge sagen, eftersom hun selv er af jødisk familie og derfor bør være den rette til opgaven. Men meget snart indser Nathan, at forbrydelserne trækker et blodigt spor efter sig, der peger på såvel pogromerne i Rusland som korruption på højeste niveau i byens politi. Det er langt fra alle, der ønsker de brutale mord opklaret ...

How a Mvskoke traditionalist leader forged a movement to resist the division of tribal lands and keep his people on the everlasting Medicine Way

In 1974, to mark The Edinburgh Academy's 150th anniversary, alumnus Magnus Magnusson released The Clacken and the Slate, a book which painted a picture of a leading educational establishment. This bold new history, released in the school's 200th year, revisits and expands upon Magnusson's account to tell a more far-reaching, more complex story.

"Bourton on the Water: An Illustrated Guide" is written by Paul Snowdon. This beautifully hand drawn guide to this famous Cotswold village brings alive the history of the area dating from before Roman times, explore this village's history page by page. This is no ordinary book; it is a labour of love,

A propulsive, layered examination of the conflict between the course of nature and human legacies of resistance and control.Floods, geoengineering, climate crisis. Her first year in Margaretville, New York, Jennifer Kabat wakes to a rain-bloated stream and three-foot waves in her basement.This is far from the first—and hardly the worst—natural disaster to devastate her town. As Kabat dives deeper into the region’s fraught environmental history, she discovers it was more than once the site of Cold War weather experimentation. She traces connections between noctilucent clouds, man-made precipitation, and the 1950 Rainmaker’s Flood—finding unlikely characters along the way, including Kurt Vonnegut’s brother, Bernard, a scientist at General Electric. And all the while she searches for ways to cope with the grief of her environmentalist father’s recent passing. “Because I need the water to speak to me too,” she writes.Curious and experimental, Nightshining uses place as the palimpsest of history, digging into questions of personal responsibility and planetary change. With “characteristically lyrical incision” (Marko Gluhaich), Kabat circles back to her own life experience and the essence of being human—the cosmos thrumming in our bodies, connecting readers to the land around us and time before us.

Now in paperback: This San Francisco Chronicle bestseller and California Book Award finalist drills down into Oakland's geological history and its impacts on the city's urban present."This book has turned me into a newcomer to my own city, but has also changed the way I will view any landscape. I can think of few greater gifts than that."—Jenny Odell, author of How to Do Nothing and Saving Time"Spending time with Andrew Alden is like giving yourself x-ray eyes." —Roman Mars, host and creator of 99% InvisibleBeneath Oakland's streets and underfoot of every scurrying creature atop them, rocks roil, shift, crash, and collide in an ever-churning seismological saga. In Deep Oakland, geologist Andrew Alden excavates the ancient story of Oakland's geologic underbelly and reveals how its silt, soil, and subterranean sinews are intimately entwined with its human history—and future. Poised atop a world-famous fault line now slumbering, Alden charts how these quaking rocks gave rise to the hills and the flats; how ice-age sand dunes gave root to the city's eponymous oak forests; how the Jurassic volcanoes of Leona Heights gave way to mining boom times; how Lake Merritt has swelled and disappeared a dozen times over the course of its million-year lifespan; and how each epochal shift has created the terrain cradling Oaklanders today. With Alden as our guide—and with illustrations by Laura Cunningham, author of A State of Change—we see that just as Oakland is a human crossroads, a convergence of cultures from the world over, so too is the bedrock below, carried here from parts still incompletely known.

The rise and fall of William J. Levitt, the man who made the suburban house a mass commodity

From 1874 until 1915, the "Storm Warriors" of the Fletchers Neck Life Saving Service and the citizens of the Village of Biddeford Pool shared a common history. Gleaned from local newspapers, stations logbooks, official records of the Life Saving Service, and the papers and memories of involved families, these are tales of men at odds with the fury of nature.

A compelling memoir about Kim Heacox's more than thirty-year relationship with the most iconic landscape in Alaska

Howard Hanson's previously unpublished autobiography is now compiled and edited from manuscript sources providing valuable insight into the life and work of this important American musician and educator.

