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The Mixer
The Story of Premier League Tactics, from Route One to False Nines
It was mentioned as a great look at the evolution of soccer tactics since the backpass rule.
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His new book, The Mixer is a great look at the evolution of soccer tactics since the backpass rule.
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It was mentioned as a great look at the evolution of soccer tactics since the backpass rule.
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His new book, The Mixer is a great look at the evolution of soccer tactics since the backpass rule.
Football Clichés
It was described as a book focusing on the language used to discuss the sport of soccer.
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Adam Hurry also has a book called Football Cliches, all about the language we use to describe the beautiful game.
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Episode: Unsure Footing
It was described as a book focusing on the language used to discuss the sport of soccer.
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Adam Hurry also has a book called Football Cliches, all about the language we use to describe the beautiful game.
Smalltime
A Story of My Family and the Mob
It was mentioned as a memoir detailing Justin Bryant's professional soccer career in England.
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And if you want to read more about Justin Bryant's professional career in England, he's got a memoir called Small Time.
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It was mentioned as a memoir detailing Justin Bryant's professional soccer career in England.
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And if you want to read more about Justin Bryant's professional career in England, he's got a memoir called Small Time.
On the Construction, Organization, and General Arrangements of Hospitals for the Insane
With Some Remarks on Insanity and Its Treatment (Classic Reprint)
It was a detailed how-to guide to building the perfect asylum in 1854. The book was wildly popular and covered everything from heating and ventilation to window design to prevent suicides.
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he set down everything he learned in an extremely detailed book called on the construction organization and general arrangements of hospitals for the insane with some remarks on insanity and its treat...
— Episode: The Kirkbride Plan
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Episode: The Kirkbride Plan
It was a detailed how-to guide to building the perfect asylum in 1854. The book was wildly popular and covered everything from heating and ventilation to window design to prevent suicides.
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he set down everything he learned in an extremely detailed book called on the construction organization and general arrangements of hospitals for the insane with some remarks on insanity and its treatment.
It's a how-to book a book on how to construct the perfect asylum there's a illustration of the model asylum there are pages and pages about how to design the heating system what to do about running water there are descriptions of how to design the windows so that they look like ordinary windows but also so they would prevent patient suicides.
So when the elegantly titled on the construction organization and general arrangement of hospitals for the insane with some remarks on insanity and its treatment hit the stands it was wildly popular.
Asylum
Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals (Mit Press)
It was a book of photographs of 70 abandoned mental hospitals in the United States, and was mentioned when discussing a photographer who had visited many Kirkbride asylums. The photographer found them beautiful, not creepy.
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Chris Payne is a photographer who's probably been inside more Kirkbrides than anybody else. He photographed 70 abandoned mental hospitals in 30 states for a book called Asylum, Inside...
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It was a book of photographs of 70 abandoned mental hospitals in the United States, and was mentioned when discussing a photographer who had visited many Kirkbride asylums. The photographer found them beautiful, not creepy.
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Chris Payne is a photographer who's probably been inside more Kirkbrides than anybody else. He photographed 70 abandoned mental hospitals in 30 states for a book called Asylum, Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals.
The Architecture of Madness
Insane Asylums in the United States (Architecture, Landscape and Amer Culture)
It was a book mentioned by Delaney Hall, in which the author discussed how mental health treatment differed based on socioeconomic status in the early 19th century. Wealthy families kept insane relatives at home, while poor people were often jailed or sent to almshouses.
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Carla Yanni is an architectural historian at Rutgers who wrote a book called The Architecture of Madness and she says that what happened to someone who was labeled insane in the early...
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Episode: The Kirkbride Plan
It was a book mentioned by Delaney Hall, in which the author discussed how mental health treatment differed based on socioeconomic status in the early 19th century. Wealthy families kept insane relatives at home, while poor people were often jailed or sent to almshouses.
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Carla Yanni is an architectural historian at Rutgers who wrote a book called The Architecture of Madness and she says that what happened to someone who was labeled insane in the early 19th century would have depended mostly on their class.
The Help-Yourself City
Legitimacy and Inequality in DIY Urbanism
It explored the phenomenon of people taking urban matters into their own hands, both positively and negatively, highlighting the spectrum of DIY urbanism.
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Gordon Douglas has written a whole book about this idea. It's called The Help-Yourself City.
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Episode: The Help-Yourself City
It explored the phenomenon of people taking urban matters into their own hands, both positively and negatively, highlighting the spectrum of DIY urbanism.
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Gordon Douglas has written a whole book about this idea. It's called The Help-Yourself City.
It looks at all the ways people are taking matters into their own hands, both for good reasons and for incredibly selfish ones.
Gordon Douglas' book is called The Help-Yourself City. Get it. You'll like it.
Delayed Response
The Art of Waiting from the Ancient to the Instant World
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Cool Gray City of Love
49 Views of San Francisco
The book's author, Gary Kamiya, was mentioned in the context of the San Francisco World's Fair and how it contrasted with the immigration and quarantine experiences at Angel Island.
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I'm Gary Kamiya, author of Cool Gray City of Love, 49 Views of San Francisco.
