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German New York City celebrates the rich cultural heritage of the hundreds of thousands of German immigrants who left the poverty and turmoil of 19th-...
Long Islands South Forkfamous for the Hamptonsis now one of the hottest summer destinations for the wealthiest and most famous Americans. But it wasnt...
A Novel
A dramatic historical novel of escape during occupation and wartime and of starting life over in a new country. Escape โ56 is a novel based on the l...
True stories, fun facts, and photos that reveal the little-known secrets of New Yorkโs Long Island. Long Islandโs history is filled with fascinati...
New York City Skyscrapers celebrates the numerous awe-inspiring buildings that have made New York the skyscraper capital of the world. This book trace...
How Infrastructure Works
How does a city obtain water, gas, and electricity? Where do these services come from? How are they transported? The answer is infrastructure, or the ...
From New Amsterdam to the Big Apple with 21 Activities
A four hundred-year history of New York City provides coverage of a range of historical events, landmarks and politics while outlining culturally insp...
A History with 21 Activities
Now more than ever, kids want to know about our country's great struggles during World War II. This book is packed with information that kids will fin...
Celebrated in literature and film as a playground for the rich and famous, Long Island's North Shore--its Gold Coast--has long had a firm hold on the ...
Uncovering the Mysteries of Our Past, 25 Activities
This activity book features 25 projects such as making a surface survey of a site, building a screen for sifting dirt and debris at a dig, tracking so...
His Life and Ideas, 25 Activities
Galileo, one of history's best-known scientists, is introduced in this illuminating activity book. Children will learn how Galileo's revolutionary dis...
True stories and vintage photos of this bustling New York City borough, covering everything from crime and corruption to a beloved Christmas poem. Que...
The Definitive Guide to Systems Set-Up, Maintenance and Efficiency
Designed as a useful, non-intimidating companion covering both management and technical issues, this is a book that no A/E firm should be without. It ...
Catholic New York City celebrates the religious and cultural life f one of the largest Catholic populations in the world. The first Catholic church wa...
In this enthralling new book, Richard Panchyk has compiled a collection of true stories from Long Islands history sure to befuddle, baffle and bemuse ...
His Life and Times with 21 Activities
Biography of one of the best-loved presidents who had an impact on history, culture, politics, economics, and art of this country with activities base...
A Young People's Guide to Fighting for Our Rights as Citizens and Consumers
An important and empowering history of and guide to the battle for our right to safe products and conditions--for younger readers. Corporations enter ...
Manhattan Churches celebrates the wonderful diversity of churches in New York City's oldest borough. The book takes an in-depth look at a wide array o...
The Making of a Capital City, with 21 Activities
In 1790, after seven years of heated debate, the Continental Congress approved a plan to establish the nation's offical capital in a barely populated ...
From Red Coats to Red Sox, with 21 Activities
Few American cities are as steeped in history as Boston. Starting with its Native American and Puritan roots, through its pivotal role in the Revoluti...
A Guide to Its Successful Organization and Management
This text provides managers of architecture/engineering firms with advice on how to organize and streamline their computer-aided drafting and design (...
Pictures from a Pandemic
Garden City: Pictures From a Pandemic documents life in one of Long Island's most popular destinations between February and July of 2020, capturing it...
Westbury From Above offers a fascinating new look at the history of this venerable central Nassau County locale. Stunning aerial images offer new pers...
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From sprawling potato farms and incredibly lavish estates, to whaling ships and early race cars, Long Island has an incredibly rich history often lost...
The Long Island community of Westbury was once a small town farming neighborhood . While Brooklyn and other boroughs mushroomed into urban giants, the...
Hell's Kitchen Trash is a unique book that takes a detailed look at the garbage of this colorful, historic West Side neighborhood-from tiny to massive...
Once the largest prairie east of the Mississippi, the Hempstead Plains is a historic area in the heart of Nassau County. Home to the Cradle of Aviatio...
The Cemeteries of New York City's Largest Borough
If there's one county in the United States that deserves its own cemetery book, it's New York's Queens County. With millions of burials in a stunning ...
Originally published by the author in 1891. New foreword and eleven new images....
Mansions, Metals, Missiles, and Monuments
Midtown Trash is a unique book that takes a closer look at mid-Manhattan's garbage--the small and the large, the beautiful and the disgusting, the mun...
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Nassau County was born at an auspicious and exciting time, on the cusp of a new century and a major transition from a series of quiet farming communit...
Suffolk County, the second largest county in New York State, is a very diverse place, both geographically and culturally. Home to 1.5 million people, ...
Visual History of Music in the City
Listen, and you will hear it: the beat of New York City. It's everywhere you go! From the subways to the streets, from parks to bars, from churches to...
A Visual History of a Historic American Airport
This book follows the legendary Roosevelt Field from its earliest days during the infancy of aviation through its pinnacle in the 1920s and 30s, to it...
"Lower Manhattan began as a tiny Dutch settlement in 1626 at the very southern tip of Manhattan Island. From the 1650s through to the end of the centu...