Life along the Hudson

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Stanley Abercrombie

Hospitality & Restaurant Design is a selection of topflight design projects that combine the best in interior architecture and design for an increasingly sophisticated public. Wide ranging in its scope, this volume explores everything from the redesign of Swissotel's venerable Drake Hotel in New York to the Glen Campbell Theater with its distinctive curtain design, as well as Stir Crazy, an Asian-style restaurant in Illinois, and themed entertainments such as Ripley's Believe It or Not!. The design solutions in Hospitality & Restaurant Design are organized alphabetically by design firm, with all projects indexed for easy reference. This volume is an inspiration and a necessity to any professional engaged in the many forms of hospitality and restaurant design.

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Tony Hiss

Hiss delves into the question of why travel sometimes feels remarkably fresh and exhilarating, and illustrates how to avail oneself of this seemingly elusive quality--which he calls "deep travel"--An everyday basis.

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Doris von Drathen

"A few years ago, The New York Times's Ken Johnson wrote of a series of Pat Steir paintings that "Beauty and Intellect join forces" in them, and that "what saves them from being just pretty pictures is the way they weave together several strands of meaning into a more complex conceptual fabric." Over the decades Steir has been carrying on just the sort of A-list painting career that pulls in accolades like that, putting up installations of her paintings in Europe, Asia, and the U.S. This monograph contains complete biographical and bibliographical information, an essay and an extensive interview between Doris von Drathen and Steir."--BOOK JACKET.

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Dimitri Bogazianos

"In 2010, President Barack Obama signed a law repealing one of the most controversial policies in American criminal justice history: the one hundred to one sentencing disparity between crack cocaine and powder whereby someone convicted of "simply" possessing five grams of crack--the equivalent of a few sugar packets--had been required by law to serve no less than five years in prison. In this highly original work, Dimitri A. Bogazianos draws on various sources to examine the profound consequences of America's reliance on this punishment structure, tracing the rich cultural linkages between America's War on Drugs, and the creative contributions of those directly affected by its destructive effects. Focusing primarily on lyrics that emerged in 1990s New York rap, which critiqued the music industry for being corrupt, unjust, and criminal, Bogazianos shows how many rappers began drawing parallels between the "rap game" and the "crack game." He argues that the symbolism of crack in rap's stance towards its own commercialization represents a moral debate that is far bigger than hip hop culture, highlighting the degree to which crack cocaine--although a drug long in decline--has come to represent the entire paradoxical predicament of punishment in the U.S. today."--