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Hearts of the City
The Selected Writings of Herbert Muschamp
Written by Herbert Muschamp
Introduction by Nicolai Ouroussoff
Format: Hardcover, 912 pages
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $50.00
From the late Herbert Muschamp, the former architecture critic of The New York Times and one of the most outspoken and influential voices in architectural criticism, a collection of his best work.
The pieces here—from The New Republic, Artforum, and The New York Times—reveal how Muschamp’s views were both ahead of their... Read more >
The Selected Writings of Herbert Muschamp
Written by Herbert Muschamp
Introduction by Nicolai Ouroussoff
Format: Hardcover, 912 pages
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $50.00
From the late Herbert Muschamp, the former architecture critic of The New York Times and one of the most outspoken and influential voices in architectural criticism, a collection of his best work.
The pieces here—from The New Republic, Artforum, and The New York Times—reveal how Muschamp’s views were both ahead of their... Read more >
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Wrestling with Moses
How Jane Jacobs Took On New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City
Written by Anthony Flint
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: July 28, 2009
Price: $27.00
To a young Jane Jacobs, Greenwich Village, with its winding cobblestone streets and diverse makeup, was everything a city neighborhood should be. The activist, writer, and mother of three grew so fond of her bustling community that it became a touchstone for her landmark book The Death and Life of Great... Read more >
How Jane Jacobs Took On New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City
Written by Anthony Flint
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: July 28, 2009
Price: $27.00
To a young Jane Jacobs, Greenwich Village, with its winding cobblestone streets and diverse makeup, was everything a city neighborhood should be. The activist, writer, and mother of three grew so fond of her bustling community that it became a touchstone for her landmark book The Death and Life of Great... Read more >
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Wrestling with Moses
How Jane Jacobs Took On New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City
Written by Anthony Flint
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 28, 2009
Price: $27.00
To a young Jane Jacobs, Greenwich Village, with its winding cobblestone streets and diverse makeup, was everything a city neighborhood should be. The activist, writer, and mother of three grew so fond of her bustling community that it became a touchstone for her landmark book The Death and Life of Great... Read more >
How Jane Jacobs Took On New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City
Written by Anthony Flint
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 28, 2009
Price: $27.00
To a young Jane Jacobs, Greenwich Village, with its winding cobblestone streets and diverse makeup, was everything a city neighborhood should be. The activist, writer, and mother of three grew so fond of her bustling community that it became a touchstone for her landmark book The Death and Life of Great... Read more >
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hardcover.
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The World in a City
Traveling the Globe Through the Neighborhoods of the New New York
Written by Joseph Berger
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: June 24, 2009
Price: $25.95
“The whole world can be found in this city. . . .”
–from the Preface
Fifty years ago, New York City had only a handful of ethnic groups. Today, the whole world can be found within the city’s five boroughs–and celebrated New York Times reporter Joseph Berger sets out to discover it, bringing... Read more >
Traveling the Globe Through the Neighborhoods of the New New York
Written by Joseph Berger
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: June 24, 2009
Price: $25.95
“The whole world can be found in this city. . . .”
–from the Preface
Fifty years ago, New York City had only a handful of ethnic groups. Today, the whole world can be found within the city’s five boroughs–and celebrated New York Times reporter Joseph Berger sets out to discover it, bringing... Read more >
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hardcover.
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Rogues' Gallery
The Secret History of the Moguls and the Money that Made the Metropolitan Museum
Written by Michael Gross
Format: Hardcover, 560 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $29.95
The Secret History of the Moguls and the Money that Made the Metropolitan Museum
Written by Michael Gross
Format: Hardcover, 560 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $29.95
“Behind almost every painting is a fortune and behind that a sin or a crime.”
With these words as a starting point, Michael Gross, leading chronicler of the American rich, begins the first independent, unauthorized look at the saga of the nation’s greatest museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In this...
