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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
Erik Larson—author of #1 bestseller In the Garden of Beasts—intertwines the true tale of the 1893 World's Fair and the cunning serial killer who used the fair to lure his victims to their death. Combining meticulous research with nail-biting storytelling, Erik Larson has crafted a narrative with all the wonder of newly discovered history and the thrills of the best fiction.
- ASIN: 0375725601
- UPC: 884510967318
- ASIN: 0375725601
- ISBN: 0375725601
- Brand: Erik Larson
- Manufacturer: Vintage
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • One of the most acclaimed books of our time, this modern classic “has set a new standard for reporting on poverty” (Barbara Ehrenreich, The New York Times Book Review).In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur “Genius” Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they each struggle to keep a roof over their heads. Hailed as “wrenching and revelatory” (The Nation), “vivid and unsettling” (New York Review of Books), Evicted transforms our understanding of poverty and economic exploitation while pr... [Read More]
- ASIN: 0553447459
- ASIN: 0553447459
- ISBN: 0553447459
- Brand: BROADWAY
- Manufacturer: Broadway Books
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Doing the Best I Can: Fatherhood in the Inner City
Across the political spectrum, unwed fatherhood is denounced as one of the leading social problems of today. Doing the Best I Can is a strikingly rich, paradigm-shifting look at fatherhood among inner-city men often dismissed as “deadbeat dads.” Kathryn Edin and Timothy J. Nelson examine how couples in challenging straits come together and get pregnant so quickly―without planning. The authors chronicle the high hopes for forging lasting family bonds that pregnancy inspires, and pinpoint the fatal flaws that often lead to the relationship’s demise. They offer keen insight into a radical... [Read More]
- ASIN: 0520283929
- ASIN: 0520283929
- ISBN: 9780520283923
- Brand: University of California Press
- Manufacturer: University of California Press
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On Bicycles: A 200-Year History of Cycling in New York City
Subways and yellow taxis may be the icons of New York transportation, but it is the bicycle that has the longest claim to New York’s streets: two hundred years and counting. Never has it taken to the streets without controversy: 1819 was the year of the city’s first bicycle and also its first bicycle ban. Debates around the bicycle’s place in city life have been so persistent not just because of its many uses―recreation, sport, transportation, business―but because of changing conceptions of who cyclists are. In On Bicycles, Evan Friss traces the colorful and fraught history of cyclin... [Read More]
- ASIN: 0231182562
- ASIN: 0231182562
- ISBN: 0231182562
- Manufacturer: Columbia University Press
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Cities of the World: Regional Patterns and Urban Environments
This fully updated and revised sixth edition offers readers a comprehensive set of tools for understanding the urban landscape and, by extension, the world’s politics, cultures, and economies. Providing a sweeping overview of world urban geography, noted experts explore the eleven major global regions. Each regional chapter considers urban history, economy, culture, and environment, as well as urban spatial models and problems and prospects. This edition focuses specifically on urban environmental issues, social and economic injustice, security and conflict, the history of urban settlement, ... [Read More]
- ASIN: 1442249161
- ASIN: 1442249161
- ISBN: 1442249161
- Manufacturer: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Rosa Lee: A Generational Tale Of Poverty And Survival In Urban America
Based on a heart-rending and much discussed series in the Washington Post, this is the story of one woman and her family living in the projects in Washington, D.C. A transcendent piece of writing, it won the Pulitzer Prize and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award.For four years Leon Dash of the Washington Post followed the lives of Rosa Lee Cunningham, her children, and five of her grandchildren, in an effort to understand the persistence of poverty and pathology within America's black underclass. Rosa Lee's life story spans a half century of hardship in the slums and housing projects of Sou... [Read More]
- ASIN: 0465055885
- ASIN: 0465055885
- ISBN: 9780465055883
- Manufacturer: Basic Books
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New Age, Neopagan, and New Religious Movements: Alternative Spirituality in Contemporary America
New Age, Neopagan, and New Religious Movements is the most extensive study to date of modern American alternative spiritual currents. Hugh B. Urban covers a range of emerging religions from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, including the Nation of Islam, Mormonism, Scientology, ISKCON, Wicca, the Church of Satan, Peoples Temple, and the Branch Davidians. This essential text engages students by addressing major theoretical and methodological issues in the study of new religions and is organized to guide students in their learning. Each chapter focuses on one important issue involving a... [Read More]
- ASIN: 0520281187
- ASIN: 0520281187
- ISBN: 0520281187
- Brand: imusti
- Manufacturer: University of California Press
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Places Rated Almanac: The Classic Guide for Finding Your Best Places to Live in America
In this unique reference, every one of America’s 379 metropolitan areas is rated by factors that are important to anyone considering a move. Divided into nine thoroughly researched main topics, this guide derives its information as much from private sources as government sources, providing a well-rounded description of all that each metro area has to offer: ambience, housing, jobs, crime, transportation, education, health care, recreation, and climate. With a personalized quiz to help determine the most important factors of an area, this ratings sourcebook provides a wealth of information fo... [Read More]
- ASIN: 0979319900
- ASIN: 0979319900
- ISBN: 0979319900
- Brand: Places Rated Books, LLC
- Manufacturer: Places Rated Books, LLC
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Don't Shoot: One Man, A Street Fellowship, and the End of Violence in Inner-City America
