Urban Narratives

Making the Right Choice unravels the entangled relationship between marriage, morality, and the desire for modernity as it plays out in the context...

Reducere. Description Since the 1970s, Aboriginal people have been more likely to live in Canadian cities than on reserves or in rural areas. Aboriginal rura...

Reducere. Urban Migrants in Rural Japan provides a fresh perspective on theoretical notions of rurality and emerging modes of working and living in post-grow...

Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing IncAuthor(s): David J. ConnorNumber of pages: 412Collection: Disability Studies in EducationPublication date: 2007...

Critical Race and Education for Black Males: When Pretty Boys Become Menis is a series of narratives based on my experiences as a Black male from t...

DescriptionThis interdisciplinary book considers national identity through the lens of urban spaces. By bringing together scholars from a range of ...

Land Fictions explores the common storylines, narratives, and tales of social betterment that justify and enact land as commodity. It interrogates ...

Reducere. In the early 1950s, Pruitt-Igoe, a vast public housing project, arose on 57 acres on the near north side of St. Louis. Barely 20 years after constr...

Reducere. In Natural Allies, Soo Hong offers a paradigm shift in how we think about family engagement with schools. Hong challenges the conventional depictio...

Urban researchers and development practitioners, would benefit from the book's narratives of the old poor in inner city slums, new poor in peripher...

DescriptionAlmost fifty years ago, America's industrial cities--Detroit, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Baltimore, and others--began shedding people and ...

As cities evolve and resources shift with time, spaces within those cities are often left fallow and abandoned. Cyclical City tells the stories beh...

Reducere. Heralded as America's quintessentially modern city, Chicago has attracted the gaze of journalists, novelists, essayists, and scholars. Yet few hist...

Prairie Fairies draws upon a wealth of oral, archival, and cultural histories to recover the experiences of queer urban and rural people in the pra...

Reducere. War of Gods is the highly anticipated conclusion to the critically acclaimed, award winning epic urban fantasy series, The Paternus Trilogy.From Af...

Reducere. ``The voice of the ghetto itself.`` --The Village Voice Shocking, thrilling, and absolutely unforgettable--Donald Goines returns with another class...

Reducere. In eight stories, this singular collection of short fiction written over the course of ten years explores the terrain of modern urban life. In refl...

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

Reducere. In this ambitious book, bestselling author Sanjeev Sanyal chronicles the grand sweep of history from East Africa to Australia, conjuring the great ...

Reducere. Suspenseful, sometimes sad, and slyly funny, THE GIRL IN THE BOSTON BOX follows two seemingly unrelated narratives linked by the urban legend of th...

Reducere. Heralded as America's most quintessentially modern city, Chicago has attracted the gaze of journalists, novelists, essayists, and scholars as much ...

Reducere. "This gorgeous debut is a 'debut' in chronology only. . . . Need is everywherein the unforgiving images, in lines so delicate they seem to break ap...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Tiya MilesIn this book Tiya Miles explores the popular yet troubling phenomenon of "ghost tours, " frequently promoted and ...

Reducere. DescriptionPulp According to David Goodis starts with six characteristics of 1950s pulp noir that fascinated mass-market readers, making them wish ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe years 1907-1913 mark a crucial transitional moment in American cinema. As moving picture shows changed from mere novelty to an incre...

"For her to love me, she had to be willing to kill me. Anything else would show that her heart was untrue." The struggle against not-so-charming st...

Reducere. The West and the World engages students and provokes discussion by presenting the past through the prism of current and perennial issues. Interpret...

Reducere. Stitching the 24-Hour City reveals the intense speed of garment production and everyday life in Dongdaemun, a lively market in Seoul, South Korea. ...

Reducere. A major literary figure and frequent contributor to the Yiddish-language newspaper Forverts from the 1920s to the mid-1930s, Jonah Rosenfeld was re...

Unpacking assumptions about corseting, Rebecca Gibson supplements narratives of corseted women from the 18th and 19th centuries with her seminal wo...

In Arabs and the Art of Storytelling, the eminent Moroccan literary historian and critic Kilito revisits and reassesses, in a modern critical light...

DescriptionThe Act of Living explores the relation between development and marginality in Ethiopia, one of the fastest growing economies in Africa....

Although Iraqi Jews saw themselves as Iraqi patriots, their community--which had existed in Iraq for more than 2, 500 years--was displaced followin...

Reducere. Stephen is middle-aged. He's gay. He's content, except when he isn't. Stephen is a teacher. He's a poet. He has a new teaching job in Kamloops, BC....

Reducere. "Fans of literate, subtle horror will clamor for more."-Publishers Weekly Starred Review"The quality of the stories selected is so uniformly high i...

Reducere. DescriptionI have a question for you ladies. What would you do to marry the man of your dreams? Would you be willing to risk everything for love? I...