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. ...

Manhattan Streetwise in a series of handy concertina street plans from the Florida-based Streetwise Maps, covering the whole borough with Brooklyn Heights, with an index of streets & places of interest, plus a bus map. On one side is Manhattan with Brooklyn Heights extending north to the top of Central Park, with the northern part of the borough shown on the reverse. Subway stations are clearly marked & annotated with line numbers. Street index also lists neighbourhoods, places of interest, colleges & universities, concert halls & selected theatres, museums, hospitals & transport terminals. Also provided is a bus map of the borough. ...

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. ...

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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Part of a series of books from Anavasi publishing showing parts of Greek Islands from an angle rarely seen by the human eye
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Mani: Tenaro area in a series of waterproof & tear-resistant hiking maps at scales varying from 1:50, 000 to 1:10, 000, with a UTM grid for GPS users. Contour interval varies depending on the scale, on most maps it is 20m. Relief shading, spot heights, springs, seasonal streams &, in most titles, landscape/l&-use variations, e.g. forests, orchards, or vineyards provide additional information on the terrain. Place names are given in both Greek & Latin script. Local footpaths, hostels & mountain huts are clearly marked. For road users intermediate driving distances & petrol stations are shown. Symbols highlight places of interest, including archaeological sites, churches & monasteries, etc. The maps have a UTM grid & margin ticks for latitude & longitude. Map legend

Includes:: English.* In this title:* an area from Cape Kipoula & Kokala
- on the west & east coast respectively
- to the southern tip of the Mani peninsula. Contour interval is 20m. Additional information

Includes:: bus stops. On the reverse is a simplified version of the same map without the topographic detail, simply highlighting roads & hiking routes, annotated to describe historical features & landmarks to aid navigation. An enlargement depicts in greater detail the vicinity of the ancient settlement of the Tenarians & the Poseidon & Apollo Sanctuary remains near Cape Tenaro.





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This is the absorbingly impassioned account of Patrick Leigh Fermor`s travels amongst the remote Greek Mountains, where he explores the history & myths of the local people. Isolated from the rest of the country by the towering range of the Taygettus & hemmed in by the Aegean & Ionian Seas, this part of Mediterranean Europe still mantains close ties to a previous era. What emerges is a brilliant evocation of the past, a glorious fusion of history & the present, which is enlivend by Leigh Fermor`s acute powers of observation & his descriptive prowess. ...

The Mani Peninsula at 1:50, 000 on light, waterproof & tear-resistant, contoured & GPS compatible map from Anavasi, showing local footpaths including descriptions for eight specially selected routes, etc. The map is double-sided, dividing the peninsula north/south with a very generous overlap between the sides. Topography is vividly presented by contours at 20m intervals, plus relief shading & sport heights. Road network indicates dirt roads in poor condition, driving distances on minor roads, & locations of petrol station. Also marked are stops of the local bus services. The marking for country tracks & footpaths distinguishes between well defined & narrow or faint routes. Eight recommended hiking trails are prominently highlighted & cross-referenced to brief descriptions. Symbols highlight locations of hotels, campsites, tavernas, beaches, archaeological remains & various other places of interest. The map has a 1km UTN grid plus cross-hairs for latitude & longitude at intervals of 1’. Map legend & the text include English. To see the list of other titles in this series please click on the series link. ...