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Book Manhattan Unfurled

Download or read book Manhattan Unfurled written by Matteo Pericoli and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book City Out My Window

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  • Author : Matteo Pericoli
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2031-12-31
  • ISBN : 1416570268
  • Pages : 146 pages

Download or read book City Out My Window written by Matteo Pericoli and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2031-12-31 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.

Book See the City

    Book Details:
  • Author : Matteo Pericoli
  • Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9780375824692
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book See the City written by Matteo Pericoli and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The trained architect's portrait of Manhattan is published here in a fold-out format, revealing panoramic views of the East Side and West Side of the famous skyline.

Book London Unfurled

Download or read book London Unfurled written by Matteo Pericoli and published by Pan MacMillan. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Folded page panoramas: one side "North"; verso "South."

Book World Unfurled

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  • Author : Matteo Pericoli
  • Publisher : Chronicle Books
  • Release : 2008-09-03
  • ISBN : 9780811866118
  • Pages : 16 pages

Download or read book World Unfurled written by Matteo Pericoli and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2008-09-03 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 12 million people each year are wowed by Matteo Pericoli's spectacular skyline mural in New York's JFK Airport. This work renders that mural in the accordion format of Pericoli's previous book, 'Manhattan Unfurled' - shrinking it down to a ten-foot foldout scroll of paper that readers can hold in their hands.

Book Manhattan Within

    Book Details:
  • Author : Matteo Pericoli
  • Publisher : Random House Incorporated
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 0375508686
  • Pages : 20 pages

Download or read book Manhattan Within written by Matteo Pericoli and published by Random House Incorporated. This book was released on 2003 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning complement to the author's Manhattan Unfurled captures the Manhattan skyline as viewed from within Central Park, accompanied by a text booklet that shares the author-architect's observations on the city and his creation of a 360-degree sketch of the city. 50,000 first printing.

Book Windows on the World

Download or read book Windows on the World written by Matteo Pericoli and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-11-13 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty of the world’s greatest writers share their views in collaboration with the artist Matteo Pericoli, expanding our own views on place, creativity, and the meaning of home All of us, at some point in our daily lives, have found ourselves looking out the window. We pause in our work, tune out of a conversation, and turn toward the outside. Our eyes simply gaze, without seeing, at a landscape whose familiarity becomes the customary ground for distraction: the usual rooftops, the familiar trees, a distant crane. The way of life for most of us in the twenty-first century means that we spend most of our time indoors, in an urban environment, and our awareness of the outside world comes via, and thanks to, a framed glass hole in the wall. In Windows on the World: Fifty Writers, Fifty Views, architect and artist Matteo Pericoli brilliantly explores this concept alongside fifty of our most beloved writers from across the globe. By pairing drawings of window views with texts that reveal—either physically or metaphorically—what the drawings cannot, Windows on the World offers a perceptual journey through the world as seen through the windows of prominent writers: Orhan Pamuk in Istanbul, Daniel Kehlmann in Berlin, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in Lagos, John Jeremiah Sullivan in Wilmington, North Carolina, Nadine Gordimer in Johannesburg, Xi Chuan in Beijing. Taken together, the views—geography and perspective, location and voice—resonate with and play off each other. Working from a series of meticulous photographs and other notes from authors’ homes and offices, Pericoli creates a pen-and-ink illustration of each window and the view it frames. Many readers know Pericoli’s work from his acclaimed series for The New York Times and later for The Paris Review Daily, which have a devoted following. Now, Windows on the World collects from Pericoli’s body of work and features fifteen never-before-seen windows in one gorgeously designed volume, as well as a preface from the Paris Review’s editor Lorin Stein. As we delve into what each writer’s view may or may not share with the others’, as we look at the map and explore unfamiliar views of cities from around the world, a new kind of map begins to take shape. Windows on the World is a profound and eye-opening look inside the worlds of writers, reminding us that the things we see every day are woven into our selves and our imaginations, making us keener and more inquisitive observers of our own worlds.

Book The Address Book

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  • Author : Deirdre Mask
  • Publisher : St. Martin's Press
  • Release : 2020-04-14
  • ISBN : 1250134781
  • Pages : 182 pages

Download or read book The Address Book written by Deirdre Mask and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the 2020 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction | One of Time Magazines's 100 Must-Read Books of 2020 | Longlisted for the 2020 Porchlight Business Book Awards "An entertaining quest to trace the origins and implications of the names of the roads on which we reside." —Sarah Vowell, The New York Times Book Review When most people think about street addresses, if they think of them at all, it is in their capacity to ensure that the postman can deliver mail or a traveler won’t get lost. But street addresses were not invented to help you find your way; they were created to find you. In many parts of the world, your address can reveal your race and class. In this wide-ranging and remarkable book, Deirdre Mask looks at the fate of streets named after Martin Luther King Jr., the wayfinding means of ancient Romans, and how Nazis haunt the streets of modern Germany. The flipside of having an address is not having one, and we also see what that means for millions of people today, including those who live in the slums of Kolkata and on the streets of London. Filled with fascinating people and histories, The Address Book illuminates the complex and sometimes hidden stories behind street names and their power to name, to hide, to decide who counts, who doesn’t—and why.

