Author: Josie Barnard
Publisher: RDR Books
ISBN:
Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
London is lustrous, literary, loud & lewd. Josie Barnard, author of the Virago Woman's Guide to New York, captures all the many wonders of this famous city with a special emphasis on women's contributions to London's history, art & culture. This comprehensive guide offers a unique & invaluable look at this complex city. Women travelers will appreciate her valuable advice on places where they will feel welcome, safe & comfortable.
The Virago Woman's Travel Guide to London
Author: Josie Barnard
Publisher: RDR Books
ISBN:
Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
London is lustrous, literary, loud & lewd. Josie Barnard, author of the Virago Woman's Guide to New York, captures all the many wonders of this famous city with a special emphasis on women's contributions to London's history, art & culture. This comprehensive guide offers a unique & invaluable look at this complex city. Women travelers will appreciate her valuable advice on places where they will feel welcome, safe & comfortable.
Publisher: RDR Books
ISBN:
Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
London is lustrous, literary, loud & lewd. Josie Barnard, author of the Virago Woman's Guide to New York, captures all the many wonders of this famous city with a special emphasis on women's contributions to London's history, art & culture. This comprehensive guide offers a unique & invaluable look at this complex city. Women travelers will appreciate her valuable advice on places where they will feel welcome, safe & comfortable.
Virago Woman's Travel Guide to New York
Author: Josie Barnard
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
This lively guidebook ventures from the Statue of Liberty to seething go-go bars to Dorothy Parker's round table salon at the Algonquin Hotel. Sections on downtown, midtown, upper Manhattan, and the outer boroughs highlight the city's best. From the best shops and markets to the perfect hotel for businesswomen, this book runs the gamut from the glamorous to the gaudy. Line drawings. Maps.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
This lively guidebook ventures from the Statue of Liberty to seething go-go bars to Dorothy Parker's round table salon at the Algonquin Hotel. Sections on downtown, midtown, upper Manhattan, and the outer boroughs highlight the city's best. From the best shops and markets to the perfect hotel for businesswomen, this book runs the gamut from the glamorous to the gaudy. Line drawings. Maps.
Virago Woman's Guide to New York
Author: Josie Barnard
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781853814969
Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781853814969
Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
California Babylon
Author: Kristan Lawson
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN: 1466854146
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
California: the whole world knows it as the mother lode of scandal and celebrity, mayhem and miracles, a place where nearly anything can happen - and does. Giving the lowdown on the most notorious locations across the state, California Babylon redefines tourism for the 21st century by guiding you to the places you actually want to see, whether you'll admit to it or not. Packed with photographs and with easy-to-follow directions to each site, California Babylon unveils the real-life filming locations; scenes of rock-'n'-roll debauchery; homes and hotspots where the stars lived, dined, made love and died - and where they still do today. With this detailed, up-to-date guide, you can revisit some of the most shocking, puzzling, glamorous and tragic moments the world has ever known. Spend the night in the very hotel rooms where Janis Joplin, John Belushi, or Hawaii's King Kamehameha died. See the site where People's Temple leader Jim Jones whipped hundreds of followers into a frenzy. Visit the orphanage where little Norma Jeane Baker dreamed of stardom. Follow in the footsteps of serial killers. Recreate the camera angles for dozens of your favorite films, from Vertigo to Pee Wee's Big Adventure. With California Babylon's help, you can also see: *infamous crime scenes *the homes of screen legends *graves of the rich and famous *assassination sites *abandoned utopias *restaurants and bars frequented by celebrities Forget the endless malls and beaches! Wouldn't you rather see JFK's secret love-nest, the stage where Michael Jackson's hair burst into flames, or the alley that was the epicenter of prostitution in gold-rush era San Francisco? These are the guilty pleasures you'll actually write home about, and they're what make California the wacky, world-famous, and truly unbelievable place it is today.
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN: 1466854146
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
California: the whole world knows it as the mother lode of scandal and celebrity, mayhem and miracles, a place where nearly anything can happen - and does. Giving the lowdown on the most notorious locations across the state, California Babylon redefines tourism for the 21st century by guiding you to the places you actually want to see, whether you'll admit to it or not. Packed with photographs and with easy-to-follow directions to each site, California Babylon unveils the real-life filming locations; scenes of rock-'n'-roll debauchery; homes and hotspots where the stars lived, dined, made love and died - and where they still do today. With this detailed, up-to-date guide, you can revisit some of the most shocking, puzzling, glamorous and tragic moments the world has ever known. Spend the night in the very hotel rooms where Janis Joplin, John Belushi, or Hawaii's King Kamehameha died. See the site where People's Temple leader Jim Jones whipped hundreds of followers into a frenzy. Visit the orphanage where little Norma Jeane Baker dreamed of stardom. Follow in the footsteps of serial killers. Recreate the camera angles for dozens of your favorite films, from Vertigo to Pee Wee's Big Adventure. With California Babylon's help, you can also see: *infamous crime scenes *the homes of screen legends *graves of the rich and famous *assassination sites *abandoned utopias *restaurants and bars frequented by celebrities Forget the endless malls and beaches! Wouldn't you rather see JFK's secret love-nest, the stage where Michael Jackson's hair burst into flames, or the alley that was the epicenter of prostitution in gold-rush era San Francisco? These are the guilty pleasures you'll actually write home about, and they're what make California the wacky, world-famous, and truly unbelievable place it is today.
