Demographic Orientation/Urban
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Rao’s Cookbook: Over 100 Years of Italian Home Cooking
$40.00 Add to cartRao’s, the hundred-year-old restaurant with a mere ten tables tucked in a corner of East Harlem in what was once a legendary Italian neighborhood, is one of the most sought-after restaurants in all of… [more below]
- Author: Pellegrino, Frank
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 07 1998
- ISBN10: 0679457496
- Language: English
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Counter Intelligence: Where to Eat in the Real Los Angeles
$28.00 Add to cart“Gold changed American food writing.”–Time
The only food critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for criticism, Jonathan Gold pioneered a humanist’s approach to reviewing restaurants: COUNTER INTELLIGENCE c- Author: Gold, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: December 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0312267231
- Language: English
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Ballad of the Bullet: Gangs, Drill Music, and the Power of Online Infamy
$46.58 Read moreHow poor urban youth in Chicago use social media to profit from portrayals of gang violence, and the questions this raises about poverty, opportunities, and public voyeurism
Amid increasing hardship a- Author: Stuart, Forrest
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 12 2020
- ISBN10: 0691194432
- Language: English
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The Women Who Made New York
$30.00 Add to cartAn illuminating, elegant history of New York City, told through the stories of the women who made it the most exciting and influential metropolis in the world
Read any history of New York City and yo- Author: Scelfo, Julie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 25 2016
- ISBN10: 1580056539
- Language: English
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Throw
$18.00 Add to cart“Llorona was no harmless little pigeon. She was the lechuza, the owl you see just before someone is about to die, the one that haunts you in your dreams and you never want to see in real life because
- Author: Degollado, Rub?n
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: February 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1639820183
- Language: English
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Bicycle/Race: Transportation, Culture, & Resistance
$14.95 Read moreThe intersection of advocacy, city planning, and racism
Bicycle / Race paints an unforgettable picture of Los Angeles–and the United States–from the perspective of two wheels. This is a book of bord- Series: Bicycle Revolution
- Author: Lugo Phd Adonia E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 09 2018
- ISBN10: 1621067645
- Language: English
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The Mole People: Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City
$16.95 Add to cartThousands of people live in the subway, railroad, and sewage tunnels that form the bowels of New York City and this book is about them, the so-called mole people. They live alone and in communities, i… [more below]
- Author: Toth, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: October 01 1995
- ISBN10: 155652241X
- Language: English
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South Bronx Rising: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of an American City
$34.95 Read moreThirty-five years after this landmark of urban history first captured the rise, fall, and rebirth of a once-thriving New York City borough–ravaged in the 1970s and ’80s by disinvestment and fires, th… [more below]
- Author: Jonnes, Jill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1531501214
- Language: English
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Ballad of the Bullet: Gangs, Drill Music, and the Power of Online Infamy
$16.95 Add to cartHow poor urban youth in Chicago use social media to profit from portrayals of gang violence, and the questions this raises about poverty, opportunities, and public voyeurism
Amid increasing hardship a- Author: Stuart, Forrest
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 069120649X
- Language: English
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Greetings from New Nashville: How a Sleepy Southern Town Became It City
$24.95 Add to cartIn 1998, roughly 2 million visitors came to see what there was to see in Nashville. By 2018, that number had ballooned to 15.2 million.
In that span of two decades, the boundaries of Nashville did no- Author: Haruch, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: October 15 2020
- ISBN10: 0826500277
- Language: English
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Long Way Down
$12.99 Add to cartLarge Print�s increased font size and wider line spacing maximizes reading legibility, and has been proven to advance comprehension, improve fluency, reduce eye fatigue, and boost engagement in
- Author: Reynolds, Jason
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 411
- Publish Date: January 22 2020
- ISBN10: 1432876120
- Language: English
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City of Big Shoulders: A History of Chicago
$22.95 Add to cartCity of Big Shoulders links key events in Chicago’s development, from its marshy origins in the 1600s to today’s robust metropolis. Robert G. Spinney presents Chicago in terms of the people whose live
- Author: Spinney, Robert G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: May 15 2020
- ISBN10: 1501748963
- Language: English
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Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race and Civility in Everyday Life
$25.99 Add to cartElijah Anderson, called “one of our best urban ethnographers” by the New York Times Book Review, introduces the concept of the “cosmopolitan canopy” the urban islands of civility amid segregated ghett… [more below]
- Author: Anderson, Elijah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 338
- Publish Date: March 12 2012
- ISBN10: 0393340511
- Language: English
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A People’s History of Sfo: The Making of the Bay Area and an Airport
$29.95 Add to cartAn illuminating profile of the San Francisco Bay Area, and its regional and global influence, as seen from the focal point of San Francisco International Airport (SFO).
A People’s History of SFO uses- Author: Porter, Eric
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0520380037
- Language: English
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The Last Days of New York: A Reporter’s True Tale
$27.99 Add to cart“Barron cuts through the noise and provides a devastating account of a city’s decline under the delusional leadership of socialists and con men.” — GREG KELLY, host of Newsmax Greg Kelly Reports
THE L
- Author: Barron, Seth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1630061875
- Language: English
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Alternative Treatments for Ruminant Animals
$28.00 Add to cartDrawing on 36 years of veterinary practice, Dr. Paul Dettloff presents a natural, sustainable approach to ruminant health. Copiously illustrated chapters “break down” the animal into its interrelated
- Author: Dettloff, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1601730128
- Language: English
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There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America (Helen Bernstein Book Award)
$19.00 Read moreNATIONAL BESTSELLER – A moving and powerful account by an acclaimed journalist that “informs the heart. [This] meticulous portrait of two boys in a Chicago housing project shows how much heroism is re… [more below]
- Author: Kotlowitz, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 05 1992
- ISBN10: 0385265565
- Language: English
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Picking Up: On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York City
$24.00 Add to cart“Meticulous . . . [Nagle’s] passion for the subject really comes to life.” —The New York Times
New York City produces more than twelve thousand tons of household trash and recyclables a day. As quick- Author: Nagle, Robin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 18 2014
- ISBN10: 0374534276
- Language: English
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Buried Onions
$10.99 Add to cartEddie’s father, two uncles, and best friend are all dead, and it’s a struggle for him not to end up the same way. Violence makes Fresno wallow in tears, as if a huge onion were buried beneath the city… [more below]
- Author: Soto, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: December 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0152062653
- Language: English
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Grow Small Gardens: Essential Know-How and Expert Advice for Gardening Success
$12.99 Read moreThe UK’s leading gardening publisher brings you a horticultural handbook to fulfill your every need and seed! Get your gardening gloves on and join the green-fingered journey to growing herbs successf… [more below]
- Series: DK Grow
- Author: Allaway, Zia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0744069572
- Language: English
