The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, Hardcover

New York is one of the most ever-changing and photogenic places in the world. Featuring full-color photographs of well-known landmarks from all fiv...

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. DescriptionBestselling author Cass R. Sunstein reveals the appeal and the danger of conformity We live in an era of tribalism, polarization, and in...

Reducere. Mexico of five centuries ago was witness to one of the most momentous encounters between human societies, when a group of Spaniards led by Hernando...

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Reducere. DescriptionA provocative, must-read investigation that both appreciates the importance of--and punctures the hype around--big-time contemporary Ame...

Reducere. DescriptionSee all the best-loved sites of New York City in this stylish big picture book by Ingela P. Arrhenius. Visit the Statue of Liberty, clim...

An NYRB Classics Original Robert Sheckley was an eccentric master of the American short story, and his tales, whether set in dystopic city-scapes, ...

Robert Bresson, the director of such cinematic master-pieces as Pickpocket, A Man Escaped Mouchette, and L'Argent, was one of the most influential ...

Reducere. A renowned expert on genocide argues that there is a real risk of violent atrocities happening in the United States If many people were shocked by ...

Publisher: New York University PressNumber of pages: 570Publication date: 1997Dimensions: 160 x 230 x 37Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): ...

A compelling examination of one of the most artistically rich and creative African kingdoms Artists from the kingdom of Kongo--a vast swath of Cent...

Reducere. In the fifth year of the War of Independence, while the Americans focused on the British thrust against the Carolinas, the Canadian Department wage...

Reducere. Reconsidering the Life of Power examines Chinese perspectives on bodily self-cultivation and explores how these can be resources for working past t...

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James and Karla Murrays classic tome from their ongoing Store Front series is now available for the first time in its covetable mini format.The Mur...

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...

Robert Fitch argues that, within a generation, New York City has been transformed from the richest city in the world to one of the poorest in North...

One of the major documents of modern European civilization, Robert Burton's astounding compendium, a survey of melancholy in all its myriad forms, ...

The New York Times Bestseller" An] earth-shaking expos of clerical corruption." - National Catholic ReporterIn the Closet of the Vatican exposes th...

Reducere. One hundred fifty haiku on New York City in just three lines each. New York City Haiku collects 150 of the best haiku inspired by the Big Apple. Th...

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Reducere. Called by the Los Angeles Reader, the finest example of graphic story telling they've seen, Cortez and the Fall of the Aztecs is a fascinating look...

Reducere. "There are eight million stories in the Naked City." This famous line from the 1948 film The Naked City has become an emblem of New York City itsel...

Publisher: New York University PressIllustration(s): 20 b/w illustrationsNumber of pages: 352Collection: Critical Perspectives on YouthPublication ...

Reducere. National Book Critics Circle AwardWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE, THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE...

"It would be hard to write a dull book on Light-Horse Harry, and Mr. Cole's is far from it.... The book] contains passages of considerable eloquenc...

Reducere. In this refreshingly candid intellectual autobiography, Robert C. Smith traces the evolution of his consciousness and identity from his early days ...

Reducere. One of the most influential leaders in the civil rights movement, Robert Parris Moses was essential in making Mississippi a central battleground st...

Reducere. The archetype of the "witch" is burnt deep into the European psyche, recurring again and again in folklore and fairytales. But is she merely the st...

Reducere. The archetype of the "witch" is burnt deep into the European psyche, recurring again and again in folklore and fairytales. But is she merely the st...

Reducere. In this interdisciplinary work, Raymond Angelo Belliotti presents an interpretation of The Godfather as, among other things, a commentary on the tr...

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Publisher: The New York Review of Books, IncAuthor(s): Robert ChandlerNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 127 x 202 x 18Cover typ...

- First published in 2018, this ode to the streets and people of New York has been reprinted with a new trim size and a new price- The energy and b...

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Reducere. In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric light...

Reducere. Alvin C. York (1887--1964) -- devout Christian, conscientious objector, and reluctant hero of World War I -- is one of America's most famous and ce...

Publisher: New York University PressNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 151 x 230 x 22Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): ...

A concise history of the Indians said to have sold Manhattan for $24 The Indian sale of Manhattan is one of the world's most cherished legends. Few...

DescriptionFrom the author of 'A Man without Qualities, ' a novel about spirituality in the modern world. Agathe is the sister of Ulrich, the restl...

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

3 of the 38 stories here are drawn from the collection Selected Stories of Robert Walser, set in Berlin from 1905 onwards.

Reducere. The Players League, formed in 1890, was a short-lived professional baseball league controlled and owned in part by the players themselves, a respon...

Publisher: New York University PressAuthor(s): Christopher GrobeIllustration(s): 35 black and white illustrationsNumber of pages: 320Collection: Pe...