As a child growing up in Manhattan; William Helmreich played a game with his father called "Last Stop." They would pick a subway line; ride it to its final destination; and explore the neighborhood. Decades later; his love for exploring the city is as strong as ever.Putting his feet to the test; he decided that the only way to truly understand New York was to walk virtually every block of all five boroughs―an astonishing 6;000 miles. His journey took him to every corner of Manhattan; Brooklyn; Queens; the Bronx; and Staten Island. Helmreich spoke with hundreds of New Yorkers from every part of the globe and all walks of life. He finds that to be a New Yorker is to struggle to understand the place and to make a life that is as highly local as it is dynamically cosmopolitan.Truly unforgettable; The New York Nobody Knows will forever change how you view the world's greatest city.
#968080 in Books Grzyma A Busse Anna 2015-04-27Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 9.40 x 1.00 x 6.10l; .0 #File Name: 0691164762440 pagesNations Under God How Churches Use Moral Authority to Influence Policy
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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Winner of the 2017 Laura Shannon Prize in Contemporary European StudiesBy Monica CaroThe $10;000 Laura Shannon Prize was awarded to Anna Grzymala-Busse for this book; which the jury commended as "an outstanding accomplishment of historically grounded and carefully contextualized comparative political science. Its richness of range and detailed empirical command are no less impressive than its conceptual and methodological sophistication. Together they make an exceedingly rare combination; appealing to historians and political scientists alike; while leaving scholars across the disciplines in its debt. Shining a carefully focused light on a remarkably neglected subject—the complex; variable relationship of religion to politics—Grzymała-Busse captures a patently important question of contemporary social and political life; develops a sophisticated research strategy for its investigation; and delivers outcomes that are as fascinating and suggestive substantively as they are compelling methodologically. The case studies are ambitiously chosen and brilliantly carried off. The study should be enormously influential whether as methodological model or source of arguments and ideas." The jury included George W. Breslauer; Faculty Director of the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life and Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost; Emeritus; University of California; Berkeley; E. Mark Cummings; Professor and Notre Dame Chair in Psychology; University of Notre Dame; Geoff Eley; Karl Pohrt Distinguished University Professor of Contemporary History; University of Michigan; Patrick Griffin; Madden-Hennebry Professor of History; University of Notre Dame; Adele Lindenmeyr; Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Professor of History; Villanova University.
