The author retraces Judah Benjamin's path in this book, emphasizing his travels through Florida and revealing previously unpublished information. The Lesley family's connection to his escape is also explored, starting…

From the bestselling author of The Rise of the Creative Class comes a brilliant book on the surprising importance of place. Who’s Your City? offers the first available city rankings…

More than half the world’s population lives in cities, and that proportion is expected to rise to three-quarters by 2050. Urbanization is a global phenomenon, but the way cities are…

Contemporary culture increasingly suffers from problems of attention, over-stimulation, and stress, and a variety of personal and social discontents generated by deceptive body images. This book argues that improved body…

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…

A marvelous collection of nine of Richard A Marschall's best short stories of southern Florida. Their genuineness, and faithful rendering, and fast-paced "jump at you", action, makes each story, a…

This book examines the ways philosophy deploys literary means to advance its practice, particularly as a way of life that extends beyond literary forms and words into physical deeds, nonlinguistic…

Florida has depended on tourism since the earliest days of American ownership. Entrepreneurs, scoundrels, and visionaries flocked to the Sunshine State to take advantage of the natural resources–land, water, climate…