True to its name, Eyewitness Travel Guide: Top 10 New York City covers all the city's major sights and attractions in easy-to-use "top 10" lists that help you plan the vacation that's right for you. This newly updated pocket travel guide for New York City will lead you straight to the best attractions the city has to offer, from unearthing archaeological treasures at the Metropolitan Museum of Art to biking through Central Park to discovering the city's hottest neighborhoods on walking tours. Plus, check out the best of the boroughs with suggested highlights for Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, The Bronx, and upper Manhattan.
With dramatic scenic beauty, world-class cuisine, a plethora of cultural attractions, vibrant neighborhoods and liberal locals, San Francisco is an easy city to love. Explore San Francisco is part of a brand-new series and is the ideal pocket companion when discovering this exciting city: a full-color guide containing 14 easy-to-follow routes through the city’s many interesting neighborhoods, from Fisherman’s Wharf to Haight-Ashbury, with excursions to Berkeley and the infamous island of Alcatraz. Insight’s trademark cultural coverage perfectly sets the routes in context, with introductions to San Francisco’s cuisine, shops and its role as a movie location.
Superbia: 31 Ways to Create Sustainable Neighborhoods
Superbia! is a book of practical ideas for creating more socially, economically, and environmentally sustainable neighborhoods. It is about remaking suburban and urban neighborhoods to serve people better and to reduce human impact on the environment.
Alex Cross was a rising star in the Washington, DC, Police Department when an unknown shooter gunned down his wife, Maria, in front of him. The killer was never found, and the case turned cold, filed among the unsolved drive-bys in D.C.'s rough neighborhoods. Years later, still haunted by his wife's death, Cross is making a bold move in his life.
And in The Front, peril is what comes to them all. D.A. Lamont has a special job for Garano. As part of a new public relations campaign about the dangers of declining neighborhoods, she's sending him to Watertown to 'come up with a drama,' and she thinks she knows just the case that will serve.
