Weird City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Weird City write by Joshua Long. This book was released on 2010-05-01. Weird City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A native Texan who lived and worked in the Austin area for more than twenty years, Joshua Long is Assistant Professor of Social Sciences at Franklin College Switzerland in Lugano, Switzerland. --Book Jacket.
Keep Beach City Weird
Keep Beach City Weird - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Keep Beach City Weird write by Ben Levin. This book was released on 2017-04-18. Keep Beach City Weird available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Do you think you know the truth about what happens in Beach City? THINK AGAIN! Fans of Steven Universe know that Steven and the Crystal Gems are behind most of the strange occurrences that happen in their hometown of Beach City. But Ronaldo Fryman, the town's resident blogger and conspiracy theorist, has some other ideas. This book, created by show writers Ben Levin and Matt Burnett, is a companion to Ronaldo's blog of the same name, and includes his favorite theories and collected evidence. Is Ronaldo a raving, delusional madman or a brilliant, misunderstood visionary (or a little bit of both)? You be the judge!
Secret Kansas City: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure
Secret Kansas City: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Secret Kansas City: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure write by Anne Kniggendorf. This book was released on 2020-09-15. Secret Kansas City: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Most visitors know all about Kansas City’s barbecue, jazz, and football success, but there are hidden gems and wild pieces of trivia around every turn in Missouri’s largest city. Is the giant Hereford bull anatomically correct? Can a seed that’s been to outer space still grow into a normal tree? And who really killed President William Henry Harrison? You’ll find answers to the questions you didn’t know you had in Secret Kansas City: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure. Learn why three completely unrelated groups have chosen Kansas City as the center of the world and the place you want to be when the world ends. Between these covers, you’ll also find castles, a horse buried in a cul-de-sac, a ghost who likes a good laugh, and the world’s longest snake. This is not a tour guide for outsiders; it’s a scavenger hunt—insiders only, please. Longtime Kansas Citian Anne Kniggendorf is at your service to bolster your love and boost your respect for this middle-of-the-map city. With her eye for the odd leading the way, you’ll have a great time discovering Kansas City.
Weird Las Vegas and Nevada
Weird Las Vegas and Nevada - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Weird Las Vegas and Nevada write by Joe Oesterle. This book was released on 2007. Weird Las Vegas and Nevada available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A travel guide to Las Vegas that also focusses on the neglection of its historic places.
Deciding Where to Live
Deciding Where to Live - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Deciding Where to Live write by Melissa G. Ocepek. This book was released on 2020-10-16. Deciding Where to Live available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Deciding Where to Live: Information Studies on Where to Live in America explores major themes related to where to live in America, not only about the acquisition of a home but also the ways in which where one lives relates to one’s cultural identity. It shows how changes in media and information technology are shaping both our housing choices and our understanding of the meaning of personal place. The work is written using widely accessible language but supported by a strong academic foundation from information studies and other humanities and social science disciplines. Chapters analyze everyday information behavior related to questions about where to live. The eleven major chapters are: Chapter 1: Where to live as an information problem: three contemporary examples Chapter 2: Turning in place: Real estate agents and the move from information custodians to information brokers Chapter 3: The Evolving Residential Real Estate Information Ecosystem: The Rise of Zillow Chapter 4: Privacy, Surveillance, and the “Smart Home” Chapter 5: This Old House, Fixer Upper, and Better Homes & Gardens: The Housing Crisis and Media Sources Chapter 6: A Community Responds to Growth: An Information Story About What Makes for a Good Place to Live." Chapter 7: The Valley Between Us: The meta-hodology of racial segregation in Milwaukee, Wisconsin Chapter 8: Modeling Hope: Boundary Objects and Design Patterns in a Heartland Heterotopia Chapter 9: Home buying in Everyday Life: How Emotion and Time Pressure Shape High Stakes Deciders’ Information Behavior Chapter 10: In Search of Home: Examining Information Seeking and Sources That Help African Americans Determine Where to Live Chapter 11: Where to Live in Retirement: A Complex Information Problem While the book is partly about the goal-directed activity of individuals who want to buy a house, and the infrastructure that supports that activity, it is also about personal activities that are either not goal directed or are directed at other goals such as deciding in which geographic location to live, personal entertainment, cultural understanding, or identity formation.
