Sentences with phrase «book about the city»

Ventura, an Italian designer and illustrator, was inspired to write a book about the cities of the world because he wished to see the world as a bird does.

Probably, you would like to send a gift to your lady, or a book about your city / country.

When Mark Binelli, a native of Detroit, and general assignment reporter, began work on a book about the city, one of his interview subjects asked him if the book was going to be fiction or non-fiction.

The is an amusing section in the middle of the book about the City of London Corporation, which has unique rights in the UK.

This compelling book about the city's Black Arts Movement fills an astounding gap.

Not exact matches

In 2012, Apple held an event in New York City to talk about education, where it unveiled its iBooks 2 platform, its tool for making and publishing books online, but even that event was all about the iPad.

This year, though, Brin kicked off the Founders Letter with a quote taken from the very beginning of «A Tale of Two Cities,» a book written over 150 years ago by Charles Dickens — a historical fiction about the French Revolution.

After someone tweeted about visiting the Barnes & Noble in Redwood City, California, Sutherland responded, suggesting that the person check out Kepler's Books, a 55 - year - old bookstore in Menlo Park.

«I love books about people coming into their vocations, and this haunting memoir by musician Patti Smith brilliantly evokes a time and place in New York City, as she and Robert Mapplethorpe began to build artistic lives for themselves,» says Rubin of this one.

In November, Toronto approved the booking of more hotel rooms for refugee claimants through the end of 2018, at a cost of about C$ 20 million, according to city documents.

He was part of a New York City dinner circuit that includes people who believe the US should go back to the gold standard, rich people who don't think they should have to give back to society in the form of taxes, and anyone interested in either of those ideas who wanted to write a book about them.

What My Granddad Taught Me About Money» (Beckham), will be giving away signed copies of her book on the following dates and cities.

Suning had more than 1,600 outlets in about 290 cities in China selling appliances, books and baby products as of August last year.

One of the best things about Jim Wallis's book is that it calls us to listen to people like Mary Jackson when reflecting on the woes of the inner cities.

According to Sherman, one of the best things about Jim Wallis» book, The Soul of Politics, is that it calls us to listen to the people who live there as we reflect on the inner city's woes.

Charles Dickens started his book, A Tale of Two Cities, with a paradoxical statement of this sort about the time of the French Revolution.

What other writer, having just finished Moby - Dick and standing at the peak of his powers, would have taken in his next book a simple story about a young man's descent in the city and compounded it into the unreadable, pseudo-Hawthornian mess of Pierre?

The book is about two rival cities, Babylon and the New Jerusalem.

City of Joy, the title of a well known book about Calcutta, is a reminder of the generosity of many who are very poor and Mary and I have known the wonderful welcome and hospitality of those whose homes are very simple.

Despite the withering contempt of experts and allies alike — even the architectural critic Lewis Mumford, letting his unfortunate susceptibility to vanity get the better of him, could not resist dismissing Death and Life as a «preposterous mass of historic misinformation and contemporary misinterpretation» assembled by «a sloppy novice» — this unaccredited journalist - mother, with no college education, no training in planning, and no institutional support, wrote a book that would change the way the world thinks about cities.

Her book was refreshingly un-abstract and densely empirical, built upon an accumulation of lovingly rendered details about what works and doesn't work in modern city life.

For example there is no discussion of the celebrated passage in book nineteen on the «compromise between human wills [of the two cities] about the things relevant to mortal life.»

The book of Judges pictures a time when Israel was a loose confederation of tribes, scattered about in Canaan, oppressed by the Canaanite city - states and by other tribal groups who swept in from the desert or from the seacoast.

The book tells us something about the man who has given us one notion of what it may mean to be a citizen fighting for a city that is no longer home.

In the book Why I Am Not a Feminist, author Jessa Crispin argues that safety is «a surface - level cleanliness» in that safety looks like a city bragging about how and clean it is while jails are filled with marginalized people who have been criminalized by punitive laws.

These apple cider caramels are my love letter autumn in my city, my attempt, as I wrote in the book, to «pack everything I love about New York City in October — the carpet of fiery leaves on the ground from the trees I didn't even know we had; the sky, impossibly blue; the air, drinkably crisp; the temperature finally delicious enough that it implores you to spend hours wandering around, sipping warm spiced apple cider from the Greenmarkets — into one tiny square.&racity, my attempt, as I wrote in the book, to «pack everything I love about New York City in October — the carpet of fiery leaves on the ground from the trees I didn't even know we had; the sky, impossibly blue; the air, drinkably crisp; the temperature finally delicious enough that it implores you to spend hours wandering around, sipping warm spiced apple cider from the Greenmarkets — into one tiny square.&raCity in October — the carpet of fiery leaves on the ground from the trees I didn't even know we had; the sky, impossibly blue; the air, drinkably crisp; the temperature finally delicious enough that it implores you to spend hours wandering around, sipping warm spiced apple cider from the Greenmarkets — into one tiny square.»

