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Book New York  Then   Now

Download or read book New York Then Now written by Marcia Reiss and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Completely updated and revised."-Cover.

Book New York New York

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  • Author : Hilary Geary Ross
  • Publisher : powerHouse Books
  • Release : 2011-11-29
  • ISBN : 1576875881
  • Pages : 321 pages

Download or read book New York New York written by Hilary Geary Ross and published by powerHouse Books. This book was released on 2011-11-29 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York New York combines the talents of renowned photographer Harry Benson with text by society columnist Hilary Geary Ross to create a stunning portrait of New York's best-known citizens. From captains of industry, politicians, movie stars, dancers, artists, and best-selling authors to celebrated athletes and society doyennes, New York New York captures the glamour of Manhattan from the early 60s to today in hundreds of black-and-white and color photographs. Subjects include Diane Sawyer, Halston, Truman Capote, Robert Redford, Neil Simon, Tom Wolfe, Norman Mailer, Spike Lee, Malcolm Forbes, Al Pacino, Lauren Hutton, Lena Horne, Andy Warhol, Yogi Bera, Jackie Kennedy, Gerard Butler, Cindy Lauper, Daryl Hannah, Mario Cuomo, Birdie Bell, Donald Trump, Brooke Astor, Yoko Ono, Woody Allen, and Michael Kors, among many, many others.

Book New York Then and Now

Download or read book New York Then and Now written by Annette Witheridge and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrating America's favorite cityscapes, this series combines historic interest and contemporary beauty. Then and Now features fascinating archival photographs contrasted with specially commissioned, full-color images of the same scene today. A visual lesson in the historic changes of our greatest urban landscapes.

Book New York Yankees Then and Now

Download or read book New York Yankees Then and Now written by Larry Rossman and published by Thunder Bay Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A look at the New York Yankees through the decades, from their founding in the 19th century to the present. Includes sections on the history of the team and its stadiums, memorable moments, and the greatest players to don the team's uniform"--

Book Now They Tell Us

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Massing
  • Publisher : New York Review of Books
  • Release : 2004-08-31
  • ISBN : 9781590171295
  • Pages : 116 pages

Download or read book Now They Tell Us written by Michael Massing and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2004-08-31 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Massing describes the American press coverage of the war in Iraq as "the unseen war," an ironic reference given the number of reporters in Iraq and in Doha, Qatar, the location of the Coalition Media Center with its $250,000 stage set. He argues that a combination of self-censorship, lack of real information given by the military at briefings, boosterism, and a small number of reporters familiar with Iraq and fluent in Arabic deprived the American public of reliable information while the war was going on. Massing also is highly critical of American press coverage of the Bush administration's case for war prior to the invasion of Iraq: "US journalists were far too reliant on sources sympathetic to the administration. Those with dissenting views—and there were more than a few—were shut out. Reflecting this, the coverage was highly deferential to the White House. This was especially apparent on the issue of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction .... Despite abundant evidence of the administration's brazen misuse of intelligence in this matter, the press repeatedly let officials get away with it." Once Iraq was occupied and no WMDs were found, the press was quick to report on the flaws of pre-war intelligence. But as Massing's detailed analysis demonstrates, pre-war journalism was also deeply flawed, as too many reporters failed to independently evaluate administration claims about Saddam's weapons programs or the inspection process. The press's postwar "feistiness" stands in sharp contrast to its "submissiveness" and "meekness" before the war—when it might have made a difference.

Book Central Park

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  • Author : Edward J. Levine
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 2008-02-18
  • ISBN : 1439619913
  • Pages : 100 pages

Download or read book Central Park written by Edward J. Levine and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008-02-18 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since it opened in 1858, Central Park has been one of New York's most-photographed landmarks. However, while some of the park remains as it was then, much of the park's landscape has changed over the years. Through historic images and contemporary photographs by Denise Stavis Levine, Central Park provides a previously unseen glimpse of the park's hidden history and brings it up to date.

Book Don t Look Now

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  • Author : Daphne du Maurier
  • Publisher : New York Review of Books
  • Release : 2008-10-28
  • ISBN : 1590172884
  • Pages : 369 pages

Download or read book Don t Look Now written by Daphne du Maurier and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2008-10-28 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classic horror stories by one of masters of the form. Full of bone-chilling tales, this collection includes "The Birds," the basis for the Alfred Hitchcock film of the same title, and other creepy classics. Daphne du Maurier wrote some of the most compelling and creepy novels of the twentieth century. In books like Rebecca, My Cousin Rachel, and Jamaica Inn she transformed the small dramas of everyday life—love, grief, jealousy—into the stuff of nightmares. Less known, though no less powerful, are her short stories, in which she gave free rein to her imagination in narratives of unflagging suspense. Patrick McGrath’s revelatory new selection of du Maurier’s stories shows her at her most chilling and most psychologically astute: a dead child reappears in the alleyways of Venice; routine eye surgery reveals the beast within to a meek housewife; nature revolts against man’s abuse by turning a benign species into an annihilating force; a dalliance with a beautiful stranger offers something more dangerous than a broken heart. McGrath draws on the whole of du Maurier’s long career and includes surprising discoveries together with famous stories like “The Birds.” Don’t Look Now is a perfect introduction to a peerless storyteller.

Book Seeking New York

Download or read book Seeking New York written by Tom Miller and published by . This book was released on 2015-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the popular blog Daytonian in Manhattan, 'Seeking New York' investigates the back stories of Manhattan's architecture and monuments. Alongside the expected account of architects, dates and styles, it reveals the human history of the buildings and statues: the scandals, the tribulations, the joys and achievements, the humanity, indeed, of the New Yorkers who lived within these walls.

