City Development

Belfast Charitable Society was established in 1752 with the purpose of raising funds to build a poorhouse and hospital for the poor of Belfast; twenty years later, the foundation stone of the Poorhouse was laid. From here the Society would go on to assume increasing responsibility for a range of matters relating to health, welfare and public order, and its members would play a key part in the civic life of Belfast. It continues to provide vital social services to this day and its Poorhouse, now Clifton House, is still one of the finest buildings in the city. During the century following the...

Still, in the City is a collection of stories about the practice of urban Buddhism - when a New York City subway becomes a mobile temple, when Los Angeles traffic becomes a vehicle for awakening, when a Fifth Avenue sidewalk offers a spiritual path through craving, generosity, and sorrow. Practicing in the city comes with its own set of challenges and opportunities, and this book is attuned to both.

Real Estate is my winning ticket, because I built my wealth through land banking. Often times, people doubt the genuinity of my wealth. They are in constant amazement of how a boy from a poverty-stricken background could be this successful. Well, land banking is the real goldmine that gives you genuine wealth. In this book, BECOMING A BILLIONAIRE LAND BANKER, I have expatiated all you need to know to build wealth through land banking. From the process of acquiring a land, to finding the right source, a good location, the perfect land size, documentation and developmental levies, identifying...

When poet Amy Key was growing up, she looked forward to a life shaped by romance, fuelled by desire, longing and the conventional markers of success that come when you share a life with another person. But that didn't happen for her. Now in her forties, she sets out to explore the realities of a life lived in the absence of romantic love. Using Joni Mitchell's seminal album Blue - an album that shaped Key's expectations of love - as her guide, she examines the unexpected life she has created for herself.

Love Letters of Great Men follows hot on the heels of the film and collects together some of history's most romantic letters from the private papers of Beethoven, Mark Twain, Mozart, and Lord Byron. For some of these great men, love is "a delicious poison" (William Congreve); for others, "a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music" (Charles Darwin). Love can scorch like the heat of the sun (Henry VIII), or penetrate the depths of one's heart like a cooling rain (Flaubert).

The journey from sexual curiosity to finally coming out can be confusing without proper guidance and empowering role models. In Same Sex in the City, Lauren Levin and Lauren Blitzer provide women - gay, straight, and bi-curious alike - with firsthand insight into the advantages and challenges of being a lesbian. In prose that is at once honest and uplifting, the Laurens relate their own experiences and those of the women they interview, as well as offer serious advice, titillating anecdotes, and a positive attitude for girls who know they're gay - and for those who are wondering about their sexuality but are not yet sure whether their Prince Charming is really a Cinderella.

Being a Jewish housewife isn't all bagels and borscht. There's a much deeper, sometimes darker, and often laugh-out-loud funny side to Jewish female life that's uncovered in The Secret Diary of a Jewish Housewife.This is a book for spiritual seekers, original thinkers, and all those women who also grapple with life's big questions.

Grief is traumatic and it doesn't matter if it is sudden, or expected, the idea that you will make it through seems overwhelming. Having a guide to prepare yourself for what to expect is critical to not only understand your grief, but handle it in a way that allows you to move forward. Linda C. Domis uses her personal experience of suddenly losing her husband, Tim, as an example of the unexpected ways grief can, and will, alter your life.

“A computer virus and a human virus are two different things, right?” Not anymore. Programmer Joe Norton finds his reality turned inside out when an AI bug crosses the brain-machine interface. With instructions to kill and a virtual menu of bad choices, his all-too-ordinary life in Philadelphia is coming apart at the seams. Is the only way out, to go further in? A visionary dive into into the slipstream of emerging transhumanist technologies, PsyBot exposes a dark underworld of mind-control black ops. PsyBot, like the novels of Michael Crichton or Philip K. Dick, explores the limits of ...

