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Arrogance and innocence, hubris and hope - twenty-four haunting voices of the Titanic tragedy, as well as the iceberg itself, are evoked in a stunning tour de force. Millionaire John Jacob Astor hopes to bring home his pregnant teen bride with a minimum of media scandal. A beautiful Lebanese refugee, on her way to family in Florida, discovers the first stirrings of love. And an ancient iceberg glides south, anticipating its fateful encounter. The voices in this remarkable re-creation of the Titanic disaster span classes and stations, from Margaret ( the unsinkable Molly ) Brown to the captain who went down with his ship; from the lookout and wireless men to a young boy in search of dragons and a gambler in search of marks. Slipping in telegraphs, undertaker's reports, and other records, poet Allan Wolf offers a breathtaking, intimate glimpse at the lives behind the tragedy, told with clear-eyed compassion and astounding emotional power. Features: a novel in verse from the award-winning Allan Wolf; extensive back matter includes: Author's note; Notes on the characters; Morse code with messages to decipher; Titanic miscellany; Bibliography, articles, periodicals, government documents, discography; Encyclopedia Titanica research and other online resources; Titanic societies; and perennial topic of interest.
When the Cleveland suburb of Euclid first zoned its land in 1922,
the Ambler Realty Company was left with a sizable tract it could no
longer sell for industrial use-and so the company sued. What
emerged was the seminal zoning case in American history, pitting
reformers against private property advocates in the Supreme Court
and raising the question of whether a municipality could deny
property owners the right to use their land however they chose.
Reconstructing the case that made zoning a central element in urban
planning for cities and towns throughout America, Michael Allan
Wolf provides the first book-length study of the Supreme Court's
landmark Euclid v. Ambler decision. Wolf describes how the
ordinance, and the defense of it, burst onto the national stage and
became the focus of litigation before moving all the way to the
nation's highest court. He subsequently reveals how and why Justice
George Sutherland broke from the Court's conservative bloc to
support the urban reform movement eager to protect residential
neighborhoods from disturbances created by rapidly expanding
commercial, industrial, or multifamily uses of land. Following that
decision, America saw the rapid proliferation of zoning ordinances,
which greatly increased the power of local government to control
and rationalize urban planning. As Wolf attests, many of today's
environmental and land use laws might not have been deemed legal
had Euclid v. Ambler been decided differently. But he also points
out the potential dangers that emerged from the decision, such as
its anticompetitive impact on the real estate market, its
catalyzing effect on suburban sprawl, and its establishment of a
legal basis for excluding minority groups from neighborhoods.
Wolf's compelling account makes it clear that Euclid v. Ambler
fundamentally altered how we think about the urban landscape,
changed the way our cities and suburbs are organized, and left a
long shadow over subsequent cases such as the controversial Supreme
Court decision in Kelo v. New London (2005).
The Supreme Court and the Environment discusses the body of federal
statutory law amassed to fight pollution and conserve natural
resources that began with the enactment of the National
Environmental Policy Act of 1969. Instead of taking the more
traditional route of listing court decisions, The Supreme Court and
the Environment puts the actual cases in a subsidiary position, as
part of a larger set of documents paired with incisive
introductions that illustrate the fascinating and sometimes
surprising give-and-take with Congress, federal administrative
agencies, state and local governments, environmental organizations,
and private companies and industry trade groups that have helped
define modern environmental policy. ? From the author: When one
views the body of modern environmental law-the decisions and the
other key documents-the picture that emerges is not one of Supreme
Court dominance. In this legal drama, the justices have most often
played supporting roles. While we can find the occasional,
memorable soliloquy in a Supreme Court majority, concurring, or
dissenting opinion, the leading men and women are more likely found
in Congress, administrative agencies, state and local legislatures,
nongovernmental organizations, private industry, and state and
lower federal courts. ? What one learns from studying the Supreme
Court's environmental law output is that the justices for the most
part seem more concerned about more general issues of deference to
administrative agencies, the rules of statutory interpretation, the
role of legislative history, the requisites for standing, and the
nature of the Takings Clause than the narrow issues of entitlement
to a clean environment, the notion of an environmental ethic that
underlies written statutes and regulations, and concerns about
ecological diversity and other environmental values. When we widen
the lens, however, and focus on the other documents that make up
essential parts of the story of the Supreme Court and the
environment-complaints by litigants, briefs by parties and by
friends of the court, oral argument transcripts, the occasional
stirring dissent, lower court decisions, presidential signing
statements and press conference transcripts, media reports and
editorials, and legislative responses to high court decisions-we
discover what is often missing in the body of Supreme Court
decisions. --Michael Allan Wolf
Step aboard the Word Express. It's leaving from the station. The only ticket needed is your own imagination.
