Street Corner Society. Social Structure of an Italian Slum, Paperback - William Foote Whyte

First published in 1943, this is an account of an Italian-American slum in Boston.

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Named by Newsweek magazine to its list of "Fifty Books for Our Time."For sixteen years William Whyte walked the streets of New York and other major...

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): John FootNumber of pages: 432Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 162 x 242 x 41Cover type: HardbackRed...

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The first edition of Tally's Corner, a sociological classic, was the first compelling response to the culture of poverty thesis-that the poor are d...

DescriptionHome to eighty thousand people, Accra's Old Fadama neighborhood is the largest illegal slum in Ghana. Though almost all its inhabitants ...

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One of the world's best-known radicals relives the early years of the protest movement

Rodolfo Graziani, commander of the armies of Mussolini's Fascist Italy. From humble beginnings in the mountains of Lazio to the conquest of Italy's...

In the 1970s, the city of Genoa in northern Italy was suffering the economic decline and the despondency common to industrial centers of the Wester...

DescriptionSocial Movements cleverly translates the art of collective action and mobilization by excluded groups to facilitate understanding social...

Hugo is a young Sasquatch who longs for adventure. Boone is young boy who longs to see a Sasquatch. When their worlds collide, they become the unli...

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Elizabethan Secret Agent: The Untold Story of William Ashby (1536-1593), is the biography of William Ashby, Elizabethan spy and diplomat who was am...

This sequel to "Yellow on the Broom" takes Betsy's story to the end of World War II. She was born in 1919 into a travelling family, and tells her o...

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At the age of eighty-three and nearing death, Carlo Altoviti has decided to write down the confessions of his long life. He remembers everything: h...

This book is of interest to all those who value and seek to understand the humanities. Beginning in the Italian Renaissance and ending in the Europ...

The charming coastal town of Bar Harbor, Maine, has a fancy new Italian restaurant--and a nasty new murder... As the food and cocktails columnist f...

Regarded as one of the most important sociological and business commentaries of modern times, The Organization Man developed the first thorough des...

In 1984 Wing Commander Mike Clegg left the UK's maritime headquarters at Northwood, where he'd been responsible to the Air Officer Commanding 18 Gr...

Shows how bureaucracy sustained the Habsburg Empire while inciting economists, legal theorists, and socialists to urge reform. This title examines ...

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More than a classic work on the history and philosophy of science, Kuhn's 1962 book is considered by many to be one of the greatest works of the 20...

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Publisher: Smith Street BooksAuthor(s): Nadia BaileyIllustration(s): 30 colour illustrationsNumber of pages: 56Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 20...

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Traces Scarborough's path out of slavery in Macon, Georgia, to a prolific scholarly career that culminated with his presidency of Wilberforce Unive...

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