Authors:Carolyn Adams, David Bartelt, David Elesh, Ira Goldst
Publisher: Temple University Press
Keywords: philadelphia, voices, vision, inequality, metropolitan, region, restructuring, divisions
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2008-08-28
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 1592138977
ISBN-13: 9781592138975

Book DescriptionRestructuring the Philadelphia Region offers one of the most comprehensive and careful investigations written to date about metropolitan inequalities in America’s large urban regions. Moving beyond simplistic analyses of cities-versus-suburbs, the authors use a large and unique data set to discover the special patterns of opportunity in greater Philadelphia, a sprawling, complex metropolitan region consisting of more than 350 separate localities. With each community operating its own public services and competing to attract residents and businesses, the places people live off

Author: Nicholas B. Wainwright
Publisher: Ayer Co Pub
Keywords: philadelphia, men, business, amer, companies, enterprises, banking, national, bank, century, history
Number of Pages: 263
Published: 1976-06
List price: $30.95
ISBN-10: 0405081006
ISBN-13: 9780405081002

Authors:John Hill Martin, John Hill Matin,
Publisher: Lawbook Exchange
Keywords: philadelphia, laws, administer, city, county, appointed, lists, bench, bar, together, martin, persons
Number of Pages: 326
Published: 2006-10-30
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 1584776471
ISBN-13: 9781584776475

Together With Other Lists Of Persons Appointed To Administer The Laws In The City And County Of Philadelphia, And The Province And Commonwealth Of Pennsylvania.

Author: W.E.B. Du Bois
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Keywords: negro, philadelphia
Number of Pages: 540
Published: 2007-11-01
List price: $17.75
ISBN-10: 1602069425
ISBN-13: 9781602069428

Originally published in 1899, The Philadelphia Negro is a sociological study of the blacks living in Philadelphia in 1896-7. DuBois was hired by the University of Pennsylvania to conduct the study, under what some believe to be false pretenses. Some suspect that the study was meant, by those funding it, to show how the black community was responsible for a number of problems within the city. The report they received, however, was of quite a different nature. The Philadelphia Negro was the first sociological study of black urban Americans ever conducted. It detailed their lives, their social

Author: Jim McClelland
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Keywords: guide, philadelphia, fountains
Number of Pages: 80
Published: 2005-03
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 081173191X
ISBN-13: 9780811731911

Philadelphia has been called the City of Fountains. Here for the first time is a guidebook devoted exclusively to the city’s diverse array of these stylish and elegant works of art. This guide to more than 50 of Philadelphia’s historic and artistic fountains ncludes background information on each fountain’s history and design and is accompanied by lovely, full-color photographs.

Author: Sandra Boynton
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
Keywords: chickens, philadelphia
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 2002-10-14
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0761126368
ISBN-13: 9780761126362

What an event! What a show! It’s catchy and quirky. Tuneful and toe-tapping. Exuberant, unexpected, and utterly endearing. It’s what happens when you take America’s beloved illustrator and children’s author and combine her buoyant genius with some of the most talented people on the stage—presenting Philadelphia Chickens! Created by Sandra Boynton, Philadelphia Chickens is a family musical in a book, bringing together a full-color songbook of 17 1/2 illustrated story-poems with a full-length, fully orchestrated CD of original songs performed by the likes of Patti LuPo

Author: John Edgar Wideman
Publisher: Mariner Books
Keywords: novel, fire, philadelphia
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2005-01-26
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 061850964X
ISBN-13: 9780618509645

From “one of America’s premier writers of fiction” (New York Times) comes this novel inspired by the 1985 police bombing of a West Philadelphia row house owned by the back-to-nature, Afrocentric cult known as Move. The bombing killed eleven people and started a fire that destroyed sixty other houses. At the center of the story is Cudjoe, a writer and exile who returns to his old neighborhood after spending a decade fleeing from his past, and his search for the lone survivor of the fire — a young boy who was seen running from the flames. An impassioned, brutally honest journey through th