Notes: The queen of all such events, the Philadelphia Flower Show celebrates its illustrious 175-year reign as the world's largest indoor flower show with a sumptuous, behind-the-scenes glimpse into the makings of a horticultural extravaganza. Dazzling artistic photographs complement the fascinating accounts of the show's venerable history and lavish production.

Notes: Unprecedented in its breadth and sweep, A Century of Philadelphia Sports covers the big-time teams and events and also amateur and college sports.

Notes: In this new edition, Friedman takes the history of Philadelphia Jewish life to the close of the twentieth century, and looks back on how Jews have shapedand have been shaped byPhiladelphia and its long immigrant history.

Notes: Telling the story of the Republican convention of 1940, Peters recounts how Wendell Willkie - the only internationalist in a field of avowed isolationists -- wrested the Republican nod from the grip of Dewey, Taft and Vandenberg, each of whom was implacably opposed to providing material assistance to the Allies as the Nazi juggernaut marched across Europe.

Notes: In this lavishly illustrated chronicle of the Mural Arts Program, you will see the murals in all of their beauty and learn about their inspiring legacies in neighborhoods throughout the city. Go behind the scenes to find out how murals are made and why the process is as much an art of diplomacy and consensus building as paint and perspective. Discover through pictures and text how murals give communities a new way to define themselves, not in terms of the streets and intersections that border them, but in terms of the people who came together to create something of dramatic beauty.

Notes: This book is the result of thirty years of urban archaeology in the greater Philadelphia area. More that 150 sites are covered in this treasure hunt for anyone interested in the history of the city.

Notes: As sociologist Elijah Anderson shows in this detailed and devastating account, the senseless crime in the inner city represents a complex, though ultimately self-defeating, set of social mores. He moves through the middle- and lower-class Philadelphia neighborhoods with ease, interviewing a variety of subjects, all of whom deal daily with consequences of urban decay

Notes: In his latest meticulously detailed slice of pop music history, Jackson focuses on the creation, expansion and dissolution of Philadelphia International Records, whose songs and artists dominated soul and pop airwaves throughout the 1970s.

Notes: Thomas-EL grew up one of eight siblings in a single-parent household in a Philadelphia housing project. He ends up returning to that same neighborhood to teach at an elementary school with all the social ills that have driven many teachers out of inner-city schools. In this inspirational story, Thomas-EL recounts his childhood, his determination to escape the deprivations of his surroundings, and his commitment to help other disadvantaged youth.

Notes: Comprehensive and forthcoming about the tangle of legal maneuvers and missteps in his controversial trial, Williams, the death row inmate's defense lawyer and chief case strategist, offers a slew of previously unrevealed details about the lengthy battle to appeal Abu-Jamal's 1982 conviction for the murder of a Philadelphia policeman.