"Part jeremiad, part gripping crime thriller,"* Don't Shoot is David M. Kennedy's chronicle of his decades-long crusade to solve one of America's most pressing and shameful social problems. Kennedy, who engineered the "Boston Miracle" in the 1990s, cutting youth homicide by two-thirds at the height of the crack epidemic, reveals the history and the strategy behind his commonsense yet revolutionary approach to ending crime. He has refined an approach in which everyone-gang members, drug dealers, cops, and neighbors-comes together in a giant community meeting, an intervention and an affirmation ... [Read More]
- ASIN: 1608194140
- ASIN: 1608194140
- ISBN: 1608194140
- Brand: Brand: Bloomsbury USA
- Manufacturer: Bloomsbury USA
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No Way Out: Precarious Living in the Shadow of Poverty and Drug Dealing
In 2005 Waverly Duck was called to a town he calls Bristol Hill to serve as an expert witness in the sentencing of drug dealer Jonathan Wilson. Convicted as an accessory to the murder of a federal witness and that of a fellow drug dealer, Jonathan faced the death penalty, and Duck was there to provide evidence that the environment in which Jonathan had grown up mitigated the seriousness of his alleged crimes. Duck’s exploration led him to Jonathan’s church, his elementary, middle, and high schools, the juvenile facility where he had previously been incarcerated, his family and friends, oth... [Read More]
- ASIN: 022629806X
- ASIN: 022629806X
- ISBN: 022629806X
- Manufacturer: University of Chicago Press
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Believing in Cleveland: Managing Decline in "The Best Location in the Nation" (Urban Life, Landscape and Policy)
Detractors have called it "The Mistake on the Lake." It was once America’s "Comeback City." According to author J. Mark Souther, Cleveland has long sought to defeat its perceived civic malaise. Believing in Cleveland chronicles how city leaders used imagery and rhetoric to combat and, at times, accommodate urban and economic decline. Souther explores Cleveland's downtown revitalization efforts, its neighborhood renewal and restoration projects, and its fight against deindustrialization. He shows how the city reshaped its image when it was bolstered by sports team victories. But Cleveland wa... [Read More]
- ASIN: 1439913730
- ASIN: 1439913730
- ISBN: 1439913730
- Manufacturer: Temple University Press
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The New Urban Crisis: How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class-and What We Can Do About It
In recent years, the young, educated, and affluent have surged back into cities, reversing decades of suburban flight and urban decline. And yet all is not well, Richard Florida argues in The New Urban Crisis. Florida, one of the first scholars to anticipate this back-to-the-city movement in his groundbreaking The Rise of the Creative Class, demonstrates how the same forces that power the growth of the world's superstar cities also generate their vexing challenges: gentrification, unaffordability, segregation, and inequality. Meanwhile, many more cities still stagnate, and middle-class neighbo... [Read More]
- ASIN: 0465079741
- ASIN: 0465079741
- ISBN: 0465079741
- Brand: BASIC
- Manufacturer: Basic Books
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Mayor: The Best Job in Politics (The City in the Twenty-First Century)
In 2007, after serving almost fifteen years on the Philadelphia City Council, Michael A. Nutter became the ninety-eighth mayor of his hometown of Philadelphia. From the time he was sworn in until he left office in 2016, there were triumphs and challenges, from the mundane to the unexpected, from snow removal, trash collection, and drinkable water, to the Phillies' World Series win, Hurricane Irene, Occupy Philadelphia, and the Papal visit. By the end of Nutter's tenure, homicides were at an almost fifty-year low, high-school graduation and college-degree attainment rates increased significantl... [Read More]
- ASIN: 0812250028
- ASIN: 0812250028
- ISBN: 0812250028
- Manufacturer: University of Pennsylvania Press
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Race, Class, and Politics in the Cappuccino City
For long-time residents of Washington, DC’s Shaw/U Street, the neighborhood has become almost unrecognizable in recent years. Where the city’s most infamous open-air drug market once stood, a farmers’ market now sells grass-fed beef and homemade duck egg ravioli. On the corner where AM.PM carryout used to dish out soul food, a new establishment markets its $28 foie gras burger. Shaw is experiencing a dramatic transformation, from “ghetto” to “gilded ghetto,” where white newcomers are rehabbing homes, developing dog parks, and paving the way for a third wave coffee shop on nearly ... [Read More]
- ASIN: 022644953X
- ASIN: 022644953X
- ISBN: 022644953X
- Brand: University of Chicago Press
- Manufacturer: University of Chicago Press
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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
New York Times Bestseller • Notable Book of the Year • Editors' Choice Selection One of Bill Gates’ “Amazing Books” of the Year One of Publishers Weekly’s 10 Best Books of the Year Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction An NPR Best Book of the Year Winner of the Hillman Prize for Nonfiction Gold Winner • California Book Award (Nonfiction) Finalist • Los Angeles Times Book Prize (History) Finalist • Brooklyn Public Library Literary PrizeThis “powerful and disturbing history” exposes how American governments deliberately imposed racial segregation on metropol... [Read More]
- ASIN: 1631494538
- ASIN: 1631494538
- ISBN: 9781631494536
- Manufacturer: Liveright
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The Poisoned City : Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy
"Recounts the gripping story of Flint's poisoned water through the people who caused it, suffered from it, and exposed it. It is a chronicle of one town, but could also be about any American city,
- UPC: 336022724
- Rating: 4.25
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The Divided City : Poverty and Prosperity in Urban America
In The Divided City, urban practitioner and scholar Alan Mallach presents a detailed picture of what has happened over the past 15 to 20 years in industrial cities like Pittsburgh and Baltimore, as they have
- UPC: 300555961
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