Have you ever wanted to climb to the top of Everest with one hand behind your back? Kiss a crocodile all by yourself on the Nile river? How about learning how to bottle moonlight, or track a distant star? There are endless things to discover and whole universes to explore simply by reading a book. But books are only smears of ink without the reader’s mind to give their letters meaning and bring them to life. With a rollicking, rhyming text and delightful artwork, poet and storyteller Allan Wolf and illustrator Brianne Farley remind us that books, no matter how they may be consumed, give readers of every background an opportunity to expand their world and spark their imagination. With infectious enthusiasm, No Buddy Like a Book offers an ode to the wonders of language – written, spoken, and everything in between.
Spacebraid and Other Tales of a Dystopian Universe is a collection
of one novella and seven short stories that explore the most
powerful of human emotions, fears and desires in settings sometimes
hostile, sometimes surreal, and always a bit off-kilter. The tales
vary from the humorous to the tragic, from the idealistic yearning
of the hero in Darwin to the horrifying fate of Godfrey in
Heisenberg in the Macro. Spacebraid, the longest piece in the
collection, is the story of a dedicated group of individuals led by
a brilliant theoretical physicist in a dash through time to
circumvent ecological disaster and, in so doing, to preserve the
best hopes and dreams of humankind. Be forewarned that these
stories are not for the faint of heart. They are meant to connect
at a viscerally potent level, challenge thought and, in the end,
place us in touch with our own values, hopes and fears. Take the
journey. It'll be a great ride.
Spacebraid and Other Tales of a Dystopian Universe is a collection
of one novella and seven short stories that explore the most
powerful of human emotions, fears and desires in settings sometimes
hostile, sometimes surreal, and always a bit off-kilter. The tales
vary from the humorous to the tragic, from the idealistic yearning
of the hero in Darwin to the horrifying fate of Godfrey in
Heisenberg in the Macro. Spacebraid, the longest piece in the
collection, is the story of a dedicated group of individuals led by
a brilliant theoretical physicist in a dash through time to
circumvent ecological disaster and, in so doing, to preserve the
best hopes and dreams of humankind. Be forewarned that these
stories are not for the faint of heart. They are meant to connect
at a viscerally potent level, challenge thought and, in the end,
place us in touch with our own values, hopes and fears. Take the
journey. It'll be a great ride.
A thriller inspired by a tragic true event in the author's past.
Allan Wolf examines the circumstances of a boy's inexplicable
murder and the fateful summer leading up to it. Everybody likes
Chris Goodman. Sure, he's a little odd. He wears those funny
bell-bottoms and he really likes the word ennui and he shakes your
hand when he meets you, but he's also the kind of guy who's always
up for a good time, always happy to lend a hand. Everybody likes
him, which makes it especially shocking when he's murdered. Here,
in a stunning multi-voiced narrative - including the perspective of
the fifteen-year-old killer - and based on a true and terrible
crime that occurred when he was in high school, author Allan Wolf
sets out to answer the first question that comes to mind in moments
of unthinkable tragedy: how could a thing like this happen?
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