(Part 4) Top products from r/pittsburgh

yes, but I strongly recommend you read: http://www.amazon.com/The-First-National-Bank-Dad/dp/0743204808 first.

There's an essential thing to keep in mind: interest rates are too low and time horizons too long to actually make it possible for young people to "Get" saving at an early age. The solution to this is obvious, affordable and fun for everyone: just open your own "bank" and then pay your kids ridiculously unsustainable interest on every dollar they save (up to a limit). 1% per month. hell, 1% per week.

it teaches them math, you can afford it on small amounts of money and it gives them the opportunity to learn something about compounding at a rate they can relate to.

strongly recommended.

This one is nonfiction, but is a great look at the development of Pittsburgh in relation to its landscape. As an architect I may be biased, but this book is super interesting: The Spectator and the Topographical City.

Does anyone have an Alexa, use the Pittsburgh Bus regularly, and willing to try a new skill I made? I was hoping to get some feedback on my first attempt at it, ease of use and feature's that would be useful.

Thanks!

https://www.amazon.com/tymcdo-MyBus-PGH/dp/B07K56PYYL/ref=sr_1_4?s=digital-skills&ie=UTF8&qid=1541348626&sr=1-4&keywords=my+bus

I don't believe much, but I accept it as the best explanation for what we currently know about quantum physics.

Edit: Link for desktop: http://www.amazon.com/The-Quantum-Universe-Anything-Happen/dp/0306821443 (I had posted the mobile link before)

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/heres-why-black-families-have-struggled-for-decades-to-gain-wealth-2019-02-28

Also take a look at the policies that excluded people of color from social security. The GI bill provided for returning soldiers’ education but the only colleges that accepted minorities were for things like farming. So while white guys came back and became engineers, people of color were still only able to access lower income jobs. Then there’s redlining which prevented black families from becoming homeowners. Homeownership is the main way people gain wealth. So the simple answer to your question is structural racism.

I’m reading this book right now (https://www.amazon.com/White-Fragility-People-About-Racism/dp/0807047414) which I highly recommend.

I have a not-so-secret love affair with Pittsburgh. I grew up in Portland, OR. I now live in upstate NY for grad school. But I swear, I'm going to "start my life" in Pittsburgh. I can come up with all sorts of rationalizations for it, like housing costs, job opportunities, and long-term environmental stability... but the truth is that I feel an insane connection to the city. I've read everything I can find on this history of the city (holy fuck, btw), and spent countless hours looking at every square inch on Google Earth (to the point where I'm worried I might be "on the spectrum"). I have only visited once, mainly to see CMU, but I plan on coming back in this spring to check out some neighborhoods. Maybe I can meet up with some of yinz when I get the chance to come out.

I agree with OP, there's something about the "bones" of the city that makes it insanely charming. Some combination of the hills and all the industrial vestiges make it an urbanist's wet dream.

I also highly recommend this book for some cool depictions of old Pittsburgh - in particular an account of the fancy parties that used to take place in Allegheny West and around Lake Elizabeth:

https://www.amazon.com/Remaking-Pittsburgh-Industrializing-1877-1919-American/dp/0873957792

These books have great places, I've been to a lot of them.

http://www.amazon.com/Pennsylvania-Hiking-Trails-Keystone-Association/dp/0811734773/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1390263069&sr=8-2&keywords=pennsylvania+hiking+trails

http://www.amazon.com/Best-Hikes-Near-Pittsburgh-Series/dp/0762747420/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1390263092&sr=8-1&keywords=best+hikes+near+pittsburgh

Also in the winter the grotto at mineral springs area of raccoon creek park is a work of art.

Edit: weird how someone would downvote a useful response...

There are a lot of books like this available for specific neighborhoods in and around Pittsburgh that contain lots of old pictures for inspiration

Congratulations, you can copy and paste from Amazon.

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For those of you interested in regional dialects and colloquialisms (and also for those of you who get irritated by such things) I highly recommend The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language by John McWhorter

http://www.amazon.com/The-Valley-Decision-Marcia-Davenport/dp/0822958058/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top

Best historical fiction ever about the Pittsburgh immigrant experience. Fairly accurate overall according to my grandparents, parents, uncles and aunts who were around in that time, most of them coal miners or steel workers.

The movie was filmed on the North Side in the late 30's, but there were several copies of the original book floating around my family which is how I happened to read it. And, have re-read it so many times.

Tbh, I never ever heard of Eastern Europeans being recruited for work in American mills. I thought most were driven here because of the famines and economic depressions which took place sporadically in Europe in the late 1800's.

Pittsburgh: The Story of a City, 1750-1865 (The Library of Western Pennsylvania History) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0822952165/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_GXCBDbVMD29QS

[The definitive guide](https://smile.amazon.com/Manual-Woody-Landscape-Plants-Characteristics/dp/0875637957?sa-no-redirect=1
)

Pittsburgh: A New Portrait https://www.amazon.com/dp/0822943719/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_0Ak6AbNWK8ZHW

Really reminds me of this
https://www.amazon.com/Look-This-cking-Hipster-Mande/dp/0312624972

Homestead: The Glory and Tragedy of an American Steel Town

https://www.amazon.com/Homestead-Glory-Tragedy-American-Steel/dp/081291886X/ref=sr_1_14?ie=UTF8&qid=1486733475&sr=8-14&keywords=homestead+history

Personally, I feel that the Homestead Strike was one of the most influential events in modern world history. Perhaps the moment when capital defeated labor.