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In 1957, The Motor Company, as they call Harley-Davidson in Milwaukee, was in trouble. The big twins were too big, the small two-stroke single was too small, and a surge of imports had taken the sporting market from the under-powered Model K.It was time for something new and different.It was time for the Sportster.Never has a motorcycle been more aptly named. The Sportster kept the K's best features, borrowed the improvements of the imports, t...

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From the late 1910s until the early 1950s, a series of aggressive segregation policies toward Los Angeles's rapidly expanding African American community inadvertently led to one of the most culturally rich avenues in the United States. From Downtown Los Angeles to the largely undeveloped city of Watts to the south, Central Avenue became the center of the West Coast jazz scene, nurturing homegrown talents like Charles Mingus, Dexter Gordon, and...

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In 1878, Charles Erskine Scott Wood, builder of the Cats Estate, wrote "Good citizens are the riches of a city." From its beginning, Los Gatos has suffered no shortage of hardworking, inventive, entrepreneurial, and gifted people. Early orchardists found the land unbelievably productive, but their crops were threatened with disease and pesky infestations of gophers. John Bean and Zephyr Macabee provided solutions. Louise Van Meter was an uncon...

Ogden Dunes, incorporated in 1925, is the largest and most residential of the three Porter County lake-front communities established in the 1920s. Although it began as a highly restricted resort community with the largest man-made ski jump in North America, it became a middle-class residential community after 1945. Because of its proximity to Gary and Chicago, Ogden Dunes was also a battleground between the forces that wished to conserve the d...

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Since the 1800s, Mill Valley has attracted spirited freethinkers, entrepreneurs, nature lovers, rabble-rousers, and more than a few rock stars. Early Mill Valley booster Sidney Cushing encouraged tourism with a train up Mount Tamalpais called "the Crookedest Railroad in the World." Laura White, more concerned with protecting Mill Valley's natural beauty than attracting more people, brought the town its "Outdoor Art Club" and a tradition of con...

Lightning struck close by, it was raining, windy, and cold. Whisper reached urgently for a nearby boulder to catch her balance. The labor of her reckless escape had taken an incredible toll on her already weary and battered frame. Whisper's vision had become so blurred that she could barely tell where the sky ended and the ground began. Fatigue was sweeping throughout her entire body and threatening to overwhelm her. She reminded herself that ...

Einsteiger in die vegane Küche möchten etwas für die Tiere, die Umwelt und die eigene Gesundheit tun. Sie möchten bewusst konsumieren, wollen sich abgrenzen, ihr Leben verändern, vielleicht auch abnehmen oder einfach mal etwas Neues probieren. Sie alle haben die gleichen, ganz praktischen Fragen: Was kaufe ich ein? Wie vermeide ich tierische Zutaten? Wie gelingen Pizzen ohne Käse, Saucen ohne Sahne und Kuchen ohne Eier? In vielen Küchenfragen ...

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Mit der Fallsammlung in drei Bänden wird das prüfungsrelevante Öffentliche Recht auf Prädikatsniveau systematisch abgedeckt. Im zweiten Band wird das allgemeine Verwaltungsrecht (Verwaltungsprozessrecht, Verwaltungsverfahrensrecht) in strukturierter Verknüpfung mit dem Verfassungs- und dem Europarecht dargestellt. Zudem werden Randgebiete des besonderen Verwaltungsrechts in Grundzügen abgedeckt. Das Buch ist sowohl für die Prüfungsvorbereitung...

Architekturstudenten sind zu Beginn des Studiums mit einer Fülle von visuellen Darstellungsmöglichkeiten ihrer Entwürfe konfrontiert. Der Ausdruck von Ideen in Zeichnung und Modell wird zu Studienbeginn meist vorausgesetzt: "learning-by-doing" ist der einzige Weg der Studierenden, um sich schnell ein Repertoire für ihre Entwurfsarbeit zu erarbeiten. Doch beim Schritt von der räumlichen Vorstellung zur zwei- oder dreidimensionalen Zeichnung ode...

An Amateur's Guide to Observing and Imaging the Heavens is a highly comprehensive guidebook that bridges the gap between the beginners' and hobbyists' books and the many specialised and subject-specific texts for more advanced amateur astronomers. Written by an experienced astronomer and educator, the book is a one-stop reference providing extensive information and advice about observing and imaging equipment, with detailed examples showing ho...

Addressing classicists, philosophers, students, and general readers alike, this volume emphasizes the unity of Seneca's work and his originality as a translator of Stoic ideas in the literary forms of imperial Rome. It features a vitalizing diversity of contributors from different generations, disciplines, and research cultures. Several prominent Seneca scholars publishing in other languages are for the first time made accessible to anglophone...

Dem Athener Isokrates (ca. 436-338 v.Chr.) schreibt man seit jeher eine maßgebliche Rolle bei der ideengeschichtlichen Trennung von Rhetorik und Philosophie zu. Besonders die historischen Exempla in seinen Reden galten dabei lange Zeit als Beleg dafür, dass der , Erbe der Sophistik' als Hauptgegner Platons den Anspruch sachlicher Moralität und Wahrhaftigkeit dem Zweck der Demonstration rhetorischer Brillanz untergeordnet habe. Thomas Blank unt...