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The story of Luigi Ronsisvalle is an intimate look at the life of a professional killer. It is, in some ways, the story of all workingmen and women with ambition who never achieve their ultimate goal. But what makes Luigi unique is that, for him to achieve his goal, people had to die. His ambition, from when he was 12 years old, was to be a made man in the Mafia. He once told a presidential commission, "American child falls in love with baseba...

John H. McFadden and His Age: Cotton and Culture in Philadelphia is the first biography dedicated to John McFadden (1850-1921), Philadelphia's-if not the country's-grandest cotton king of his time and collector and donor of an important grouping of British paintings now in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Tracing his life in both England and Philadelphia, this book not only examines how McFadden accumulated his wealth and art collection, but al...

Philadelphia: City of Homes is a collection of intriguing photographs of various types of Philadelphia homes taken and assembled with descriptive captions by longtime local architect David S. Traub. Compared to other large urban centers such as New York and Chicago, Philadelphia has relatively few apartment buildings. The single house or house-like structure still prevails in the city's architectural profile. This book covers seven different s...

RUNNING AN ARENA WAS NO GAME I had many ideas on making the Philadelphia Flyers and the Spectrum zing, some solid- some zany. Ed Snider pretty much let me call the shots, as long as I ran the more risky or costly ones by him. If I couldn't convince him, I'd try to tamper them down from Just Plain Wild to Let's Hope We Don't Get Arrested. I was a riverboat gambler, Ed was a card counter. I doubled down, he cut the odds. I was a swaggering Sagit...

Philadelphia--where more than three centuries of history come alive--is not one but several cities and you can experience all of them if you know where to look. Tucked amid the glass-and-steel skyscrapers stand the brick-and-mortar buildings of the colonial and Federal periods as well as blocks of homes from the Civil War Era and the Age of Victoria. The Philadelphia Inquirer's Walking Tours of Historic Philadelphia takes history buffs on twel...

Blessed by the Best follows Brian Dawkins, one of the best safeties in the NFL, in his trials to train his mind and faith along with his skill. It tells the story of how. after being drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles in 1996, Dawkins fought to elevate not only his own game but that of his entire team. He sweat, bled, and dominated through sixteen season in the NFL all the way into the Hall of Fame, but not for a moment did he believe his stre...

Philadelphia: A Railroad History describes the remarkable development of the railroad industry in Philadelphia and the intense competition that pitted the Pennsylvania Railroad against the Reading Railroad, and those two titans against the formidable Baltimore and Ohio Railroad to dominate the regional market. The book details the impact of the rail industry in the region's economy, the Philadelphia waterfront, and its port. It also highlights...

How do you celebrate a national commitment to equality, liberty, and tolerance in the middle of political upheaval, riots, and a national draft? What can we learn about the character of a city by studying how its representatives plan such a celebration? These are the questions that drive Edward Duffy's book, Philadelphia Celebrates: Three Great Anniversaries 1876, 1926, 1976. A remarkable account of the Centennial, Sesquicentennial, and Bi...

Here is the tenth-anniversary edition of the first full-scale biography of Frank Rizzo, one of the most beloved and feared public figures in urban American history. Sweeping and finely detailed, this is a work of scholarship that reads like a novel, packed with colorful new details and revealing new stories about a man whose life demonstrated how the force of personality can affect history.

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Philadelphia is thought to have the oldest and largest collection of public art in the country. Some of the works are in prominent locations and have become tourist destinations, much like the Liberty Bell or the Rocky statue. Other works of art define particular neighborhoods, parks and personalities. There are over 3, 000 murals spread throughout Philly. It's an extraordinary number, but here, the extraordinary has become an ordinary part of...

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In this unique and fascinating book Robert and Vincent Gardino tell the stories of 70 Americans buried in more than a dozen cemeteries, churches, and tombs in the United States.]€] Most of them were prominent, some famous, a few were humble and obscure but [their] graves evoke uncommon points of interest." "€"James McPherson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom "Like modern day Virgils, the Brothers Gardino take us on a tour...

Philadelphia Magic Gardens: The Dreamwork\ of Isaiah Zagar captures the artistry of one of Philadelphia's most prolific muralists. Begun in 1994 and opened for the public 2008, Zagar's Magic Gardens overflows from its empty lot on South Street to cover the landscape in a labyrinthine display of found objects. This multicolored, multitextured, mural erupts in splashes of vibrant glass, stone, and twisted metal that can only be described as fant...

Most of us seek to remain independent and stay in our own homes for as long as possible. However, as we age, we may experience changes in our abilities to do what matters most to us. These changes may involve dressing, bathing, toileting, preparing meals, reading, going up and down stairs, or other activities. But there is good news! This book provides simple tips"€"identified in research and clinical practice"€"that can be tried at home. Thes...

On the morning of June 5, 2013, early-bird shoppers and employees at a Philadelphia Salvation Army thrift store were buried alive. For weeks before the collapse, contractors had worked on a demolition project next door to the thrift store. Corners were cut, warnings of potential dangers ignored, and safety precautions passed by, but no one inside the store knew that, until a wall of the demolished building crumbled ahead of schedule and came c...

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Camino Books is proud to announce the publication of an updated and expanded edition of Cancer and Vitamin C by Ewan Cameron and Linus Pauling with a preface by Stephen Lawson. This publication explains in plain language the nature and known causes of this disease, covering nearly all its different forms and their natural progression

A child's alphabet book, a visitor's guide and keepsake, history primer, or coffee table book which best describes, The ABC's of Philadelphia? The answer, of course, is all of these at once. Greg Landry's crisp text and Robert Hochgertel's vibrant illustrations combine to bring the diverse pleasures of this great city to life on every page. Philadelphia appears here in its many familiar manifestations fount of our nation's history, center of c...