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Dont Call Me Boss

…editors of Fortune magazine name Pittsburgh as one of the eight best administered cities in America.DonÆt Call Me Boss examines the lengthy career of this remarkable politician. Using over one…

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A Mighty Capital under Threat

…shaping of the environmental sciences in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. | Bill Luckin Peter Thorsheim| History of the Urban Environment| Architecture / Urban & Land Use Planning…

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London

|9780822944270|Water and the Making of the Modern City| As people crowded into British cities in the nineteenth century, industrial and biological waste byproducts and then epidemic followed them. Britons died…

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City at the Center of the World

…society struggling to keep the memory of its colonial and indigenous roots alive. | Ernesto Capello| Pitt Latin American Series| History / General History / Latin America / South America

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Medicine and Modernism

…his research into the human nervous system. He did a series of experiments in collaboration with W. H. R. Rivers in which cutaneous nerves were surgically severed in Head’s arm…

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