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Rogues' Gallery
The Secret History of the Moguls and the Money that Made the Metropolitan Museum
Written by Michael Gross
Format: eBook, 496 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $29.95
“Behind almost every painting is a fortune and behind that a sin or a crime.”
With these words as a starting point, Michael Gross, leading chronicler of the American rich, begins the first independent, unauthorized look at the saga of the nation’s greatest museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In this... Read more >
The Secret History of the Moguls and the Money that Made the Metropolitan Museum
Written by Michael Gross
Format: eBook, 496 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $29.95
“Behind almost every painting is a fortune and behind that a sin or a crime.”
With these words as a starting point, Michael Gross, leading chronicler of the American rich, begins the first independent, unauthorized look at the saga of the nation’s greatest museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In this... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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The Bottom of the Harbor
Written by Joseph Mitchell
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: July 1, 2008
Price: $23.00
On the centennial of Joseph Mitchell's birth, here is a new edition of the classic collection containing his most celebrated pieces about New York City. Fifty years after its original publication, The Bottom of the Harbor is still considered a fundamental New York book. Every story Mitchell tells, every person he... Read more >
Written by Joseph Mitchell
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: July 1, 2008
Price: $23.00
On the centennial of Joseph Mitchell's birth, here is a new edition of the classic collection containing his most celebrated pieces about New York City. Fifty years after its original publication, The Bottom of the Harbor is still considered a fundamental New York book. Every story Mitchell tells, every person he... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Bottom of the Harbor
Written by Joseph Mitchell
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 1, 2008
Price: $23.00
On the centennial of Joseph Mitchell's birth, here is a new edition of the classic collection containing his most celebrated pieces about New York City. Fifty years after its original publication, The Bottom of the Harbor is still considered a fundamental New York book. Every story Mitchell tells, every person he... Read more >
Written by Joseph Mitchell
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 1, 2008
Price: $23.00
On the centennial of Joseph Mitchell's birth, here is a new edition of the classic collection containing his most celebrated pieces about New York City. Fifty years after its original publication, The Bottom of the Harbor is still considered a fundamental New York book. Every story Mitchell tells, every person he... Read more >
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hardcover.
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740 Park
The Story of the World's Richest Apartment Building
Written by Michael Gross
Format: eBook, 576 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $16.95
For seventy-five years, it’s been Manhattan’s richest apartment building, and one of the most lusted-after addresses in the world. One apartment had 37 rooms, 14 bathrooms, 43 closets, 11 working fireplaces, a private elevator, and his-and-hers saunas; another at one time had a live-in service staff of 16. To this day... Read more >
The Story of the World's Richest Apartment Building
Written by Michael Gross
Format: eBook, 576 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $16.95
For seventy-five years, it’s been Manhattan’s richest apartment building, and one of the most lusted-after addresses in the world. One apartment had 37 rooms, 14 bathrooms, 43 closets, 11 working fireplaces, a private elevator, and his-and-hers saunas; another at one time had a live-in service staff of 16. To this day... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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True Notebooks
A Writer's Year at Juvenile Hall
Written by Mark Salzman
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.95
When Mark Salzman is invited to visit a writing class at Central Juvenile Hall, a lockup for Los Angeles’s most violent teenage offenders, he scrambles for a polite reason to decline. He goes—expecting the worst—and is so astonished by what he finds that he becomes a teacher there himself. True Notebooks... Read more >
A Writer's Year at Juvenile Hall
Written by Mark Salzman
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.95
When Mark Salzman is invited to visit a writing class at Central Juvenile Hall, a lockup for Los Angeles’s most violent teenage offenders, he scrambles for a polite reason to decline. He goes—expecting the worst—and is so astonished by what he finds that he becomes a teacher there himself. True Notebooks... Read more >
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abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download and a
trade paperback.
