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  • The Urban Ethnography Reader

    Edición de Mitchell Duneier, Philip Kasinitz, Alexandra Murphy ...
    Urban ethnography is the firsthand study of city life by investigators who immerse themselves in the worlds of the people about whom they write. Since its inception in the early twentieth century, this great tradition has helped define how we think about cities and city dwellers. The past few decades have seen an extraordinary revival in the field, as scholars and the public at large grapple with ... Leer más

    $65.99 USD

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  • The Sugar Girls - Joan’s Story

    Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness in Tate & Lyle’s East End

    de Duncan Barrett, Nuala Calvi ...
    This is Joan’s story, one of four stories from The Sugar Girls.During the Blitz and the years of rationing, the Sugar Girls kept Britain sweet. The work was back-breakingly hard, but the Tate & Lyle factory was more than just a workplace – it was a community, a calling, a place of love and support and an uproarious, tribal part of East London.‘Joan had joined Tate & Lyle expressly for the social ... Leer más

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  • Empire of Sin

    A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans

    de Gary Krist ...
    From bestselling author Gary Krist, a vibrant and immersive account of New Orleans’ other civil war, at a time when commercialized vice, jazz culture, and endemic crime defined the battlegrounds of the Crescent CityEmpire of Sin re-creates the remarkable story of New Orleans’ thirty-years war against itself, pitting the city’s elite “better half” against its powerful and long-entrenched underworld ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Madge’s story

    de Lynn Russell, Neil Hanson ...
    Series Libro 1 - Individual stories from THE SWEETHEARTS
    This is Madge’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.“On the morning of her Rowntrees job interview, on a warm Monday morning in July 1932, Fourteen-year-old Madge Fisher stood fidgeting in the hallway of her terraced house while her mother, Margaret, pinned ... Leer más

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  • Community Conversations

    Mobilizing the Ideas, Skills, and Passion of Community Organizations, Governments, Businesses, and People, Second Edition

    de Paul Born ...
    Communities around the world are entering a new era of community building.Whether improving economic conditions and reducing poverty, re-energizing citizens and social programs, reducing crime, or revitalizing a troubled neighborhood, they are engaging people from all sectors as never before to work together as equals to improve their quality of life.At the heart of this engagement are community ... Leer más

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  • The Curious World of Drugs and Their Friends

    A Very Trippy Miscellany

    de Adriano Sack, Ingo Niermann ...
    Wacky but well-researched, unbiased and shameless, this informational book about drugs dares to take readers on a long, strange trivia trip.Following in the tradition of The Ultimate Book of Useless Information, The Curious World of Drugs and Their Friends is a wry potpourri of interesting information about every conceivable kind of drug. Readers can feed their heads with anecdotes, facts, lists, ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD

  • New York's New Edge

    Contemporary Art, the High Line, and Urban Megaprojects on the Far West Side

    de David Halle, Elisabeth Tiso ...
    The story of New York’s west side no longer stars the Sharks and the Jets. Instead it’s a story of urban transformation, cultural shifts, and an expanding contemporary art scene. The Chelsea Gallery District has become New York’s most dominant neighborhood for contemporary art, and the streets of the west side are filled with gallery owners, art collectors, and tourists. Developments like the High ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • Red Hill

    A Mining Community

    de Tony Parker ...
    The miners' strike of 1984-85 was one of the longest and most acrimonious in Britain's history. Six months after it ended, Tony Parker travelled to the North East of England to speak to people on both sides of the dispute and discover the views and feelings of a colliery community contemplating the bitter end of a whole way of life.'[ Red Hill gives a] powerful idea of the tribulations suffered by ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Cities Under Siege

    The New Military Urbanism

    de Stephen Graham ...
    Cities are the new battleground of our increasingly urban world. From the slums of the global South to the wealthy financial centers of the West, Cities Under Siege traces the spread of political violence through the sites, spaces, infrastructure and symbols of the world’s rapidly expanding metropolitan areas.Drawing on a wealth of original research, Stephen Graham shows how Western militaries and ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Healthy Cities

    The Theory, Policy, and Practice of Value-Based Urban Planning

    Edición de Evelyne de Leeuw, Jean Simos ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This forward-looking resource recasts the concept of healthy cities as not only a safe, pleasant, and green built environment, but also one that creates and sustains health by addressing social, economic, and political conditions. It describes collaborations between city planning and public health creating a contemporary concept of urban governance—a democratically-informed process that embraces ... Leer más

    $170.99 USD

  • Confronting Gun Violence in America

    de Thomas Gabor ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book critically examines the link between guns and violence. It weighs the value of guns for self-protection against the adverse effects of gun ownership and carrying. It also analyses the role of public opinion, the Second Amendment to the US Constitution, and the firearms industry and lobby in impeding efforts to prevent gun violence.Confronting Gun Violence in America explores solutions to ... Leer más

    $40.99 USD

  • Iron Curtains

    Gates, Suburbs and Privatization of Space in the Post-socialist City

    de Sonia A. Hirt ...
    Series Libro 75 - IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series
    Iron Curtains has been awarded Honorable Mention for the 2013 ASEEES Harvard Davis Center Book Prize! The prize is sponsored by Harvard University's Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and is awarded annually by the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, for an outstanding monograph published on Russia, Eurasia, or Eastern Europe in anthropology, political science, ... Leer más

    $34.00 USD