Book The Atomic West

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  • Author : Bruce W. Hevly
  • Publisher : University of Washington Press
  • Release : 2011-12-01
  • ISBN : 0295800623
  • Pages : 302 pages

Download or read book The Atomic West written by Bruce W. Hevly and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Manhattan Project—the World War II race to produce an atomic bomb—transformed the entire country in myriad ways, but it did not affect each region equally. Acting on an enduring perception of the American West as an “empty” place, the U.S. government located a disproportionate number of nuclear facilities—particularly the ones most likely to spread pollution—in western states. The Manhattan Project manufactured plutonium at Hanford, Washington; designed and assembled bombs at Los Alamos, New Mexico; and detonated the world’s first atomic bomb at Alamagordo, New Mexico, on June 16, 1945. In the years that followed the war, the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission selected additional western sites for its work. Many westerners initially welcomed the atom. Like federal officials, they, too, regarded their region as “empty,” or underdeveloped. Facilities to make, test, and base atomic weapons, sites to store nuclear waste, and even nuclear power plants were regarded as assets. By the 1960s and 1970s, however, regional attitudes began to change. At a variety of locales, ranging from Eskimo Alaska to Mormon Utah, westerners devoted themselves to resisting the atom and its effects on their environments and communities. Just as the atomic age had dawned in the American West, so its artificial sun began to set there. The Atomic West brings together contributions from several disciplines to explore the impact on the West of the development of atomic power from wartime secrecy and initial postwar enthusiasm to public doubts and protest in the 1970s and 1980s. An impressive example of the benefits of interdisciplinary studies on complex topics, The Atomic West advances our understanding of both regional history and the history of science, and does so with human communities as a significant focal point. The book will be of special interest to students and experts on the American West, environmental history, and the history of science and technology.

Book Up From Zero

    Book Details:
  • Author : Paul Goldberger
  • Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 081296795X
  • Pages : 322 pages

Download or read book Up From Zero written by Paul Goldberger and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2005 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the struggle to rebuild the site at Ground Zero, offering a social, political, cultural, and architectural history of the World Trade Center and the artistic, financial, and emotional challenges of creating a design for the site.

Book Tommaso and the Missing Line

Download or read book Tommaso and the Missing Line written by Matteo Pericoli and published by Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Tommaso discovers that a line is missing from his favorite drawing, he goes looking for it all around town and notices many lines he never saw before.

Book The True Story of Stellina

Download or read book The True Story of Stellina written by Matteo Pericoli and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stellina was a bird: CHEEP. A very little bird: Cheep! cheep! So begins critically acclaimed author Matteo Pericoli's all-true story of how he and his wife, Holly, came to rescue and raise a little finch, Stellina, in the middle of New York City. When no zoo would take the abandoned bird, fallen from her nest onto a busy street, Holly took her home and gave her the best life she could. And there, in a Manhattan apartment, Stellina leaned how to eat, fly, and sing. From the Hardcover edition.

Book The Last Story of Mina Lee

Download or read book The Last Story of Mina Lee written by Nancy Jooyoun Kim and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Riveting and unconventional, The Last Story of Mina Lee traces the far-reaching consequences of secrets in the lives of a Korean immigrant mother and her daughter Margot Lee's mother is ignoring her calls. Margot can’t understand why, until she makes a surprise trip home to Koreatown, LA, and finds that her mother has suspiciously died. Determined to discover the truth, Margot unravels her single mother’s past as a Korean War orphan and an undocumented immigrant, only to realize how little she truly knew about her mother, Mina. Thirty years earlier, Mina Lee steps off a plane to take a chance on a new life in America. Stacking shelves at a Korean grocery store, the last thing she expects is to fall in love. But that moment leads to repercussions for Mina that echo through the decades, leading up to the truth of what happened the night of her death. Told through the intimate lens of a mother and daughter who have struggled all their lives to understand each other, The Last Story of Mina Lee is a powerful and exquisitely woven debut novel that explores identity, family, secrets, and what it truly means to belong. HIGHLY ANTICIPATED BY FORTUNE · POPSUGAR · PUREWOW · BETCHES · GMA.COM · VULTURE · BUSTLE · THE MILLIONS · LITHUB · BOOKRIOT · BOOKISH “Painful, joyous... A story that cries out to be told.” —Los Angeles Times “Kim is a brilliant new voice in American fiction.” —Alexander Chee, author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel “Suspenseful and deeply felt.” —Chloe Benjamin, author of The Immortalists

Book London for Children

Download or read book London for Children written by Matteo Pericoli and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London.

Book Terror and Wonder

    Book Details:
  • Author : Blair Kamin
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2011-11
  • ISBN : 0226423123
  • Pages : 316 pages

Download or read book Terror and Wonder written by Blair Kamin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects the best of Kamin's writings for the Chicago Tribune from the past decade.

Book Rust

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  • Author : Jonathan Waldman
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2015
  • ISBN : 1451691602
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book Rust written by Jonathan Waldman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally publlished in hardcover in 2015 by Simon & Schuster.

Book You Had Me At Chocolate

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  • Author : Amy Andrews
  • Publisher : Tule Publishing
  • Release : 2021-11-15
  • ISBN : 1956387498
  • Pages : 211 pages

Download or read book You Had Me At Chocolate written by Amy Andrews and published by Tule Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Christmas, a childhood promise comes calling… Clementine Hardy always wanted to be a librarian in her Marietta hometown. But at thirty, she fears she’s become too predictable—so she quits, books a European vacation, and accepts a research job in New York. Then on her birthday, a hunky piece of her past arrives, drops to bended knee, and proposes in front of half the town. Bad boy celebrity chef Jude Barlow is done with the bright lights and late nights. He sells his Manhattan restaurant and volunteers in Africa to clear his head. A year later, he’s a new man with a new goal: find the girl from summer camp—the most practical woman he knows—and collect on the pinky promise they made when they were twelve. Clem won’t marry a guy she hasn’t seen in nearly two decades, no matter how attractive or how talented he is in and out of her kitchen. But why does he have to look more delicious than the chocolate creations he concocts for the Graff Hotel? More delicious than anything in New York?