The City We Became

Reducere. Three-time Hugo Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author N.K. Jemisin crafts her most incredible novel yet, a "glorious" story of cultur...

Reducere. Five New Yorkers must come together to defend their city from an ancient evil in this stunning new novel by Hugo Award-winner and NYT bestselling a...

An astonishing new fantasy tale from the record-breaking, triple Hugo Award-winning author of The Fifth Season. Five New Yorkers must band together...

Reducere. Midland, Michigan began life as The Forks, where the Tittabwassee and Chippewa Rivers met. By 1858, The Forks became the Village of Midland, and in...

Only decades ago, the population of Guangzhou was almost wholly Chinese. Today, it is a truly global city, a place where people from around the wor...

Reducere. Written during the third year of The Rebecca School's operation in Manhattan, RESPECTING AUTISM: The Rebecca School DIR Casebook for Parents and Pr...

Reducere. DescriptionBased on her inspiring, viral 2018 commencement speech to Barnard College's graduates in New York City, New York Times bestselling autho...

Groundbreaking Book Now Revised and Updated A witch's coven in Argentina became a lighthouse of prayer in less than 60 minutes. A prodigal son retu...

Reducere. Few cities have seen the rise and fall that Detroit has. At its height, it was the fourth largest city in the U.S. with 1.85 million residents. Tod...

From the beloved author of Insomniac City, a poignant and profound tribute in stories and images to a city amidst a pandemic. A bookstore where rea...

Reducere. Why “Dracul”? Did he earn this nickname because he was evil, “Dracul” being a folk name for the Devil, the Unclean One? Not at all. What follows is...

Reducere. In the fifty years since it was published, The Other America has been established as a seminal work of sociology. This anniversary edition includes...

Reducere. The city of Ephesus was the site of the most significant church planting movement in the early church, with 40 percent of the New Testament texts r...

Reducere. DescriptionPhilip Neri was born in 1515 in Florence, Italy. He was such a kind and cheerful little boy that people called him "good little Philip."...

Reducere. In the wake of the tragedy and destruction that came with Hurricane Katrina in 2005, public schools in New Orleans became part of an almost unthink...

Reducere. With wars among the city-states raging in early Renaissance Italy, the enigmatic genius Leonardo da Vinci was producing some of the most lavish the...

Reducere. Thinking Person's Guide to Autism (TPGA) is the resource we wish we'd had when autism first became part of our lives: a one-stop source for careful...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Sarah MlynowskiMore secrets. More scandals. More ESP. The long-awaited sequel to Don't Even Think About It We used to be av...

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Reducere. Pittsburgh on Your Plate is more than just a cookbook. It's a journey. It is filled with over 175 recipes and stories that define the city, its peo...

Reducere. Before the charismatic John Duval Gluck, Jr. came along, letters from New York City children to Santa Claus were destroyed, unopened, by the U.S. P...

This is the story of Mike and Bernadette Byrne's amazing and uniquely personal journey. They not only witnessed music history being made but they w...

Reducere. Blair, Serena, Nate, Dan, and Vanessa went off to live their lives. Now they're coming home for the holidays. A lot can change in a few months . . ...

Reducere. DescriptionAkkadian EmpireThe Akkadian Empire was one of the first empires in human history and certainly the first to involve the central governme...

In Sexual Hegemony Christopher Chitty traces the five-hundred year history of capitalist sexual relations by excavating the class dynamics of the b...

This Thin Veil became the author's brainchild while running from the town he lived in, Eudora, Kansas, into Lawrence, Kansas, and his turn-around p...

When we come to our final resting place, we may be remembered by an elaborate mausoleum, a block of stone, a wooden post, or perhaps nothing at all...

Reducere. A Pocket sized version with easy-to-read text. It's a long and exciting journey to the celestial city - and as Christian tackles the problems and d...

Reducere. Did you know that at its peak, Angkor was the largest city in the world, almost the size of a modern metropolis, maybe even comparable to Los Angel...

Reducere. As we approach the twenty-first century, many people are seeking to connect with their community's roots in order to better understand their own pa...

For the first time, middle readers can learn the complete story of the courageous girl whose life, which ended through the effects of war, inspired...

Reducere. Edna Lewis (1916-2006) wrote some of America's most resonant, lyrical, and significant cookbooks, including the now classic The Taste of Country Co...

Reducere. DescriptionCarla Coulson had it all, or so everyone told her--a glamorous inner-city apartment, a successful business and a designer wardrobe. One ...

Reducere. A true-crime, coming-of-age story with a tragic twist: a New York editor's quest to uncover the truth about the brutal murder of her wild and seduc...

Reducere. The Journal of Negro History was founded in January 1, 1916 as a quarterly research journal. It was published by the Association for the Study of A...

Drawing on a decade of ethnographic research in the Indian city of Mumbai, Waiting Town is an unconventional little book - experimental in form - a...

After the Civil War, a class of industrialists and financiers amassed great fortunes while building the infrastructure of an expanding nation. Much...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of Rome, then keep reading...Rome started as a kingdom, thrived as a republic, conquered vast terri...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of Rome, then keep reading...Rome started as a kingdom, thrived as a republic, conquered vast terri...

Reducere. DescriptionSee what happens when Kendrick, our very first Courageous Kid, decides to ask a very important question. Kendrick thinks this Sunday wil...

Reducere. DescriptionOnce known as the "Paris of the West, " Motown became synonymous with urban abandonment and arson as job and population decline took hol...

Reducere. Alternate Reality is the comical telling of the mostly true story of how Steve Ross grew up in a dysfunctional family with dysfunctional relationsh...

Reducere. At the end of 2019 to the beginning of 2020, when the coronavirus first emerged, Wuhan in China became the first city in the world affected by this...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Greco-Persian Wars, then keep reading...This cultural prominence was on full display during ...

Reducere. Sunday Origins explains how Sun worship transformed itself into Christianity under Constantine. The most ancient false worship began at Babel, the ...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of ancient Japan, then keep reading... This cultural prominence was on full display during these wa...

Jeffrey Dahmer. Ted Bundy. John Wayne Gacy. Over the past thirty years, serial killers have become iconic figures in America, the subject of made-f...

Reducere. DescriptionOn June 29, 1776, Fr. Francisco Palou dedicated the first site of Mission San Francisco de Asis on the shores of Dolores Lagoon. At the ...

DescriptionIn 1938, Superman debuted, jumping off the pages of Action Comics #1. In the cultural context of the Great Depression and World War II, ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Pat Hagerty I will teach you how to win more bets, but first a story... I was hungover. I had spent the previous night in a...

DescriptionSimple gardening ideas for transforming an outdoor space with containers, furniture, lighting and other low-maintenance elements.'Spendi...

Television today is better than ever. From The Sopranos to Breaking Bad, Sex and the City to Girls, and Modern Family to Louie, never has so much q...

"Every deploying adviser, and every American interested in how we are fighting our wars, should read Owen West's gripping and important book" (Max ...

DescriptionThis is what we all learned in school: Pilgrims on the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock in 1620. They had a rough start, but ultimately...

This is what we all learned in school: Pilgrims on the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock in 1620. They had a rough start, but ultimately made a go ...

Tani Adewumi's moving true story of immigrating to America, developing his talent for chess, and finding a new home will inspire families looking f...

Reducere. Why “Dracul”? Did he earn this nickname because he was evil, “Dracul” being a folk name for the Devil, the Unclean One? Not at all. What follows is...

Reducere. Tales of nostalgia and loss in a world overrun by technology Hank is walking home from the bar when the Model T pulls alongside him. It's been deca...