Restoring Women's History Through Historic Preservation
Author: Gail Lee Dubrow
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801870521
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
This essay collection draws upon work presented at three national conferences on women and historic preservation held at Bryn Mawr College in 1994, Arizona State University in 1997, and at Mount Vernon College in 2000.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801870521
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
This essay collection draws upon work presented at three national conferences on women and historic preservation held at Bryn Mawr College in 1994, Arizona State University in 1997, and at Mount Vernon College in 2000.
Making the Invisible Visible
Author: Leonie Sandercock
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520918576
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
The history of planning is much more, according to these authors, than the recorded progress of planning as a discipline and a profession. These essays counter the mainstream narrative of rational, scientific development with alternative histories that reveal hitherto invisible planning practices and agendas. While the official story of planning celebrates the state and its traditions of city building and regional development, these stories focus on previously unacknowledged actors and the noir side of planning. Through a variety of critical lenses—feminist, postmodern, and postcolonial—the essays examine a broad range of histories relevant to the preservation and planning professions. Some contributors uncover indigenous planning traditions that have been erased from the record: African American and Native American traditions, for example. Other contributors explore new themes: themes of gendered spaces and racist practices, of planning as an ordering tool, a kind of spatial police, of "bodies, cities, and social order" (influenced by Foucault, Lefebvre, and others), and of resistance. This scrutiny of the class, race, gender, ethnic, or ideological biases of ideas and practices inherent in the notion of planning as a modernist social technology clearly points to the inadequacy of modernist planning histories. Making the Invisible Visible redefines planning as the regulation of the physicality, sociality, and spatiality of the city. Its histories provide the foundation of a new, alternative planning paradigm for the multicultural cities of the future.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520918576
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
The history of planning is much more, according to these authors, than the recorded progress of planning as a discipline and a profession. These essays counter the mainstream narrative of rational, scientific development with alternative histories that reveal hitherto invisible planning practices and agendas. While the official story of planning celebrates the state and its traditions of city building and regional development, these stories focus on previously unacknowledged actors and the noir side of planning. Through a variety of critical lenses—feminist, postmodern, and postcolonial—the essays examine a broad range of histories relevant to the preservation and planning professions. Some contributors uncover indigenous planning traditions that have been erased from the record: African American and Native American traditions, for example. Other contributors explore new themes: themes of gendered spaces and racist practices, of planning as an ordering tool, a kind of spatial police, of "bodies, cities, and social order" (influenced by Foucault, Lefebvre, and others), and of resistance. This scrutiny of the class, race, gender, ethnic, or ideological biases of ideas and practices inherent in the notion of planning as a modernist social technology clearly points to the inadequacy of modernist planning histories. Making the Invisible Visible redefines planning as the regulation of the physicality, sociality, and spatiality of the city. Its histories provide the foundation of a new, alternative planning paradigm for the multicultural cities of the future.
The Virago Woman's Travel Guide to San Francisco
Author: Harriet Swift
Publisher: RDR Books
ISBN:
Category : San Francisco (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
From Gertrude Stein to Whoopi Goldberg to Dianne Feinstein, San Francisco is virtually synonymous with independent women. Harriet Swift has captured the special delights of the Bay Area. Her book is filled with cultural insights, offbeat travel tips & delightful armchair reading. This comprehensive guide offers in-depth coverage while emphasizing the cultural diversity that makes San Francisco one of the the world's most lovable cities.
Publisher: RDR Books
ISBN:
Category : San Francisco (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
From Gertrude Stein to Whoopi Goldberg to Dianne Feinstein, San Francisco is virtually synonymous with independent women. Harriet Swift has captured the special delights of the Bay Area. Her book is filled with cultural insights, offbeat travel tips & delightful armchair reading. This comprehensive guide offers in-depth coverage while emphasizing the cultural diversity that makes San Francisco one of the the world's most lovable cities.
The Virago Woman's Travel Guide to Amsterdam
Author: Catherine Stebbings
Publisher: RDR Books
ISBN:
Category : Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Amsterdam is a city particularly hospitable to women. Dutch women opened the world's first birth control clinic & managed Rembrandt's artistic career. Modern Amsterdam boasts beautiful flower markets, peaceful cafe life, incredible museums & unrivaled cycling. Catherine Stebbings captures all of the sights & sounds of a city that will be particularly welcoming to women travelers.
Publisher: RDR Books
ISBN:
Category : Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Amsterdam is a city particularly hospitable to women. Dutch women opened the world's first birth control clinic & managed Rembrandt's artistic career. Modern Amsterdam boasts beautiful flower markets, peaceful cafe life, incredible museums & unrivaled cycling. Catherine Stebbings captures all of the sights & sounds of a city that will be particularly welcoming to women travelers.
British Book News
Author: British Council
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
Includes no. 53a: British wartime books for young people.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
Includes no. 53a: British wartime books for young people.
The Cumulative Book Index
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2248
Book Description
A world list of books in the English language.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2248
Book Description
A world list of books in the English language.