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We challenged readers to identify where this peace of art can be seen:
Did anyone guess it right? The fence is part of a larger mural at the Centro de La Paz (Center for Peace); motivating ghetto youth. 124th Street between Second and Third Avenues.
As featured in:
The New York Nobody Knows
Walking 6,000 Miles in the City
William B. HelmreichRead chapter 1: http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/s10060.pdf
Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, and able to leap tall buildings in a single bound…
Where in NYC does Superman fly?
As featured in:
The New York Nobody Knows
Walking 6,000 Miles in the City
William B. HelmreichRead chapter 1: http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/s10060.pdf
These are the best-selling books for the past week.
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1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed by Eric H. Cline |
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Why Government Fails So Often: And How It Can Do Better by Peter H. Schuck |
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Count Like an Egyptian: A Hands-On Introduction to Ancient Mathematics by David Reimer |
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Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age by W. Bernard Carlson |
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Everyday Calculus: Discovering the Hidden Math All around Us by Oscar E. Fernandez |
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Beetles of Eastern North America by Arthur V. Evans |
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The Soul of the World by Roger Scruton |
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Faust I & II by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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On Bullshit by Harry G. Frankfurt |
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The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century by Jürgen Osterhammel (trans. Patrick Camiller) |
