Floating City. Hustlers, Strivers, Dealers, Call Girls and Other Lives in Illicit New York, Paperback - Sudhir Venkatesh

Amidst the trust-funder cocktail parties, midtown strip clubs, and immigrant-run sex shops, the author discovers a surprisingly fluid and dynamic s...

DescriptionIn the hill country of northeast Cambodia, just a few kilometers from the Vietnam border, sits the village of Tang Kadon. This community...

Neon Leon takes us on a wild ride in this his second biography.Publisher: New Haven Publishing LtdAuthor(s): Leon MatthewsIllustration(s): YesPubli...

Experience a seldom-seen New York City with journalists and NYC natives Sharon Seitz and Stuart Miller as they show you the 42 islands in this city...

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Reducere. What was it like to grow up black and female in the segregated South? To answer this question, LaKisha Simmons blends social history and cultural s...

Publisher: New York University PressAuthor(s): Tanya HartNumber of pages: 336Collection: Culture, Labor, HistoryPublication date: 2015Dimensions: 1...

DescriptionIn this is the classic indictment of slum life, written by one of the most famous reformers of the nineteenth century. "How the Other Ha...

A classic of alternative biography and feminist writing, this empathetic and witty book gives due to a "lesser" figure of history, Mary Ellen Peaco...

Reducere. Table of Contents: The Voice Of The City The Making Of A New Yorker A Retrieved Reformation The Cop And The Anthem The Duplicity Of Hargraves The G...

From its origins as a primitive Dutch outpost to the sprawling urban complex it is today, the defining characteristic of New York has been constant...

"How the Other Half Lives" is a chronicle of the conditions of abject poverty that the residents of the slums of New York at the end of the 19th ce...

Reducere. In this lively and deeply affecting memoir, Rebecca McClanahan tracks the heartbeat of New York as only a stunned newcomer can: in overheard conver...

DescriptionFrom Bay Ridge to Astoria, political action in Arab New York Arab Americans are a numerically small proportion of the US population yet ...

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Reducere. Yekl and the Imported Bridegroom and Other Stories of Yiddish New York brings together several stories by one of the preeminent American Jewish wri...

Award NameSydney Taylor Book AwardAward categoryOlder ReadersDescriptionAt age eleven, Rosie Lepidus's main concerns are winning ring-a-levio, goin...

In The Soft City, the ethnographer Terry Williams ventures deep into the underground world of sex in New York. The book explores different aspects ...

Reducere. "There are eight million stories in the Naked City." This famous line from the 1948 film The Naked City has become an emblem of New York City itsel...

Reducere. Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893) is a novel by American writer Stephen Crane. Self-published by Crane when the author was only 22 years old, Ma...

Reducere. It is necessary to go to as many extremes as possible. A tale of art, sex, blood, junkies and whores in New York's underground, from cult literary ...

Reducere. Finding Your Irish Ancestors in New York City, Paperback

This is a historical study of acculturation in New York City. It documents the Americanisation of foreign enclaves within the city, showing the eff...

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Reducere. The captivating story of how a diverse group of women, including Janet Reno and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, broke the glass ceiling and changed the modern...

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

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: VictionaryNewly updated for 2018, CITIx60: New York is the essential guide for creative travelers. The sixty locations, act...

Set between the 1920s and the present day, STRIVERS AND OTHER STORIES explores a range of African-American and Southern voices reflecting character...

Reducere. At age eleven, Rosie Lepidus's main concerns are winning ring-a-levio, going to school, and staying out of trouble. But when Mama falls ill with pn...

Reducere. CD 1: 1. My Love Will Not Let You Down 2. Prove It All Night 3. Two Hearts 4. Atlantic City 5. Mansion On The Hill 6. The River 7. Youngstown 8. Mu...

Reducere. DescriptionAfter the Spanish-American War in 1898, many Filipinos immigrated to New York City, mostly as students, enrolling at local institutions ...

Reducere. It's Halloween night, and creatures and critters from near and far are starting to gather outside the front door. And now here comes a whole army o...

Reducere. Viniyl 1: Side A: 2. Prove It All Night 6: 164. Atlantic City 6: 36Side B: 2. The River 11: 162. Badlands 5: 434. Born To Run 5: 576. Land Of Hopes...

In her first book since the critically acclaimed Female Masculinity, Judith Halberstam examines the significance of the transgender body in a provo...

Reducere. One hundred fifty haiku on New York City in just three lines each. New York City Haiku collects 150 of the best haiku inspired by the Big Apple. Th...

In July 1964, after a white police officer shot and killed a Black teenage boy, unrest broke out in Harlem and then Bedford-Stuyvesant. Christopher...