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Kick snow from your shoes and step into the warmth of the old Hoosier high school basketball gym, where farmers in overalls line the court and students heckle referees from planks above the bleachers. Revisit a unique era when nearly every town had a high school and its own basketball team. The gyms featured here no longer host high school games, but once they were home to the Ladoga Canners, the Mecca Arabs, the Roll Red Rollers, the Arlington Purple...

"This is your passport to 100 places designed to impress – think Italy’s Colosseum, India’s Taj Mahal, Australia’s Sydney Opera House, and the US’s Empire State Building. These are the landmarks that define destinations, fill photo galleries, and top travel bucket lists, and now it’s time to see them for yourself." --Publisher's website.

"... The book features more than 50 historic places across Indiana snatched from the wrecking ball or lifted from decades of neglect and restored to new uses with help from Indiana Landmarks, founded in 1960 and the largest statewide preservation organization in the U.S. Some are places you can visit and others are private sites never or only rarely open to the public."--Inside jacket cover.

Kurt Lewin (1890-1947) was a German-American psychologist, known as one of the modern pioneers of social, organizational, and applied psychology. Lewin is often recognized as the "founder of social psychology" and was one of the first to study group dynamics and organizational development. Lewin developed the concept of force field analysis, which provides a framework for looking at the factors (forces) that influence a situation, originally social...

A blend of historical, biographical, architectural, and social facts have been used in an attempt to create a detailed picture of the dwelling under discussion.

Cross-section illustrations invite the reader to peer inside cathedrals, castles and palaces, industrial giants, sky scrapers, and other buildings to see how they were built.