Author: Piri Thomas
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: streets
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1997-11-25
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0679781420
ISBN-13: 9780679781424
Thirty years ago Piri Thomas made literary history with this lacerating, lyrical memoir of his coming of age on the streets of Spanish Harlem. Here was the testament of a born outsider: a Puerto Rican in English-speaking America; a dark-skinned morenito in a family that refused to acknowledge its African blood. Here was an unsparing document of Thomas’s plunge into the deadly consolations of drugs, street fighting, and armed robbery--a descent that ended when the twenty-two-year-old Piri was sent to prison for shooting a cop.As he recounts the journey that took him from adolescence in El
Author: Allan B. Jaco
Publisher: The MIT Pre
Keywords: streets
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 1995-08-04
List price: $42.00
ISBN-10: 0262600234
ISBN-13: 9780262600231
"Jacobs has been working on this classic -- there’s no other word for it -- for a decade. Jacobs rightly believes that good cities are made of good streets and that we’re rapidly losing our talent for creating them. He measures and draws many of the worlds great streets, from Pittsburgh to Beijing. He describes changes in the street pattern of cities like Boston, where a square mile of downtown contains 100 fewer blocks than it did a century ago. . . . A thoughtful, sane, informed and very personal book, aimed primarily at professionals but readable enough for anyone interested in
Author: Larry McMurtry
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Keywords: novel, laredo, streets
Number of Pages: 538
Published: 2000-10-17
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 0684857537
ISBN-13: 9780684857534
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Author: Troy Soos
Publisher: Kensington
Keywords: fire, streets
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2008-05-01
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0758206259
ISBN-13: 9780758206251
Anarchy brings a snow-clad city to its knees--and hides a ruthless killer. It is 1895, and the worst winter in years grips the streets of Brooklyn. As the city prepares to be united with New York City across the river, a strike by trolley workers ignites one of the most contentious labor conflicts in the nation’s history. In the face of overwhelming opposition, the mayor--a shareholder in one of the largest transportation companies--vows to keep the trolleys running, and calls in the National Guard. It’s a disaster waiting to happen--and the waiting ends pretty quickly when
Author: Louis Stettner
Publisher: Flammarion
Keywords: streets, cries, wisdom
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2000-03-13
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 2080136739
ISBN-13: 9782080136732
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
Publisher: Metropolitan Book
Keywords: joy, collective, history, streets, dancing
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2007-01-09
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 0805057234
ISBN-13: 9780805057232
From the bestselling social commentator and cultural historian, a fascinating exploration of one of humanitys oldest traditions: the celebration of communal joyIn the acclaimed Blood Rites, Barbara Ehrenreich delved into the origins of our species attraction to war. Here, she explores the opposite impulse, one that has been so effectively suppressed that we lack even a term for it: the desire for collective joy, historically expressed in ecstatic revels of feasting, costuming, and dancing.Ehrenreich uncovers the origins of communal celebration in human biology and culture. Although sixteenth
Author: David Simo
Publisher: Holt Paperback
Keywords: streets, killing, year, homicide
Number of Pages: 672
Published: 2006-08-22
List price: $19.00
ISBN-10: 0805080759
ISBN-13: 9780805080759
From the creator of HBOs The Wire, the classic book about homicide investigation that became the basis for the hit television showThe scene is Baltimore. Twice every three days another citizen is shot, stabbed, or bludgeoned to death. At the center of this hurricane of crime is the citys homicide unit, a small brotherhood of hard men who fight for whatever justice is possible in a deadly world. David Simon was the first reporter ever to gain unlimited access to a homicide unit, and this electrifying book tells the true story of a year on the violent streets of an American city. The narrative
