books by Tony Hiss     books:     Tony Hiss      Building Images: Seventy Years of Photography at Hedrich Blessing Tony Hiss Chronicle Books, 2000 70 Years of Historic Beauty What a beautiful collection of photographs! The images in this book are some of the most georgeous photographs of buildings that I have ever seen, beginning with that stunning shot of the Chicago Federal building on the cover. This is the kind of coffee table book ...             Manhattan in Maps: 1527-1995 Paul Cohen, Robert T. Augustyn Rizzoli International Publications, 1997 Great Gift for Your Favorite Manhattanite This is a beautiful book for both those who are fascinated by maps and those with a deep interest in the history of New York City. The preface explains that, "The richness of New York's cartographic heritage is unique among the major cities of the world." It goes on to ...             Henry Chungs Hunan Style Chinese Cookbook Henry Chung Harmony, 1978 Henry is Magnificent cheers, Henry, Cheers... From Marty's Special BBQ Pork, to the overstuffed steamed dumplings this book has it all including an amazing recepie for Velvet Chicken. A must purchase.             The View from Alger's Window: A Son's Memoir Tony Hiss Vintage, 2000 The Truth Revealed This excellent book is beautifuly written and proves the sterling character of Alger Hiss. Hiss was framed by three of America's mid-century most evil men...Richard Nixon, Whitaker Chambers and J. Edgar Hoover. Alger Hiss was a Jeffersonian democrat who will be ...             The Fools in Town Are on Our Side Ross Thomas St. Martin's Minotaur, 2003 One of the books that made Ross Thomas' reputation It's been said that what Elmore Leonard ("Freaky Deaky," "Get Shorty," etc.) did for crime novels in urban environments, Ross Thomas did for crime novels in suburban environments. Thomas' novels aren't so much gritty as they are witty, and less about openly violent ...             Disarming the Prairie (Creating the North American Landscape) Terry Evans The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998 In Disarming the Prairie, noted landscape photographer Terry Evans offers haunting and hopeful images of the impact of America's military-industrial complex on the environment and the transformation of a former military base into a unique nature preserve and public recreation area. Located 40 miles southwest of downtown Chicago, the Joliet Army ...             All Aboard With E.M. Frimbo: World's Greatest Railroad Buff (Kodansha Globe) Rogers E. M. Whitaker, Tony Hiss Kodansha Amer Inc, 1997 An infectiously enjoyable ode to the joys of train travel I was the editor of the greatly expanded 1997 edition of this railroading classic of the 1970s. E.M. Frimbo was the alter ego of Whitaker, a writer who spent more than 50 years at the New Yorker, one of the original coterie that included A.J. Liebling, Joseph ...             The Last Landscape William H. Whyte University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002 The remaining corner of an old farm, unclaimed by developers. The brook squeezed between housing plans. Abandoned railroad lines. The stand of woods along an expanded highway. These are the outposts of what was once a larger pattern of forests and farms, the "last landscape." According to William H. Whyte, the place to work out the problems of our ...             A Region at Risk: The Third Regional Plan For The New York-New Jersey-Connecticut Metropolitan Area Robert Yaro, Tony Hiss Island Press, 1996 Regional Plan Association, the nation's oldest regional planning organization, has worked since 1929 to improve the quality of life in the New York-New Jersey-Connecticut metropolitan area. The Association has crafted two long-term plans and successfully promoted their implementation through advocacy and coalition building. The Association's Third ...             The Experience of Place: A New Way of Looking at and Dealing With our Radically Changing Cities and ... Tony Hiss Vintage, 1991 Inspired me to pursue a career in planning and city admin. It was Mr. Hiss' book that first inspired me to pursue a career as a city planner/city administrator. I recently reread the book to refresh much of the enthusiasm for carefully crafting a sense of place that, too often, can be dulled by the grind of bureaucracy. The ...             Laughing last: Alger Hiss Tony Hiss Houghton Mifflin, 1977 Laughing From Prison Yeah, Hiss laughed. He laughed because if he'd been in any country but the one he betrayed, he'd have been shot for his treason. The Venona transcripts make this nonsense look as stupid as it is.          products you might be interested in search for books connecticut, countryside, experience, jersey-connecticut, metropolitan, photography      geepe.com    web we recommend One of the books that made Ross Thomas' reputation randomly chosen VHS: Barney - Waiting For Santa