Journalist Amy Haimerl & her husband had been priced out of their Brooklyn neighborhood. Seeing this as a great opportunity to start over again, they decide to cash in their savings & buy an abandoned house for $35, 000 in Detroit, the largest city in the United States to declare bankruptcy. As she & her husband restore the 1914 Georgian Revival, a stately brick house with no plumbing, no heat, & no electricity, Amy finds a community of Detroiters who, like herself, aren`t afraid of a little hard work or things that are a little rough around the edges. Filled with amusing & touching anecdotes about navigating a real-estate market that is rife with scams, finding a contractor who is a lover of C.S. Lewis & willing to"e him liberally, & neighbors who either get teary-eyed at the sight of newcomers or urge Amy & her husband to get out while they can, Amy writes evocatively about the charms & challenges of finding her footing in a city whose future is in question. Detroit Hustle is a memoir that is both a meditation on what it takes to make a house a home, & a love letter to a much-derided city. ...

Few cities are as well suited to the Noir genre as Detroit, with its embattled inner city & history of urban decline & blight, & the editors have assembled a talented lineup to do it justice with 16 original short stories. The always superb Loren D. Estleman starts the anthology off on a high note with his spare hard-boiled whodunit short, Kill the Cat. The constantly simmering background threat of violence informs two very different but equally accomplished tales: Joyce Carol Oates`s Panic & Detroit Free Press columnist Desiree Cooper`s Night Coming. The editors also include some well-done period pieces, like the 1950s-era The Coffee Break by Detroit News business editor Melissa Preddy, & their discerning selections maintain Akashic`s excellent track record. ...

Detroit in Michigan at 1:32, 250 approx. in a series of indexed street plans of US cities from Universal MAP, with an enlargement showing the downtown area in greater detail. Coverage

Includes:: Allen Park, Dearborn, Dearborn Heights, Hamtramck, Harper Woods, Redford & River Rouge. Street plans from Universal MAP are indexed & show each city’s administrative divisions, zip code areas & various facilities & services.

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Detroit: The Dream Is Now, photographer Michel Arnaud`s follow-up to Design Brooklyn, is a visual essay on the rebuilding & resurgence of the city of Detroit. In recent years, much of the focus on Detroit has been on the negative stories & images of shuttered, empty buildings--the emblems of Detroit`s financial & physical decline. Instead, Arnaud aims his lens at the emergent creative enterprises & new developments taking hold in the still-vibrant city. Divided into four sections, this book explores Detroit`s rich industrial & musical past while giving voice to the dynamic communities that will make up its future. The first section provides a visual tour of the city`s architecture & neighbourhoods, while the remaining chapters focus on the developing design, art, & food scenes through interviews & portraits of the city`s entrepreneurs, artists & makers. Detroit is the story of an American city in flux, documented in Arnaud`s thought-provoking photographs. ...

This is the first set of two 75-minute audio cassettes that form part of the Deutsch Plus German language course. They are designed to be used in conjunction with the book, but they can be used on their own to reinforce listening, learning & speaking practice. They cover the first 19 units. From the beginning this listener is encouraged to take part in conversational activities designed to develop your ability to understand & to speak German. ...

One of the titles in a series of topographic tourist maps covering selected areas in the Rhinel&-Palatinate. All the maps have cartography identical to the standard topographic survey of Germany, with extensive overprint highlighting local footpaths, long-distance paths, & cycle routes, indicating their waymarking. A wide range of symbols show various types of accommodation (campsites, youth hostels, etc), sport & recreational facilities, & places of interest. All maps, unless indicated to the contrary in the individual description, have a UTM grid. Map legend is in German only. Several titles also include descriptions, in German only, of the area covered by the map & its main places of interest, contact details, & coloured photos. This title does not show any geographical coordinates. ...

