Best-selling suspense author Mary Higgins Clark invites you on a tour of Manhattan`s most iconic neighborhoods in this anthology of all-new stories from Mystery Writers of America, produced to commemorate its 70th anniversary. In Lee Child`s The Picture of the Lonely Diner, legendary drifter Jack Reacher interrupts a curious st&-off in the shadow of the Flatiron Building. In Jeffery Deaver`s The Baker of Bleecker Street, an Italian immigrant becomes ensnared in WWII espionage. & in The Five-Dollar Dress, Mary Higgins Clark unearths the contents of a mysterious hope chest found in an apartment on Union Square. With additional stories from T. Jefferson Parker, S. J. Rozan, Nancy Pickard, Ben H. Winters, Brendan Du Bois, Persia Walker, Jon L. Breen, N. J. Ayres, Angela Zeman, Thomas H. Cook, Judith Kelman, Margaret Maron, Justin Scott, & Julie Hyzy, Manhattan Mayhem is teeming with red herrings, likely suspects, & thoroughly satisfying mysteries. Illustrated with iconic photography of New York City & packaged in a handsome hardcover, Manhattan Mayhem is a delightful read for armchair detectives & armchair travelers alike! ...

For Porter Wren, a New York tabloid columnist, the city is the story: millionaires on the make & strippers on the clock; a woman with perfect teeth & a tragic past; a brilliant filmmaker found dead in the rubble of a demolished building. The story is always shocking but never a surprise. Until he steps over the line. A beautiful woman has entered Wren`s life, leading him into the netherworld her dead husband chronicled on secret videotapes
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A historically rich collection tracing the roots of Manhattan`s noir, back to Edith Wharton & Stephen Crane, to name but two. Mixing classic noir fiction with dark contemporary tales from bestelling authors such as Joyce Carol Oates, this is a leading light in Akashic`s hugely popular noir series. ...

Manhattan on an excellently designed, waterproof & tear-resistant map from Pocket-Pilot with on one side very clear & informative street plan of the whole borough with enlargement for the Midtown area & the 9/11 memorial, plus on the reverse more tourist information than found in some guidebooks to New York City. On one side is a street plan of the whole of Manhattan, presented in two sections from the Broadway & Henry Hudson bridges at its northern tip to the Governors Islands, Ellis Island & the Statue of Liberty in the south, with names of districts & neighbourhoods. Subway stations are shown with names & where appropriate alternative entrances. Water taxi or ferry piers & routes are marked; many are annotated with fares, transit times, etc. For drivers, the plan indicates main traffic arteries & one way streets. A wide range of icons, accompanied by colour coded names, highlights numerous places of interest from museums, theatres & other cultural institutions to selected hotels & restaurants, etc. The Midtown district & the area around the National September 11 Memorial & Museum are shown in greater detail on enlargements. Distances on all the plans are easy to work out from the indexing grid. Street index is on the reverse &

Includes:: separate lists of parks/gardens/zoos, museums/galleries, theatres/cinemas/concert halls, religious buildings, plus other landmarks. Map legend is in the form of large icons running along one side of the map. The reverse side also provides a diagram of the subway network with information panels including details of access to JKF, La Guardia & Newark Liberty International airports, a map of the surrounding boroughs & counties, plus very extensive tourist information. Panels, cross-referenced to the street plan & indicating subway access, provide photos & descriptions of 36 top sights & 16 interesting quarters. Also provided are recommendations for shopping, eating, drinking, & dancing, all with contact numbers, suggestions for four day trips, plus a panel of useful facts about NYC including festivities & public holidays, main consulates, dos & don

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What do you picture when you think of New York City? For most, it is the city`s distinctive skyline, made famous bycountless movies & photographs. Everyone in Manhattan, whether first-time visitor or longtime resident, experiences the awe of gazing up at the soaring stone, steel, & glass towers of Wall Street or Midtown, & wonders how those structures came to be built. First published in 1999, Manhattan Skyscrapers was the first book to document the most important peaks in the city`s concrete canyons. From the earliest skyscrapers built in thecity--such as the 1896 American Tract Society Building--to the most well known, including the Woolworth, Empire State, & Chrysler buildings, the book has become the definitive reference work on the Big Apple`s skyline. Now available in a revised third edition, Manhattan Skyscrapers presents more than a century`s worth of New York`s most fascinating & important buildings. Each skyscraper is presented with informative & entertaining texts by New York Times contributor Eric Nash, a striking full-page photograph by architectural photographer Norman Mc Grath, archival images, interior views, & architectural drawings. In addition to the eighty-five buildings documented in previous versions of the book, Manhattan Skyscrapers showcases eight of the most exciting new skyscrapers built in the past few years. These wonderfully diverse additions to the city--the New York Times Building by Renzo Piano, the Standard Hotel by Polshek Partnership Architects, 7 World Trade Center by SOM, the Blue Tower by Bernard Tschumi, Bank of America Tower by Cook + Fox, 11 Times Square by FXFOWLE, 200 West Street by Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, & 425 Fifth Avenue by Michael Graves--give an indication of how the city continues to evolve in the twenty-first century. Manhattan Skyscrapers is an indispensable book for both the serious student of architecture & the casual collector of all things New York. ...

