A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, The Death and Life of Great American Cities has, since its first publication in 1961, become the standard against which all endeavors in that field are measured. In prose of outstanding immediacy, Jane Jacobs writes about what ...

Manufacturer: Vintage
Written By: Jane Jacobs

"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood."So begins the luminous memoir of Frank McCourt, born in ...

Manufacturer: Scribner
Written By: Frank McCourt

The bestselling author of Truman and John Adams, David McCullough has written profiles of exceptional men and women past and present who have not only shaped the course of history or changed how we see the world but whose stories express much that is timeless about the human condition. Here are Alexander von Humboldt, whose epic explorations of South America surpassed the Lewis ...

Manufacturer: Prentice Hall Trade
Written By: David McCullough

The monumental bestseller! Alex Haley recaptures his family's history in this drama of eighteenth-century slave Kunta Kinte and his descendants.

Manufacturer: Doubleday Books
Written By: Alex Haley

Forensic pathologist Dr. Kay Scarpetta matches wits with a sadistic killer who infiltrates the FBI's top-secret artificial intelligence system and begins to close in on Scarpetta herself. Reprint.

Manufacturer: Popular Culture Ink
Written By: Patricia D. Cornwell

Manufacturer: McClelland and Stewart
Written By: Michael Ondaatje

Manufacturer: Genealogical Publishing Company
Written By: Elizabeth Shown Mills

With Family Tree Maker, Americas top-selling family tree software for more than ten years, readers can create a family history to treasure for years to come. This book is the guide to make that happen. Using The Official Guide to Family Tree Maker 2009, readers discover the most effective ways to enter family information and learn how, when, and why to use the softwares most popular features. The ...

Manufacturer: Ancestry.com
Written By: Tana L Pedersen

The Bushes are the family nobody really knows, says Kevin Phillips. This popular lack of acquaintance—nurtured by gauzy imagery of Maine summer cottages, gray-haired national grandmothers, July Fourth sparklers, and cowboy boots—has let national politics create a dynasticized presidency that would have horrified America’s founding fathers. They, after all, had led a revolution against a ...

Manufacturer: Penguin Books Ltd
Written By: Kevin Phillips

Out of the stories heard in her childhood in Los Angeles's Chinatown and years of research, See has constructed this sweeping chronicle of her Chinese-American family, a work that takes in stories of racism and romance, entrepreneurial genius and domestic heartache, secret marriages and sibling rivalries, in a powerful history of two cultures meeting in a new world. 82 photos.

Manufacturer: Vintage
Written By: Lisa See