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The Organization Man by William H. Whyte
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $34.71Regarded as one of the most important sociological and business commentaries of modern times, The Organization Man developed the first thorough description of the impact of mass organization on... -
The Last Landscape by William H. Whyte 9780812217995
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $34.71The remaining corner of an old farm, unclaimed by developers. The brook squeezed between housing plans. Abandoned railroad lines. The stand of woods along an expanded highway. These are the outposts... -
City: Rediscovering the Center by William H. Whyte
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $34.71Named by Newsweek magazine to its list of "Fifty Books for Our Time." For sixteen years William Whyte walked the streets of New York and other major cities. With a group of young observers, camera... -
The Exploding Metropolis by William H. Whyte 9780520080904
RRP: $34.83Booksplease Price: $32.59In "The Exploding Metropolis", first published in 1958, William H. Whyte, Jane Jacobs, Francis Bello, Seymour Freedgood, and Daniel Seligman address the problems of urban decline and suburban sprawl,... -
William H. Whyte's The Organization Man by Nikki Springer
Booksplease Price: $8.62William Whyte's core idea in The Organization Man is that the Protestant Ethic that characterized financial and personal success in American history had been replaced in modern times by the Social... -
The Essential William H. Whyte by Albert LaFarge 9780823220267
RRP: $43.86Booksplease Price: $40.35The Essential William H. Whyte offers the core writings of a great observer of the postwar American scene. Included are selections from The Organization Man, Securing Space for Urban America:... -
New York City Guide by William H. Whyte 9781565843219
Booksplease Price: $20.34Originally published in 1939 at the time of the World's Fair, this is a reissue of this guide for time-travellers. It offers New York-lovers and 1930s-buffs a look at life as it was lived in the days... -
William H. Whyte's The Organization Man by Nikki Springer 9781912453474
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $24.17William Whyte's core idea in The Organization Man is that the Protestant Ethic that characterized financial and personal success in American history had been replaced in modern times by the Social... -
A Time of War: Remembering Guadalcanal, A Battle Without Maps by William H. Whyte 9780823220083
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $29.94A memoir by William H. Whyte. The battle for control of Guadalcanal in 1942 and what the Americans learned from it forms the heart of the book. The battle was the first real test of land combat... -
A Time of War: Remembering Guadalcanal, A Battle Without Maps by William H. Whyte 9780823220076
Booksplease Price: $96.84A memoir by William H. Whyte. The battle for control of Guadalcanal in 1942 and what the Americans learned from it forms the heart of the book. The battle was the first real test of land combat... -
American Urbanist: How William H. Whyte's Unconventional Wisdom Reshaped Public Life Richard K Rein 9781642832884
RRP: $30.96Booksplease Price: $27.61"A marvelous new biography." -The New York Times On an otherwise normal weekday in the 1980s, commuters on busy Route 1 in central New Jersey noticed an alarming sight: a man in a suit and tie... -
American Urbanist: How William H. Whyte's Unconventional Wisdom Reshaped Public Life Richard K Rein 9781642831702
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $34.48On an otherwise normal weekday in the 1980s, commuters on busy Route 1 in central New Jersey noticed an alarming sight: a man in a suit and tie dashing across four lanes of traffic, then scurrying... -
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces by William Hollingsworth Whyte 9780970632418
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $25.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780970632418Author William H WhyteFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint -
Vance Packard and American Social Criticism by Daniel Horowitz 9780807857359
RRP: $59.34Booksplease Price: $51.34Vance Packard's bestselling books--Hidden Persuaders (1957), Status Seekers (1959), and Waste Makers (1960)--taught the generation that came of age in the late 1950s and early 1960s about the dangers... -
The Humane Metropolis: People and Nature in the Twenty-first Century City by Rutherford Platt
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $31.68Four-fifths of Americans now live in the nation's sprawling metropolitan areas, and half of the world's population is now classified as ""urban."" As cities become the dominant living environment for... -
And So it Goes: Kurt Vonnegut: a Life by Charles J Shields 9781250012180
Booksplease Price: $32.92In 2006, Charles Shields reached out to Kurt Vonnegut in a letter asking for his endorsement for a planned biography. The first response was no ("A most respectful demurring by me for the excellent... -
Cities of Knowledge: Cold War Science and the Search for the Next Silicon Valley by Margaret Pugh O'Mara
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $30.56What is the magic formula for turning a place into a high-tech capital? How can a city or region become a high-tech powerhouse like Silicon Valley? For over half a century, through boom times and... -
Designing the Megaregion: Meeting Urban Challenges at a New Scale: 2020 Jonathan Barnett 9781642830439
RRP: $33.54Booksplease Price: $32.52As the US population grows, potentially adding more than 110 million people by 2050, cities and their suburbs will continue expanding, eventually meeting the suburbs of neighbouring cities and... -
American Business History: A Very Short Introduction by Walter A. Friedman 9780190622473
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.97By the early twentieth century, it became common to describe the United States as a "business civilization." President Coolidge in 1925 said, "The chief business of the American people is business."... -
The Invention of Public Space: Designing for Inclusion in Lindsay's New York by Mariana Mogilevich 9781517905750
RRP: $123.84Booksplease Price: $100.22The interplay of psychology, design, and politics in experiments with urban open space As suburbanization, racial conflict, and the consequences of urban renewal threatened New York City with "urban... -
The Invention of Public Space: Designing for Inclusion in Lindsay's New York by Mariana Mogilevich
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $26.65The interplay of psychology, design, and politics in experiments with urban open space As suburbanization, racial conflict, and the consequences of urban renewal threatened New York City with "urban...