The original purpose for going to Austin was for Vida Vegan Con 2015, but we wanted to get in a little early to do a book signing event at BookPeople and spend some time hanging out in this city I'd heard so much about.

The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell - a fascinating book about the history of New York City, from the perspective of the oyster trade.

And if nineteenth century books about Paris are to be believed, by then the city was teeming with macaron street vendors.

He sells his goods at New York City's Greenmarket every Saturday and penned a funny and moving book, Heirloom, all about his tomatoes, for which he has become famous.

it does not matter if the player is cheap or not the bigger problem would be that very player will be on our books for four years so he better be good, that's why when I look at Chelsea and city these clubs throw players out with in a season un less that player is expensive or injured, so waiting to sign wclass 4 years is better than signing just to compete for a season to complain about more signings

However, keep in mind it took until about March of last season for books to deem Leicester City the title favorites, and we know how that worked out.

Watching those first 39 minutes today I still felt fairly relaxed about my prediction, and although Smalling had been booked for a schoolboy offence, I wasn't sensing too much danger coming from City.

City are just about at the finish line in booking a top four finish now.

Here are some great books about our lovely city.

He joins «Chicago Tonight» to talk about «City Creatures,» a book which details urban wildlife history through essays, poetry, photography and paintings.

City officials had asked the Park District to look at alternatives to the entrance off Book Road when residents in the Ashbury Park subdivision raised concerns about traffic safety along Conan Doyle, a main road through their subdivision.

You might not think a book about the struggle to wrest six thousand acres of Lake Michigan dunes from development and preserve it as a public place would be suspenseful adventure story, but Traverse City author heather Shumaker promises just that - a riveting story that spans decades about a small community of people who preserve a beloved tract against all odds.

Philip Mark Plotch, an assistant professor at St. Peter's University in Jersey City who wrote a book about the bridge, said it was a «sweet gesture» for Mr. Cuomo to try to name it after his father, though he would prefer a more geography - centric name like the Lower Hudson Valley Bridge.

NEW YORK CITY — NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton dusted off the city's Conflict of Interest rule book during a summit with top police brass to read them the riot act about laws that govern accepting gifts and gratuities from the public and people doing business with the city, DNAinfo New York has learned.

This week, Grant Reeher talks with Kirst to talk about the book, the news media and some of the challenges the city of Syracuse is facing.

He made news recently by raising concerns about City Hall's budgeting practices, which have involved the use of reserve funds the past three years to balance the books.

Sitting at his desk at his One Penn Plaza office, behind a collapsing barricade of books and folders and a coffee - mug bouquet of pens and scissors and markers (and, incongruously, an image of Saint Therese), the retired NYPD detective ranted to the Observer about everything wrong with the incumbent and the way he runs City Hall.

Through this effort, about 3,200 city school students will receive a new book over the holidays.

The average fiction book in city school libraries was about 20 years old when we started our program a decade ago.

Flight is author of All you Need to know about Exchange Rates (1989), and contributor to the book The City in Europe and the World (2005).

For the New Yorkers that are at a loss for why the snow wasn't cleared quick enough and for Speaker Quinn, you may want to take a page out of the book of the late, great mayor of the City of Albany, Erastus Corning, who said to citizens complaining about his city's poor response to ANY snowstoCity of Albany, Erastus Corning, who said to citizens complaining about his city's poor response to ANY snowstocity's poor response to ANY snowstorm -

Matthew Hancock, a former adviser to George Osborne, and his fellow Tory MP, Nadhim Zahawi, recently published a book, Masters of Nothing, with pungent observations about the behaviour of the City in which they ventured some good ideas about how it might be changed.

Washington (CNN)- Former Tea Party Express spokesperson Mark Williams on Monday night defended his latest blog posting in which he called New York City Michael Bloomberg a «Judenrat» and said that one of the journalists who wrote about it «has never read a book» and has «an appalling ignorance» of the Holocaust.

«I'd done 10 years of economic commentary... and you begin to notice that the same things come round again... I was approached by a firm in the City because of some of the books I'd written about third world debt and development... and they offered me a job... looking at the credit worthiness of firms in developing markets.»