A modernist masterwork that has more in common with films than traditional novels, John Dos Passos` ” Manhattan Transfer”



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In 1945, New York City stood at the pinnacle of its cultural & economic power. Never again would the city possess the unique mixture of innocence & sophistication, romance & formality, generosity & confidence which characterized it in this moment of triumph. In ” Manhattan `45”, acclaimed travel writer & historian Jan Morris evokes the city in all its romantic grandeur. From its beguilingly idiosyncratic architectural style to its unmistakable slang, post-War New York springs to life through Morris` brisk, affectionate prose. Morris visits Wall Street, Harlem, Greenwich Village, Chinatown, & the Lower East Side. She rides the trollies, the El, the Hudson River ferries, & the Twentieth Century Limited. She dines at Schrafft`s & Le Pavillon, drinks ale at Mc Sorley`s Saloon, sips Manhattans at the Manhattan Club, & spots celebrities at El Morocco. She meets Fiorello La Guardia, Robert Moses, Leo Durocher, I.B. Singer, & Dizzy Gillespie. & she tours the tenements of Hell`s Kitchen & the Gashouse district, as well as the Foundling Hospital where the crushing realities of poverty belie the unchallenged exuberance of the age. Taking into account both Social Register & slum, ” Manhattan `45” celebrates New York`s Golden Age as a place where, for one unrepeatable moment in history, anything seemed possible. ...

Manhattan: Greenwich Village Streetwise in a series of handy concertina street plans from the Florida-based Streetwise Maps, also covering East Village, So Ho, No Ho, Little Italy, Tribeca & Chinatown, with an index of streets & places of interest. Subway stations are clearly marked & annotated with line numbers. Street index also lists places of interest, hotels, restaurants, bookstores, museums, etc. ...

Topographical survey of Belgium at 1:20, 000 from Nationaal Geografisch Instituut / Institut Géographique National, the country’s national survey organization. Each 20K map covers one quarter of the corresponding 1:50, 000 map (with adjustments in the border & coastal areas). The maps provide all the information expected of topographic mapping at this scale & in addition have an unusually large amount of vegetation and/or land use information (different types of woodlands, gardens, orchards, heath, etc). The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, with margin ticks for latitude & longitude at intervals of 1`. Map legend & a glossary of terms used on the maps include English. Stanfords keeps as regular stock 20K maps for the World War I battlefields around the Ypres, Messines & Passchendaele, & for the area of the Battle of Waterloo. The 1:20, 000 survey covers the whole of Belgium & maps for other regions can be supplied as special orders. To see the list of titles in this series please click on the series link.PLEASE NOTE: the Long-Distance Footpaths Map of Belgium at 1:300, 000 which shows the division of Belgium into the 50K survey sheets can also be used to see in more detail coverage by the 20K maps. ...

Most men don`t have a life` is the dramatic opening to Steve Biddulph`s bestseller Manhood. Exploring two critical social issues: establishing a healthy masculinity & how men can release themselves from suffocating & outdated social moulds, Biddulph addresses the problems & possibilities confronting men in their daily life. Women have found the book to be a profoundly moving & revealing read; while men acquire recognition & a sense of hope that life can be different. Topics include: -Seven steps to manhood -You & your father
- breaking down the defences -Sex & spirit
- coming alive -Being a real father
- turning your love into action -Real male friends
- be proud of being male & much more. This edition has been revised & updated to meet the needs of younger men, who are struggling with these issues in the twenty-first century. ` Steve Biddulph should be in the UK what he is in Australia, the household name in the business of raising boys & being a man` Dorothy Rowe, psychologist & writer.



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