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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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Alan Turing: The Enigma, The Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation Game by Andrew Hodges |
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The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm edited by Jack Zipes |
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The Age of the Crisis of Man: Thought and Fiction in America, 1933–1973 by Mark Greif |
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1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed by Eric H. Cline |
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Locus of Authority: The Evolution of Faculty Roles in the Governance of Higher Education by William G. Bowen & Eugene M. Tobin |
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Mastering ’Metrics: The Path from Cause to Effect by Joshua D. Angrist & Jörn-Steffen Pischke |
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Irrational Exuberance: Revised and Expanded Third edition by Robert J. Shiller |
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On Bullshit by Harry Frankfurt |
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The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking by Edward B. Burger & Michael Starbird |
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Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul’s School by Shamus Rahman Khan |
