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BUILDING: A CARPENTER'S NOTES ON LIFE & THE ART OF GOOD WORK
Written by Ellison, Mark
In Building, a visionary carpenter shares indelible stories on building a life worth living, revealing powerful lessons about work, creativity, and design through his experience constructing some of New York's most iconic spaces. "Mark Ellison is known for building beautiful rooms, but here he has crafted a gorgeous book.
MODERN NEW YORK: THE ILLUSTRATED STORY OF ARCHITECTURE IN THE FIVE BOROUGHS FROM 1920 TO PRESENT
Written by Novotny, Lukas
An illustrated tour through New York's five boroughs and the past 100 years of its modern architecture, told through the charming yet bold drawings of Lukas Novotny. Modern New York: The Illustrated Story of Architecture in the Five Boroughs from 1920 to Today takes the reader on a roller-coaster ride through the changing fortunes of New York City throughout the last hundred year
NEW YORKERS: 31 REMARKABLE PEOPLE, 400 YEARS, AND THE UNTOLD BIOGRAPHY OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST CITY (SIGNED)
Written by Roberts, Sam
From award-winning New York Times reporter Sam Roberts, the story of the world's most exceptional city, told through 31 little-known yet pivotal inhabitants who helped define it. In Sam Roberts's pulsating history of the world's most exceptional metropolis, greet the city anew through thirty-one unique New Yorkers you've probably never heard of-just in time for the city's 400t
DRAPER TOUCH: THE HIGH LIFE AND HIGH STYLE OF DOROTHY DRAPER
Written by Varney, Carleton
- A must have for those fascinated with the history of the interior design business as well as the history of New York City, where Draper lived and designed some of her most famous projects such as the Carlyle Hotel- Features personal and archival photographs by fashion and society photographers Edward Steichen, Cecil Beaton and Andre Kértéz whose images were published in the 1920s in Vogue magazi
ELLIS ISLAND: A PEOPLE'S HISTORY
Written by Szejnert, Malgorzata
A dramatic, multi-vocal account of the personal agonies and ecstasies that played out within the walls of Ellis Island, as told by Poland's greatest living journalist. This is the people's history of Ellis Island--the people who passed through it, and the people who were turned away from it.
RISE AND FALL OF PROTESTANT BROOKLYN: AN AMERICAN STORY
Written by Altschuler, Glenn C
In The Rise and Fall of Protestant Brooklyn, Stuart M. Blumin and Glenn C. Altschuler tell the story of nineteenth-century Brooklyn's domination by upper- and middle-class Protestants with roots in Puritan New England.
STAGED NEWS: THE FEDERAL THEATRE PROJECT'S LIVING NEWSPAPERS IN NEW YORK
Written by Cox, Jordana
In 1935, a group of journalists and theater artists embarked on an unusual collaboration. With funds from the Federal Theatre Project (FTP), a Depression-era employment initiative established by President Roosevelt's New Deal, they set out to produce news for the theatrical stage. Over the next four years, the New York-based team created six productions, known as the Living Newspapers.
OBJECTS OF LOVE AND REGRET: A BROOKLYN STORY
Written by Rabinowitz, Richard
An award-winning historian and museum curator tells the story of his Jewish immigrant family by lovingly reconstructing its dramatic encounters with the memory-filled objects of ordinary life. At a pushcart stall in East New York, Brooklyn, in the spring of 1934, eighteen-year-old Sarah Schwartz bought her mother, Shenka, a green, wooden-handled bottle opener.
GROWING UP UNDERGROUND: A MEMOIR OF COUNTERCULTURE NEW YORK
Written by Heller, Steven
An entertaining coming-of-age memoir from Steven Heller, award-winning designer, writer, and former senior art director at the New York Times.
HEREAFTER: THE TELLING LIFE OF ELLEN O'HARA
Written by Groarke, Vona
A lyrical portrait of a young Irish woman reinventing herself at the turn of the twentieth century in America Ellen O'Hara was a young immigrant from Ireland at the end of the nineteenth century who, with courage and resilience, made a life for herself in New York while financially supporting those at home.
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