Generation Priced Out: Who Gets to Live in the New Urban America, with a New Preface, Paperback - Randy Shaw

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Since the late 1980s, queer studies and theory have become vital to the intellectual and political life of the United States. This has been due, in...

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In his new preface Bernd Heinrich ranges from Maine to Alaska and north to the Arctic as he summarizes findings from continuing investigations over...

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The keys to global business success, as taught by a T-shirt's journey The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy is a critically-acclaimed narr...