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The advent of email and texting has dramatically changed the way we communicate. In essence, we have lost touch in our dealings with each other. This change may have been speeded by newer technologies, but telegraphs and telephones had a great impact in our perceptions of time and place. Before mass communication, the way we ordered and embedded knowledge and the possibilities of social interaction were defined by the extended human experience of living in towns. Can this experience be replicated with new technologies?

"How small is your town? Full-page photographs, simple sentences, and relevant key words help early learners discover where they live. This book also includes a page for caregivers and teachers that suggest guiding questions to help aid in reading comprehension"--

Title -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Communications in medieval towns - Introductory Remarks -- Lines of Communication in Medieval Dublin -- Places of Power: the Spreading of Official Information and the Social Uses of Space in Fifteenth-Century Paris -- Les communications en ville: Danemark et Schleswig-Holstein au Moyen Âge et à l'époque moderne -- Ferry services and social life in early modern Norwegian towns -- Between free passage and restriction. Roads and bridges in the towns of Wallachia and Moldavia (16th-18th century)

"A new title in our popular First Words and Pictures series highlights places around town. This oversize board book shows words and pictures together, encouraging kids to name objects, begin to recognize categories, and embark on a lifetime of reading and learning"--

"Cape Town is two cities. One is beautiful beyond imagining, known since its beginning as the 'fairest cape' in the world. Here tourists come to lounge on beaches, scale misty peaks and dine in fine restaurants. The other is one of the most dangerous cities in the world, where police need bullet-proof vests and sometimes army backup. Here gangs of young men rule the night with heavy calibre handguns, dispensing heroin, cocaine, crystal meth and fear. This is a story of the second city ... In Gang Town, investigative journalist and criminologist Don Pinnock draws on more than thirty years of research to provide a nuanced and definitive portrait of youngsters caught up in violent crime."--Page [4] of book cover

This reader shows students that shapes are all around us. Movie tickets are rectangles. Pizza pans are circles. Students learn about the four basic shapes-triangles, rectangles, squares, and circles-as they look for them in photographs of places they go around town.