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Explains what a settlement house is, describes its role in the lives of poor children who live near it, and tells how the settlement house movement is still bei

The settlement house movement, launched at the end of the nineteenth century by men and women of the upper middle class, began as an attempt to understand and i

We like to say that our cities have been shaped by creative destruction the vast powers of capitalism to remake cities. But Marta Gutman shows that other forces

Back-to-basics book, filled with hundreds of hearty, simple recipes -- everything from griddle cakes, shrimp Creole and mulligatawny soup to cheese fondue, oyst