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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “derek alderman”
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  • Rhetorics Haunting the National Mall

    Displaced and Ephemeral Public Memories

    by Derek Alderman, Ethan Bottone, A. Cheree Carlson, Carlos Flores, Marouf Hasian Jr., Carl T. Hyden, Joshua Inwood, Sean Luechtefeld, Stephanie Marek Muller, Theodore F. Sheckels, Elizabethada A. Wright, Teresa Bergman, Kenneth E. Foote, Aaron Hess, Michael P. Vicaro ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Contemporary Rhetoric
    Rhetorics Haunting the National Mall: Displaced and Ephemeral Public Memories vividly illustrates that a nation’s history is more complicated than the simple binary of remembered/forgotten. Some parts of history, while not formally recognized within a commemorative landscape, haunt those landscapes by virtue of their ephemeral or displaced presence. Rather than being discretely contained within a ... Read more

    $97.99 USD

  • The Political Life of Urban Streetscapes

    Naming, Politics, and Place

    Edited by Reuben Rose-Redwood, Derek Alderman, Maoz Azaryahu ...
    Streetscapes are part of the taken-for-granted spaces of everyday urban life, yet they are also contested arenas in which struggles over identity, memory, and place shape the social production of urban space. This book examines the role that street naming has played in the political life of urban streetscapes in both historical and contemporary cities. The renaming of streets and remaking of urban ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

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    I am a rather elderly man. The nature of my avocations for the last thirty years has brought me into more than ordinary contact with what would seem an interesting and somewhat singular set of men, of whom as yet nothing that I know of has ever been written: - I mean the law-copyists or scriveners. I have known very many of them, professionally and privately, and if I pleased, could relate divers ... Read more

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  • Gangbusters

    How a Street Tough, Elite Homicide Unit Took Down New York's Most Dangerous Gang

    by Michael Stone ...
    An elite homicide investigation unit takes on one of the most savage and destructive gangs in New York City history in this gritty true-crime narrative.The investigation into the late-night murder of a college student on the West Side Highway leads to the Wild Cowboys, a group of young men who for years terrorized Upper Manhattan and the Bronx while running a $30,000-a-day drug business. What ... Read more

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  • The City

    A World History

    by Andrew Lees ...
    Series series New Oxford World History
    The City: A World History tells the story of the rise and development of urban centers from ancient times to the twenty-first century. It begins with the establishment of the first cities in the Near East in the fourth millennium BCE, and goes on to examine urban growth in the Indus River Valley in India, as well as Egypt and areas that bordered the Mediterranean Sea. Athens, Alexandria, and Rome ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • New Slow City

    Living Simply in the World's Fastest City

    by William Powers ...
    Burned-out after years of doing development work around the world, William Powers spent a season in a 12-foot-by-12-foot cabin off the grid in North Carolina, as recounted in his award-winning memoir Twelve by Twelve. Could he live a similarly minimalist life in the heart of New York City? To find out, Powers and his wife jettisoned 80 percent of their stuff, left their 2,000-square-foot Queens ... Read more

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  • SPACE, DIFFERENCE, EVERYDAY LIFE:

    Reading Henri Lefebvre

    Edited by Kanishka Goonewardena, Stefan Kipfer, Richard Milgrom, Christian Schmid ...
    In the past fifteen years, Henri Lefebvre’s reputation has catapulted into the stratosphere, and he is now considered an equal to some of the greats of European social theory (Bourdieu, Deleuze, Harvey). In particular, his work has revitalized urban studies, geography and planning via concepts like; the social production of space, the right to the city, everyday life, and global urbanization. ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Staging the New Berlin

    Place Marketing and the Politics of Urban Reinvention Post-1989

    by Claire Colomb ...
    Series series Planning, History and Environment Series
    This book explores the politics of place marketing and the process of ‘urban reinvention’ in Berlin between 1989 and 2011. In the context of the dramatic socio-economic restructuring processes, changes in urban governance and physical transformation of the city following the Fall of the Wall, the ‘new’ Berlin was not only being built physically, but staged for visitors and Berliners and marketed ... Read more

    $81.99 USD

  • The Group Mind

    by William Mcdougall ...
    Group Psychology itself consists properly of two parts, that which is concerned to discover the most general principles of group life, and that which applies these principles to the study of particular kinds and examples of group life. The former is logically prior to the second; though in practice it is hardly possible to keep them wholly apart. The present volume is concerned chiefly with the ... Read more

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  • Animal Metropolis

    Histories of Human-Animal Relations in Urban Canada

    Edited by Joanna Dean, Darcy Ingram, Christabelle Sethna ...
    Series Book 8 - Canadian History and Environment
    Animal Metropolis brings a Canadian perspective to the growing field of animal history, ranging across species and cities, from the beavers who engineered Stanley Park to the carthorses who shaped the city of Montreal. Some essays consider animals as spectacle: orca captivity in Vancouver, polar bear tourism in Churchill, Manitoba, fish on display in the Dominion Fisheries Museum, and the ... Read more

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  • Exiled in America

    Life on the Margins in a Residential Motel

    by Christopher Dum ...
    Series series Studies in Transgression
    Residential motels have long been places of last resort for many vulnerable Americans—released prisoners, people with disabilities or mental illness, struggling addicts, the recently homeless, and the working poor. Cast aside by their families and mainstream society, they survive in squalid, unsafe, and demeaning circumstances that few of us can imagine.For a year, the sociologist Christopher P. ... Read more

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  • Rethinking the American City

    An International Dialogue

    by Dolores Hayden ...
    Series series Architecture | Technology | Culture
    Whether struggling in the wake of postindustrial decay or reinventing themselves with new technologies and populations, cities have once again moved to the center of intellectual and political concern. Rethinking the American City brings together leading scholars from a range of disciplines to examine an array of topics that illuminate the past, present, and future of cities.Rethinking the ... Read more

    $49.99 USD