A gripping account of how the automobile has failed NYC and how mass transit and a revitalized streetscape are vital to its post-pandemic recoveryIn 1969, as all students of New York City history think they have learned, master builder Robert Moses lost his long battle to urbanist Jane Jacobs over his planned Lower Manhattan Expressway. The ten-lane elevated expressway would slice across SoHo and Little Italy, demolish historic buildings, and displace thousands of families and businesses. Jacobs and her neighbors defeated Moses, and as a result, New York became the only major American city with no interstate highway running through its core. Like many global cities, though, New York spent fifty years during the first half of the twentieth century trying and failing to tame its heavily populated landscape to fit the private automobile. New York has now spent more than fifty years trying to undo those mistakes, wresting back city space for people, not cars.Movement: New York's Long War to Take Back Its Streets from the Car chronicles the earlier, less-known battles that preceded the cancellation of the Lower Manhattan Expressway: Jacobs became an example for generations of urban planners, but whose example did Jacobs emulate in an earlier victory that saved Washington Square Park? Moses may serve handily as New York's uber-villain now, but who, before him, was responsible for destroying a critical part of New York's transit system?Written by a well-known urban writer who has focused on New York's transportation system for more than a decade, author Nicole Gelinas resumes the story where Robert Caro's landmark The Power Broker ended. Movement explores how, in the half-century leading up to the COVID- 19 pandemic, New York's re-embracement of its mass-transit system and a livable streetscape helped save the city. Gelinas tackles the 1970s environmental movement, the 1980s rebuilding of the subways, and more contemporary battles, from Mayor Bloomberg's push for more pedestrian plazas and bike lanes in the early 2000s, to transportation advocates' protests to prevent traffic deaths in the Mayor de Blasio era of the 2010s, to the battle against Uber and Lyft to take back New York's streets from reemerging gridlock over the half-decade leading up to the pandemic.Introducing a cast of new transportation heroes to rival Jane Jacobs (Shirley Hayes, Hazel Henderson, Richard Ravitch, Nilka Martell) and puncturing the myth of Moses as New York's anti-hero, Movement explores how New York City has helped redefine what it means to be a global city: not a place that is easy to drive through, but a place where people can take transit, walk, and bike to work, to school, or just for fun.

Aalborg (2024) er en postkortbog, som fanger essensen af Aalborg og fortolker det visuelt. Bogen indeholder 30 kort; 30 sorte tuschtegninger om byen. Kende og ukendte, smukke og mærkelige detaljer. Bylandskaber, bygninger, skulpturer. Bogens format er 16 x 16 cm. De enkelte sider kan tages ud af bogen og bruges som kort.

This book examines how California Indigenous groups forged a new economy based on cattle, opening the door to the assertion and recognition of American Indian sovereignty over ancestral lands by the United States. Shanta reflects on how they survived, kept their cultures alive, and gained recognition of their sovereign status.

”Et hus i Toscana”, Frances Mayes’ bog om de første år i det gamle hus Bramasole uden for byen Cortona, blev en stor succes over hele verden.I ”Bella Toscana” fortsætter hun sin beretning om det søde liv i Italien, om menneskene, vinen, maden, naturen og kunsten. Hendes centrum er igen bjergbyen Cortona og Bramasole, der efter otte år stadig kræver store renoveringer, og haven der så småt begynder at ligne et paradis. Hun er også på udflugter til Sicilien, Venedig og rundt om Lago Trasimeno, og på vejen besøger hun både kirker og restauranter. Mad og vin er vigtige indslag i hverdagen. Frances Mayes indvier os desuden i et par af sine egne, lækre opskrifter.Vi oplever i glimt hendes tilværelse og familie i USA som en kontrast til det fredelige liv under Italiens sol med venner og håndværkere.”Bella Toscana” udkom første gang på dansk i 2001.Frances Mayes er forfatteren bag klassikeren ”Et hus i Toscana”, som var på New York Times bestsellerliste i mere end to og et halvt år og blev til en film med Diane Lane i hovedrollen. Hendes andre internationale bestsellere inkluderer “Bella Toscana”, der også er oversat til dansk, samt “Every Day in Tuscany”, ”A Year in the World” og tre illustrerede bøger: “In Tuscany”, ”Bringing Tuscany Home” og ”The Tuscan Sun Cookbook”. Mayes er også forfatter til to romaner, ”Swan” og ”Women in Sunlight”, seks digtsamlinger samt ”The Discovery of Poetry”. Hendes seneste bøger er “See You in the Piazza” og “Always Italy”. Frances Mayes’ bøger er oversat til mere end 50 sprog.

Stunts, kamp, klovnerier og drengestreger. Som en slags præpubertær Jackass iscenesatte fotograf og forfatter Bent Riis og vennerne spontant deres hæmningsløse drengeunivers og forevigede udskejelserne gennem Bents Kodak Instamatic. Playtime er et utilsløret indblik i opvæksten i 60’erne, set gennem den 12-årig horsensianers linse.Bogen er en adgangsbillet til en nær fortid, hvor frihed og frækhed drev af hessiantapetet i Hors­ens. Bent Riis’ fotografier var bortlagt som barndoms­minder, indtil den prisbelønnede fotojournalist Carsten Ingemann var en tur i Bents gemmer. Her fandt Inge­mann noget helt unikt. Bent Riis havde grundet sin fars lukrative forretning som pølsemand haft råd til kamera og film og ivrigt dokumenteret sine og vennernes drengestreger.I en tid hvor vi taler om, hvordan vi gør vores børn robuste. Man kan med rette spørge, hvorfra robusthed udspringer? Et bud kunne være et kælderrum underlagt drenge-suverænitet, hvor sindrige planer om det næste togt udarbejdes; udforskning af kloakkerne, pølsevognsbelejring og en mission med det eneste formål om at skyde naboens guldfisk.Journalist og forfatter Stig Olesen har skrevet et essay til Playtime. Sprog: Dansk og engelsk.Papir: 150 gr. Munken LynxIndbinding: Garnhæftet, læderindbunden helbindsbog med skumpap under for- og bagside.