New York City: A Cultural History, Paperback

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

DescriptionUncover the best of the city from Manhattan to Brooklyn with the updated Michelin Green Guide New York City. Gateway to the United State...

Reducere. This alternative guidebook for one of the world's most popular tourist destinations explores all five boroughs to reveal a people's New York City. ...

Reducere. Revised and updated throughout, the fourth edition of A Brief History of Ancient Greece presents the political, social, cultural, and economic hist...

Reducere. The Jewish Metropolis: New York from the 17th to the 21st Century covers the entire sweep of the history of the largest Jewish community of all tim...

Reducere. From the Wall Street Journal's opera critic, a wide-ranging narrative history of how and why the New York City Opera went bankrupt--and what it mea...

Reducere. Winner of the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation (1995) From its beginnings in hip hop culture, the dense rhythms and aggressi...

The first global study of the distinctive Korean soju beverage. Tracing the history of soju from the premodern world to the twenty-first century, H...

Reducere. Rising from the drug-infested streets of '80s New York City, the incomparable Sonic Youth recorded some of the most important albums in alternative...

*Includes pictures *Includes historic descriptions of Broadway theaters and plays *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading...

Reducere. The first battle book from Mark Bowden since his #1 New York Times bestseller Black Hawk Down, Hue 1968, ``an instantly recognizable classic of mil...

Reducere. Walking Manhattan by Ellen Levitt is written with many people in mind: the tourists who have never before visited Manhattan as well as those return...

A landmark work of cultural history that tells the story of how four young poets, John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, James Schuyler, and Kenneth Koch, rei...

DescriptionThe bestselling author of Seinfeldia offers a fascinating retrospective of the iconic and award-winning television series, Sex and the C...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Andreas HuyssenMemory of historical trauma has a unique power to generate works of art. This book analyzes the relation of ...

This book is about what happened when Tappan Adney travelled from New York City to the small town of Woodstock, New Brunswick in 1887 at the age of...

Reducere. Calmly nestled among the glacial streams and hills of central New York, residents of Ithaca may find it hard to believe that their city began with ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Suleiman OsmanConsidered one of the city's most notorious industrial slums in the 1940s and 1950s, Brownstone Brooklyn by t...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Nazanin Hedayat (New York City College of Technology, USA) MunroeIllustration(s): 100 bw illusNumber...

Reducere. ... will make a splendid contribution to the fields of African-American and American urban, social and family history.... expanding the tradition t...

Reducere. No house better reflects the personality and interests of its owner than Theodore Roosevelt's cherished Sagamore Hill. After Roosevelt returned to ...

Reducere. The Life, History and Travels of Kah-ge-ga-gah-Bowh (1847) is a memoir by George Copway. Written while he was living with his wife and daughter in ...

Reducere. Who would have guessed that one short conversation with New York City Ballet Artistic Director Peter Martins would change the course of how we appr...

Reducere. How They Became Famous Dancers: A Dancing History for young readers tells the story of twelve famous dancers - six women and six men - from differe...

How They Became Famous Dancers: A Dancing History for young readers tells the story of twelve famous dancers - six women and six men - from differe...

Reducere. Born a scant three months after her uncle Oscar's notorious arrest, raised in the shadow of the greatest scandal of the turn of the twentieth centu...

Reducere. Based in part on therecent interviews with more than 125 peopleamong them Tommy Ramone, Chris Stein (Blondie), Lenny Kaye (Patti Smith Group), Hill...

Reducere. A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICEA SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE BESTSELLERIn AD 70, when the Second Temple was destroyed, a handful of vision...

Epic Encounters examines how popular culture has shaped the ways Americans define their "interests" in the Middle East. In this innovative book-now...

Reducere. During the 1920s and 1930s, in cities from Beijing to Bombay, Tokyo to Berlin, Johannesburg to New York, the Modern Girl made her sometimes flashy,...

DescriptionThe cultural landscape of the Hudson River Valley is crowded with ghosts--the ghosts of Native Americans and Dutch colonists, of Revolut...