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  • Living Digital 2040: Future Of Work, Education And Healthcare

    by King Wang Poon, Hyowon Lee, Wee Kiat Lim, Rajesh Elara Mohan, Youngjin (Marie) Chae, Gayathri Balasubramanian, Arron Wai Keet Yong, Raymond Wei Wen Yeong ...
    Countries, cities, and companies are investing in smart cities and digital economies. ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • The Sugar Girls - Gladys’s Story

    Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness in Tate & Lyle’s East End

    by Duncan Barrett, Nuala Calvi ...
    This is Gladys’s story, one of four stories from The Sugar Girls. During the Blitz and the years of rationing, the Sugar Girls kept Britain sweet. The work was back-breakingly hard, but the Tate & Lyle factory was more than just a workplace – it was a community, a calling, a place of love and support and an uproarious, tribal part of East London.‘Gladys changed into her new uniform. The dungarees ... Read more

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  • Cop in the Hood

    My Year Policing Baltimore's Eastern District

    by Peter Moskos ...
    When Harvard-trained sociologist Peter Moskos left the classroom to become a cop in Baltimore's Eastern District, he was thrust deep into police culture and the ways of the street--the nerve-rattling patrols, the thriving drug corners, and a world of poverty and violence that outsiders never see. In Cop in the Hood, Moskos reveals the truths he learned on the midnight shift.Through Moskos's eyes, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Spirit of Cities

    Why the Identity of a City Matters in a Global Age

    by Daniel A. Bell, Avner de-Shalit ...
    A lively and personal book that returns the city to political thoughtCities shape the lives and outlooks of billions of people, yet they have been overshadowed in contemporary political thought by nation-states, identity groups, and concepts like justice and freedom. The Spirit of Cities revives the classical idea that a city expresses its own distinctive ethos or values. In the ancient world, ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Small Arcs of Larger Circles

    Framing Through Other Patterns

    by Nora Bateson ...
    "Truly a great and life changing read!"This is an important first collection of essays, reflections and poems by Nora Bateson, the noted research designer, film-maker, writer and lecturer. She is the daughter of Gregory Bateson, president of the International Bateson Institute (IBI) and an adviser to numerous bodies at international and governmental level.Building on Gregory Bateson’s famous book ... Read more

    $20.44 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Designated Mourner

    by Wallace Shawn ...
    “The play nicely combines Pinterian menace with caustic political commentary.” –Time“Acerbic, elusive, poetic and chilling, the writing is demanding in a rarefied manner. Its implications are both affecting and disturbing.” –Los Angeles Times“In his exquisitely written dramatic lament for the decline of high culture. . . . [Shawn] offers a definition of the self that should rattle the defenses of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • A Chance to Win

    Boyhood, Baseball, and the Struggle for Redemption in the Inner City

    by Jonathan Schuppe ...
    A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist follows an embattled Little League team in inner-city Newark, New Jersey, revealing the complex realities of urban life in one of America's most dangerous citiesWhen Rodney Mason, an ex-con drug dealer from Newark's rough South Ward, was shot and paralyzed, he vowed to turn his life around. A former high-school pitching ace with a 93 mph fastball, Mason decided ... Read more

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  • Urban Assemblages

    How Actor-Network Theory Changes Urban Studies

    Edited by Ignacio Farías, Thomas Bender ...
    Series series Questioning Cities
    This book takes it as a given that the city is made of multiple partially localized assemblages built of heterogeneous networks, spaces, and practices. The past century of urban studies has focused on various aspects—space, culture, politics, economy—but these too often address each domain and the city itself as a bounded and cohesive entity. The multiple and overlapping enactments that constitute ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Brands and Marketing (Entering the Shift Age, eBook 9)

    by David Houle ...
    We are leaving the Information Age and transitioning into the Shift Age, a time of transformation and change that offers both great risk and incredible opportunity. In Entering the Shift Age, David Houle identifies and explains the dynamics and forces that have shaped our world and will continue to reshape our world for the next 20 years. He shows how the Shift Age means a world fully global yet ... Read more

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  • The New Localism

    How Cities Can Thrive in the Age of Populism

    by Bruce Katz, Jeremy Nowak ...
    The New Localism provides a roadmap for change that starts in the communities where most people live and work.In their new book, The New Localism, urban experts Bruce Katz and Jeremy Nowak reveal where the real power to create change lies and how it can be used to address our most serious social, economic, and environmental challenges.Power is shifting in the world: downward from national ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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  • Planetary Gentrification

    by Loretta Lees, Hyun Bang Shin, Ernesto López-Morales ...
    Series series Urban Futures
    This is the first book in Polity's new 'Urban Futures' series.At the beginning of the twenty-first century, proclamations rang out that gentrification had gone global. But what do we mean by 'gentrification' today? How can we compare 'gentrification' in New York and London with that in Shanghai, Johannesburg, Mumbai and Rio de Janeiro? This book argues that gentrification is one of the most ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • Left Bank of the Hudson

    Jersey City and the Artists of 111 1st Street

    by David J. Goodwin ...
    In the late 1980s, a handful of artists priced out of Manhattan and desperately needing affordable studio space discovered 111 1st Street, a former P. Lorillard Tobacco Company warehouse. Over the next two decades, an eclectic collection of painters, sculptors, musicians, photographers, filmmakers, and writers dreamt and toiled within the building’s labyrinthine halls. The local arts scene ... Read more

    $25.69 USD