A city made by people

Best Reference Books of 2012 presented by Library Journal The Great Irish Famine is the most pivotal event in modern Irish history, with implicatio...

In the 1970s, the city of Genoa in northern Italy was suffering the economic decline and the despondency common to industrial centers of the Wester...

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Reducere. The great Klondike Gold Rush began in 1896 and within two years, thousands of prospectors, speculators and people from countless walks of life desc...

Reducere. CORITA KENT. ART AND SOUL. THE BIOGRAPHY. is the painstakingly researched account of the nun who made a world of difference and, to her surprise, s...

Reducere. Native Students at Work tells the stories of Native people from around the American Southwest who participated in labor programs at Sherman Institu...

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Reducere. In the last three decades of the twentieth century, government cutbacks, stagnating wages, AIDS, and gentrification pushed ever more people into po...

DescriptionAn unprecedented history of Brooklyn, told through its places, buildings, and the people who made them, from the early seventeenth centu...

Reducere. The Journal of Negro History was founded in January 1, 1916 as a quarterly research journal. It was published by the Association for the Study of A...

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This beautifully designed book is a celebration of one of the world's most creative, dynamic and fascinating cities: Tokyo. It spans 400 years, wit...

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Reducere. Re-inhabited: Republic for the United States of America is an unprecedented truthful historical account of America that has been "hidden in plain s...

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Reducere. Originally published by The Kerryman in 1947, this is one of the four titles in the Fighting Stories Series. It records the events of the War of In...

DescriptionThe compelling history of how Latino immigrants revitalized the nation's cities after decades of disinvestment and white flight Thirty y...

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Reducere. DescriptionThe river bend near the confluence of three great rivers--the Mississippi, Missouri, and Illinois--was founded by Rufus Easton between 1...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Endicott-Johnson Corporation emerged from the modest Lester Brothers Company, manufacturers of boots and shoes, that began in 1854. ...

Reducere. Covering just less than two-and-a-half square miles, Savannah's Historic District is a steadfast remnant of the Old South-even in times marked by f...

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Reducere. Ocean View, a rich historical beachfront hamlet on the northern-most reaches of the city of Norfolk, was at one time a major resort destination for...

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DescriptionAfter discovering a derelict record plant on the edge of a northern English city, and hearing that it was once visited by David Bowie, K...

Reducere. Eons before the birth of the Roman Empire, there was a civilization dedicated to the sciences of earth, sea, and sky. In the City of Light lived pe...

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Reducere. THE COMPLETE DRIVE-IN Includes all three Drive-In novels from Mojo Storyteller Joe R. Lansdale in one paperback.THE DRIVE-IN: A B-Movie with Blood ...

Breckenridge was a sleepy ranching and farming community in the rolling prairie of north central Texas when an oil boom hit. During 1920, it grew f...

DescriptionNestled in the magnificent San Bernardino Range, Southern California's premier mountain resort, Lake Arrowhead, annually plays host to f...

IBM is heir to all the ideas for innovative ciphering machines of the past. From granite blocks used to tell time, to beads used for accounting pur...

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Reducere. The overlooked Quaker from Rhode Island who won the American Revolution's crucial southern campaign and helped to set up the final victory of Ameri...

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Reducere. Raechel Anne Jolie's early life in a working-class Cleveland exurb was full of race cars, Budweiser-drinking men covered in car grease, and the wom...

Most people do not think to observe geology from the sidewalks of a major city, but all David B. Williams has to do is look at building stone in an...

Reducere. One hundred-sixty-five years ago the Boardman River emptied its waters into the West Arm of Grand Traverse Bay amid a vast forest of white pines, r...

The Magnificent AmbersonsThe Magnificent Ambersons is a 1918 novel written by Booth Tarkington which won the 1919 Pulitzer Prize for the novel. It ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Barbara FreethyDESPERATE PLAY brings you the third book in #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Barbara Freethy's new roman...

Reducere. Chicago was the nation's deadliest city in 2001, recording 666 homicides. For lawyers in the Cook County Public Defender's Office Murder Task Force...

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Reducere. "The lively story of the Civil War's most unlikely--and most uncelebrated--genius" (The Wall Street Journal)--General Montgomery C. Meigs, who buil...

Reducere. Stoney McGurrin in his debut book, brings us on the adventure of his life time. Having spent months in hospital as a four year old, where he almost...

Reducere. DescriptionDetroit Rock City is an oral history of Detroit and its music told by the people who were on the stage, in the clubs, the practice rooms...

Reducere. DescriptionBeyond Lucky How does a man like Brian "Glaze" Gibbs roll the dice and escape a death sentence, multiple life sentences, and survive the...

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Reducere. Discover the inspiring illustrated true story about one girl's escape from the Holocaust to become a concert pianist against all odds, made popular...

Reducere. "In little more than a decade, Diepsloot has transformed from a semi-rural expanse to a dense, seething settlement of about 200 000 people. A post-...

Amber Communications Group, Inc.'s imprint Colossus Books has published Before the Legend: The Rise of New Kids on the Block and...a Guy Named Maur...

DescriptionIn the little city of Flint, MI, the good die young and the people left standing are the grimiest of characters. With reign over the cit...

Reducere. DescriptionWould you be prepared to survive in the event of a complete breakdown of modern civilization?A man-made or natural global disaster could...

Reducere. "We traveled this forenoon over the roughest and most desolate piece of ground that was ever made, " wrote Amelia Knight during her 1853 wagon trai...

Reducere. The classic book on legends, lore, and unvarnished truths surrounding New Orleans' most famous Voodoo mistress-now in a modern, legible format. It ...

Nero fiddled while Rome burned. As catchy as that aphorism is, it's sadly untrue, even if it has a nice ring to it. The one thing Nero is well-know...

*Includes pictures *Includes ancient accounts of the cities *Includes online resources and bibliographies for further reading Long before Alexandri...

Reducere. DescriptionMeet the man against insanity. His laboratory? The sadly sinister wards of the 3, 000-bed Traverse City State Hospital. His apparatus? O...

Reducere. To the Anishinaabe-Ojibwa people it was a gathering place, a sacred burial ground, and the home of the Great Spirit Gitchie Manitou. Throughout the...

Reducere. Farrah Gray is no ordinary teenager. He wears a suit and tie; he has an office on Wall Street and another one in Los Angeles . . . and he sold his ...

DescriptionWith over 2, 000 startups, 30 accelerators and 48, 000 people employed in the digital economy, London is the beating heart of the Europe...

Reducere. REVISED AND UPDATED EDITIONKelowna, BC is sometimes referred to as the "Palm Springs" of Canada, and the Okanagan Valley is often referred to as th...

Reducere. In 2004, journalist Bill Bishop coined the term "the big sort." Armed with startling new demographic data, he made national news in a series of art...

RAINWALKERS is a story set in the not-so-distant future in a crumbling version of John Steinbeck's Salinas Valley, after the breakup of the United ...

Hits a grand slam for its intended audience. It might even convince skeptics that superhero stories can make good literature. --Pittsburgh Post-Gaz...

Reducere. If there's one thing Brooke Sullivan knows for sure it's that people let you down, but that hasn't stopped her from going after the life she wants....

DescriptionThe gods never move faster than when punishing men with the consequences of their own actions. Desperate to gain control over a city rav...

Reducere. The city of Ephesus was the site of the most significant church planting movement in the early church, with 40 percent of the New Testament texts r...