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The New Brooklyn

What It Takes to Bring a City Back

By: Kay S. Hymowitz

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The New Brooklyn

What It Takes to Bring a City Back

By: Kay S. Hymowitz

Featured in The New York Times Book Review Only a few decades ago, the Brooklyn stereotype well known to Americans was typified by television programs such as “The Honeymooners” and “Welcome Back, Kotter”—comedies about working-class sensibilities, deprivation, and struggles. Today, the borough across the East River from Manhattan is home to trendsetters, celebrities, and enough “1 percenters” to draw the Occupy Wall Street protests across the Brooklyn Bridge. “Tres Brooklyn,” has become a compliment among gourmands in Parisian restaurants. In The New Brooklyn, Kay Hymowitz chronicles the dramatic transformation of the once crumbling borough. Devoting separate chapters to Park Slope, Williamsburg, Bed Stuy and the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Hymowitz identifies the government policies and young, educated white and black middle class enclaves responsible for creating thousands of new businesses, safe and lively streets, and one of the most desirable urban environments in the world. Exploring Brownsville, the growing Chinatown of Sunset Park, and Caribbean Canarsie, Hymowitz also wrestles with the question of whether the borough’s new wealth can lift up long disadvantaged minorities, and the current generation of immigrants, many of whom will need more skills than their predecessors to thrive in a postindustrial economy. The New Brooklyn’s portraits of dramatic urban transformation, and its sometimes controversial effects, offers prescriptions relevant to “phoenix” cities coming back to life across the United States and beyond its borders.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1442266589

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9781442266582

The New Brooklyn

What It Takes to Bring a City Back

By: Kay S. Hymowitz

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What It Takes to Bring a City Back

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Manning Up

How the Rise of Women Has Turned Men into Boys

By: Kay S Hymowitz

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Manning Up

How the Rise of Women Has Turned Men into Boys

By: Kay S Hymowitz

In Manning Up, Manhattan Institute fellow and City Journal contributing editor Kay Hymowitz argues that the gains of the feminist revolution have had a dramatic, unanticipated effect on the current generation of young men. Traditional roles of family man and provider have been turned upside down as "pre-adult" men, stuck between adolescence and "real" adulthood, find themselves lost in a world where women make more money, are more educated, and are less likely to want to settle down and build a family. Their old scripts are gone, and young men find themselves adrift. Unlike women, they have no biological clock telling them it's time to grow up. Hymowitz argues that it's time for these young men to "man up.

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Basic Books

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0465031404

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9780465031405

Plants Tolerant of Arid, Or Semi-arid, Conditions with Non-food Constituents of Potential Use

By: J. B. Davis,Daisy E. Kay,V. Clark

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Plants Tolerant of Arid, Or Semi-arid, Conditions with Non-food Constituents of Potential Use

By: J. B. Davis,Daisy E. Kay,V. Clark

Tabular list of 298 plant sources of essential oils, fibers, firewood, gums and resins, latexes, oilseeds, pesticides, pharmaceuticals, tannins, and waxes.

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0859541355

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9780859541350

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