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Brilliant Teaching: Using Culture and Artful Thinking to Close Equity Gaps
$30.00 Read moreThink like an artist and design a classroom that works–well–for everyone
In Brilliant Teaching, you will come to understand that equity–when we view it from an informed, multi-layered, and artistic
- Author: Stembridge, Adeyemi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 06 2023
- ISBN10: 111990112X
- Language: English
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Rooted in Joy: Creating a Classroom Culture of Equity, Belonging, and Care
$27.00 Read moreHow teachers can unlock the power of inclusivity and joy to transform their classroom and behavior management
In Rooted in Joy: Creating a Classroom Culture of Equity, Belonging, and Care, educational
- Author: Smith, Deonna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 08, 2023
- ISBN10: 111989803X
- Language: English
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Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There
$19.00 Add to cartIn his bestselling work of “comic sociology,” David Brooks coins a new word, Bobo, to describe today’s upper class–those who have wed the bourgeois world of capitalist enterprise to the hippie values… [more below]
- Author: Brooks, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 06 2001
- ISBN10: 0684853787
- Language: English
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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 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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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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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
