Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, Hardcover

Reducere. The riveting, unforgettable story of a girl whose indomitable spirit is tested by homelessness, poverty, and racism in an unequal America--from Pul...

DescriptionThe compelling history of how Latino immigrants revitalized the nation's cities after decades of disinvestment and white flight Thirty y...

Reducere. The riveting, unforgettable story of a girl whose indomitable spirit is tested by homelessness, poverty, and racism in an unequal America--from Pul...

Reducere. "In this stimulating and important book Lester Little advances the original thesis that, paradoxically, it was the leading practitioners of volunta...

Reducere. The settlement of Poverty Point, occupied from about 1700 to 1100 BC and once the largest city in North America, stretches across 345 acres in nort...

Publisher: New York University PressAuthor(s): Tanya HartNumber of pages: 336Collection: Culture, Labor, HistoryPublication date: 2015Dimensions: 1...

Iconic urbanist Lewis Mumford stressed the role of a well-constructed city in the development of the good life, championing pedestrian-scaled, sust...

Herrin, Illinois, has seen many dramatic events unfold in the nearly two hundred years since it was a bell-shaped prairie on the frontier. Now, Her...

On the west bank of the Mississippi lies the New Orleans neighborhood of Algiers. Short on hope but big on dreams, its mostly poor and marginalized...

A journalist's raw, first-person account of what his family endured after his eldest brother killed a man and was sentenced to life in prison. At t...

Why Does America Go to War? In the last decades, America has gone to war as supposed defenders of democracy. The War on Terror was waged to protect...

Utilizing an innovative framework as an international, interdisciplinary dialogue, the volume provides an inventory of contemporary thought about t...

Reducere. The untold story of how America's beloved first president, George Washington, borrowed, leveraged, and coerced his way into masterminding the key l...

Home to over 730, 000 people, with close to four million people living in the metropolitan area, Seattle has the third-highest homeless population ...

Kevin Loughran explores the High Line in New York, the Bloomingdale Trail/606 in Chicago, and Buffalo Bayou Park in Houston to offer a critical per...

Publisher: University of Illinois PressAuthor(s): Megan BirkIllustration(s): 23 black & white photographs, 1 tableNumber of pages: 300Publication d...

A journey into the experiences of incarcerated women in rural areas, revealing how location can reinforce gendered violenceIncarceration is all too...

DescriptionThe Great Chicago Fire in October 1871 destroyed 2, 600 acres and left tens of thousands without housing, food, fuel, or clothing. In th...

Reducere. An illustrated cultural guide to the archaeological site of Amarna, the best-preserved pharaonic city in Egypt Around three thousand years ago, the...

Argues that poverty has been denied its due as a critical and ideological framework in its own right, despite interest in representations of the lo...

DescriptionMexican American Baseball in Kansas City highlights the standout teams and players in the greater Kansas City area and other communities...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Colin GordonOnce a thriving metropolis on the banks of the Mississippi, St. Louis, Missouri, is now a ghostly landscape of ...

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

Wayne Jenkins and his team of plain-clothed officers - the Gun Trace Task Force - were the city's lauded and decorated heroes.

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdIllustration(s): 2 Line drawings, black and white; 17 Halftones, black and whiteNumber of pages: 296Publication date...

For years, Sgt Wayne Jenkins and his elite team of plain-clothed officers - the Gun Trace Task Force - had been the city's lauded heroes, working t...

The extraordinary, unknown story of two giants of American history--Henry Ford and Thomas Edison--and their attempt to create an electric-powered c...

Reducere. From the authors of THE SOUTH WAS RIGHT comes a new edition of what one historian calls one of the most important and original histories of the Sou...

Reducere. This uplifting story of a boys' football team shines light on the under-appreciated virtues that can bloom in impoverished neighborhoods, even as n...

DescriptionThe world was caught up in a haze of exuberance and mania, with many hoping to get rich through accumulating easily accessible and unreg...

Reducere. DescriptionSomething in the Air is Richard Hoffer's gripping sports narrative that tells the individual stories of the athletes who gathered in Mex...

An important read for film studies and the history of marketing, Profit Margins exposes the fascinating truth surrounding the invention of cinema a...

Reducere. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice The fascinating, forgotten story of the 1970s attempt to build a city dedicated to racial equality in ...

Reducere. DescriptionLearn how to live sustainably in the city, the suburbs, or the countryMany people are cutting back on consumerism and trying to simplify...

DescriptionNow in paperback, the New York Times bestselling story of the taming of the depraved and criminal Wild West. The instant New York Times ...