Demographic Orientation/Urban
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Cutting School: The Segrenomics of American Education
$28.33 Add to cart2018 Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Award (Nonfiction) Finalist
A timely indictment of the corporate takeover of education and the privatization–and profitability–of separate and unequal sc
- Author: Rooks, Noliwe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 03 2020
- ISBN10: 162097598X
- Language: English
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Nashville: Scenes from the New American South
$37.50 Add to cartThis book reminds me, in the sweetest way possible, that I probably should have never left Nashville.” — Chris Thile
Introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning Author Jon Meacham
A dynamic, experiential, a
- Author: Patchett, Ann
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 13 2018
- ISBN10: 006282144X
- Language: English
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Lost Towns of the Swift River Valley: Drowned by the Quabbin
$23.99 Read moreIn April 1938, Swift River Valley residents held a farewell ball to mark the demise of the quintessential New England town of Enfield and its three smaller neighbors, Greenwich, Dana, and Prescott.
Th
- Series: Lost
- Author: Palladino, Elena
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 10 2022
- ISBN10: 1467147974
- Language: English
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Get Guerrilla Gardening: A Handbook for Planting in Public Places
$24.99 Read moreYour guide to becoming a green-fingered vigilante – transforming your neighbourhood’s neglected corners into bright pockets of plant life.
Guerrilla gardening is the global movement of people planting … [more below]- Author: Miles, Ellen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 18 2023
- ISBN10: 0744070805
- Language: English
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The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit – Updated Edition
$22.95 Add to cartThe reasons behind Detroit’s persistent racialized poverty after World War II
Once America’s “arsenal of democracy,” Detroit is now the symbol of the American urban crisis. In this reappraisal of Amer- Series: Princeton Studies in American Politics (Paperback)
- Author: Sugrue, Thomas J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 27 2014
- ISBN10: 0691162557
- Language: English
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Blighted: A Story of People, Politics, and an American Housing Miracle
$30.95 Add to cartBlighted is a powerful narrative about the decades-long decay and remarkable two-year reinvention of Summerdale, an aging apartment community located in one of Atlanta’s grittiest corridors. From burn
- Author: Stagmeier, Margaret
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1588384713
- Language: English
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Rascal Does Not Dream of a Dreaming Girl (Light Novel): Volume 6
$16.00 Add to cartSUPERSTRING (OF FATE) THEORY! Sakuta is doomed. His girlfriend, Mai, has just discovered that while she was away, he’s been living under one roof with his first love, the now-college-aged Shouko. Whil… [more below]
- Series: Rascal Does Not Dream (Light Novel) #6
- Author: Kamoshida, Hajime
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: November 30 2021
- ISBN10: 1975312627
- Language: English
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Smart Cities
$19.95 Read moreKey concepts, definitions, examples, and historical contexts for understanding smart cities, along with discussions of both drawbacks and benefits of this approach to urban problems.
Over the past ten
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Halegoua, Germaine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: February 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0262538059
- Language: English
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A Falling-Off Place: The Transformation of Lower Manhattan
$39.95 Read morePhotographer Barbara Mensch’s rediscovered photo archives and interview tapes capture symbolic transformations of Lower Manhattan.
Many of these images are published here for the first time. The photo- Author: Mensch, Barbara G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1531504396
- Language: English
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Rascal Does Not Dream of His First Love (Light Novel): Volume 7
$16.00 Add to cartUNDOING WHAT CAN’T BE UNDONE. Sakuta had been ready to give up his life, but nothing could have prepared him to keep living like this. Now he must find a way to carry on even when it feels like tomorr… [more below]
- Series: Rascal Does Not Dream (Light Novel) #7
- Author: Kamoshida, Hajime
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1975312643
- Language: English
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Bloom: A Flower Coloring Book
$14.99 Add to cartLet your creativity run wild as you color the beautifully-designed, hand-drawn flower illustrations in Bloom!
Bloom features:- 30+ floral illustrations on premium, high quality paper
- Two soft black vel
- Author: Koch, Alli
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 82
- Publish Date: November 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1944515895
- Language: English
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Transforming Communities: How People Like You Are Healing Their Neighborhoods
$15.99 Add to cartThe world around us is a wreck. When there’s so much conflict around the country and around the corner, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed, powerless, and helpless. What can one person do to make a differe
- Author: Jha, Sandhya Rani
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0827237154
- Language: English
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The Cross and the Switchblade: The True Story of One Man’s Fearless Faith
$17.99 Add to cart“Go to New York City and help those boys.”
When David Wilkerson heard those words in his heart late one night, he was dumbfounded. The boys in question were members of a violent gang and on trial for m… [more below]- Author: Wilkerson, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 18 2018
- ISBN10: 0800798880
- Language: English
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Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York
$20.00 Add to cart“A cacophonous poem of democracy and greed, like the streets of New York themselves.”
―John Vernon, Los Angeles Times Book Review
Lucy Sante’s Low Life is a portrait of America’s greatest city,- Author: Sante, Lucy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: November 24 2003
- ISBN10: 0374528993
- Language: English
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The Power of Proximity: Moving Beyond Awareness to Action
$19.99 Add to cartWe can see evidence of injustice all around us, whether in continuing incidents of racial inequality or in the systemic forces that disenfranchise people and perpetuate poverty. It’s important to lear
- Author: Warren, Michelle Ferrigno
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 25 2017
- ISBN10: 0830843906
- Language: English
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How It Went Down
$10.99 Add to cartA Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book
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When sixteen-year-old Tariq Johnson dies from two gunshot wounds, his community is thrown into an uproar. Tariq was black. The shooter, Jack Franklin, is white.- Author: Magoon, Kekla
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: December 15 2015
- ISBN10: 1250068231
- Language: English
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Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans
$20.00 Add to cartFrom 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 th… [more below]
- Author: Krist, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 16 2015
- ISBN10: 0770437087
- Language: English
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Report from Engine Co. 82
$18.99 Add to cartFrom his bawdy and brave fellow firefighters to the hopeful, hateful, beautiful and beleaguered residents of the poverty-stricken district where he works, Dennis Smith tells the story of a brutalising… [more below]
- Author: Smith, Dennis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0446675520
- Language: English
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Feral City: On Finding Liberation in Lockdown New York
$27.95 Add to cartThe pandemic lockdown of 2020 launched an unprecedented urban experiment. Traffic disappeared from the streets. Times Square fell silent. And half a million residents fled the most crowded city in Ame
- Author: Moss, Jeremiah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0393868478
- Language: English
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The Great Indoors: The Surprising Science of How Buildings Shape Our Behavior, Health, and Happiness
$19.00 Add to cartAn Architectural Record Notable Book
Modern humans are an indoor species. We spend 90 percent of our time inside, shuttling between h
A fascinating, thought-provoking journey into our built environment- Author: Anthes, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1250798817
- Language: English
