This text offers a guide for citizens, businesses, neighborhood associations, and community groups to develop strategic approaches for land use challenges. The author examines the art of public presentation and demonstrates how to approach public participation with strategy.
Robert Fitzgerald's translation of Homer's Odyssey is the best and bestloved modem translation of the greatest of all epic poems. Since 1961, this Odyssey has sold more than two million copies, and it is the standard translation for three generations of students and poets. The Noonday Press is delighted to publish a new edition of this classic work.Fitzgerald's supple verse is ideally suited to the story of Odysseus' long journey back to his wife and home after the Trojan War. Homer's tale of love, adventure, food and drink, sensual pleasure, and mortal danger reaches the English-language reader in all its glory.Of the many translations published since World War II only Fitzgerald's has won admiration as a great poem in English. The noted classicist D. S. Carne-Ross explains the many aspects of its artistry in his Introduction, written especially for this new edition.The Noonday Press edition also features a map, a Glossary of Names and Places, and Fitzgerald's Postscript. Line drawings precede each book of the poem.
The site of Fort Mifflin, the Great Mud Island along the entrance of the Delaware River, was the natural barrier to protect the city of Philadelphia from maritime attack. Fort Mifflin of Philadelphia provides an account of the crucial and heavily contested battles around the fortification during 1777, when the British and Americans realized the strategic value of the Great Mud Island as the key to control of the Delaware River, one of the busiest waterways in Colonial America.
A LONG TIME AGO IN A GALAXY FAR, FAR AWAY. . . .
"Luke Skywalker has returned to his home planet of Tatooine in an attempt to rescue his friend Han Solo . . . Little does Luke know that the GALACTIC EMPIRE has secretly begun construction on a new armored space station even more powerful than the first dreaded Death Star."
INTERIOR: YODA'S HOUSE
He beckons the young Jedi closer to him.
YODA: Luke . . . Do not underestimate the powers of the Emperor, or suffer your father's fate, you will. Luke, when gone am I, the last of the Jedi will you be. Luke, the Force runs strong in your family. Pass on what you have learned. Luke . . . There is . . . another . . . Sky . . . Sky . . . walker.
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Even the best actors, the most talented director, and the most amazing special effects can't make a great movie without a superb story to build on. Now here is the complete screenplay of Star Wars: Return of the Jedi--the climactic final installment in the legendary Star Wars Trilogy.
The adventure reaches a fever pitch with Luke Skywalker's confrontation with monstrous gangster Jabba the Hutt, and the daring rescue of Han Solo and Princess Leia . . . The breathtaking high-speed battle in the Forest of Endor . . . The heartbreaking death of beloved Jedi Master Yoda . . . And Luke's powerful final face-off with Darth Vader and the evil Emperor himself.
Fully illustrated with original storyboard art--and featuring an introduction especially written for this edition by producer Howard Kazanjian--this definitive volume is a must for every Star Wars library.
