Bruce Marshall

304 pages : 35 cm

"The evolution of New York's built environment is chronicled in this history of both its architectural masterpieces and its brilliantly engineered infrastructure. With the immediacy only photography can capture we witness New York emerging in the years following the Civil War, spreading uptown, enfolding Central Park, bridging the rivers, tunneling the bedrock, scraping the sky." "As materials change from brick and brownstone to steel and later plate glass - a development supported, in part, by newly harnessed electricity and elevators - we can relive such moments as muddy Longacre Square's rebirth as neon-lit Times Square in the wake of the uptown relocation of the theaters and the city's "newspaper of record." Building New York traces the transformation of Fifth Avenue into a "millionaires' row" and the eastern edge of the Park into a museum enclave. It catalogues not merely the skyscrapers and public buildings but the department stores, stations and hotels, churches and airports, expressways and housing projects." "Always the most self-conscious of cities, New York came of age with the camera. This incredible hoard of pictures has been sourced from the 70 million images owned or represented by Getty Images with many originating from Time & Life Pictures and the Museum of the City of New York. These are the very pictures that helped create New York's larger-than-life image."--BOOK JACKET.

Illustrated with color plates of the Texas Army, 1835-1836.

"The focus in this volume is on the light-intercepting surfaces of the plant and the utilisation of the absorbed energy to fix carbon - the foundation of carbon-based life on earth. The authors consider a diverse range of species throughout drawing on experience gained with both monocultures and mixed-plant communities. The volume is intended for researchers and professionals in plant physiology, cell biology, molecular biology, ecology and evolutionary biology. It will also be of interest to crop physiologists."--BOOK JACKET.

A history of the regulation uniforms of the Republic of Texas, 1836-1846

A perfect morning (from The young lions) / Irwin Shaw Lunghua camp (from Empire of the Sun) / J.G. Ballard The journey (from A town like Alice) / Nevil Shute The birth of an idea (from The man who never was) / Ewen Montague The big day (from From here to eternity) / James Jones Abducting the general (from Ill met by midnight) / W. Stanley Moss The landing at Kuralei (from Tales of the South Pacific) / James A. Michener Shall I live for a ghost (from The last enemy) / Richard Hillary Billy Pilgrim (from Slaughterhouse Five) / Kurt Vonnegut Battalion in defense (from Officers and gentlemen) / Evelyn Waugh Anopopei (from The naked and the dead) / Norman Mailer 'Plane land here' (from Wingate's raiders) / Charles J. Rolo Mission asymptote (from The white rabbit) / Bruce Marshall Fraternizing with the enemy? (from Reach for the sky) / Paul Brickhill Shooting party (from Grand party) Graham Brooks H-hour (from The longest day) / Cornelius Ryan Into Germany (from Carve her name with pride) / R.J. Minney Ironbottom Sound (from Ironbottom Sound) / Lindsay Baly The first bid for freedom (from The Colditz story) / P.R. Reed Some were unlucky (from Enemy coast ahead) / Guy Gibson, VC May 1941 (from Nella Last's diary) / Nella Last Major major major major (from Catch 22) / Joseph Heller The battle of the bulge (from The face of war) / Martha Gelhorn The invasion of Papua (from Retreat from Kokoda) / Raymond Paull No trouble at all (from The stories of flying officer X) / H.E. Bates Stalingrad The story of the battle (from Stalingrad point of return) / Ronald Seth The soldier looks for his family / John Prebble The white mouse and the Maquis d'Auvergne (from The white mouse) / Nancy Wake Fear of death / F.J. Salfeld The invaders (from The Moon is down) / John Steinbeck The compass rose (from The cruel sea) / Nicholas Monsarrat The diary of a desert rat (from The diary of a desert rat) / R.L. Crimp The Mannerheim Line (from Of many men) / James Aldridge Midway (from Torpedo Junction) / Robert J. Casey Hiroshima the fire (from Hiroshima) / John Hersey

When a priest moves a Scottish nightclub to an isolated rock in the ocean to prove that miracles can still happen, the effect on society is not what he expected.