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There Goes the Neighborhood
Racial, Ethnic, and Class Tensions in Four Chicago Neighborhoods and Their Meaning for America
Written by William Julius Wilson and Richard P. Taub
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: October 9, 2007
Price: $14.95
From one of America’s most admired sociologists and urban policy advisers, There Goes the Neighborhood is a long-awaited look at how race, class, and ethnicity influence one of Americans’ most personal choices—where we choose to live. The result of a three-year study of four working- and lower-middle class neighborhoods in Chicago... Read more >
Racial, Ethnic, and Class Tensions in Four Chicago Neighborhoods and Their Meaning for America
Written by William Julius Wilson and Richard P. Taub
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: October 9, 2007
Price: $14.95
From one of America’s most admired sociologists and urban policy advisers, There Goes the Neighborhood is a long-awaited look at how race, class, and ethnicity influence one of Americans’ most personal choices—where we choose to live. The result of a three-year study of four working- and lower-middle class neighborhoods in Chicago... Read more >
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The World in a City
Traveling the Globe Through the Neighborhoods of the New New York
Written by Joseph Berger
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: September 25, 2007
Price: $25.95
“The whole world can be found in this city. . . .”
–from the Preface
Fifty years ago, New York City had only a handful of ethnic groups. Today, the whole world can be found within the city’s five boroughs–and celebrated New York Times reporter Joseph Berger sets out to discover it, bringing... Read more >
Traveling the Globe Through the Neighborhoods of the New New York
Written by Joseph Berger
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: September 25, 2007
Price: $25.95
“The whole world can be found in this city. . . .”
–from the Preface
Fifty years ago, New York City had only a handful of ethnic groups. Today, the whole world can be found within the city’s five boroughs–and celebrated New York Times reporter Joseph Berger sets out to discover it, bringing... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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740 Park
The Story of the World's Richest Apartment Building
Written by Michael Gross
Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
On Sale: October 10, 2006
Price: $16.95
For seventy-five years, it’s been Manhattan’s richest apartment building, and one of the most lusted-after addresses in the world. One apartment had 37 rooms, 14 bathrooms, 43 closets, 11 working fireplaces, a private elevator, and his-and-hers saunas; another at one time had a live-in service staff of 16. To this day... Read more >
The Story of the World's Richest Apartment Building
Written by Michael Gross
Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
On Sale: October 10, 2006
Price: $16.95
For seventy-five years, it’s been Manhattan’s richest apartment building, and one of the most lusted-after addresses in the world. One apartment had 37 rooms, 14 bathrooms, 43 closets, 11 working fireplaces, a private elevator, and his-and-hers saunas; another at one time had a live-in service staff of 16. To this day... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Rachel and Her Children
Homeless Families in America
Written by Jonathan Kozol
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: August 15, 2006
Price: $13.95
The story that jolted the conscience of the nation when it first appeared in The New Yorker
Jonathan Kozol is one of America’s most forceful and eloquent observers of the intersection of race, poverty, and education. His books, from the National Book Award–winning Death at an Early Age to his most recent... Read more >
Homeless Families in America
Written by Jonathan Kozol
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: August 15, 2006
Price: $13.95
The story that jolted the conscience of the nation when it first appeared in The New Yorker
Jonathan Kozol is one of America’s most forceful and eloquent observers of the intersection of race, poverty, and education. His books, from the National Book Award–winning Death at an Early Age to his most recent... Read more >
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True Notebooks
A Writer's Year at Juvenile Hall
Written by Mark Salzman
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: August 31, 2004
Price: $14.95
In 1997 Mark Salzman, bestselling author Iron and Silk and Lying Awake, paid a reluctant visit to a writing class at L.A.’s Central Juvenile Hall, a lockup for violent teenage offenders, many of them charged with murder. What he found so moved and astonished him that he began to teach there... Read more >
A Writer's Year at Juvenile Hall
Written by Mark Salzman
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: August 31, 2004
Price: $14.95
In 1997 Mark Salzman, bestselling author Iron and Silk and Lying Awake, paid a reluctant visit to a writing class at L.A.’s Central Juvenile Hall, a lockup for violent teenage offenders, many of them charged with murder. What he found so moved and astonished him that he began to teach there... Read more >
