The Shortlist New York 2010 selects the very best of New York's sightseeing, restaurants, shopping, nightlife & entertainment, with Time Out's trademark expertise. &, because it's annual, it also takes you straight to the latest venues, tips you off to the news & fashions & gives the dates that matter. It's the best reference for anyone visiting New York in 2010, in a handy size & easy to use format. ...

The Shortlist New York 2011 selects the very best of New York's sightseeing, restaurants, shopping, nightlife & entertainment, with Time Out's trademark expertise. &, because it's annual, it also takes you straight to the latest venues, tips you off to the news & fashions & gives the dates that matter. It's the best reference for anyone visiting New York in 2011, in a handy size & easy to use format. ...

New York 2012 in the Shortlist Guide series from Time Out; exploring a range of international destinations in a handy, pocket-sized format designed to introduce visitors to the best nightlife, entertainment & local attractions in the city. Expert local writers provide an encyclopaedic knowledge of each city, ensuring that the guides have won a reputation for their accuracy & reliability. Each guide opens with a ...

New York in the Wallpaper City Guide series, published by Phaidon & encompassing a collection of pocket-size guides dedicated to the best design elements in major cities. Compiled by experts at the Wallpaper magazine, the guides are widely recognized for appealing to design-conscious travellers & are aimed at those interested in art, design & architecture. Each guide identifies the best bars, restaurants, hotels, places to shop, leisure activities & excursions with a unique emphasis on the finest examples of unusual architecture & design. Each Wallpaper City Guide has the same layout, with separate tabs allowing readers & travellers to access individual sections easily. The tabs consist of Landmarks, Hotels, 24 Hours, Urban Life, Architour, Shopping, Sports & Escapes. High quality colour photographs appear alongside brief descriptions of each hotel, bar or attraction, highlighting distinctive & unusual styles of architecture & design. Extra pages are provided at the back of each guide, allowing readers to record their own notes & sketches. ...

New York 2013 in the Shortlist Guide series from Time Out; exploring a range of international destinations in a handy, pocket-sized format designed to introduce visitors to the best nightlife, entertainment & local attractions in the city. Expert local writers provide an encyclopaedic knowledge of each city, ensuring that the guides have won a reputation for their accuracy & reliability. Each guide opens with a ...

` Robinson is one of the world`s finest working novelists, in any genre. New York 2140 is a towering novel about a genuinely grave threat to civilisation` Guardian The waters rose, submerging New York City. But the residents adapted & it remained the bustling, vibrant metropolis it had always been. Though changed forever. Every street became a canal. Every skyscraper an isl&. Through the eyes of the varied inhabitants of one building Kim Stanley Robinson shows us how one of our great cities will change with the rising tides. & how we too will change. ` Robinson is one of our best, bravest, most moral & most hopeful storytellers` New Yorker ` If I had to choose one writer whose work will set the standard for science fiction in the future, it would be Kim Stanley Robinson` New York Times ...

The New York 3D Expanding City Skyline
- Pocket Pop up Book by Walker Books features twelve of New York’s most famous sites accompanied
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As the Big Apple celebrates her four hundredth anniversary, we present ” New York 400”, a one-of-a-kind celebration of the greatest city in America. In the four hundred years since Henry Hudson`s arrival at the shores of what is present-day New York, the city has grown to become the ` Capital of the World`. ” New York 400” focuses not just on landmarks but also on everyday city life over the past four centuries. The people, arts, culture, politics, & drama unfold through hundreds of never-before-seen photographs & a fascinating survey of the city that never sleeps. The book

Includes:: essays from leading historians on the New York of yesterday & today. Broken down into sixteen chapters, the book takes us from the days of Peter Stuyvesant in the seventeenth century through to Mayors Rudy Guiliani, Michael Bloomberg, & the modern melting pot that is New York in the twenty-first century. Features of this title are as mentioned below. New York`s 400th Birthday
- massive media coverage of the anniversary will ensure that worldwide attention is fixed on New York City.A one-of-a-kind tribute to the city that never sleeps, ” New York 400” focuses not just on landmarks but also on everyday life in the city over the past four centuries, told through hundreds of rare photographs & essays by some of the most prominent New York writers of yesterday & today. Everyone`s New York
- the city attracts more than 40 million tourists per year from around the world. Leading NY authorities
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Includes:: essays from many leading historians. Unpublished & rare photos
- with unprecedented access to a vast archive of over 1.5 million objects & images, this is a visual history of the city of New York like no other. The Museum of the City of New York`s name says it all. It has a unique mandate
- to explore the past, present, & future of New York & celebrate the city`s heritage of diversity, opportunity, & perpetual transformation. Its unparalleled collections, including photography, sculpture, costumes, toys, & decorative arts, enables the Museum to present a variety of exhibitions, public programmes, & publications investigating what gives New York its singular character.








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For New York Air, George Steinmetz, the superb aerial photographer of the Earth`s remote & exotic regions, turns his camera ...

From the skyscrapers & the lofts which occupy the brick buildings in Downtown New York, to the new elevated gardens on the urban map & the planned ecological constructions which form part of the scheme to convert New York into a green city by 2030, this book presents the transformations which are taking place in the metropolis. It also features the neo-Gothic, Art Deco & Rationalism buildings which have contributed to molding the booming, revolutionary character that represents one of the most vibrant cities on the planet. ...