Author: New York Landmarks Preservation Commission
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: landmarks, city, york, new, guide
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2008-12-03
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 0470289635
ISBN-13: 9780470289631
The official guide to New York’s must-see buildings Yes, it’s a wonderful town, and this book gives you more than 1,200 reasons why. With a host of new landmarks, 80 two-color, easy-to-read maps, and more than 200 photographs, this new edition of the official and only complete guide to New York’s landmarks will make every visitor feel like a native--and turn every native into a wide-eyed tourist. New to this edition are more than 75 recently designated landmarks and 10 new historic districts, with a new focus on neighborhoods with local history and details explaining s
Author: David Fanning
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Keywords: music, landmarks, quartet, string, shostakovich
Number of Pages: 185
Published: 2004-08-30
List price: $80.00
ISBN-10: 0754606996
ISBN-13: 9780754606994
When it was first performed in October 1960, Shostakovich’s Eighth String Quartet was greeted with a standing ovation and was given a full encore. Its popularity has continued to the present day with over 100 commercial recordings appearing over the last 40 years. The appeal of the work is not hard to identify; immediately communicative, the quartet also contains rich seams of deeper meaning. This book is the first to examine its musical design in detail and it seeks to overthrow the charges of superficiality that have arisen as a result of the work’s popular success. The c
Author: New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: landmarks, city, york, new, guide
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2003-10-13
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0471369004
ISBN-13: 9780471369004
Five boroughs rich with history-and one guide to it all The official and only complete guide to New York City’s landmarks, this beautiful Third Edition has been updated to include 128 new individual sites and sixteen new historic districts. Mayor Michael Bloomberg opens this treasure trove of historical discovery with an elegant Foreword. What follows are insightful descriptions of more than 1,000 individual landmarks and 84 historic districts. Everyone will feel like a native New Yorker when they quickly point out landmarks with the help of 80 easy-to-read maps. This new edition also
Author: E. V. Lucas
Publisher: Tufts Press
Keywords: landmarks
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2007-10-26
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1408608669
ISBN-13: 9781408608661
LANDMARKS - 1914 - XXIV. CONTENTS - PAGE Introducing . , I A Present for a Good Boy . . 6 First Glimpse of Jesuitry . 13 Entertainers and a Shock . 19 The Nice Gardener and a Problem . 30 The Terrifying Law . . 38 A Betrayal . 43 The Wager . 47 Astronomy . - 57 The Black Cat . . 6 0 Uncle Bens Phrase . 65 Mr. Dirnsdale . . 70 Lies Base and Splendid . 74 Showing how one who should much longer have retained his divinity lost it . - 83 The Strange Case of Mr. Vosper . . 102 The Latch Key . . 108 Lavis . 114 In which we see how one thing leads to another . . . 124 The Stoat . I32 The Beautiful Pin
Author: G. L. Strachey
Publisher: Holloway Press
Keywords: literature, french, landmarks
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2008-08-25
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 1443706159
ISBN-13: 9781443706155
Landmarks In French Literature - By Strachey, G. L.
Author: Gloria Fiero
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Keywords: humanities, landmarks
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 2008-11-28
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0073523968
ISBN-13: 9780073523965
Landmarks in Humanities is a single-volume survey of global culture designed for students of humanities, cultural history, and history of the arts. In chronological sequence, Landmarks highlights the most notable monuments of the human imagination--those works of art and architecture, literature, philosophy, and music that have been foremost in shaping the world’s cultures. The text reflects the author’s extensive background in the study of Humanities which has enabled her to craft a narrative that is at once brief and comprehensive, giving students a thorough understanding of the
Author: Peter Drucker
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Keywords: landmarks
Number of Pages: 270
Published: 1996-01-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1560006226
ISBN-13: 9781560006220
