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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
$121.92 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
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Silicon City: San Francisco in the Long Shadow of the Valley
$16.95 Read moreSan Francisco is changing at warp speed. Famously home to artists and activists, and known as the birthplace of the Beats, the Black Panthers, and the LGBTQ movement, the Bay Area has been reshaped by
- Author: McClelland, Cary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 19 2019
- ISBN10: 0393357430
- Language: English
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Fighting for Space: How a Group of Drug Users Transformed One City’s Struggle with Addiction
$21.95 Read moreNorth America is in the grips of a drug epidemic; with the introduction of fentanyl, the chances of a fatal overdose are greater than ever, prompting many to rethink the war on drugs. Public opinion h… [more below]
- Author: Lupick, Travis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 05 2018
- ISBN10: 155152712X
- Language: English
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The Six Priorities: How to Find the Resources Your School Community Needs
$29.95 Add to cartIn this provocative and timely book, Luis Eladio Torres challenges a common assumption: that education is the “first priority” for families, including those who are raising their children in low-incom
- Author: Torres, Luis Eladio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 119
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1416631550
- Language: English
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Atlas of Lost Cities: A Travel Guide to Abandoned and Forsaken Destinations
$24.99 Add to cartExplore more than forty forsaken urban destinations around the world in a “highly entertaining read . . . for history buffs, mystery fanatics and travel junkies alike” (GoNomad).
Cities are mortal,- Author: De Tocqueville, Aude
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 05 2016
- ISBN10: 0316352020
- Language: English
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Field of Schemes: How the Great Stadium Swindle Turns Public Money Into Private Profit
$22.95 Add to cartField of Schemes is a play-by-play account of how the drive for new sports stadiums and arenas drains $2 billion a year from public treasuries for the sake of private profit. While the millionaires wh… [more below]
- Author: Demause, Neil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: April 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0803260164
- Language: English
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Counterpoints: A San Francisco Bay Area Atlas of Displacement & Resistance
$34.95 Read moreCounterpoints: A San Francisco Bay Area Atlas of Displacement and Resistance brings together cartography, essays, illustrations, poetry, and more in order to depict gentrification and resistance strug
- Author: Project, Anti-Eviction Mapping
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 17 2021
- ISBN10: 1629638285
- Language: English
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The History of Forgetting: Los Angeles and the Erasure of Memory
$34.95 Add to cartAnalysis, photography and fiction combine in a bracing portrait of LA.
- Author: Klein, Norman M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 17 2008
- ISBN10: 1844672425
- Language: English
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The Other Idahoans – Regular
$22.99 Add to cartFallen angels in the bawdy houses. Migrants barred from Main Street. Homesteaders driven from homesteads when August rained black storms of dust. The Other Idahoans recovers their hard-luck stories. V… [more below]
- Author: Shallat, Todd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 140
- Publish Date: April 26 2016
- ISBN10: 0990736342
- Language: English
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Dream States: Smart Cities, Technology, and the Pursuit of Urban Utopias
$17.95 Add to cartWINNER OF THE 2022 WRITERS’ TRUST BALSILLIE PRIZE FOR PUBLIC POLICY
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 DONNER BOOK PRIZE
WINNER OF THE PATTIS FAMILY FOUNDATION GLOBAL CITIES BOOK AWARD
Is the ‘smart city’ the utop… [more below]
- Author: Lorinc, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 23 2022
- ISBN10: 1552454282
- Language: English
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The Commonist Horizon: Futures Beyond Capitalist Urbanization
$20.00 Add to cartHow do we move from defensive tactics that respond to the latest stages of capitalist urbanization, to transformative, strategic revolts, attacking the root causes and putting into practice alternativ… [more below]
- Author: Taylor, Mary N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1942173717
- Language: English
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Gentrifier: A Memoir
$16.95 Read moreTaking on the thorny ethics of owning and selling property as a white woman in a majority Black city and a majority Bangladeshi neighborhood with both intelligence and humor, this memoir brings a new
- Author: Moore, Anne Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 18, 2022
- ISBN10: 1646221591
- Language: English
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House of Outrageous Fortune: Fifteen Central Park West, the World’s Most Powerful Address
$19.99 Add to cart“Michael Gross’s new book…packs [in] almost as many stories as there are apartments in the building. The Jackie Collins of real estate likes to map expressions of power, money and ego… Even more c… [more below]
- Author: Gross, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 10 2015
- ISBN10: 1451666209
- Language: English
