Culture Crash – The Killing of the Creative Class

DescriptionWorld-renowned urbanist Richard Florida's bestselling classic on the transformation of our cities in the twenty-first century -- now upd...

Reducere. DescriptionThe most valued workers today are what the economist Richard Florida calls the Creative Class, skilled individuals ranging from money ma...

Reducere. When Jack Taylor blew town at the end of The Guards his alcoholism was a distant memory and sober dreams of a new life in London were shining in hi...

Publisher: Samuel French LtdAuthor(s): Frank MarcusIllustration(s): 2ill.Number of pages: 80Collection: Acting Edition S.Publication date: 1966Dime...

Jade loves her new house. She doesn't even mind being the new girl at school: it's a fresh start, and there's that one guy with the dreamy blue eye...

Reducere. With the Great Sioux War as background and context, and drawing on many new materials, Thomas Powers establishes what really happened in the dramat...

The Killing of Chief Crazy Horse is a story of envy, greed, and treachery. In the year after the Battle of the Little Big Horn, the great Oglala Si...

Publisher: Plexus Publishing LtdAuthor(s): Cathy ScottNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2008Dimensions: 211 x 138 x 18Cover type: Paperback / s...

DescriptionWhy did the Germans brutally and illegally execute a group of British soldiers who had been trapped behind the lines during the retreat ...

Reducere. The "Great Magness Trial" was one of the most celebrated murder cases in early Tennessee history. David Magness shot and killed Major Patton Anders...

Reducere. On the summer evening of Wednesday, June 7, 1865, just two months after the end of the Civil War, seventy-one-year-old local farmer and weaver Poll...

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Separating fact from fiction, this book re-examines the death of a priest in 1985. The events of that night fuelled speculation and allegations of ...

The life and death of a 19th-century circus legend.Publisher: Icon BooksAuthor(s): Karl ShawNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 1...

The definitive account of a crime that shocked the country and continues to fascinate today.

The Killing of Cinderella is the third in Christopher Lee's well-received series of Bath Detective Mysteries starring Inspector James Boswell Hodge...

In his most important and commercial book since Black Hawk Down, Mark Bowden draws on unprecedented access to the figures involved to produce the d...

Reducere. America in 1982: Japanese car companies are on the rise and believed to be putting U.S. autoworkers out of their jobs. Anti-Asian American sentimen...

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...

DescriptionIn Black on the Block, Mary Pattillo--a Newsweek Woman of the 21st Century--uses the historic rise, alarming fall, and equally dramatic ...

DescriptionForty years of rapid industrialization have transformed millions of South Korean peasants and their sons and daughters into urban factor...

Reducere. Rise of the Red Engineers explains the tumultuous origins of the class of technocratic officials who rule China today. In a fascinating account, au...

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Reducere. The Silencing of Ruby McCollum refutes the carefully constructed public memory of one of the most famous--and under-examined--biracial murders in A...

A highly readable history of the stock market crash of 1929, and the depression that followed itPublisher: Little, Brown Book GroupAuthor(s): Selwy...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Larry Tye"A valuable window into a long-underreported dimension of African American history."--NewsdayWhen George Pullman b...

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Reducere. With his singular gift for turning complex financial events into eminently readable stories, Roger Lowenstein lays bare the labyrinthine events of ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jonathan CobbAuthor: Richard SennettThe authors conclude that in the games of hierarchical respect, no class can emerge the...

Famed anthropologist Ortner tracks down representative classmates from her mostly Jewish Newark, NJ high school class of '58 in order to examine cl...