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DescriptionFor forty years, as New York's Lower East Side went from disinvested to gentrified, residents lived with a wound at the heart of the nei...

ALL COLOR INTERIORVery few men have had the impact on Broadway theatre as did Justin Brooks Atkinson, the drama critic of The New York Times from 1...

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

Reducere. The first full-length book of drone photography of the Crescent City, Above New Orleans offers readers perspectives never before captured by a came...

Rockaway Beach was once a popular seaside resort in south Queens with a small permanent population. Shortly after World War II, large parts of this...

Reducere. John Eugene Rodriguez's Spanish New Orleans is the first comprehensive academic analysis of how Spain governed the largest imperial city in its Nor...

Reducere. The Essential Letters volume in the series of Augustine's complete works features a rich selection from the Bishop of Hippo's extensive surviving c...

Reducere. ALL COLOR INTERIORVery few men have had the impact on Broadway theatre as did Justin Brooks Atkinson, the drama critic of The New York Times from 1...

This study offers a critical interpretation of literary representations of urban poverty and the sustained trauma associated with exploitation, hom...

Reducere. Augustine touches upon numerous topics, including the role of grace, the original state of humanity, the possibility of waging a just war, the idea...

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The transformation of child care after welfare reform in New York City and the struggle against that transformation is a largely untold story. Soci...

This engaging environmental history explores the rise, fall, and rebirth of one of the nation's most important urban public landscapes, and more si...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Saint Augustine of HippoAuthor: Edmund Hill O.P.Presents a selection of Augustine's sermons that represent a range of subje...

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...

Reducere. The essays in Shadows in the City of Light explore the significance of Paris in the writing of five influential French writers--Sarah Kofman, Patri...

Reducere. Like the bestselling Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas, this book is a brilliant reinvention of the traditional atlas, one that provides a vivid...

PROSEHow New York City subways signage evolved from a "visual mess" to a uniform system with Helvetica triumphant.For years, the signs in the New Y...

Reducere. Tammy L. Brown uses the life stories of Caribbean intellectuals as ``windows`` into the dynamic history of immigration to New York and the long bat...

Reducere. The six major treatises presented in this volume amply illustrate Augustine's struggle with the theological problems that Pelagianism raised.

Reducere. Third volume of the long-awaited translation of one of Augustines classics and a great work in Christian literature. Newly translated by Maria Boul...

Reducere. DescriptionFor over two hundred years, the Catskill Mountains have been repeatedly and dramatically transformed by New York City. In Making Mountai...

Fourth volume of the long-awaited translation of one of Augustines classics and a great work in Christian literature. Newly translated by Maria Bou...

Reducere. Second volume of the long-awaited translation of one of Augustines classics and a great work in Christian literature. Newly translated by Maria Bou...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Saint AugustineIntroduction by: William BabcockNotes by: Boniface RamseyAugustine touches upon numerous topics, including t...

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Reducere. Final volume of the long-awaited translation of one of Augustines classics and a great work in Christian literature. Newly translated by Maria Boul...

DescriptionThis classic work chronicles how New York, London, and Tokyo became command centers for the global economy and in the process underwent ...

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...

A Writer's Workbook takes advanced-level writing students systematically from reading to writing. Along the way, students read high-interest texts;...

Applying a much needed intersectional approach, Melissa Fuster shows that nutritionists and eaters often misrepresent, and even racialize or pathol...

A companion to the four-volume publication of Francis of Assisi: Early Documents and a resource for those studying early Franciscanism. This book h...

Reducere. Few ancient Christian authors attempted anything like a complete commentary on the Gospel of John, among them Origen, John Chrysostom and Augustine...

DescriptionA Mexican State of Mind: New York City and the New Borderlands of Culture explores the cultural and creative lives of the largely young ...

Reducere. Essential Expositions of the Psalms is a collection distilled from the 6-volume set in the Works of Saint Augustine. As the psalms are a microcosm ...

Reducere. Augustine knows by faith that God is a trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and he is seeking as far as possible to understand what he believes. I...

Reducere. The gripping history of Afro-Latino migrants who conspired to overthrow a colonial monarchy, end slavery, and secure full citizenship in their home...

Publisher: Cornell University PressAuthor(s): Joyce D. GoodfriendIllustration(s): 14 Halftones, black and whiteNumber of pages: 312Publication date...

Reducere. Supplying water to millions is not simply an engineering and logistical challenge. As David Soll shows in his finely observed history of the nation...

Explores women of colour's grassroots leadership in organisations that are not singularly identified with feminism. Centred in New York City, Pushi...

Reducere. The animal wealth of the western "wilderness" provided by talented "savages" encouraged French-Americans from Illinois, Canada and Louisiana to fou...

Reducere. Along with his Confessions, The City of God is undoubtedly St. Augustine's most influential work. In the context of what begins as a lengthy critiq...

Reducere. Augustine on the excellence of marriage, holy virginity, the excellence of widowhood, adulterous marriages, continence. Includes indexes

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...

Reducere. Cities are so common today that we cannot imagine a world without them. More than half of the world's population lives in cities, and that proporti...

Reducere. The legend of Bat Masterson as the heroic sheriff of Dodge City, Kansas, began in 1881 when an acquaintance duped a New York Sun reporter into writ...

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. Tracing the shifting fortunes and changing character of New York City's economic elite over half a century, Sven Beckert brings to light a neglecte...

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At a time of renewed anti-immigrant sentiment and newly emerging infectious diseases, Quarantine! provides a historical context for considering som...

DescriptionShows how digital media connects people to their lived environments Every day, millions of people turn to small handheld screens to sear...

Contributor(s): Author: Christopher WashburneThis ethnographic journey into the New York salsa scene of the 1990s offers detailed accounts of music...

Reducere. Compelling evidence is given to show that the sudden destruction of the great city "Babylon" -portrayed in the Bible's book of Revelation as a sedu...

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...

New Orleans is a city of beautiful contradictions, evidenced by its street names. New Orleans crosses with Hope, Pleasure and Duels. Religious coup...

Reducere. The changing fortunes of Detroit, told through the lens of the city's major sporting events, by the bestselling author of Soccernomics, and a prize...

"The maps themselves are things of beauty... a document of its time, of our time."--Sadie Stein, New York Times "One is invited to fathom the many ...

Reducere. New Orleans--the Big Easy, the birthplace of jazz, home of Cafe du Monde and what some call the most haunted city in America. Beneath the indulgenc...

Hailed as "extraordinarily learned" (New York Times), "blithe in spirit and unerring in vision, " (New York Magazine), and the "definitive record o...

Reducere. King Claude, the adorable talking dog, and his family return to New York City for another exciting journey. Join them in this beautifully illustrat...

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From the best-selling author of Londoners, a symphony of contemporary New York in the magnificent words of its people.

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...

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Evan Friss traces the colorful and fraught history of bicycles-and bicyclists-in New York City. He uncovers the bicycle's place in the city over ti...

Reducere. Teaching Christianity is the most original book Augustine ever wrote. It is not so much a treatise or scholarly work but an instruction manual on h...

Reducere. America's most populous region is also home to some of the nation's most serenely beautiful country. Tracing a gentle, thousand-mile curve from New...

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

Reducere. Originally published in 1939 at the time of the World's Fair, this is a reissue of this guide for time-travellers. It offers New York-lovers and 19...

Reducere. Like the bestselling Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas, this book is a brilliant reinvention of the traditional atlas, one that provides a vivid...