Book New York Then and Now   People and Places

Download or read book New York Then and Now People and Places written by Evan Joseph and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2012-11-28 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Then and Now - People and Places is a whole new take on Anova Books' best-selling trademark series. Featuring predominantly images from New York City it shows how much and how little has changed over 150 years - since the dawn of photography up to the 1960s and 70s. As well as New York City's most favorite tourist locations; Brooklyn Bridge, Statue of Liberty, Empire State, Rockefeller Center, Times Square, Fifth Avenue, Central Park, Columbus Circle - there are excursions to favored destinations in New York state, such as 'Mark Twain country' - the Finger Lakes, Long Island and the Montauk Lighthouse as well as the Falls at Niagara. Packaged in a smaller format than any other Then and Now, the text has been stripped back to small captions to allow the amazing collection of past and present photos to speak for themselves.

Book Hallelujah Anyway

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kenneth Patchen
  • Publisher : New Directions Publishing Corporation
  • Release : 1967
  • ISBN : 9780811201438
  • Pages : 88 pages

Download or read book Hallelujah Anyway written by Kenneth Patchen and published by New Directions Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 1967 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems.

Book New Downtown Now

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  • Author : Mac Wellman
  • Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9781452908670
  • Pages : 420 pages

Download or read book New Downtown Now written by Mac Wellman and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Yonkers

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  • Author :
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 9780738557601
  • Pages : 100 pages

Download or read book Yonkers written by and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the centuries, Yonkers, New York, has evolved from a small village to a dynamic industrial powerhouse. The city firmly established itself as one of the largest cities in the state in the post-Civil War era, with downtown Getty Square as its bustling center.

Book New York s Golden Age of Bridges

Download or read book New York s Golden Age of Bridges written by and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In New York’s Golden Age of Bridges, artist Antonio Masi teams up with writer and New York City historian Joan Marans Dim to offer a multidimensional exploration of New York City’s nine major bridges, their artistic and cultural underpinnings, and their impact worldwide. The tale of New York City’s bridges begins in 1883, when the Brooklyn Bridge rose majestically over the East River, signaling the start of America’s “Golden Age” of bridge building. The Williamsburg followed in 1903, the Queensboro (renamed the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge) and the Manhattan in 1909, the George Washington in 1931, the Triborough (renamed the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge) in 1936, the Bronx-Whitestone in 1939, the Throgs Neck in 1961, and the Verrazano-Narrows in 1964. Each of these classic bridges has its own story, and the book’s paintings show the majesty and artistry, while the essays fill in the fascinating details of its social, cultural, economic, political, and environmental history. America’s great bridges, built almost entirely by immigrant engineers, architects, and laborers, have come to symbolize not only labor and ingenuity but also bravery and sacrifice. The building of each bridge took a human toll. The Brooklyn Bridge’s designer and chief engineer, John A. Roebling, himself died in the service of bridge building. But beyond those stories is another narrative—one that encompasses the dreams and ambitions of a city, and eventually a nation. At this moment in Asia and Europe many modern, largescale, long-span suspension bridges are being built. They are the progeny of New York City’s Golden Age bridges. This book comes along at the perfect moment to place these great public projects into their historical and artistic contexts and to inform and delight artists, engineers, historians, architects, and city planners. In addition to the historical and artistic perspectives, New York’s Golden Age of Bridges explores the inestimable connections that bridges foster, and reveals the extraordinary impact of the nine Golden Age bridges on the city, the nation, and the world.

Book Brooklyn Photographs Now

Download or read book Brooklyn Photographs Now written by Marla Hamburg Kennedy and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brooklyn has seen exponential change over the past fifteen years, and this book presents the best work of the photographers from all over the world who have been capturing those changes and movements in cityscapes, portraits, vignettes, and process-oriented photography. Brooklyn Photographs Now reflects the avant-garde spirit of the city’s hippest borough, containing previously unpublished work by well-known and emerging contemporary artists. The book presents 250 images by more than seventy-five established and new artists, including Mark Seliger, Jamel Shabazz, Ryan McGinley, Mathieu Bitton, and Michael Eastman, among many others. The book documents the physical and architectural landscape and reflects and explores an off-centered—and therefore a less-seen and more innovative—perspective of how artists view this borough in the twenty-first century. This is the “now” Brooklyn that we have yet to see in pictures: what might seem to be an alternative city but is actually the crux of how it visually functions in the present day. This unique collection of images is the perfect book for the photo lover and sophisticated tourist alike.

Book Edward Hopper s New York

    Book Details:
  • Author : Avis Berman
  • Publisher : Pomegranate Communications
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 0764931547
  • Pages : 112 pages

Download or read book Edward Hopper s New York written by Avis Berman and published by Pomegranate Communications. This book was released on 2005 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated by over 50 of Edward Hopper's most powerful evocations of New York, Avis Berman's essay explores how Hopper and his work illuminate each other by analyzing what his New York is - and is not. Ever the contrarian, he offers an alternative to what other American artists seized on - the new, the gigantic, the technologically exciting. Hopper stayed away from tourist attractions or landmarks of the city's glamorous skyline. His preference for nondescript vernacular buildings is emblematic of the larger Hopper paradox: he makes emptiness full, silence articulate, banality intense, plainness mysterious, and tawdriness noble.

Book Federal Supply Code for Manufacturers

Download or read book Federal Supply Code for Manufacturers written by Defense Logistics Services Center (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: