New York City - ***

Beautifully photographed, with insightful analysis in terms of both traditional and contemporary contexts, An American Renaissance is a significant...

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...

The shots in Full Bleed span 30 years, with contributions from over 40 photographers. This tenth anniversary edition is a comprehensive overview of...

A visual love-letter to New York City which features works by major artists from the 19th and 20th centuries.Publisher: D Giles LtdIllustration(s):...

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. Author Claude "Paradise" Gray was raised in the South Bronx. He was cofounder of the X Clan, whose 1990 album To the East, Blackwards is an Afrocen...

Reducere. How do you tell the story of a race that symbolizes New York City's vitality, diversity, and charm? Here, Richard O'Brien offers more than forty de...

Publisher: Antenne PublishingAuthor(s): Victor BoulletNumber of pages: 152Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 298 x 334 x 22Cover type: HardbackRedes...

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...

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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...

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...

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. 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...

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

Mid-March 2020: native New Yorker Gregory Peterson is on an early evening walk through the city, suddenly shut down by the coronavirus pandemic. Us...

Reducere. Buffalo is literally a walkable encyclopedia of amazing --architecture, told through the works of internationally renowned masters such as Frank Ll...

Reducere. New York City History is essential reading not only for fans of regional history, but for readers who wish to understand the American experience th...

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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...

Reducere. In 1989, Malcolm McLaren had his only number one hit with a single called "Deep in Vogue." Early the next year, Madonna had one of the biggest hits...

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

Unique for its architectural and urbanistic focus, A Home to the World: The United Nations and New York City celebrates this important global organ...

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

Publisher: Daylight BooksIllustration(s): 70 Black and White PhotographsNumber of pages: 128Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 225 x 263 x 18Cover t...

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. 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...

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

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...

Reducere. New York City is defined by a certain kind of grit and perseverance, its history sprinkled with stories of unlikely successes found where most woul...

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. 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...

I See a City: Todd Webb's New York focuses on the work photographer Todd Webb produced in New York City in the 1940s and 1950s. Webb photographed t...

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...

Publisher: AbramsAuthor(s): Jason BaileyNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 236 x 283 x 31Cover type: HardbackRedescopera farmecu...

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

Reducere. In the wee hours of May 15, 1902, three thousand Jewish women quietly took up positions on the streets of Manhattan's Lower East Side. Convinced by...

Reducere. In the 19th century, New York saw the development of a sex industry at the heart of a consumer world of entertainment, goods, newspapers and advert...

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...

A visual account of the birth of graffiti and street art, showcasing as-yet-unseen works collected by preeminent artist Martin Wong.

An experiential mosaic. Myriad impressions of buildings, windows, streets and people are captured in the watercolor paintings of Alex Price. This c...

Reducere. Pioneros II: Puerto Ricans in New York City, 1948-1998, Hardcover

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

Reducere. Throughout the United States, there is no single major metropolitan area more closely connected to organized crime's rapid ascendancy on a national...

Reducere. DescriptionGerman New York City celebrates the rich cultural heritage of the hundreds of thousands of German immigrants who left the poverty and tu...

Reducere. New York City, one of the world's premier urban centers, is also home to the world's most famous and storied municipal law enforcement service: the...

Reducere. The history of Puerto Ricans in the so-called "Babel of Steel" dates back more than a century. Through hundreds of images of the "pioneers"-those P...

Texas Guinan was the queen of New York's speakeasies in the Roaring Twenties. Her clubs were backed by leading gangsters and welcomed some of the c...

"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 ...

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

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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...

Reducere. Last Subway is the fascinating and dramatic story behind New York City's struggle to build a new subway line under Second Avenue and improve transi...

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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...

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. Finding Your Irish Ancestors in New York City, Paperback

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. A first-ever book on the subject, New York City Blues: Postwar Portraits from Harlem to the Village and Beyond offers a deep dive into the blues ve...

Reducere. The 50-mile-long Shawangunk Ridge features some of the most interesting and spectacular scenery in the Northeast. This well-known landform is locat...