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Reducere. A GUIDE FOR MAKING GREAT DOMESTIC HIRES THAT LASTSince 2011, Aleksandra Kardwell has worked with hundreds of household employers, located in areas ...

A concise history of the Indians said to have sold Manhattan for $24 The Indian sale of Manhattan is one of the world's most cherished legends. Few...

Reducere. Cy Adler authored the first complete guide to walking from the southern tip of Manhattan at Battery Park all the way up to Bear Mountain near West ...

The first book from David Chang, the hottest chef in the culinary world, written with }New York Times{ food critic Peter Meehan. Packed full of ing...

Contributor(s): Author: Michael A. LernerIn 1919, the United States embarked on the country's boldest attempt at moral and social reform: Prohibiti...

First book by veteran New York photographer, Frank Rispoli, whose documentation of the Manhattan club scene in the 1970s and '80s is given a unique...

Reducere. General Leslie Groves and J. Robert Oppenheimer were the two men chiefly responsible for the building of the first atomic bomb at Los Alamos, code ...

Reducere. Greenwich Village is a tourist's dream and a favorite weekend destination for New Yorkers. A part of Manhattan Island that holds its own amid the n...

Reducere. In 1908, Florence Nightingale Graham moved from the suburbs of Toronto, Canada to Manhattan with dreams of becoming a self-made woman. Within two y...

"We have traded tales, my buddies and I; of affairs, encounters, secrets, fears, self-promotion-of fantasies that we make real in the telling." In ...

Reducere. Drivers exiting the New Jersey Turnpike for Perth Amboy, and map readers marveling at all the places in Pennsylvania named Lackawanna, need no long...

Reducere. The first president born after America's independence ushers in a new era of no-holds-barred democracyThe first ``professional politician`` to beco...

Reducere. Nantucket's famous Christmas Stroll is always the first weekend of December and this year sisters Mandy and Emma, and Paul, the executive chef, wan...

Reducere. Nantucket's famous Christmas Stroll is always the first weekend of December and this year sisters Mandy and Emma, and Paul, the executive chef, wan...

Reducere. Time nearly erased many astounding tales and unexpected anecdotes from Ridgefield's history. Its colorful characters include a widow who built a la...

Reducere. The groundbreaking New York Times bestseller now available for the first time in trade paperback, with a new IntroductionWhen it was originally pub...

Reducere. Now nearly forgotten, John Ogden was one of our country's earliest patriots, a man who stood tall against the intrusion of foreign intervention in ...

Reducere. Stand, Columbia Alma Mater Through the storms of Time abide Stand, Columbia Alma Mater Through the storms of Time abide. "Stand, Columbia " by Gilb...

Reducere. On the east side of Midtown Manhattan, next to the United Nations, sits the massive apartment complex Tudor City. An architectural masterpiece crea...

Reducere. Swallow Press first published Winter of Artifice in 1945, following two vastly different versions from other presses. The book opens with a film st...

Reducere. New York is a city of superlatives. It has the largest population, greatest wealth, broadest diversity and most elegant museums in the nation. With...

Reducere. On September 11, 2001 no one in the South Tower survived. Yet sixteen FDNY Firefighters were ordered into the building moments before it collapsed,...

Reducere. Hidden Tapestry reveals the unforgettable story of Flemish American artist Jan Yoors--childhood vagabond, wartime resistance fighter, and polyamoro...

Reducere. This second edition of Peter G. Beidler's Readers Companion builds on the success of the first edition. It will be an indispensable guide for teach...

Reducere. Edith Warner (1893-1951), who lived by the Rio Grande at the Otowi Switch in northern New Mexico, has become a legendary figure owing largely to he...

Reducere. When a rotten apple spoils the local harvest festival, event coordinator Liv Montgomery becomes an unplanned amateur sleuth in the first mystery in...

Reducere. DescriptionIn One Hundred Autobiographies, poet and scholar David Lehman applies the full measure of his intellectual powers to cope with a frighte...

Reducere. One of the five Hungarian scientific geniuses dubbed "the Martians" by their colleagues, John von Neumann is often hailed as the greatest mathemati...

Having left most of Moby-Dick with a printer in 1851, Herman Melville lamented to Nathaniel Hawthorne that he would go down in history as a "man wh...

Reducere. DescriptionHow a business replaces its chief executive often determines that firm's future. If a business does not effectively manage the transfer ...

DescriptionHow do you sum up a whole country in just 100 words? This striking book takes on the challenge From amendment to Vegas, each of the care...

Reducere. TWO STANDALONE NOVELLAS IN ONE BOOK In the first story, Immersed In Pleasure, the Manhattan Mermaids-all of whom are virgins-entertain wealthy, pow...

Reducere. AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick!Plumbs the depths of marriage, motherhood and friendship with warmt...

DescriptionWhen he retired as the chief security officer of New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art, John Barelli had spent the better part of f...

Reducere. The tale of Honeybee Hotel begins over one hundred years ago, with the Astor family and the birth of the iconic Manhattan landmark, the magnificent...

Reducere. All but forgotten today, the Five Points neighborhood in Lower Manhattan was once renowned the world over. From Jacob Riis to Abraham Lincoln, Davy...

Reducere. DescriptionInspired by Arthur Ashe's bestselling memoir Days of Grace, a collection of positive, uplifting stories of seemingly small acts of grace...

Reducere. DescriptionJack McMorrow, his social worker wife, Roxanne, and their young daughter, Sophie, become the target of satanist Harland Wilton after Rox...

Reducere. On the southern edge of Manhattan stands a quiet piece of Americana. Governors Island, situated in New York Harbor, blends a sense of nostalgia wit...

DescriptionOn a moonless night in January 1991, a dozen U.S. aircraft appeared in the skies over Baghdad. To the Iraqi air defenses, the planes see...

Harold C. Urey (1893-1981), whose discoveries lie at the foundation of modern science, was one of the most famous American scientists of the twenti...

Reducere. The year was 1609, and British explorer Henry Hudson had landed in North America at the bidding of the Dutch East India Company. But Hudson was not...

Reducere. CIA operative Dewey Andreas is America's last line of defense when terrorists take over Manhattan, targeting the U.N. and the President himself in ...

Reducere. The #1 national bestselling "riveting" (The New York Times), "propulsive" (Time) behind-the-scenes account "that reads like a tense thriller" (The ...