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<DIV><b>An electrifying story of the sensational murder trial that divided a city and ignited the civil rights struggle</b><br> <br>In 1925, Detroit w...

<DIV><P>A NATIONAL BESTSELLER</P><DIV>At a café table in Lahore, a bearded Pakistani man converses with an uneasy American stranger. As dusk deepens to nigh...

"Graced with a bold political and environmental vision, much splendid phrasemaking and a multitude of facts. . . . A truly eccentric contribution."--The New York Times Book Review ...

Reyner Banham examined the built environment of Los Angeles in a way no architectural historian before him had done, looking with fresh eyes at its manifestations of popular taste ...

Chosen by <i>The New York Times</i> as one of the ten best books ever written about the city. <P> In the summer of 1949, E.B. White sat in a New York City hotel r...

In this groundbreaking work, a Yale University professor of history gives an environmental perspective on the history of 19th-century America. "No one has written about Chicago wit...

<b>From the acclaimed authors of <i>A Future Perfect</i> comes the untold story of how the company became the world’s most powerful institution.</b><br&g...

This engaging environmental history explores the rise, fall, and rebirth of one of the nation's most important urban public landscapes, and more significantly, the role public spac...

Although fundamental factors of program, technology, and economics make tall buildings everywhere take similar forms, skyscrapers in New York and Chicago developed very differently...

"Measured but emotional, illuminating but challenging." -The San Francisco Chronicle <P>"Remarkable." -<I>Salon</I> <P>"Essential." -<I>The N...

From the MacArthur and Whiting Award–winning author of <i>John Henry Days</i> and <i>The Intuitionist</i> comes a new, brisk, comic tour de force about iden...

The beach has always been the place to shake off the stresses of urban life, and to relax with friends and family. And yet, as Troy Messenger shows, the beach has been a site for r...