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Residents Unite, Show Presence to Fight Crime

LAKELAND | For now, work on Scott Lake is on hold - scuttled by residents in Pier Point subdivision who don't want trucks hauling several hundred truckloads of materials through their gated subdivision.

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30-year Fixed Mortgage rates remain unchanged in the United States Wednesday

30-year Fixed Mortgage rates remain unchanged in the United States Wednesday

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A Less-Expensive Way to Own in Paris

A couple found a one-bedroom apartment in Paris with an unlikely price tag of 82,000 euros, or a little more than $112,000.

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State by state 529 plans

This interactive map will help you evaluate different states' 529 savings plans.

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Rebound Is Possible For Certain Metro Areas

Open House takes a look at cities likely to recover first from the real-estate slowdown, a luxury boom in North Texas and Phoenix neighborhoods with high foreclosure rates.

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	The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century »rank: 11299 from: Grove Press 0ur opinion: :James Howard Kunstler's The Long Emergency was an underground hit, going into nine printings of the hardcover edition. His shocking vision for our post-oil future caught the attention of environmentalists and business leaders and was the subject of much debate, stimulating discussion about our dependence on fossil fuels. Now in paperback, with a new afterword, The Long Emergency is set to reach an even larger audience.The last two hundred years have seen the greatest explosion of progress and wealth in the history of mankind, much of ... More details		World Made by Hand: A Novel »rank: 24794 by: James Howard Kunstler 0ur opinion: :ln The Long Emergency celebrated social commentator James Howard Kunstler explored how the terminal decline of oil production, combined with climate change, had the potential to put industrial civilization out of business. ln World Made by Hand, an astonishing work of speculative fiction, Kunstler brings to life what America might be, a few decades hence, after these catastrophes converge. For the townspeople of Union Grove, New York, the future is nothing like they thought it would be. Transportation is slow and dangerous, so food is grown ... More details
	The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape »rank: 843386 by: James Howard Kunstler 0ur opinion: :An analysis of America's national landscape argues that much of what surrounds Americans is depressing, ugly, and unhealthy and traces America's evolution from a land of village commons to a man-made landscape that ignores nature and human needs. More details		Home from Nowhere: Remaking Our Everyday World for the 21st Century »rank: 247034 by: James Howard Kunstler 0ur opinion: :ln his landmark book The Geography of Nowhere James Howard Kunstler visited the 'tragic sprawlscape of cartoon architecture, junked cities, and ravaged countryside' America had become and declared that the deteriorating environment was not merely a symptom of a troubled culture, but one of the primary causes of our discontent. ln Home from Nowhere Kunstler not only shows that the original American Dream -- the desire for peaceful, pleasant places in which to work and live -- still has a strong hold on our imaginations, but ... More details
	The City in Mind: Notes on the Urban Condition »rank: 205645 by: James Howard Kunstler 0ur opinion: : ln the highly acclaimed The Geography of Nowhere, James Howard Kunstler declared suburbia 'a tragic landscape' and fueled a fierce debate over how we will live in twenty-first-century America. Here, Kunstler turns his discerning eye to urban life in America and beyond in dazzling excursions to classical Rome, the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan, Louis-Napoleon's Paris, the 'gigantic hairball' that is contemporary Atlanta, the ludicrous spectacle of Las Vegas, and more. Seeking to discover what is constant and enduring in cities at their greatest, Kunstler explores ... More details		Maggie Darling: A Modern Romance »rank: 1470362 by: James Howard Kunstler 0ur opinion: :She's the goddess of hearth and home, America's millionaire media maven of domesticity, Connecticut's most dazzling hostess, and everything in her world is perfect-except that Maggie Darling's picture-book life has suddenly gone off the rails. Amid the extravagant trappings of a Christmas Eve bash, she spies her swinish stockbroker husband slipping out of a powder room moments after his creamy young colleague. Matrimonial meltdown launches Maggie on a year of romance and misadventure, starting with an ill-fated fling with British rock star-turned-movie-actor Frederick Swann. Back home, ... More details
	Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twe »rank: 636337 by: James Howard Kunstler 0ur opinion: :She's the goddess of hearth and home, America's millionaire media maven of domesticity, Connecticut's most dazzling hostess, and everything in her world is perfect-except that Maggie Darling's picture-book life has suddenly gone off the rails. Amid the extravagant trappings of a Christmas Eve bash, she spies her swinish stockbroker husband slipping out of a powder room moments after his creamy young colleague. Matrimonial meltdown launches Maggie on a year of romance and misadventure, starting with an ill-fated fling with British rock star-turned-movie-actor Frederick Swann. Back home, ... More details		American Home: From Colonial Simplicity to the Modern Adventure »rank: 271129 by: David Larkin, Wendell Garrett, Michael Webb 0ur opinion: :Nowhere else in the world can compare with the incredible array of domestic architecture in America. lt sometimes seems that there are as many styles of houses as there are actual number of houses. While the earliest American houses were largely derived from English or Dutch prototypes, the diversity for which America is so celebrated soon emerged, reflecting mostly how Americans used their homes, as well as local and regional tastes and vernacular and folk origins from around the world. The variety and dynamism in the ... More details
	The Wampanaki Tales »rank: 1315026 by: James Howard Kunstler 0ur opinion: :Nowhere else in the world can compare with the incredible array of domestic architecture in America. lt sometimes seems that there are as many styles of houses as there are actual number of houses. While the earliest American houses were largely derived from English or Dutch prototypes, the diversity for which America is so celebrated soon emerged, reflecting mostly how Americans used their homes, as well as local and regional tastes and vernacular and folk origins from around the world. The variety and dynamism in the ... More details		Home from Nowhere: Remaking Our Everyday World for the 21st Century »rank: 1671642 by: James Howard Kunstler 0ur opinion: :Nowhere else in the world can compare with the incredible array of domestic architecture in America. lt sometimes seems that there are as many styles of houses as there are actual number of houses. While the earliest American houses were largely derived from English or Dutch prototypes, the diversity for which America is so celebrated soon emerged, reflecting mostly how Americans used their homes, as well as local and regional tastes and vernacular and folk origins from around the world. The variety and dynamism in the ... More details

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The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century

from: Grove Press

World Made by Hand: A Novel

by: James Howard Kunstler

The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape

by: James Howard Kunstler