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A Country of Cities: A Manifesto for an Urban America
$29.95 Add to cart“Chakrabarti has written a wonderful book about the potential of America’s cities. He argues convincingly how the country would benefit economically and environmentally if the suburbs started to move
- Author: Chakrabarti, Vishaan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: May 30 2013
- ISBN10: 1935202170
- Language: English
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Ghetto
$24.00 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book of 2016
On March 29, 1516, the city council of Venice issued a decree forcing Jews to live in il geto–a closed quarter name
Winner of the Z calo Public Square Book Prize- Author: Duneier, Mitchell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 21 2017
- ISBN10: 0374536775
- Language: English
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Skateboarding, Power and Change
$37.99 Add to cartThis book explores how cultural, social and political change happens through a unique analysis of the ‘ethical turn’ in skateboarding today. Insights shared by key change-makers and industry insiders
- Author: Willing, Indigo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 298
- Publish Date: June 03 2023
- ISBN10: 9819912334
- Language: English
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Since Dorchester
$16.95 Add to cartJudith Kirwan Kelley is the author of Dorchester Girl (SDP Publishing, 2021). In her second book, Since Dorchester, Kirwan Kelley continues her journey, only persuaded to “get in the car or we’re mov
- Author: Kirwan Kelley, Judith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: June 28 2023
- ISBN10: 9.79899E+12
- Language: English
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Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software
$18.99 Add to cartIn the tradition of Being Digital and The Tipping Point, Steven Johnson, acclaimed as a “cultural critic with a poet’s heart” (The Village Voice), takes readers on an eye-opening journey through eme… [more below]
- Author: Johnson, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 10 2002
- ISBN10: 0684868768
- Language: English
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Freedomland: Co-Op City and the Story of New York
$32.95 Add to cartIn Freedomland, Annemarie H. Sammartino tells Co-op City’s story from the perspectives of those who built it and of the ordinary people who made their homes in this monument to imperfect liberal ideal
- Author: Sammartino, Annemarie H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1501716433
- Language: English
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Heaven Helps Those Who Help Themselves
$14.95 Add to cartThere are many issues that affect the African American community that are not being addressed adequately. For a long time now, many African American people have been under the impression or made to fe
- Author: Sams, Markeith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 102
- Publish Date: July 06 2023
- ISBN10: 9798889820024
- Language: English
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Flesh and Stone: The Body and the City in Western Civilization
$28.99 Add to cartFlesh and Stone is the story of the deepest parts of life–how women and men moved in public and private spaces, what they saw and heard, the smells that assailed them, where they ate, how they dresse… [more below]
- Author: Sennett, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 14 2013
- ISBN10: 0393313913
- Language: English
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The Bronx
$30.00 Add to cartHome to the New York Yankees, the Bronx Zoo, and the Grand Concourse, the Bronx was at one time a haven for upwardly mobile second-generation immigrants eager to leave the crowded tenements of Manhatt
- Series: Columbia History of Urban Life
- Author: Gonzalez, Evelyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 21 2006
- ISBN10: 0231121156
- Language: English
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The Everyday Life of Memorials
$37.00 Add to cartA timely study, erudite and exciting, about the ordinary–and oftentimes unseen–lives of memorials
Memorials are commonly studied as part of the commemorative infrastructure of modern society. Just a- Author: Shanken, Andrew M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1942130724
- Language: English
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We Live Here: Detroit Eviction Defense and the Battle for Housing Justice
$16.95 Read moreA graphic novel featuring uplifting stories of combatting–and beating–calls for their eviction in Detroit, showing how everyday people are fighting to stay in their homes, organizing with their comm… [more below]
- Author: Wilson, Jeffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1644212420
- Language: English
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Maelstrom: Southwest Faerie Chronicles
$15.99 Add to cartCome along for a tale of love and death in the Arizona desert as you’ve never before seen it, run by The Fae. Teagan McCarthy is a detective, a faerie, and heir to her father’s kingdom, one he created
- Author: Critchley, Maggie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 9.79899E+12
- Language: English
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Between Riverside and Crazy (TCG Edition)
$15.95 Add to cart“Guirgis, like other storytellers who explore the sacred and profane, is most interested in how grace transforms us.”–The New Yorker
Written with humor, tenderness, grit, and wonderment by acclaimed p
- Author: Guirgis, Stephen Adly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: November 10 2015
- ISBN10: 1559365153
- Language: English
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Proudhon’s Sociology
$22.00 Read moreAn introduction to the thought of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, the first person to declare themself an anarchist.
Available in English for the first time, Proudhon’s Sociology is the landmark statement on P
- Author: Ansart, Pierre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1849355193
- Language: English
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Vagabonds: Life on the Streets of Nineteenth-Century London
$18.95 Add to cartLondon, 1857: A pair of teenage girls holding a sign that says “Fugitive Slaves” ask for money on the corner of Blackman Street. After a constable accosts them and charges them with begging, they end
- Author: Jensen, Oskar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1891011421
- Language: English
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The Journey of Kamau Miller: Hip Hop Composite Stories for Black Men Teachers
$36.00 Add to cartThe Journey of Kamau Miller: HipHop Composite Counterstories for Black Men Teachers is a deeply compelling and creative book that delves into the life of Kamau Miller, a determined third-grade teacher
- Author: Hicks Tafari, Dawn N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1942774915
- Language: English
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Welcoming Justice: God’s Movement Toward Beloved Community
$18.99 Add to cartWe have seen progress in recent decades toward Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream of beloved community. But this is not only because of the activism and sacrifice of a generation of civil rights leaders.
- Author: Marsh, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 20 2018
- ISBN10: 0830834796
- Language: English
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Cross Bronx: A Writing Life
$110.83 Add to cartIn his inimitable prose, master storyteller Peter Quinn chronicles his odyssey from the Irish Catholic precincts of the Bronx to the arena of big-league politics and corporate hardball.
Cross Bronx is- Author: Quinn, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1531500943
- Language: English
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Who Moved My Neighborhood?: Leading Congregations Through Gentrification and Economic Change
$18.99 Add to cartNeighborhoods are moving. While neighborhood changes can mean exciting and fresh opportunities for some, the experience can be vastly different for long-time residents. The rapid movement of people me
- Author: Strong, Mark E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1514002388
- Language: English
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A Dream Too Big: The Story of an Improbable Journey from Compton to Oxford
$18.99 Add to cartIn this inspiring and provocative memoir about a young black man, Caylin Moore tells the against-all-odds story of his rise from racial injustice and cruel poverty in gang-ridden Los Angeles to academ
- Author: Moore, Caylin Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 02 2020
- ISBN10: 1400209943
- Language: English
