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Author | : Bruce Edward Hall |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
This is the astonishing illicit history of Hudson, New York, which for many years was the unlikely setting for a world of prostitution, gambling, murder, and government corruption?with more than a touch of the Keystone Kops thrown in. In the century or so before 1950, Hudson was famous as a shopping center of vice. There were at least two major illegal horse rooms, a big-stakes floating crap game, and as many as fifteen houses of ill repute. Meanwhile, the church suppers took place and the parades marched up and down as Hudson's respectable citizenry convinced themselves that there was nothing out of the ordinary in this town described as, ?ten streets wide and ten streets deep... a Norman Rockwell painting in motion.?
Author | : Audrey Vernick |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 2016-03-29 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0544612361 |
Audrey Vernick and Steven Salerno have again collaborated to bring us a captivating picture book about a compelling but little-known piece of baseball history. Beginning in 1922, when Edith Houghton was only ten years old, she tried out for a women’s professional baseball team, the Philadelphia Bobbies. Though she was the smallest on the field, soon reporters were talking about “The Kid” and her incredible skill, and crowds were packing the stands to see her play. Her story reminds us that baseball has never been about just men and boys. Baseball is also about talented girls willing to work hard to play any way they can.
Author | : Craig Revel Horwood |
Publisher | : Michael O'Mara Books |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2020-10-01 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1789292492 |
An offbeat, funny and heartwarming romantic novel from the fabulous King of Strictly, Craig Revel Horwood.
Author | : Rachel Lichtenstein |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 425 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0241142873 |
Hatton Garden is one of the most secret streets in England, home for two centuries to a deeply private working community of diamond and jewellery dealers. Intimately connected to the area both personally (her family run a jewellery business there) and professionally (as an artist archivist of London's streets), Rachel Lichtenstein is uniquely placed to explore the extraordinary history of this mysterious quarter, with its ancient burial sites, diamond workshops, underground vaults, subterranean rivers, monastic dynasties and forgotten palaces. Moving beyond the street itself into parts of Clerkenwell, Holborn and Farringdon, Rachel follows the ancient perimeter of the original Hatton Garden estate, which once bordered the lost River Fleet. Guided on her walks by archaeologists, sewer flushers, artists, goldsmiths, geologists and visionaries of the city such as Iain Sinclair, she crosses the same territory repeatedly, gathering new layers of the story with each journey. The result is a brilliantly immersive and multi-layered portrait; both a documentary and a secret history of a vanishing world.
Author | : Jane Langton |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 1973-10-31 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780064400428 |
Eddy and Eleanor discover a secret attic room in their extraordinary house.
Author | : Barak Richman |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2017-06-19 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0674972171 |
In Stateless Commerce, Barak Richman uses the colorful case study of the diamond industry to explore how ethnic trading networks operate and why they persist in the twenty-first century. How, for example, does the 47th Street diamond district in midtown Manhattan—surrounded by skyscrapers and sophisticated financial institutions—continue to thrive as an ethnic marketplace that operates like a traditional bazaar? Conventional models of economic and technological progress suggest that such primitive commercial networks would be displaced by new trading paradigms, yet in the heart of New York City the old world persists. Richman’s explanation is deceptively simple. Far from being an anachronism, 47th Street’s ethnic enclave is an adaptive response to the unique pressures of the diamond industry. Ethnic trading networks survive because they better fulfill many functions usually performed by state institutions. While the modern world rests heavily on lawyers, courts, and state coercion, ethnic merchants regularly sell goods and services by relying solely on familiarity, trust, and community enforcement—what economists call “relational exchange.” These commercial networks insulate themselves from the outside world because the outside world cannot provide those assurances. Extending the framework of transactional cost and organizational economics, Stateless Commerce draws on rare insider interviews to explain why personal exchange succeeds, even as most global trade succumbs to the forces of modernization, and what it reveals about the limitations of the modern state in governing the economy.
Author | : Joseph Wallace |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 2010-05-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1439166315 |
Seventeen-year-old Ruby Thomas, newly responsible for her two young nieces after a devastating tragedy, is determined to keep her family safe in the vast, swirling world of 1920s New York City. She’s got street smarts, boundless determination, and one unusual skill: the ability to throw a ball as hard as the greatest pitchers in a baseball-mad city. From Coney Island sideshows to the brand-new Yankee Stadium, Diamond Ruby chronicles the extraordinary life and times of a girl who rises from utter poverty to the kind of renown only the Roaring Twenties can bestow. But her fame comes with a price, and Ruby must escape a deadly web of conspiracy and threats from Prohibition rumrunners, the Ku Klux Klan, and the gangster underworld. Diamond Ruby “is the exciting tale of a forgotten piece of baseball’s heritage, a girl who could throw with the best of them. A real page-turner, based closely on a true story” (Kevin Baker, author of Strivers Row).
Author | : Susan Escherich |
Publisher | : DIANE Publishing |
Total Pages | : 121 |
Release | : 1996-12 |
Genre | : Historic buildings |
ISBN | : 0788135023 |
A guide for developers of affordable housing on how to work with the U.S. Secretary of the Interior. Contents: benefits of rehabilitating historic buildings for affordable housing (benefits to owners and developers, benefits to tenants, benefits to the community, a successful approach to rehabilitation, and solving common design issues in historic buildings); and 11 case studies of successful projects. Appendices: Federal section 106 review; state and local environmental review; and historic building codes. Glossary and bibliography.
Author | : Pennsylvania Bar Association |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 1899 |
Genre | : Bar associations |
ISBN | : |
List of bar associations in Pennsylvania, in v. 2-39; 1896-1933.
Author | : Pennsylvania Bar Association |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 508 |
Release | : 1901 |
Genre | : Bar associations |
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