This introduction to the architecture of New York city presents a compendium of histories and views of more than eighty major structures, sites, and symbols, from the seventeenth century to the early 1980s.
Here are the cocktail parties and power lunches, the subway chases and opening nights, th
This first in a series of books about the Finger Lakes Region discusses how the region was formed, what the area has now, and the future of the region.
The Rough Guide to New York City is your definitive guide to this bustling metropolis. Covering all five boroughs - Manhattan, the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island- in depth,...
Long-time sports writer Bill Chastain examines every details about the beginning, heyday and end of the Steelers mid-1970s run of winning four Super Bowls in six years, a feat that...
Thoroughly out of place in modern America - yet powerfully reminiscent of the American past - the Old Order Amish inspire both curiosity and admiration. But Amish life is far...
"An eminently readable, nicely researched tour de force that goes on my must-reading list for anyone interested in knowing the Chesapeake Bay."--Tom Horton, Baltimore Sun."This excellent book about the Susquehanna...
She needs no introduction. For decades, she's been the world's leading icon of democracy. Four million people visit her each year. She is the very symbol of America. But how...
The Rough Guide to New York
This guide includes 23 walks exploring the Big Apple. The contributors - a collection of historians, novelists, journalists and comedians - are united by their passion for the city, drawing...
This tour guide for time travelers offers New York lovers and 1930s buffs an endlessly fascinating look at life as it was lived in the days when a trolley ride...