— Episode: Model City
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Episode: Model City
The book's author, Gary Kamiya, was mentioned in the context of the San Francisco World's Fair and how it contrasted with the immigration and quarantine experiences at Angel Island.
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I'm Gary Kamiya, author of Cool Gray City of Love, 49 Views of San Francisco.
Bees in America
How the Honey Bee Shaped a Nation
It was mentioned as a book about the honeybee's impact on the formation of a nation, highlighting how the honeybee thrived in its new continent, particularly with black gum trees.
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There's a good saying by a 17th century scholar that said, the honeybees did better than the settlers did.
— Episode: On Beeing
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Episode: On Beeing
It was mentioned as a book about the honeybee's impact on the formation of a nation, highlighting how the honeybee thrived in its new continent, particularly with black gum trees.
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There's a good saying by a 17th century scholar that said, the honeybees did better than the settlers did.
Tammy also wrote a book titled Bees in America, How the Honeybee Shaped a Nation, and she says the honeybees loved their new continent.
Langstroth's Hive and the Honey-Bee
The Classic Beekeeper's Manual
It was described as a book published in 1853 that detailed Langstroth's findings about beekeeping, which led to the development of modern beehives and made beekeeping a global enterprise.
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Langstroth published a book of his findings in 1853 called The Hive and the Honeybee.
— Episode: On Beeing
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Episode: On Beeing
It was described as a book published in 1853 that detailed Langstroth's findings about beekeeping, which led to the development of modern beehives and made beekeeping a global enterprise.
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Langstroth published a book of his findings in 1853 called The Hive and the Honeybee.
It's still widely read in beekeeping circles today.
The World in a Grain
The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization
It was discussed as a fascinating book exploring sand's importance in shaping modern civilization, highlighting how sand is vital to concrete, glass, and silicon chips, ultimately emphasizing that it's a finite resource being rapidly depleted.
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sand is actually the most important solid substance on Earth. It's the literal foundation of modern civilization.
— Episode: Built on Sand
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Episode: Built on Sand
It was discussed as a fascinating book exploring sand's importance in shaping modern civilization, highlighting how sand is vital to concrete, glass, and silicon chips, ultimately emphasizing that it's a finite resource being rapidly depleted.
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sand is actually the most important solid substance on Earth. It's the literal foundation of modern civilization.
We use more sand than any other natural resource in the world, except for air and water.
We use about 50 billion tons of the stuff every single year, which is enough to cover the entire state of California.
the question isn't really what's going to happen when we run out of sand the question is What's going to happen when we run out of everything
Vince Beiser's book is called The World in a Grain
Luis Barragan
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Disney - Mickey Mouse, Toy Story and More! Me Reader Electronic Reader 8-Book Library - PI Kids
It was published by Kenneth Dowlin, where he argued that technology was changing the way people accessed information and the role of librarians, particularly with the emergence of the internet.
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The internet web world, if you will, collapses time, collapses distance, and is collapsing cost.
— Episode: Weeding is Fundamental
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Episode: Weeding is Fundamental
It was published by Kenneth Dowlin, where he argued that technology was changing the way people accessed information and the role of librarians, particularly with the emergence of the internet.
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The internet web world, if you will, collapses time, collapses distance, and is collapsing cost.
That Book Woman
It was mentioned in relation to the Pack Horse Library project, highlighting Eleanor Roosevelt's strong support for it as a means to help Appalachian communities during the Great Depression.
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Eleanor Roosevelt felt very strongly about the Pack Horse Library project. If the women are willing to do this because it's going to help their neighbors, I think we'll win out!
— Episode: Weeding is Fundamental
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Episode: Weeding is Fundamental
It was mentioned in relation to the Pack Horse Library project, highlighting Eleanor Roosevelt's strong support for it as a means to help Appalachian communities during the Great Depression.
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Eleanor Roosevelt felt very strongly about the Pack Horse Library project. If the women are willing to do this because it's going to help their neighbors, I think we'll win out!
Prove It
It was mentioned briefly when discussing the Pack Horse Library program and the librarians' efforts to deliver books to remote areas of Kentucky, particularly the Appalachian Mountains, during the Great Depression.
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The Pack Horse Librarians of Kentucky, they would stuff their saddlebags or pillowcase with books and strike out by horseback or mule to provide library service to the remote areas of the Kentucky mou...
— Episode: Weeding is Fundamental
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Episode: Weeding is Fundamental
It was mentioned briefly when discussing the Pack Horse Library program and the librarians' efforts to deliver books to remote areas of Kentucky, particularly the Appalachian Mountains, during the Great Depression.
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The Pack Horse Librarians of Kentucky, they would stuff their saddlebags or pillowcase with books and strike out by horseback or mule to provide library service to the remote areas of the Kentucky mountains.
Jean Schmitzer, co-author, Down Cut Shin Creek, Path Horse Library of Eastern Kentucky.
Mother Hunger
How Adult Daughters Can Understand and Heal from Lost Nurturance, Protection, and Guidance
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The Idiot
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