The Place You Love Is Gone: Progress Hits Home

The Place You Love Is Gone: Progress Hits Home
Author: Melissa Holbrook Pierson
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2007-01-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0393345386

"Smart and defiant. Rich with characters and anecdote and heart. A great success." --Anthony Swofford, New York Times Book Review Has the futureever more people with their houses, stores, roads, and sprawlbeen wrecking your past? Melissa Holbrook Pierson, with unalloyed insight, elucidates how it feels to lose that landscape of home. In the past twenty years, like countless towns it resembles, Akron, Ohio, has lost its singularity, and much of what native-daughter Pierson loves about it. She then moves to Hoboken, New Jersey, a forgotten appendage of New Yorkuntil stockbrokers discover it. Finally, she speaks of rural areas, telling of the thousands of upstate New Yorkers displaced by city reservoirs. A unique book uniquely of our moment: This is what it feels like to lose the place you love.

Making the Scene in the Garden State

Making the Scene in the Garden State
Author: Dewar MacLeod
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2020-03-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 0813574668

Making the Scene in the Garden State explores New Jersey's rich musical heritage through stories about the musicians, listeners and fans who came together to create sounds from across the American popular music spectrum. From the beginnings of recording in Thomas Edison's factories to Bruce Springsteen's early years at the Upstage Club, and beyond, the book examines the sounds, sights and textures of music scenes in New Jersey.

Environmental Gerontology

Environmental Gerontology
Author: Rick J. Scheidt
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2013-09-13
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1317981340

Environmental gerontology – the research on aging and environment – evolved during the late 1960s, when the domain became a relevant topic due to societal concerns with the problems of housing for elderly people. The field proliferated during the 1970s and 1980s, and remains viable and active today on an international scale. However, in recent times, the viability of the field and its future has been brought into question. In this volume, international experts across diverse areas reflect on the current progress of their respective disciplines, illustrating research-grounded benefits emerging from their work, and suggesting new agenda that can guide progress in the future. The contributors address a wide range of issues, including: evaluation of existing paradigms and new theories that might advance both research and training; issues and applications in methods, measures, and empirically-generated research agenda; innovative approaches to environmental transformations in home, community, and long-term care settings; and understudied populations and issues in environmental gerontology. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Housing for the Elderly.

Telos

Telos
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 792
Release: 2006
Genre: Social sciences
ISBN:

The Place You Love Is Gone: Progress Hits Home

The Place You Love Is Gone: Progress Hits Home
Author: Melissa Holbrook Pierson
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2006
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0393329283

Every day brings evidence of dramatic change upon the landscape. It's called progress. Melissa Holbrook Pierson, with unalloyed insight, elucidates how it feels to lose that landscape of home.

Our New Public, A Changing Clientele

Our New Public, A Changing Clientele
Author: James Robert Kennedy
Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2008
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

This book explores the pervasiveness of change: in personnel selection and training; budget planning; marketing and promotion; fund raising; health issues for staff and clientele; retirement and recruitment; staying current; inter-library and inter-agency cooperation joint-use facilities; furnishing and refurnishing; evaluating and selecting new format materials and technologies; and lifelong learning.