A 130km long cycle tour of the meadows & fens of East Friesl&. Detailed maps show the route & its variants & extensive information is conveyed by symbols, indicating road surface, campsites & other accommodation, repair workshops, recreational facilities, places of interest, etc. A list of various types of accommodation facilities is included.IMPORTANT
- PLEASE NOTE: ALL THE TEXT IN THIS TITLE IS GERMAN ONLY. MAP LEGEND

Includes:: ENGLISH, please see our sample image, & the information provided on the maps is sufficient to use this title without any knowledge of German, particularly in the absence of a similar product in English from other publishers. There is currently no English edition this title available in this series. About the series: All the titles have been meticulously researched & are highly regarded in their native Germany. Most titles, as indicated in their individual descriptions, also include a separate section listing selected accommodation, from hotels to campsites, youth hostels & rooms in private houses, all with addresses, telephone numbers & price range. Information on towns along each route

Includes:: a list of places of interest, with opening hours, etc. Several of the guides also have street plans.




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Deux-Sèvres & Vienne départments of Poitou-Charentes at 1:150, 000 in Michelin’s Local Series, with highlighting for scenic routes, an index, a special panel with best sights & recommended driving tours, & street plans of central Poitiers & Niort. Coverage is centred on Poitiers, extending north to Chinon & Cholet. PLEASE NOTE: our coverage image, provided by the publishers, does not take into account which areas along the edge of the map are blocked by the index & the additional features – coverage shown in the north-eastern corner of the image is not included. Maps in Michelin’s Local Series of France have the same cartography (road network & place names shown on the maps) as the publishers’ Regional Series at 1;200, 000 but enlarged here to 1:150, 000 to provide greater clarity & larger, easier to read print size. Road network is presented in great detail, indicating width, motorway services & rest areas, dangerous or restricted entry roads, steep gradients, height & weight restrictions, etc. Scenic sections are highlighted. The maps also show selected cycle paths & nature trails. Railway lines are shown with stations & local airports are marked. Symbols indicate various places of interest, with additional star rating for best sights, based on the publishers’ Green Guides for French regions. Satellite-derived base with colouring for the forested areas & boundaries of national or regional parks shows the topography. In the mountainous regions the maps have bold, very effective relief shading, with a large number of names of peaks, passes, & other topographic features. The maps have latitude & longitude lines at 10’ intervals & are indexed. Map legend

Includes:: English. Each title in addition

Includes:: a panel showing the area’s principal roads & places of interest, plus recommendations for sightseeing tours. Also provided are town centre maps of main cities, indicating principal traffic arteries, one way streets & places of interest. Only selected streets are named & listed in the accompanying index. Please click on the series link to see all the titles in this series.



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One of the cornerstones of Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s fame, Devil on the Cross was written in secret, on toilet paper, while Ngugi was in prison. It tells the tragic story of Wariinga, a young woman who moves from a rural Kenyan town to the capital, Nairobi, only to be exploited by her boss & later by a corrupt businessman. As she struggles to survive, Wariinga begins to realize that her problems are only symptoms of a larger societal malaise & that much of the misfortune stems from the Western, capitalist influences on her country. An impassioned cry for a Kenya free of dictatorship & for African writers to work in their own local dialects, Devil on the Cross has had a profound influence on Africa & on post-colonial African literature. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1, 700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history & across genres & disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions & notes by distinguished scholars & contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. ...

As ideological ferment grips Russia, a small group of revolutionaries, led by Pyotr Verkhovensky & inspired by Nikolai Stavrogin, plan to spread destruction & anarchy throughout the country. Morally bankrupt, they are prepared to use whatever means necessary to achieve their goal, including murder & incitement to suicide. But when they are forced to test the limits of their doctrine & kill one of their own to secure the secrecy of their mission, the ragtag group breaks up in mutual recrimination. Devils is at once a compelling political statement & a study of atheism & its calamitous effect on a country that is teetering on the edge of an abyss. Seen as Dostoevsky`s most powerful indictment of man`s propensity to violence, this darkly humorous work, shot through with grotesque comedy, is presented here in Roger Cockrell`s masterful new translation. ...