The Divided City: Poverty and Prosperity in Urban America

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Contributor(s): Editor: Clifton EllisEditor: Rebecca GinsburgCountering the widespread misconception that slavery existed only on plantations, and ...

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Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

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...

Explains how jazz was shaped by urbanization, the 'great migration' of southern blacks northward, and the 'jazz image' - dress code, jargon, and us...

Reducere. Between 1963 and 1972 America experienced over 750 urban revolts. Considered collectively, they comprise what Peter Levy terms a 'Great Uprising'. ...

Drawing from a cross-national perspective and a range of comparative vantage points, Poverty and Austerity amid Prosperity provides a comprehensive...

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DescriptionMillionaire in the Pew brings practical, proven insight in the areas of finances and faith, prosperity and purpose. Multimillionaire Don...

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

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): David SatterthwaiteNumber of pages: 368Publication date: 2012Dimensions: 235 x 156 x 19Cover type: Paperb...

Reducere. DR. ORISON SWETT MARDEN was an American inspirational author who founded Success Magazine in 1897. His writings focus on common-sense principles fo...

Reducere. Although blacks living within America are still haunted by the same malevolent plights their ancestors sparred with and could not elude, Jermaine J...

Shortlisted for the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2012. Why are some nations more prosperous than others? Why N...

From the author of 1599, a fresh perspective on the history of the United States - and a timely reminder of Shakespeare's indelible influence.

Reducere. A high school honors student with no police record encounters the police outside his home. He emerges from the confrontation bruised and beaten. Th...

Reducere. In the fifty years since it was published, The Other America has been established as a seminal work of sociology. This anniversary edition includes...

Sean Ingram has touched many lives with his ability to passionately orate through lecture or performance the importance of overcoming life's obstac...

DescriptionClayton M. Christensen, the author of such business classics as The Innovator's Dilemma and the New York Times bestseller How Will You M...

We are what we eat, but do you know what you're eating? Urban agriculture is the global movement that encourages the practice of cultivating, proce...

Our work needs no more martyrs. You can fight these fights and live.

From exploring secret gardens, parks, farmers markets and city farms, to discovering the best spots for urban bee-keeping, foraging, open-air swimm...

- 7, 000 copies sold (worldwide) of the first, hardback edition - New, compact size and affordable paperback edition - Ceramics is still wildly pop...

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This edited collection explores what happens when a city administration tries to bring their vision for a city into being. It provides ethnographic...

This edited collection explores what happens when a city administration tries to bring their vision for a city into being. It provides ethnographic...

FOREWORD INDIES FINALIST - POLITICAL & SOCIAL SCIENCES. NAUTILUS BOOK AWARDS SILVER MEDALIST - SOCIAL CHANGE & SOCIAL JUSTICE. ERIC HOFFER BOOK AWA...

Linguistic Choices in the Contemporary City focuses on how individuals navigate conversation in highly diversified contexts and provides a broad ov...

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DescriptionWinner of a special Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, the book that Evicted author Matthew Desmond calls "a powerful investigation into the ...

Reducere. In the highly acclaimed The Geography of Nowhere, James Howard Kunstler declared suburbia "a tragic landscape" and fueled a fierce debate over how ...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Des FitzgeraldNumber of pages: 280Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 234 x 154 x 21Cover type: Paper...