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Waterfront Manhattan: From Henry Hudson to the High Line
Kurt C Schlichting - Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: Hardcover
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For hundreds of years, the shorefront of Manhattan Island served as the country's center of trade, shipping, and commerce. With its maritime links across the oceans, along the Atlantic coast, and inland to the Midwest and New England, Manhattan became a global city and home to the world's... |
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Showstoppers!: The Surprising Backstage Stories of Broadway's Most Remarkable Songs
Gerald Nachman - Chicago Review Press
Format: Paperback
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When Robert Preston shouted Ya got trouble in River City, when Carol Channing glided down a gilded staircase while waiters serenaded her with Hello, Dolly , when Barbra Streisand defied us to rain on her parade inFunny Girl, audiences were instantly enchanted. After such indelible moments,... |
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Life Is Like a Musical: How to Live, Love, and Lead Like a Star
Tim Federle - Running Press
Format: Hardcover
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A Self-Help Guide--with Jazz Hands! Life is Like a Musical features 50 wry, witty tips on getting ahead in life and love--all learned in the showbiz trenches. "Hilarious, wise, and one-of-a-kind. This book is so damn brilliant I'm surprised it didn't already exist." -- Sarah... |
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Magnetic City: A Walking Companion to New York
Justin Davidson - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Paperback
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From New York magazine's architecture critic, a walking and reading guide to New York City - a historical, cultural, architectural, and personal approach to seven neighborhoods throughout Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx, including six essays that help us understand the evolution... |
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Love and Resistance: Out of the Closet into the Stonewall Era
Jason Baumann - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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More than one hundred vivid photographs of the LGBT revolution -- and its public and intimate moments in the 1960s and 70s -- that lit a fire still burning today.A ragtag group of women protesting behind a police line in the rain. A face in a crowd holding a sign that says, "Hi Mom,... |
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The Last Wild Men of Borneo: A True Story of Death and Treasure
Carl Hoffman - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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Two modern adventurers sought a treasure possessed by the legendary "Wild Men of Borneo." One found riches. The other vanished forever into an endless jungle. Had he shed civilization - or lost his mind? Global headlines suspected murder. Lured by these mysteries, New York Times... |
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Splash 19: The Illusion of Light
Rachel Rubin Wolf - North Light Books
Format: Hardcover
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Illuminating the Best in Watercolor Painting! "If tonal value is the structure--the bones and muscle--of the painting, the illusion of light gives a painting its soul.... There would be no art, no life, without light." -Rachel Wolf (p5) Like moths to a flame, watercolor artists... |
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Gardenlust: A Botanical Tour of the World's Best New Gardens
CHRISTOPHER WOODS - Timber Press
Format: Hardcover
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A steep hillside garden in Singapore. A garden defined by shape and light in Marrakech. A haunting tree museum in Switzerland. These are just a few of the outstanding gardens featured in Gardenlust, a sumptuous exploration of the world's best new gardens. Intrepid plant expert Christopher... |
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CSNY: Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young
Peter Doggett - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover
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The first ever biography focused on the formative and highly influential early years of "rock's first supergroup" (Rolling Stone) Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young - when they were the most successful, influential, and politically potent band in America - in honor of the fiftieth... |
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Broadway: A History of New York City in Thirteen Miles
Fran Leadon - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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An eye-opening history of Manhattan told through its most celebrated street.In the early seventeenth century, in a backwater Dutch colony, there was a wide, muddy cow path that the settlers called the Brede Wegh. As the street grew longer, houses and taverns began to spring up alongside... |
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Gropius: The Man Who Built the Bauhaus
Fiona MacCarthy - Belknap Press
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive new life of the father of architectural modernism, by an award-winning biographer.The impact of Walter Gropius can be measured in his buildings -- Fagus Factory, Bauhaus Dessau, Pan Am -- but no less in his students. I. M. Pei, Paul Rudolph, Anni Albers, Philip Johnson, Fumihiko... |
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One-Track Mind: Drawing the New York Subway
Philip Ashforth Coppola - Princeton Architectural Press
Format: Hardcover
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For decades, Philip Ashforth Coppola has meticulously documented the New York City subway in a series of extraordinary drawings, detailing the terracotta mosaics, faience, and tile patterns that millions of riders pass by every day. Coppola's drawings are what Hyperallergic calls "the... |
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Jerome Robbins: A Life in Dance
WENDY LESSER - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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A lively and inspired biography celebrating the centennial of this master choreographer, dancer, and stage director Jerome Robbins (1918-1998) was born Jerome Wilson Rabinowitz and grew up in Weehawken, New Jersey, where his Russian-Jewish immigrant parents owned the Comfort Corset Company.... |
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When Broadway Went to Hollywood
Ethan Mordden - Oxford University Press
Format: Print book
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When films like The Jazz Singer started to integrate synchronized music, in the late 1920s many ambitious songwriting pioneers of the Great White Way - George and Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers, and Lorenz Hart, among many others - were enticed westward by Hollywood studios'... |
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Figures in Stone: Architectural Sculpture in New York City
Robert Arthur King - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Paperback
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A delightful collection of quirky faces, figures, and creatures that adorn New York City buildings. This gift-sized and attractively priced book for architecture buffs features more than two hundred imaginative sculptural details, from the domestic to the fantastic, with a brief introduction... |
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1967: A Complete Rock Music History of the Summer of Love
Harvey Kubernik - Sterling
Format: Hardcover
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Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the "Summer of Love" and the revolutionary music of 1967. During late spring 1967, tens of thousands of young people began streaming into San Francisco, kicking off a counterculture revolution and cultural explosion that was the Summer of Love.... |
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The Man in the Glass House: Philip Johnson, Architect of the Modern Century
MARK LAMSTER - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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When Philip Johnson died in 2005 at the age of 98, he was still one of the most recognizable--and influential--figures on the American cultural landscape. The first recipient of the Pritzker Prize and MoMA's founding architectural curator, Johnson made his mark as one of America's leading... |
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Castles: Their History and Evolution in Medieval Britain
Marc Morris - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of The Norman Conquest and A Great and Terrible King comes a sweeping and stunning history of the most magnificent castles in Britain. Beginning with their introduction in the eleventh century, and ending with their widespread abandonment in the seventeenth, Marc Morris... |
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The Planets: Photographs from the Archives of NASA
Anthony Casillo - Chronicle Books
Format: Hardcover
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This magnificent volume offers a rich visual tour of the planets in our solar system. More than 200 breathtaking photographs from the archives of NASA are paired with extended captions detailing the science behind some of our cosmic neighborhood's most extraordinary phenomena. Images of newly... |
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BTS: Icons of K-Pop
Adrian Besley - Michael O'Mara
Format: Paperback
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Seven good-looking boys - Jin, Suga, J-Hope, RM, Jimin, V and Jungkook - who can dance as well as they can sing, are tearing up the global music charts. Nothing new? Think again. BTS, who rose to fame in their native South Korea in 2013 and who sing almost entirely in Korean, are now an international... |
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Lost British Forts of Long Island
David M Griffin - The History Press
Format: Paperback
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When the Revolutionary War broke out and New York City had fallen in 1776, the forces of the king of Great Britain developed a network of forts along the length of Long Island to defend the New York area and create a front to Patriot forces across the Sound in Connecticut. Fort Franklin... |
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