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  • City Politics, Canada

    by Jim Lightbody ...
    City Politics, Canada is an introduction to the basic politics and core policies of today's city halls. While the book surveys classic discussions and accurately describes municipal institutions in Canada, it also explains why particular policies assume the specific shape they do. James Lightbody draws on over thirty years experience researching and participating in city politics to argue that ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

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    A field study of corporate greed and a private equity firm's disastrous effect on a once thriving industrial American town—"Does a remarkable job" ( The New Yorker ).Named a Best/Most Anticipated Book of the Year by New York Post • Newsweek • The Week • Bustle"Should be required reading for people trying to understand Trumpism, inequality, and the sad state of a n... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Dorothy’s story (Individual stories from THE SWEETHEARTS, Book 4)

    by Lynn Russell, Neil Hanson ...
    Series Book 4 - Individual stories from THE SWEETHEARTS
    This is Dorothy’s story, one of five stories extracted from THE SWEETHEARTS.Whether in wartime or peace, tales of love, laughter and hardship from the girls in the Rowntrees factory in Yorkshire.“‘Every Friday when we got paid, they used to come round with your pay packet and a tin for charity and you’d put a penny in, and they’d go round all the machines for people to put money in. That was a ... Read more

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  • Urban Flow

    Bike Messengers and the City

    by Jeffrey L. Kidder ...
    Bike messengers are familiar figures in the downtown cores of major cities. Tasked with delivering time-sensitive materials within, at most, a few hours—and sometimes in as little as fifteen minutes—these couriers ride in all types of weather, weave in and out of dense traffic, dodging (or sometimes failing to dodge) taxis and pedestrians alike in order to meet their clients' tight deadlines. ... Read more

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  • Foundations of Governance

    Municipal Government in Canada's Provinces

    Edited by Andrew Sancton, Robert A. Young ...
    Municipalities are responsible for many essential services and have become vital agents for implementing provincial policies, including those dealing with the environment, emergency planning, economic development, and land use. In Foundations of Governance, experts from each of Canada's provinces come together to assess the extent to which municipal governments have the capacity to act ... Read more

    $41.79 USD

  • The Triangle Fire

    by Leon Stein ...
    "Leon Stein's gripping narrative of the Triangle tragedy is one of the classics of American history. As the grandson of a onetime Triangle seamstress, I salute the reissue of a book that anyone who cares about labor, past or present, should read."—Michael Kazin, Georgetown University, author of The Populist Persuasion: An American History and other booksPraise for the 1962 edition—"Stein recreates ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Sky's the Limit

    Passion and Property in Manhattan

    by Steven Gaines ...
    With his signature elan, Gaines weaves a gossipy tapestry of brokers, buyers, co-op boards, and eccentric landlords and tells of the apartment hunting and renovating adventures of many celebrities -- from Tommy Hilfiger to Donna Karan, from Jerry Seinfeld to Steven Spielberg, from Barbra Streisand to Madonna.Gaines uncovers the secretive, unwritten rules of co-op boards: why diplomats and pretty ... Read more

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  • Coast of Dreams

    by Kevin Starr ...
    In this extraordinary book, Kevin Starr–widely acknowledged as the premier historian of California, the scope of whose scholarship the Atlantic Monthly has called “breathtaking”–probes the possible collapse of the California dream in the years 1990—2003. In a series of compelling chapters, Coast of Dreams moves through a variety of topics that show the California of the last decade, when the state ... Read more

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  • Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment

    by Henri Lefebvre ...
    Translated by Robert Bononno ...
    Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment is the first publication in any language of the only book devoted to architecture by Henri Lefebvre. Written in 1973 but only recently discovered in a private archive, this work extends Lefebvre’s influential theory of urban space to the question of architecture. Taking the practices and perspective of habitation as his starting place, Lefebvre redefines ... Read more

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  • The Changing Voice of the Anti-Abortion Movement

    The Rise of "Pro-Woman" Rhetoric in Canada and the United States

    by Paul Saurette, Kelly Gordon ...
    When journalists, academics, and politicians describe the North American anti-abortion movement, they often describe a campaign that is male-dominated, aggressive, and even violent in its tactics, religious in motivation, anti-women in tone, and fetal-centric in arguments and rhetoric. Are they correct?In The Changing Voice of the Anti-Abortion Movement, Paul Saurette and Kelly Gordon suggest that ... Read more

    $36.79 USD

  • And I Will Dwell in Their Midst

    Orthodox Jews in Suburbia

    by Etan Diamond ...
    “Suburbia may not seem like much of a place to pioneer, but for young, religiously committed Jewish families, it’s open territory.” This sentiment — expressed in the early 1970s by an Orthodox Jew in suburban Toronto — captures the essence of the suburban Orthodox Jewish experience of the late twentieth century. Although rarely associated with postwar suburbia, Orthodox Jews in metropolitan areas ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Celebrating Canada

    Commemorations, Anniversaries, and National Symbols

    by Raymond B. Blake, Mathew Hayday ...
    Popular and government-funded anniversaries and commemorations, combined with national symbols, play significant roles in shaping how we view Canada, and also provide opportunities for people to challenge the pre-existing or dominant conceptions of the country. Volume 2 of Celebrating Canada continues the scholarly debate about commemoration and national identity. Raymond B. Blake and Matthew ... Read more

    $35.99 USD