Sounding Salsa: Performing Latin Music in New York City, Paperback - Christopher Washburne

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

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

Reducere. Beginning in the 1920s, an all-star team of goons, gunmen and garrotters transformed America's criminal landscape. Its membership was diverse; the ...

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

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Catherine believes that life is a journey. After serving a one year tour in Iraq with the military, Catherine realized life is short and that she n...

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Publisher: Bonnier Books LtdAuthor(s): Lauren UrasekNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2016Dimensions: 131 x 197 x 19Cover type: Paperback / sof...

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

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...

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

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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...

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

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Reducere. DescriptionDavid Ruggles (1810-1849) was one of the most heroic--and has been one of the most often overlooked--figures of the early abolitionist m...

Reducere. Side A: Eddie Palmieri & Ismael Quintana - Conmigo - 2: 42Ray Barretto - Guajira Y Tambo - 3: 13Tito Puente - Ran Kan Kan - 3: 07Issac Delgado - El...

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Jazz has always been a genre built on the blending of disparate musical cultures. Latin jazz illustrates this perhaps better than any other style i...

Presented in a pocket-sized landscape format and with captions explaining the story behind each photo, New York is a stunning collection of images ...

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...

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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...

Lonely Planet's Experience New York City is your guide to unforgettable experiences and local surprises. Walk through Harlem's rich literary histor...

About DK Eyewitness Family Guide New York CityPerfect for planning and enjoying a stress-free family holiday, this easy-to-use guide book is packed...

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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...

DescriptionLOOK UP New York is the first volume of an exciting new series of architecture and design books inspiring architects of all ages. This b...

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

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...

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

Reducere. New Book to help you prepare for the 2020 NYC Sanitation Worker Exam Seven reasons why you should study with this book: 1. This book was prepared b...

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

Reducere. A travel writer takes a job with a shady publishing company in New York, only to find that she must write a guide to the city - for the undead Beca...

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. Side A: Duke Ellington - Take The A Train - 2: 52Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie - Salt Peanuts - 3: 11Billie Holiday - Autumn In New York - 3: 40...

New York City Jazz explores many of the haunts and hideaways that have played host to iconic jazz musicians and singers like Charlie Parker, Miles ...

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...

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...

From Gotti to Gigante, the names atop today's Mafia organizational charts are old ones. But the times have certainly changed for New York's biggest...