Shanghai is in the middle of a boom, growing and changing
at time-lapse speeds. The energy this creates is as
manifest as the cement dust in the air, saturating and
exciting. Despite the ever-expanding new there remains
much old; the union of the two accentuates the chaos. A
disorganized portrait of a disorganized city, Shanghai
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A Scrapbook of the National Park's First Official Tourists
When Melissa Clark purchased a box of old scrapbooks online, she knew only that she had bought something relating to the University of Utah and Zion Park. What came in the mail was much more than she had expected. Instead of random mementos, two albums arrived full of photographs and newspaper clippings dating to 1920 that document a trip made by ......
Features 500 images of people from 115 countries. Organized by continent with convenient tabbing, this book is suitable as a traveling companion for globetrotters and armchair travelers.
Remember, boys, nothing on God's earth must stop the United States mail! said John Butterfield to his drivers. Short as the life of the Southern Overland Mail turned out to be (1858 to 1861), the saga of the Butterfield Trail remains a high point in the westward movement. A. C. Greene offers a history and guide to retrace that historic and ......
How the Neighborhoods, Streets, Parks, Bridges, and More Got Their Names
From Bedford-Stuyvesant to Williamsburg, Brooklyn's historic names are emblems of American culture and history. Talking about the stories behind the landmarks, this book deals with the borough's textured past. It also tells the tales of the poets, philosophers, baseball heroes, diplomats, warriors, and saints who have left their imprint.
How the Neighborhoods, Streets, Parks, Bridges, and More Got Their Names
From Bedford-Stuyvesant to Williamsburg, Brooklyn's historic names are emblems of American culture and history. Talking about the stories behind the landmarks, this book deals with the borough's textured past. It also tells the tales of the poets, philosophers, baseball heroes, diplomats, warriors, and saints who have left their imprint.
In 1999 Bryan Woolley of the The Dallas Morning News set out to record the stories of ordinary people in North Texas, to tell about their lives, especially their past, and how they became who they became. These stories were published in a column entitled "Where I Come From," which ran in the Sunday newspaper from May 1999 to December 2000, to ......
A cornucopia of the familiar and the forgotten, the historic and the ephemeral, the heroic and the banal. This handy reference work takes us from Verrazano's arrival in 1524 into the November 2001 election of a new mayor for the new millennium.
A cornucopia of the familiar and the forgotten, the historic and the ephemeral, the heroic and the banal. This handy reference work takes us from Verrazano's arrival in 1524 into the November 2001 election of a new mayor for the new millennium.
