Books with author John Lorinc

"[The Groundwork Guides] are excellent books, mandatory for school libraries and the increasing body of young people prepared to take ownership of the situations and problems previous generations have left them." -- Globe and Mail Today, more people live in cities than in rural areas. The search for better housing, transit, economic opportunity, and security within neighbourhoods forces today's city-dwellers -- in both the developed world and in megacities in Asia, Africa, and Latin America -- to confront what it means to live in our urban world. In this book, cities specialist John Lorinc considers the enormous implications of the mass migration away from rural regions, and predicts that solutions will emerge from neighbourhoods and dynamic networks linking communities to governments and the broader urban world.

Cities have always been the incubators of new ideas, economic innovation, and social reform. But recent demands and expectations placed on cities and their citizens are unprecedented: everything from chronic poverty and homelessness to massive energy consumption and nonstop suburban sprawl. In this timely book, cities specialist John Lorinc considers the enormous implications of the worldwide mass migration away from rural regions. He shows how solutions can emerge from neighborhoods and dynamic networks linking communities to governments and the broader urban world. Beyond the search for better housing, transit, economic opportunity, and security within neighborhoods, today’s city-dwellers confront a fundamental question about what it means to live in our urban world. How do people from vastly different cultures and economic circumstances learn to accommodate one another's needs within the confines of very dense and complex mega-cities? This book offers a well-reasoned, creative answer to that question.

Cities have always been the incubators of new ideas, economic innovation, and social reform. But recent demands and expectations placed on cities and their citizens are unprecedented: everything from chronic poverty and homelessness to massive energy consumption and nonstop suburban sprawl. In this timely book, cities specialist John Lorinc considers the enormous implications of the worldwide mass migration away from rural regions. He shows how solutions can emerge from neighborhoods and dynamic networks linking communities to governments and the broader urban world. Beyond the search for better housing, transit, economic opportunity, and security within neighborhoods, today’s city-dwellers confront a fundamental question about what it means to live in our urban world. How do people from vastly different cultures and economic circumstances learn to accommodate one another's needs within the confines of very dense and complex mega-cities? This book offers a well-reasoned, creative answer to that question.

“The revived and wide-spread attention given to the study of the Bible, under the stimulus of recent Oriental travels and investigations, not only as a volume of religious guidance, but as an authentic record of most interesting and important events, has encouraged me to include a series of Lectures on some of the remarkable men identified with Jewish history.”

Originally published in 1881 as a portion of the author’s larger “Points of History for Schools and Colleges,” this Kindle edition, equivalent in length to a physical book of approximately 24 pages, explores ancient Greek history in easy-to-understand question and answer format. Learn about the framing of the powerful city-states, the philosophers, the military and political leaders, the wars, and much more.Sample passage:What distinguished Athenian ruled Athens between the Persian and Peloponnesian wars?Pericles—a great statesman, an elegant scholar, an eloquent orator, and a generous patriot.What may be said of Athens during his rule?That it was the most glorious period of its existence—in which arts and learning flourished.Who gave an impulse to arts?Phidias, chiefly. He made the famous statues of Zeus and Athena, and adorned the Parthenon with statues and paintings. The whole city was adorned and enriched.Who distinguished himself in philosophy, and laid the foundation of a great intellectual revolution?Socrates, who confuted the Sophists—fashionable teachers—by his ironical questions, and taught the unity of God and the immortality of the soul. He established a sure foundation of knowledge by his celebrated definitions.What intellectual movement was represented by Euripides?Dramatic and tragic poetry. His dramas have been the delight of all ages, not so sublime as those of Aeschylus, who preceded him, but more finished and elegant.About the author:John Lord, LL.D. (1810–1894) was an American historian and a touring lecturer. Other works include “Beacon Lights of History” (15 volumes), “The Old Roman World,” and “Ancient States and Empires.”

Originally published in 1883 as a portion of the author’s larger “Beacon Lights of History, Volume XI: American Founders,” this Kindle edition, equivalent in length to a physical book of approximately 50 pages, describes the life and career of Thomas Jefferson, the author of the Declaration of Independence and the third President of the United States.Includes supplemental material:• A Brief Summary of the Life of Thomas Jefferson• About the Declaration of Independence• About the Louisiana Purchase and the Lewis and Clark ExpeditionSample passage:Even then hopes had not entirely vanished of a reconciliation with Great Britain, but before the close of the year the introduction of German mercenaries to put down the growing insurrection satisfied everybody that there was nothing left to the Colonies but to fight, or tamely submit to royal tyranny. Preparations for military resistance were now made everywhere, especially in Massachusetts, and in Virginia, where Jefferson, who had been obliged by domestic afflictions to leave Congress in December, was most active in raising money for defense, and in inspiring the legislature to set up a State government. When Jefferson again took his seat in Congress, May 13, 1776, he was put upon the committee to draft a Declaration of Independence, composed, as already noted, of John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston, besides himself. To him, however, was entrusted by the committee the labor and the honor of penning the draft, which was adopted with trifling revision. He was always very proud of this famous document, and it was certainly effective. Among the ordinary people of America he is, perhaps, better known for this rather rhetorical piece of composition than for all his other writings put together. It was one of those happy hits of genius which make a man immortal—owing, however, no small measure of its fame to the historic importance of the occasion that called it forth. It was publicly read on every Fourth of July celebration for a hundred years. It embodied the sentiments of a great people not disposed to criticism, but ready to interpret in a generous spirit; it had, at the time, a most stimulating effect at home, and in Europe was a revelation of the truth about the feeling in America.About the author:John Lord, LL.D. (1810–1894) was an American historian and a touring lecturer. Other works include “The Old Roman World,” “Ancient States and Empires,” and “Points of History.”

“The revived and wide-spread attention given to the study of the Bible, under the stimulus of recent Oriental travels and investigations, not only as a volume of religious guidance, but as an authentic record of most interesting and important events, has encouraged me to include a series of Lectures on some of the remarkable men identified with Jewish history.”

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