Chicago on the Make: Power and Inequality in a Modern City, Hardcover - Andrew J. Diamond

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Reducere. Heralded as America's quintessentially modern city, Chicago has attracted the gaze of journalists, novelists, essayists, and scholars. Yet few hist...

A unique collection examining the African urban experience, with a special focus on the causes, consequences and power dynamics of urban inequality...

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DescriptionBuilding from his acclaimed anthology Tales of Two Americas, beloved writer and editor John Freeman draws together a group of our greate...

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AIDS has been a devastating plague in much of sub-Saharan Africa, yet the long-term implications for gender and sexuality are just emerging. AIDS a...

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The Word Wizard is a 28-page children's picture book that will help children learn to understand how letters make up words. The book uses color and...

Reducere. Many Chicagoans rose in protest over A. J. Liebling's tongue-in-cheek tour of their fair city in 1952. Liebling found much to admire in the Windy C...

This book analyses the behaviour of ethnic minority groups in China, using the first comprehensive national dataset dedicated to capturing the soci...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Destin JenkinsIllustration(s): 26 halftones, 10 tablesNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 20...

Proceeding from a synthetic critique of political economy, this book places welfare and inequality at the center of a more encompassing comparative...

The area of Los Angeles known as South Central is often overshadowed by dismal stereotypes, problematic racial stigmas, and its status as the home ...

Women and Inequality in the 21st Century examines the continued inequities navigated by women occupying marginalized social positions within a "nex...

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Reducere. This book is about a way of return to one's own true life.In any society, ancient or modern, which has made busyness a virtue, lost itself in pursu...

Publisher: Black Dog PressIllustration(s): 70 illustrations; 70 illustrationsNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 2008Dimensions: 288 x 238 x 21Co...

In 1966, a year after the Voting Rights Act began liberating millions of southern blacks, New Yorkers challenged a political system that weakened t...

It offers an original and powerful argument about Russian power and introduces and discusses the term 'mobilisation' as a central element of the Ru...

A vivid recreation of how the governors and governed of early seventeenth-century Florence confronted, suffered, and survived a major epidemic of p...

Reducere. DescriptionAlthough Emmi has lived in Chicago for two years, she finds it hard to love her adopted city. As a German immigrant in the early 1870s, ...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Stein RingenNumber of pages: 216Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 162 x 236 x 22Cover type: Ha...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Stein RingenNumber of pages: 216Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 154 x 228 x 14Cover type: Pa...

A literary history of walking From Dickens to Zizek There is no such thing as the wrong step; every time we walk we are going somewhere. Moving aro...

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In Divergent Paths to College, Megan M. Holland examines how high schools structure different pathways that lead students to very different college...

Reducere. Explore the fascinating story of Harry Gordon Selfridge in Chicago, Illinois.

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Reducere. Oaxaca Resurgent examines how Indigenous people in one of Mexico's most rebellious states shaped local and national politics during the twentieth c...

A Poverty of Rights is an investigation of the knotty ties between citizenship and inequality during the years when the legal and institutional bas...

A look at the benefits and consequences of the rise of community-based organizations in urban development Who makes decisions that shape the housin...