epub |eng | 1993-12-26 | Author:Jennifer Toth

GRAFFITI COMES FROM THE ITALIAN WORD, GRAFFIO, WHICH MEANS TO scratch. It is used to describe many different kinds of wall writings, and dates back at least to ancient Egypt. ...

mobi |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:Laura Schroff

Not long after our Thanksgiving together, I asked Maurice what he usually did for Christmas. “Nothing,” he said with a shrug. “What do you mean? Don’t you celebrate Christmas?” “Nope.” ...

epub |eng | 2006-12-31 | Author:Steven Otter

20 The Snort The routine I had developed in my new home was certainly not of my own design. In truth, however, it would have been quite contrary to my ...

epub |eng | 2002-12-23 | Author:Philippe Bourgois [Bourgois, Philippe]

Automatic gunfire rang out from the project’s courtyard just as we were about to cut diagonally through it to reach a grocery store to buy more beer. We abruptly stopped ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2013-01-30 | Author:Steel, Carolyn [Steel, Carolyn]

The kitchen at Villa Stein-de Monzie in 1926. Can’t Cook, Won’t Cook Despite the best efforts of early feminists to raise the status of cooking, they failed to address one ...

epub |eng | 2013-10-07 | Author:Bill Minutaglio [MINUTAGLIO, BILL/DAVIS, STEVEN L.]

Right now parents who had wanted their children to see the famous Dr. King are pulling their kids closer. James has to be afraid that this crowning moment, this civil ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-28 | Author:Gary Krist [Krist, Gary]

UP on Esplanade Avenue—far from the ongoing turmoil in Black and White Storyville—retired madam Josie Arlington had fallen gravely ill. Sometime in early 1913, right around the time of the ...

mobi |es | 2011-02-28 | Author:David Simon

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29 Fred Ceruti knows it’s a bad one when he turns the corner on Whittier and sees the ambulance. Time of call was 0343 and that was a ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2010-12-10 | Author:Edward Seidensticker & Donald Richie & Paul Waley [Seidensticker, Edward & Richie, Donald & Waley, Paul]

Entrance to the new subway in Asakusa The subway company put up high buildings at each of its two original terminuses, Asakusa and Ueno. (For the Asakusa terminus, see page ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2003-11-10 | Author:Erik Larson [Larson, Erik]

Jacob Riis, the New York journalist who had devoted himself to revealing the squalid housing of America’s poor, came to Chicago bearing counsel of a graver sort. In March he ...

epub |eng | 2013-11-04 | Author:Patrick Keiller

The Swiss Chalet Vivienne Lower, senior custodian of the Dickens Centre, showed us the Chalet. She ascended the external stair, followed by Cedric, and unlocked the door to the upper ...

mobi |eng | 2012-08-28 | Author:Kozol, Jonathan [Kozol, Jonathan]

— II — Pineapple’s years at P.S. 65 were nearly at an end. During the spring, the pastor of St. Ann’s began to probe the possibilities of winning her admission ...

epub |eng | 2012-08-27 | Author:Kozol, Jonathan [Kozol, Jonathan]

— II — Pineapple’s years at P.S. 65 were nearly at an end. During the spring, the pastor of St. Ann’s began to probe the possibilities of winning her admission ...

mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2013-12-17 | Author:Ivan Vladislavic

* The Zoological Gardens were even more trying than I’d anticipated. We went at night. The authorities had instituted special night tours to allow for the viewing of nocturnal animals. ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2008-07-26 | Author:David Simon

SEVEN Summertime and the living is easy, says Gershwin. But he never had to work murders in Baltimore, where summer steams and swelters and splits open wide like a mile ...