Living in Urban Communities

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Kristin SterlingAn introduction to the common characteristics of an urban community.

Reducere. From ancient rock drawings to today's urban living, the Native American Almanac: More than 50, 000 Years of the Cultures and Histories of Indigenou...

Reducere. In Rethinking Diabetes, Emily Mendenhall investigates how global and local factors transform how diabetes is perceived, experienced, and embodied f...

DescriptionGrounded in intimate moments of family life in and out of hospitals, this book explores the hope that inspires us to try to create lives...

Happy Singlehood charts a way forward for singles to live life on their terms, and shows how everyone--single or coupled--can benefit from acceptin...

Reducere. In Subversive Archaism, Michael Herzfeld explores how individuals and communities living at the margins of the modern nation-state use nationalist ...

Reducere. Southwest Washington, D.C., is a defined neighborhood even without a proper name; the quadrant has a clear border southwest of the U.S. Capitol Bui...

DescriptionIn the year 2007, the number of people living in the cities of the world--finally and irreversibly--exceeded the number of people living...

Reducere. Chestnut Hill, in northwest Philadelphia, is one of America's most beautiful urban villages thanks to the fusion of a magnificent physical setting,...

In Parenting Empires, Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas focuses on the parenting practices of Latin American urban elites to analyze how everyday experiences of w...

Private investigator and ex-soldier Lee Arnold and superintendent Paul Venus are by no means friends, but when Venus' son Harry is kidnapped and ra...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Continental Saxons developed from a subsistence economy, practiced up to the Carolingian conquest in the late eighth century, to bec...