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  • Let Me Be Your Trumpet

    An Instrument in Your Hand

    by Nancy Denton Sanders ...
    o you long for more power in your prayers, more strength in your faith and more intimacy with God? If so, this short book will have a long-lasting impact on your life. Find out how the heroes of scriptures leaned into the Holy Spirit for the gifts, wisdom and fortitude to withstand every trial. Go with the author into the inner sanctum of life in the Holy Spirit through the disciplines of earnest ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Immigrant Adaptation in Multi-Ethnic Societies

    Canada, Taiwan, and the United States

    Edited by Eric Fong, Lan-Hung Nora Chiang, Nancy Denton ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    As a result of international immigration, ethnic diversity has increased rapidly in many countries, not only in major cities, but also in smaller cities. This trend is not limited to the traditional immigrant receiving countries, such as the United States and Canada, but occurs also in many other countries where doors are gradually opening to immigration, especially in Asia. This combination of a ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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    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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  • Random Family

    Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx

    by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc ...
    Selected as One of the Best Books of the 21st Century by The New York TimesSet amid the havoc of the War on Drugs, this New York Times bestseller is an "astonishingly intimate" (New York magazine) chronicle of one family’s triumphs and trials in the South Bronx of the 1990s.“Unmatched in depth and power and grace. A profound, achingly beautiful work of narrative nonfiction…<strong... ... Read more

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  • Streetfight

    Handbook for an Urban Revolution

    by Janette Sadik-Khan, Seth Solomonow ...
    Like a modern-day Jane Jacobs, Janette Sadik-Khan transformed New York City's streets to make room for pedestrians, cyclists, buses, and green spaces. Describing the battles she fought to enact change, Streetfight imparts wisdom and practical advice that other cities can follow to make their own streets safer and more vibrant.As New York City’s transportation commissioner, Janette Sadik-Khan ... Read more

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  • The Just City

    by Susan S. Fainstein ...
    "The just city is one in which equity, democracy, and diversity are important considerations. This is in contrast with the city as growth machine. Fainstein examines three cities: New York, London, and Amsterdam. She provides a history of post–World War II planning and then focuses on fairly recent cases of development in each. Her goals, though modest, are important if growing inequality in urban ... Read more

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  • The Great Inversion and the Future of the American City

    by Alan Ehrenhalt ...
    In The Great Inversion and the Future of the American City we travel the nation with Alan Ehrenhalt, one of our leading urbanists, as he explains how America’s cities are changing, what makes them succeed or fail, and what this means for our future.Just a couple of decades ago, we took it for granted that inner cities were the preserve of immigrants and the poor, and that suburbs were the chosen ... Read more

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  • Human Targets

    Schools, Police, and the Criminalization of Latino Youth

    by Victor M. Rios ...
    At fifteen, Victor Rios found himself a human target—flat on his ass amid a hail of shotgun fire, desperate for money and a place on the street. Faced with the choice of escalating a drug turf war or eking out a living elsewhere, he turned to a teacher, who mentored him and helped him find a job at an auto shop. That job would alter the course of his whole life—putting him on the road to college ... Read more

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  • Fit

    An Architect's Manifesto

    by Robert Geddes ...
    Why architecture matters—and how to make it matter moreFit is a book about architecture and society that seeks to fundamentally change how architects and the public think about the task of design. Distinguished architect and urbanist Robert Geddes argues that buildings, landscapes, and cities should be designed to fit: fit the purpose, fit the place, fit future possibilities. Fit replaces old ... Read more

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  • Common Space

    The City as Commons

    by Associate Professor Stavros Stavrides ...
    Series series In Common
    Space is both a product and a prerequisite of social relations, it has the potential to block and encourage certain forms of encounter. In Common Space, activist and architect Stavros Stavrides calls for us to conceive of space-as-commons – first, to think beyond the notions of public and private space, and then to understand common space not only as space that is governed by all and remains open ... Read more

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  • The Streets Were Paved with Gold

    by Ken Auletta ...
    How - and why - did one of the world's greatest cities come to be teetering on the edge of bankruptcy? Ken Auletta, writer for THE NEW YORKER and columnist for THE DAILY NEWS, shows how the decline of New York City was partly inevitable --- the result of shifting migration patterns and rapidl technological innovations --- and partly caused by anarchic political and economic factions, each angling ... Read more

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  • The Right to the City

    Social Justice and the Fight for Public Space

    by Don Mitchell ...
    Includes a 2014 Postscript addressing Occupy Wall Street and other developments. Efforts to secure the American city have life-or-death implications, yet demands for heightened surveillance and security throw into sharp relief timeless questions about the nature of public space, how it is to be used, and under what conditions. Blending historical and geographical analysis, this book examines the ... Read more

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