No Half Steppin': An Oral and Pictorial History of New York City Club the Latin Quarter and the Birth of Hip-Hop's Golden Era, Paperback

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...

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Home to the notorious 'Blue Book', which listed the names and addresses of every prostitute living in the city, New Orleans's infamous red-light di...

A behind the scenes look at the music that is currently the soundtrack of the globe, reported on and written by Leila Cobo, Billboard's VP of Latin...

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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Publisher: deCoubertin BooksNumber of pages: 400Publication date: 2017Dimensions: 198 x 253 x 33Cover type: HardbackEditor(s): Mark PlattRedescoper...

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Publisher: Olympia PublishersAuthor(s): JCash ThigpenNumber of pages: 113Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 140 x 203 x 13Cover type: Paperback / so...

So you thought you knew everything about Manchester City, did you? Well, think again.

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

How much do you actually know about New York City? Did you know they tried to anchor Zeppelins at the top of the Empire State Building? Or that the...

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...

"I trace my ancestry back to the Mayflower, " writes Andrew S. Dolkart. "Not to the legendary ship that brought the Pilgrims to Plymouth, Massachus...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes accounts of Henry Hudson's expedition around Manhattan and relations with the Lenape natives *Includes accounts of tra...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes accounts of Henry Hudson's expedition around Manhattan and relations with the Lenape natives *Includes accounts of tra...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Darlene OrtizAuthor: Heidi CudaDarlene Ortiz was with Ice T for 17 years, beginning with his early days hustlin' on the str...

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...

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...

Reducere. Robert W. Snyder's Crossing Broadway tells how disparate groups overcame their mutual suspicions to rehabilitate housing, build new schools, restor...

Reducere. From the arrival of Henry Hudson's Half Moon in the estuarial waters of what would come to be called New York Harbor to the 2006 agreement that lai...

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

Reducere. This attractive little volume, the first in an annual series, offers a day-by-day guide to the coming year in New York City: cultural events, sport...

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

Reducere. There may not be a more fascinating a historical period than the late fourteenth century in Europe. The Hundred Years' War ravaged the continent, y...

Reducere. New York City has long been a generative nexus for the transnational Latin music scene. Currently, there is no other place in the Americas where su...

The story of how Hip Hop got its start, told by Gene "Poo Poo Man" Anderson, the promoter at the center of it all. From "Rapper's Delight" and the ...

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Reducere. An Unlikely Union tells the dramatic story of how two of America's largest ethnic groups learned to love and laugh with each other after decades of...

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Reducere. DescriptionWinner, 2015 National Jewish Book Award presented by the Jewish Book CouncilFor much of the twentieth century, the New York Jewish deli ...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Joseph C. EwoodzieThe origin story of hip-hop--one that involves Kool Herc DJing a house party on Sedgwick Avenue in the Br...

Reducere. Forages through New England's most famous foods for the truth behind the region's culinary myths Meg Muckenhoupt begins with a simple question: Whe...

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Publisher: Kestrel Railway BooksAuthor(s): David LarkinIllustration(s): illNumber of pages: 96Publication date: 2009Dimensions: 272 x 215 x 7Cover ...

Reducere. Beyond the Brain seriously challenges the existing neurophysiological models of the brain. After three decades of extensive research on those non-o...

Reducere. Tells the story of the founding of American Christianity against the backdrop of devastating disease, and of the Indigenous survivors who kept the ...