City Beneath Us
Title | City Beneath Us PDF eBook |
Author | New York Transit Museum |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 2004-12-14 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780393057973 |
Reproduces photographic prints from the collection of the New York Transit Museum.
Buried Beneath Us
Title | Buried Beneath Us PDF eBook |
Author | Anthony Aveni |
Publisher | Roaring Brook Press |
Pages | 98 |
Release | 2013-11-19 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1596439130 |
A beautifully illustrated look at the forces that help cities grow—and eventually cause their destruction—told through the stories of the great civilizations of ancient America. You may think you know all of the American cities. But did you know that long before New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, or Boston ever appeared on the map—thousands of years before Europeans first colonized North America—other cities were here? They grew up, fourished, and eventually disappeared in the same places that modern cities like St. Louis and Mexico City would later appear. In the pages of this book, you'll find the astonishing story of how they grew from small settlements to booming city centers—and then crumbled into ruins.
Heart
Title | Heart PDF eBook |
Author | Grant Howitt |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2020-06 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780996376570 |
Roleplaying game set in a strange undercity that warps to match your heart's desire.
Firefight
Title | Firefight PDF eBook |
Author | Ginger Adams Otis |
Publisher | Macmillan + ORM |
Pages | 263 |
Release | 2015-05-26 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1466879335 |
In 1919, when Wesley Williams became a New York City firefighter, he stepped into a world that was 100% white and predominantly Irish. As far as this city knew, black men in the Fire Department of New York (FDNY) tended horses. Nearly a century later, many things in the FDNY had changed—but not the scarcity of blacks. New York had about 300 black firefighters—roughly 3 percent of the 11,000 New York firefighters in a city of two million African Americans. That made the FDNY a true aberration compared to all the other uniformed departments, like the NYPD. Decades earlier, women and blacks had sued over its hiring practices and won. But the FDNY never took permanent steps to eradicate the inequities, which led to a courtroom show-down between New York City's billionaire Mayor, Mike Bloomberg, and a determined group of black activist firefighters. It was not until 2014 that the city settled the $98 million lawsuit. At the center of this book are stories of courage—about firefighters risking their lives in the line of duty but also risking their livelihood by battling an unjust system. Among them: FDNY Captain Paul Washington, a second generation black firefighter, who spent his multi-decade career fighting to get minorities on the job. He faced an insular culture made up of relatives who never saw their own inclusion as favoritism. Based on author Ginger Adams Otis' years of on the ground reporting, Firefight is an exciting blend of the high-octane energy of firefighting and critical Civil Rights history.
William Blake
Title | William Blake PDF eBook |
Author | Algernon Charles Swinburne |
Publisher | Good Press |
Pages | 307 |
Release | 2023-10-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
"William Blake" by Algernon Charles Swinburne. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake
Title | The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake PDF eBook |
Author | William Blake |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 1028 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780520044739 |
Since its first publication in 1965, this collection has been widely hailed as the best available text of William Blake's poetry and prose. It is now expanded to include a new foreword by Harold Bloom, his definitive statement on Blake's greatness.
The Universe Wareckers
Title | The Universe Wareckers PDF eBook |
Author | Edmond Hamilton |
Publisher | Wildside Press LLC |
Pages | 283 |
Release | |
Genre | |
ISBN | 1667604643 |
In the distant future, Earth faces an unprecedented threat - the sun is spinning faster, on the verge of splitting into a deadly double star. Four brave explorers venture to the edges of the solar system in humanity's first interplanetary spacecraft, seeking the source of this cosmic calamity. On Neptune's moon Triton, they discover an ancient alien civilization with unimaginable power, intent on destroying the sun to save their own dying world. Racing against time, our heroes must find a way to stop the Universe Wreckers before Earth and the entire solar system are obliterated. Edmond Hamilton's classic space opera pits humanity against a vast alien menace in an action-packed adventure across the cosmos, with the fate of our world hanging in the balance.