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Perspectives on the breakdown of values in corporate America and recommendations for enhancing the professionalism of corporate directors, auditors, l...
A Cultural History of the U.S. Supreme Court
This ambitious and accessible history of the nation's highest court demonstrates that the fabric of American constitutional law promotes in citizens a...
Frank O'Hara and American Art
In Memory of My Feelings: Frank O'Hara and American Art is a reexamination of the relationship between art and poetry at a crucial moment in American ...
How Little-Known Trade Reporters Exposed the Keating Five and Advanced Business Journalism
In the 1980s, real estate developer and banker Charles H. Keating executed one of the largest savings and loans frauds in United States history. Keati...
The Starr Report
THE GRAND JURY TESTIMONY TRANSCRIPTS, WITH EXTENSIVE KEY EVIDENCE FROM INDEPENDENT COUNSEL KENNETH STARR'S INVESTIGATION OF PRESIDENT CLINTON Includin...
La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Philip Glass
Offers the most detailed account yet of the early works of these four minimalist composers....
Focusing on the human interaction of the industry this collection of essays asks, "Can you teach compassion?"...
"Most Americans first heard of Michael Harrington with the publication of The Other America, his seminal book on American poverty. Isserman expertly t...
The Americanization of Brazil during World War II
Following completion of the U.S. air base in Natal, Brazil, in 1942, U.S. airmen departing for North Africa during World War II communicated with Braz...
Classical Origins of the American Self
Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Book?? "John Shields's book is a provocative challenge to the venerable Adamic myth so exhaustively deployed in e...
This provocative book shows how the justices of the United States Supreme Court have used constitutional history, portraying the Framers' actions in a...
The Colonial and Revolutionary Origins of American Liberties
Fourteen individual state essays elucidate the complexitites of local and regional interests that shaped the debate over individual rights and the eve...
The Life and Thought of Charles Abrams
Charles Abrams (1902-1970) stood at the center of the policies, problems, and politics surrounding urban planning, housing reform, and the public and ...
Gentrification, Art, and Industry in New York, 1950–1980
A groundbreaking look at the transformation of SoHo. American cities entered a new phase when, beginning in the 1950s, artists and developers looked u...
Accurate and reliable biographical information essential to anyone interested in the world of literature TheInternational Who's Who of Authors and Wri...
Greenwich Village: The American Bohemia, 1910-1960
Chronicles the New York City neighborhood's role as a bohemian enclave that became the home of and transformed the lives of individuals who came to th...
How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens our Future
In his famous 1959 Rede lecture at Cambridge University, the scientifically-trained novelist C.P. Snow described science and the humanities as "two cu...
Comparative and Historical Perspectives
The Media and Financial Crises provides unique insights into the debate on the role of the media in the global financial crisis. Coverage is inter-dis...
The Holy City in the Eyes of Chroniclers, Visitors, Pilgrims, and Prophets from the Days of Abraham to the Beginnings of Modern Times
This remarkable portrayal of Jerusalem has become a favorite of many readers interested in this city's dramatic past. Through a collection of firsthan...
Ralph Ellison is justly celebrated for his epochal novel Invisible Man, which won the National Book Award in 1953 and has become a classic of American...
49 Episodes of Intimate History
During the 1960s and 1970s in New York City, young artists exploited an industrial wasteland to create spacious studios where they lived and worked, r...
The author of the college course book "America Divided" now offers an epic biography of Michael Harrington, "the man who discovered poverty" and inspi...
Ambition will fuel him. Competition will drive him. But power has its price. It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the tenth annual Hung...
The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution
David Carter's Stonewall is the basis of the PBS American Experience documentary Stonewall Uprising. In 1969, a series of riots over police action aga...
Issues for Feb. 1965-Aug. 1967 include Bulletin of the Institute of Management Sciences....
The Rise and Fall of an Artists' Colony
And New York's one-of-a-kind urban artists' colony was born."....
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Ilonka Karasz (1896-1981)
Ilonka Karasz's career spanned many decades and media, including textiles, furniture, silver, ceramics, wallpaper, graphic design, and fine art. She p...
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Quarterly Journal of the New York State Historical Association
Afrocentric Modernism and Twentieth-century American Poetry
"Revives and appraises the writings of a number of this century's most important African American poets."--Cover....
An Annual, 1988
Liber Amicorum in Honor of Nurith Kenaan-Kedar
Thomas Jefferson once stated that the foremost goal of American education must be to nurture the "natural aristocracy of talent and virtue." Although ...
A History of New York City to 1898
From sewers to slavery, skyscrapers to taxation, this is a magisterial history of New York City, from the earliest Indian tribes to the consolidation ...
Article abstracts and citations of reviews and dissertations covering the United States and Canada....