Eyes on the Street: The Life of Jane Jacobs, Paperback - Robert Kanigel

The first major biography of the irrepressible woman who changed the way we view and live in cities, and whose influence is felt to this day. Jane ...

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DescriptionJane Jacobs is universally recognized as one of the key figures in American urbanism. The author of The Death and Life of Great American...

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Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of its initial publication, this special edition of Jane Jacobs's masterpiece, The Death and Life o...

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A powerfully gripping and moving page-turner about a small town which hides a terrible secret from the Sunday Times top ten bestselling author.Publ...

A powerfully gripping and moving novel about a small town trying to conceal a terrible secret in its past from the Sunday Times Top Ten bestselling...

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Reducere. Thirteen writers consider the groundbreaking work of Jane Jacobs, whose critiques of urban renewal in America resonate today more than ever.Author ...

Sharp, candid and very funny essays from the broadcasting legends, updated with an exclusive new chapter.Publisher: Orion Publishing CoAuthor(s): J...

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Reducere. We avert our eyes when we meet them on the street: homeless mentally ill people with their hand-scrawled signs, shopping carts, and cardboard boxes...

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In the wake of the violent labor disputes in Colorado's two-year Coalfield War, a young woman and single mother resolved in 1916 to change the stat...

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Sharp, candid and very funny essays from the broadcasting legends.Publisher: Orion Publishing CoAuthor(s): Jane GarveyNumber of pages: 304Publicati...

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A fresh history of the Situationist International by the author of A Hacker Manifesto.

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Reducere. In the wake of the violent labor disputes in Colorado's two-year Coalfield War, a young woman and single mother resolved in 1916 to change the stat...

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DescriptionNot only one of the last of over one hundred slave narratives published separately before the Civil War, Incidents in the Life of a Slav...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Harriet JacobsPortions of Harriet Jacobs's "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" first appeared serially in 1861 in the N...

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The unflinching nineteenth-century autobiography that broke the silence on the psychosexual exploitation of Black women--with an introduction by Ti...

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Jesus Christ was both the unique Son of God--the Messiah foretold in Scripture--and a man of his time and culture. Charts of the Gospels and the Li...

The Cold War reconsidered as seventy-five years of slow nuclear warfarePublisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s): Robert A. JacobsIllustration(s): ...

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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, written by herself is an autobiography by Harriet Ann Jacobs, a young mother and fugitive slave, published i...

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Reducere. Chronicles the sweeping history of the storied Henry Street Settlement and its enduring vision of a more just society On a cold March day in 1893, ...