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'It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amid the ruins of the capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind,' recorded Edward Gibbon with characteristic exactitude....

This edition features • a linked Table of Contents and linked Footnotes CONTENTS BOOK I. BOOK II. BOOK III. BOOK IV. BOOK V. About the Author "Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton PC (1803 – 1873), was an English politician, poet, playwright, and novelist." -- Wikipedia

Edward Ford's forty years of practicing and teaching architecture have focused on one area: the architectural detail. Yet, despite two hugely influential books (The Details of Modern Architecture, volumes 1 and 2), numerous articles, and lectures given from Vancouver to Vienna, there are two questions...

Anne Tyler wrote a novel called The Accidental Tourist about a man who is forced to travel but does not want to have any new experiences...My goal on my trips has been just the opposite: not to do anything too foolish, but to be open to an endless round of new experiences and possibilities."Father...

This is a story of the life and times of a fireman in Torridge City in the 1960's. Torridge City is a 'factional' place. This is a story of men on the front line. Men getting their hands dirty saving lives and property. Michael Edward Fairn describes the training he had to undertake before acceptance....

The Betty O’Neal Mine was located on the western slope of the Shoshone Range, about twelve miles southeast of the town of Battle Mountain, in north-central Nevada. Discovered in 1877, and incorporated in California in 1879 by San Francisco investors, the mine went through a succession of interesting...

This book is about Effectiveness, your effectiveness at work and in life. This book is the introductory volume to The Leader’s Guide, which addresses the 10 Core Competency of Effectiveness, which includes Delegating, Planning, Organizing, Communicating, Problem Solving/Decision Making, Awareness,...

A bold challenge to our obsession with efficiency—and a new understanding of how to benefit from the powerful potential of serendipity. Algorithms, multitasking, the sharing economy, life hacks: our culture can't get enough of efficiency. One of the great promises of the Internet and big...

In 1946 Edward Rohs was left by his unwed parents at the Angel Guardian Home to be raised by the Sisters of Mercy. The Sisters hoped that his parents would one day return for him. In time they married and had other children, but Ed’s parents never came back for him. And they never signed the legal...

Fiber optics and automation open the possibility for a binary city approach to life, one city for residence and one city for industry. One city is heavily populated; the other city is sparsely populated and distant from the residential city. A separation of pollution from populated areas will ameliorate...

The year 1721 has many splendours: great houses built by William Kent, fine pictures and the fruits of commerce. But there are also thirteen public hanging days a year, drunkenness is endemic, organised crime rampages through the streets. And politics are ferocious. Only a generation earlier, The...

Edward Gibbon was one of the world's greatest historians and a towering figure of his age. When he died in 1794 he left behind the unfinished drafts of his Memoirs, which were posthumously edited by his friend Lord Sheffield, and remain an astonishing portrait of a rich, full life. Recounting Gibbon's...

This Element is an excerpt from Crossing the Energy Divide (ISBN: 9780137015443) by Robert U. Ayres and Edward H. Ayres. Available in print and digital formats.   How electric bikes may help reshape urban transportation--slashing fuel use and carbon emissions, and improving convenience, too.   Battery-equipped...

From 1990 to 2000, the Hispanic population increased nearly 60 percent and is one of the nation's largest minority group In 1962, eleven-year-old Edward Neyra left his homeland of Cuba as part of a secret operation that relocated 14,000 children to the United States before the Cuban Missile...