Pdf: The Plaza

Friendly gossip, political rallies, outdoor concerts, drugs, shoeshines, and sex-for-sale—almost every aspect of Latin American life has its place and ti ...

Toward the end of the fifteenth century, Spanish Christians near the border of Castile and Muslim-ruled Granada held complex views about religious toleranc ...

In the late 1970s some 30,000 Argentines, mostly young men and women thought to have leftist sympathies, were kidnapped and tortured to death by the milita ...

Journalist Julie Satow's thrilling, unforgettable history of how one illustrious hotel has defined our understanding of money and glamour, from the Gilded ...

City plazas worldwide are centers of cultural expression and artistic display. They are settings for everyday urban life where daily interactions, economic ...

At The Plaza is a pictorial record and an anecdotal history of the world's most famous hotel: New York's Plaza. As a story, it traverses the breadth and sc ...

In Bab Al-Saha, a quarter of Nablus, Palestine, sits a house of ill repute. In it lives Nuzha, a young woman ostracized from and shamed by her community. W ...

(Applause Books). From Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald cavorting in the Pulitzer Fountain to Ivana Trump patrolling the halls to inspect the rooms, this is the ...

Blending the personal with the political, these poems explore the deleterious effects of adversity and trauma on a global scale, focusing on such subjects ...

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Managing the Dollar, published four years after the Plaza Agreement took place, was the initial analysis of lessons learned and takeaways from the finance ...

The town of çlamos in the state of Sonora, Mexico, a one-day drive from the Arizona border, is one of the most intact colonial-era cities in northern Mexi ...

Fodor's correspondents highlight the best of Panama, including Panama City's neighborhoods and nightlife, the Panama Canal, and the beautiful coasts. Our l ...

The plaza has been a defining feature of Mexican urban architecture and culture for at least 4,000 years. Ancient Mesoamericans conducted most of their com ...

Santa Fe, the City Different, has deeply excited visitors for over a hundred years with its crystal blue skies, Blood of Christ Mountains, pure dry air, ol ...

Economic development is an important focus of anthropological work in rural and urban communities around the world, and in this volume the contributors off ...

A wave of publicity during the 1980s projected Santa Fe to the world as an exotic tourist destination--America's own Tahiti in the desert. The Myth of Sant ...

Twentieth-century Los Angeles has been the locus of one of the most profound and complex interactions between variant cultures in American history. Yet thi ...

people places Second Edition Design Guidelines for Urban Open Space edited by Clare Cooper Marcus and Carolyn Francis A resurgence in the use of public spa ...

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The Spanish began to settle New Mexico in the sixteenth century, and although scholars have long known the names of those settlers, this is the first book ...

A fast pace, engrossing tale with many twists and turns. The suspense will hold you hostage as the plot unfolds - the chilling mystery takes place at nearl ...

Death Wore High Heels exposes the symbiosis of the needs of the of today's fashion marketers with the arrogance of today's fashion designers. Shoe manufact ...

Revolutionizing Motherhood examines one of the most astonishing human rights movements of recent years. During the Argentine junta's Dirty War against subv ...

Southeastern Colorado was known as the northernmost boundary of New Spain in the sixteenth century. By the late 1800s, the region was U.S. territory, but t ...

Argues the state and not markets should be the center of analysis when attempting to explain international cooperation. ...

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Chinese cities are undergoing profound changes. Urban development has transformed the townscape; low-rise structures based on courtyard type housing, horiz ...

High interest math content correlated to National Math Standards as well as National Standards for social studies, science, music, and art ...

An overview of the history and culture of Argentina and its people including the geography, myths, arts, daily life, education, industry, and government, w ...

Living underground is not a bed of roses. But I'm living a dreamers life, with a dream, in a place, a time that makes a difference, when one is born in the ...

A discussion of what makes public places appealing and useful will inspire those involved with public planning and design. ...

The temple mound and mortuary at Town Creek, in Montgomery County, is one of the few surviving earthen mounds built by prehistoric Native Americans in Nort ...

Alive guides tell you what's hot, and what's not, with plenty of suggestions for daytime activity and night- time fun. Hundreds of restaurant and hotel pro ...

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For the first time ever, Eloise and her friends are in a board book story adapted from the original classic. How Marvelous! Eloise is a very special—and ...

James Wines is a larger-than-life character whose work cuts a swathe through modern architecture. Since 1970, when he founded SITE, the highly regarded arc ...