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American Ruins
Written by Camilo J. Vergara
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2003
Price: $60.00
The deterioration of the American inner city stands in stark contrast to the prosperity characteristic of the United States for much of the twentieth century. Skyscrapers that once defined the modern era stand derelict and abandoned. Massive industrial manufactories lie rusting, their cavernous interiors dark. Formerly vibrant theaters shed bricks and... Read more >
Written by Camilo J. Vergara
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2003
Price: $60.00
The deterioration of the American inner city stands in stark contrast to the prosperity characteristic of the United States for much of the twentieth century. Skyscrapers that once defined the modern era stand derelict and abandoned. Massive industrial manufactories lie rusting, their cavernous interiors dark. Formerly vibrant theaters shed bricks and... Read more >
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New York Waterfront
Evolution and Building Culture of the Port and Harbor
Written by Kevin Bone, Eugenia Bone and Mary Beth Betts
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2003
Price: $40.00
Created by a team of architects, historians, teachers, and students, The New York Waterfront is an unprecedented documentation of the rise and fall of the waterfront's architectural, technological, industrial, and commercial existence over the past 150 years. This densely illustrated book vividly presents and preserves the waterfront's development. Superb watercolor, ink... Read more >
Evolution and Building Culture of the Port and Harbor
Written by Kevin Bone, Eugenia Bone and Mary Beth Betts
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2003
Price: $40.00
Created by a team of architects, historians, teachers, and students, The New York Waterfront is an unprecedented documentation of the rise and fall of the waterfront's architectural, technological, industrial, and commercial existence over the past 150 years. This densely illustrated book vividly presents and preserves the waterfront's development. Superb watercolor, ink... Read more >
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Gangbusters
How a Street Tough, Elite Homicide Unit Took Down New York's Most Dangerous Gang
Written by Michael Stone
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: July 9, 2002
Price: $14.95
An elite homicide investigation unit takes on one of the most savage and destructive gangs in New York City history in this gritty true-crime narrative.
The investigation into the late-night murder of a college student on the West Side Highway leads to the Wild Cowboys, a group of young men who for... Read more >
How a Street Tough, Elite Homicide Unit Took Down New York's Most Dangerous Gang
Written by Michael Stone
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: July 9, 2002
Price: $14.95
An elite homicide investigation unit takes on one of the most savage and destructive gangs in New York City history in this gritty true-crime narrative.
The investigation into the late-night murder of a college student on the West Side Highway leads to the Wild Cowboys, a group of young men who for... Read more >
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The Seduction of Place
The History and Future of Cities
Written by Joseph Rykwert
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2002
Price: $14.95
No other place on earth is as full both of promise and of dread as the city; it is at once alienating and exciting. These concentrations of people have not, however, come about as the result of vast immutable, impersonal forces, but because of human choices. The worsening or betterment of... Read more >
The History and Future of Cities
Written by Joseph Rykwert
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2002
Price: $14.95
No other place on earth is as full both of promise and of dread as the city; it is at once alienating and exciting. These concentrations of people have not, however, come about as the result of vast immutable, impersonal forces, but because of human choices. The worsening or betterment of... Read more >
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Cairo
The City Victorious
Written by Max Rodenbeck
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: February 22, 2000
Price: $15.95
From a noted journalist who has spent much of his life in Cairo, here is a dazzling cultural excavation of that most ancient, colorful, and multifaceted of cities. The seat of pharaohs and sultans, the prize of conquerors from Alexander to Saladin to Napoleon, Cairo--nicknamed "the Victorious"--has never ceased reinventing herself.
With... Read more >
The City Victorious
Written by Max Rodenbeck
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: February 22, 2000
Price: $15.95
From a noted journalist who has spent much of his life in Cairo, here is a dazzling cultural excavation of that most ancient, colorful, and multifaceted of cities. The seat of pharaohs and sultans, the prize of conquerors from Alexander to Saladin to Napoleon, Cairo--nicknamed "the Victorious"--has never ceased reinventing herself.
With... Read more >
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