หนังสือ "นี่หรือเมืองพุทธ" เล่มนี้ ผู้ที่อยากเป็นชาวพุทธแท้ และต้องการมีพระรัตนตรัยเป็นที่ยึดเหนี่ยวอย่างไม่มีวันสั่นคลอนต้องอ่าน! คุณรู้หรือไม่? ความเชื่อที่ชาวพุทธส่วนยึดถือปฏิบัติ บางสิ่งไม่ใช่พุทธศาสนาที่แท้จริง บางอย่างเป็นบาป บางอย่างได้บุญน้อย บางอย่างอาจทำให้ตกนรกได้ หากคุณอยากรู้จักความเชื่อแบบพุทธแท้ต้องฟังเรื่องนี้ เพื่อหนทางสู่ความเจริญทั้งทางวัตถุและจิตใจ

As COVID-19 descended upon the country in 2020, millions of American office workers transitioned to working from home to reduce risk of infection and prevent spread of the virus. In the aftermath of this shift, a significant number of workers remain at least partially remote. It is clear that this massive experiment we were forced to run will have long-term consequences, changing the shape of our personal and work lives, as well as the urban landscape around us. Going Remote addresses the uncertainties and possibilities of this moment.

With more than 15,000 four- and five-star ratings, an average of 35 messages per day, and hundreds of thousands of profile views from interested suitors, Lauren Urasek was dubbed the most sought-after woman in the city by New York magazine. She then started a popular Tumblr detailing her experiences with Prince Charmings (and Not-So-Charmings) and now tells all in a series of frank, funny essays about the ups and downs of dating in the city that never sleeps.

London is a city of dreamers. A city of possibility and experiment. A city of fervent imaginings and courageous aspirations. For centuries, it has been the capital of utopian thought. The Infinite City tells this history for the first time. In his soaring new book, Niall Kishtainy draws us into the imaginative worlds of Thomas More, the Diggers, William Morris and Extinction Rebellion protestors and shows how London’s spirit has been one of visionary imagination amid relentless change and innovation.

Isoke è arrivata in Italia a vent'anni: le avevno promesso un lavoro di commessa, si è ritrovata a vivere in schiavitù. Oggi, finalmente libera, racconta la vita, la tratta, i clienti, i sogni delle ragazze da marciapiede. I diritti di questo libro contribuiranno a sostenere le campagne e le iniziative del progetto "La ragazza di Benin City".

Remember when candidates were polite and talked about issues? Well in Ocean Alley at the Jersey Shore, they still do. Well, there was the issue with the fire at the garage... If this is your first book in the Jolie Gentil series, it’s a bit different than the others. In fact, it’s called an Aunt Madge Story in the Jolie series. In terms of story chronology, it follows "Underground in Ocean Alley" (book 11). In that book, Jolie solves a murder while Aunt Madge happens to be running for mayor of Ocean Alley. In "Aunt Madge and The Civil Election," events of the crime-solving are muted and...

Here are 26 simple, common-sense tips from A to Z to help you get through life, to cheer you up, to brighten your soul and to hearten your resolve to thrive.

Have you ever spoken words you later regretted? If so, then How to Control Your Tongue is the book for you! In this book, you will learn how to reign in that impulsive tongue and become a mindful speaker as you stop swearing, except when it is appropriate.

Kate Fridkis, a neurotic twenty-something writer in Brooklyn makes the seemingly crazy decision to become a mother. This is a memoir about pregnancy, and about making the huge choices that sometimes result in growing up, or at least growing.

Impactful Self-Esteem Formula is a condensed mini power-training, meant to put listeners on fire! It is an extremely powerful self-help audiobook, taking self-esteem to the next level. Self-esteem is not only a skill, we need to build up within ourselves, but rather the very ground of unfolding our true selves. It is not just an audiobook, but a powerful tool full of exercises, bringing awareness, growth, change, specially by applying the meditations and affirmations, by the end of the audiobook.

After raising five children, Rowley sat down and, helped by his wife, JoAnn, does a wonderful job communicating some very simple yet extremely important ideas for raising a family. As a result, his thoughts, intuition, and experiences unfold in a way that feels like a conversation around the kitchen table.