. . . This is a candy of a book."-- "Cosmopolitan.""Smoothly written, engrossing . . . Ann is a heroine you love to hate . . . . Will be read with enormous enjoyment for the personalities, from Brenda Frazier to the Duchess of Windsor, that decorate its pages for the knowing glimpses of high living in high places."-- "Publishers Weekly.""Dominick Dunne is the best chronicler of American Society since Truman Capote. He is the only person writing about high society from inside the aquarium"--Tina Brown, "Vanity Fair

    We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

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    His prize-winning book offers a new perspective on lived religion, the place of religion in the everyday lives of men, women, and children, the experiences of immigration and community formation, and American Catholicism. This edition includes a new introduction by the author that outlines both the changes that Italian Harlem has undergone in recent years and significant shifts in the field of religious history.

    It's hard starting over — new family, new school, new friends.Then Jenny meets Pete McCaffrey, the mysterious boy next door. Stay away from him, everyone warns her, he's trouble. He's already got a girlfriend. And he deals drugs.But Jenny needs someone to lean on, so she ignores their advice. Pretty soon, Pete's hooked on Jenny. And Jenny is hooked on drugs.She knows she's in over her head. The question is, can she get out?

    This work traces the history of the creation, operation, and demolition of New York's Pennsylvania Station.

    The aptly named Georgie Wreckage, a sketch artist for Pulitzer's daily World, rockets to fame as the creator of what becomes a hugely successful cartoon franchise.

    

    Harris chronicles the personal transformation she experienced as she grew closer to the largely hidden men and women of the Hasidic world.

    Food professionals and students are encouraged to use Food for Fifty's recipes and information as the foundation for adapting nearly any recipe to make a quality quantity food product. It is a resource for a broad variety of tested recipes. It contains approximately 70 new recipes including non-meat, pasta, bean, and vegetable entries, and contains current HACCP guidelines, updated tables, charts, and cooking information. Enhanced information for planning special meals and receptions is also available. It also features expanded glossary of menu and cooking items. Food for Fifty, Eleventh Edition expertly provides readers with new tools to meet the ever-changing dining trends and satisfy the expectations of today's customer.

    

    In Children of the City, David Nasaw re-creates this period in our social history from the vantage point of the children who grew up then. Drawing on hundreds of memoirs, autobiographies, oral histories and unpublished--and until now unexamined--primary source materials from cities across the country, he provides us with a warm and eloquent portrait of these children, their families, their daily lives, their fears, and their dreams. Illustrated with 68 photographs from the period, many never before published, Children of the City offers a vibrant protrait of a time when our cities and our grandparents were young

    Kathy Peiss follows working women into saloons, dance halls, Coney Island amusement parks, social clubs, and nickelodeons to explore the culture of these young women between 1880 and 1920 as expressed in leisure activities. By examining the rituals and styles they adopted and placing that culture in the larger context of urban working-class life, she offers us a complex picture of the dynamics shaping a working woman's experience and consciousness at the turn-of-the-century. Not only does her analysis lead us to new insights into working-class culture, changing social relations between single men and women, and urban courtship, but it also gives us a fuller understanding of the cultural transformations that gave rise to the commercialization of leisure. The early twentieth century witnessed the emergence of "heterosocial companionship" as a dominant ideology of gender, affirming mixed-sex patterns of social interaction, in contrast to the nineteenth century's segregated spheres. Cheap Amusements argues that a crucial part of the "reorientation of American culture" originated from below, specifically in the subculture of working women to be found in urban dance halls and amusement resorts.

    The wish to become a cat comes true for a young girl who doesn't want to be sent away to boarding school by her new stepfather.

    Remarkable for clarity, definition and detail, the prints comprise a richly evocative portrait of turn-of-the-century life — street scenes, parks, restaurants, commercial interiors, Easter Parade, Blizzard of '99, Coney Island, a dinner for Mark Twain, etc. Informative text.

    Presents interviews with Vernon and Irene Castle, Lillian Russell, Diamond Jim Brady, Flo Ziegfeld, Billy Sunday, Alfred Stieglitz, James Joyce, and Coco Chanel.

    Here's a fascinating, detail-filled tour of the things that make it most special--from the Statue of Liberty to the floor of the Stock Exchange to a performance of the Nutcracker. Full color. A New York Times Best Illustrated Book of the Year.

    Scott Fitzgerald.