A city made by people

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...

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

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...

DescriptionThe story of the Town Below the Ground is one of the most disturbing in the annals of Scottish history. For almost 250 years, Edinburgh ...

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

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

Description*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the frontier towns written by people who lived there *Profiles famous Westerners like Wyatt Ear...

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

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Julio CapaoPoised on the edge of the United States and at the center of a wider Caribbean world, today's Miami is marketed ...

Reducere. DescriptionCrimes that captivated attention in the Charlotte area over the years run the gamut from missing people to the wrongly accused. This col...

Reducere. DescriptionEvery year, tens of millions of people flock to Florida for its sunny beaches and world-famous tourist attractions. Most never learn abo...

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. Music made in Akron symbolized an attitude more so than a singular sound. Crafted by kids hell-bent on not following their parents into the rubber ...

Reducere. The #1 New York Times Bestseller``There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.`` --Leonard CohenChristmas is approaching, and in Q...

The Decameron (c.1351) was written in the wake of the Black Death, a shattering epidemic which had shaken Florence's confident entrepreneurial soci...

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. 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...

Reducere. "Original and arresting.... Jones's] stories will touch chords of empathy and recognition in all readers."--Washington Post "These 14 stories of Af...

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...

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. 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....

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...

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. For the millions of girls--and the women they grow into--who are mad about horses, who live to ride, who spend more time in stables than stores, wh...

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

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

Reducere. The Artisan Bagel is the most iconic food ever made in the City of New York. It has become identified and synonomous with NYC itself. While people ...

Reducere. Evie Blanchard was at the top of her field in the city of angels. But when an emotional year forces her to walk away from her job as a physical the...

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...

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...

Reducere. One luxury building holds six penthouse apartments owned by kinky Manhattanites. Their sizzling stories will be told throughout the Penthouse Pleas...