Sizeable natural resource endowments and potentially large financial inflows from their extraction provide an unparalleled opportunity for economic growth and development in a growing number of sub-Saharan African countries. Empirical evidence suggests, however, that translating this resource wealth into stronger economic performance and a higher standard of living has proven challenging. Much has been written about the resource curse. This publication focuses on solutions to the challenge...

Sizeable natural resource endowments and potentially large financial inflows from their extraction provide an unparalleled opportunity for economic growth and development in a growing number of sub-Saharan African countries. Empirical evidence suggests, however, that translating this resource wealth into stronger economic performance and a higher standard of living has proven challenging. Much has been written about the resource curse. This publication focuses on solutions to the challenge...

Sizeable natural resource endowments and potentially large financial inflows from their extraction provide an unparalleled opportunity for economic growth and development in a growing number of sub-Saharan African countries. Empirical evidence suggests, however, that translating this resource wealth into stronger economic performance and a higher standard of living has proven challenging. Much has been written about the resource curse. This publication focuses on solutions to the challenge...

Marilyn's period in New York City from 1954-1957 is interesting because it was a time of change and growth for the actress. She formed her own company, Marilyn Monroe Productions, to produce television, photographs, and films, for herself and other talented performers. Monroe stayed at the Waldorf Towers and with Milton H. Greene at the home he and his wife owned in Westport, Connecticut. Aside from her career she celebrated her new independence as an artist by doing things she enjoyed. Sh...

The story of how the richest city in the world became one of the poorest in North America, with a new introduction by Peter KwongHow did New York City come to be a network of steel towers, banks, and nail salons, with chain drugstores on every block—a place where, increasingly, no one can afford to live except the lords of Wall Street and foreign billionaires, and where more and more of the Big Apple's best-loved businesses have closed their doors? It didn't start w...

Branle-bas de combat à la Criminelle de New York. Isaac McQueen, dit le Collectionneur, prédateur pédophile à l’intelligence redoutable, vient de s’évader de prison. Dans la foulée, il a fait sa vingt-septième victime, à qui il a laissé la vie sauve uniquement pour qu’elle délivre un message au lieutenant Dallas. Douze ans plus tôt, Eve mettait ce détraqué derrière les barreaux. Aujourd’hui, déterminé à se venger, McQueen la défie dans un jeu de piste macabre qui doit la conduire à Dallas,...

A "street-smart, informative and occasionally hilarious" look at the places, personalities, and history that make New York one of a kind ( Publishers Weekly).Reporter Sam Roberts has covered the city in all its quirkiness, both in print and in his popular New York Times podcasts. In Only in New York, now updated with new stories, he writes about what makes this city tick and why things are the way they are in the greatest of all metropoli...

Iconic images of the heyday of punk rock in New York City.New York Punk captures New York's Lower Eastside when a new blending of music, fashion, and social protest was being born in the late '70s and early '80s. Ebet Roberts's iconic images have come to define an entire generation of musicians and fans. She brought an artist's eye to documenting this scene, befriending many of its leading performers and preserving a rich period of musical experimentation ...

Their story didn’t start with a fairytale romance. Their marriage wasn’t chosen for love. But they still chose each other...time and again.Romance is the last thing on Ian Nixon's mind. He's juggling two jobs, his kids are crazy and every time he gets close to his wife, she snaps at him. Communication has never been their strong suit, and now their physical connection is fizzling as well.Carrie knows she's being too hard on her husband, but eight years ago ...

A new perspective on postwar New York City baseball, including the city's Negro League teamsIn the golden age of baseball, three Major League Baseball teams in New York City vied for supremacy on the diamond, with the New York Giants, Brooklyn Dodgers, and New York Yankees each winning at least one World Series. Too often overlooked, the Negro Leagues had five teams in the city fighting for primacy in the sport: the Brooklyn Royal Giants, the New York Lincoln Giant...

Descubre los mecanismos del humor y la creatividad de la mano de Bob Mankoff, dibujante y editor de viñetas en The New Yorker durante más de veinte años.Un libro inteligente, divertido y visual sobre el proceso creativo y el arte de hacer viñetas para The New Yorker, la revista que cumple 100 años, reconocida por su producción literaria y por la calidad de sus cartoons.Junto a compañeros y grandes viñetistas,

The Book of New York is full of delightful reminiscences and intimate descriptions of one of the most individual cities of the world. It is really a literary excursion, on foot, to various localities, new and old, which are a vital part of the big metropolis and its environs. One wanders at will through illuminated pages to the Bowery, Wall Street, City Hall Park; through the tenement districts, Madison Square, Union Square, Riverside Drive and, last but not least, that motley place of mod...