Tony Hiss: 7 books
The View from Alger's Window
A Son's Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
The View from Alger's Window is Tony Hiss's remarkable memoir of the trial and imprisonment of one of the most famous victims of the Cold War witch-hunts: his father. Tony Hiss was seven years old when Whittaker Chambers first accused Alger Hiss of passing secrets to the Russians. For the rest of...
In Motion
The Experience of Travel
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
In this extraordinarily wide-ranging, insightful, and revelatory book, Tony Hiss—the much-praised author of The Experience of Place—delves into a unique and instantly recognizable (though previously undescribed) experience that can happen to us when we travel, a special understanding and ability...
In Motion
The Experience of Travel
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
In this extraordinarily wide-ranging, insightful, and revelatory book, Tony Hiss is the much-praised author of The Experience of Places delves into a unique and instantly recognizable (though previously undescribed) experience that can happen to us when we travel, a special understanding and ability...
Long Road from Quito
Transforming Health Care in Rural Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2019
Long Road from Quito presents a fascinating portrait of David Gaus, an unlikely trailblazer with deep ties to the University of Notre Dame and an even more compelling postgraduate life. Gaus is co-founder, with his mentor Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., of Andean Health and Development (AHD), an...
The Experience of Place
A New Way of Looking at and Dealing With our Radically Changing Cities and Count ryside
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
Why do some places--the concourse of Grand Central Terminal or a small farm or even the corner of a skyscraper--affect us so mysteriously and yet so forcefully? What tiny changes in our everyday environments can radically alter the quality of our daily lives? The Experience of Place offers an innovative...
A Region at Risk
The Third Regional Plan For The New York-New Jersey-Connecticut Metropolitan Area
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
Regional Plan Association, the nation's oldest regional planning organization, has worked since 1929 to improve the quality of life in the New York-New Jersey-Connecticut metropolitan area. The Association has crafted two long-term plans and successfully promoted their implementation through advocacy...
Green Metropolis
The Extraordinary Landscapes of New York City as Nature, History, and Design
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Elizabeth Barlow Rogers, the woman who launched the restoration of Central Park in the 1980s, now introduces us to seven remarkable green spaces in and around New York City, giving us the history—both natural and human—of how they have been transformed over time.
Here we find: The greenbelt...