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  • Dynamics of Community Formation

    Developing Identity and Notions of Home

    Edited by Yaser Robles, Robert W. Compton, Jr., Ho Hon Leung ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This interdisciplinary work discusses the construction, maintenance, evolution, and destruction of home and community spaces, which are central to the development of social cohesion. By examining how people throughout the world form different communities to establish a sense of home, the volume surveys the formation of identity within the context of rapid development, global and domestic ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • The Cross and the Switchblade

    by David Wilkerson, John Sherrill, Elizabeth Sherrill ...
    The dramatic and inspiring true story of a small town minister called to help inner city kids everyone else believed were beyond hope...David Wilkerson was just a young preacher in the Pennsylvania hills when he was stunned by a new calling from God: go to New York City to speak to seven young gang members on trial for murder.But something much greater was to come. Once in New York, David was ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • HTO

    Toronto's Water from Lake Iroquois to Lost Rivers and Low-flow Toilets

    Edited by Wayne Reeves, Christina Palassio ...
    Series series uTOpia
    Drained by a half-dozen major watersheds, cut by a network of deep ravines and fronting on a Great Lake, Toronto is dominated by water. Like most cities, though, Toronto has mismanaged its water, from the decades-long transformation of the citys creeks into sewersheds to the alteration of Torontos waterfront. Recently, the trend of fettering Torontos water and putting it underground has been ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • The Year of Disappearances

    Political Killings in Cork 1921-1922

    by Gerard Murphy ...
    'Every spy who was shot in Cork was buried so that nothing was known about them. They just disappeared.' These are the words of an IRA commander recalling the War of Independence in Cork city. The Year of Disappearances examines this claim and others like it. It uncovers a web of suspicion and paranoia that led to scores of men and boys being abducted from their homes before being executed as ... Read more

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  • Masters of Craft

    Old Jobs in the New Urban Economy

    by Richard E. Ocejo ...
    How educated and culturally savvy young people are transforming traditionally low-status manual labor jobs into elite taste-making occupationsIn today's new economy—in which "good" jobs are typically knowledge or technology based—many well-educated and culturally savvy young men are instead choosing to pursue traditionally low-status manual labor occupations as careers. Masters of Craft looks at ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tales of Two Cities

    Stories of Inequality in a Divided New York

    Edited by John Freeman ...
    Thirty major contemporary writers examine life in a deeply divided New YorkIn a city where the top one percent earns more than a half-million dollars per year while twenty-five thousand children are homeless, public discourse about our entrenched and worsening wealth gap has never been more sorely needed. This remarkable anthology is the literary world’s response, with leading lights including ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Rule By Aesthetics

    World-Class City Making in Delhi

    by D. Asher Ghertner ...
    Rule by Aesthetics offers a powerful examination of the process and experience of mass demolition in the world's second largest city of Delhi, India. Using Delhi's millennial effort to become a 'world-class city,' the book shows how aesthetic norms can replace the procedures of mapping and surveying typically considered necessary to administer space. This practice of evaluating territory based on ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Creative Margins

    Cultural Production in Canadian Suburbs

    by Alison L. Bain ...
    Suburbs can be incubators of creativity: innovative and complex, but all too often underappreciated. In Creative Margins, Alison L. Bain documents the unique role of Canadian artists and cultural workers in suburban place-formation and dismantles mischaracterizations of suburbs as cultural wastelands.Creative Margins interweaves stories of the challenges and opportunities presented by the creation ... Read more

    $34.59 USD

  • The New Yorker Theater and Other Scenes from a Life at the Movies

    by Toby Talbot ...
    The nation didn't know it, but 1960 would change American film forever, and the revolution would occur nowhere near a Hollywood set. With the opening of the New Yorker Theater, a cinema located at the heart of Manhattan's Upper West Side, cutting-edge films from around the world were screened for an eager audience, including the city's most influential producers, directors, critics, and writers. ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Reclaiming Brownfields

    A Comparative Analysis of Adaptive Reuse of Contaminated Properties

    by Richard C. Hula ...
    The environmental legacy of past industrial and agricultural development can simultaneously pose serious threats to human health and impede reuse of contaminated land. The urban landscape around the world is littered with sites contaminated with a variety of toxins produced by past use. Both public and private sector actors are often reluctant to make significant investments in properties that ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Mobile Technologies of the City

    Edited by Mimi Sheller, John Urry ...
    Series series Networked Cities Series
    Mobile communications technologies are taking off across the world, while urban transportation and surveillance systems are also being rebuilt and updated. Emergent practices of physical, informational and communicational mobility are reconfiguring patterns of movement, co-presence, social exclusion and security across many urban contexts. This book brings together a carefully selected group of ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • New Islamic Schools

    Tradition, Modernity, and Class in Urban Pakistan

    by S. Riaz ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    The first ethnographic study of the trend toward religious, parochial schooling in urban Pakistan, this book provides data from over fifty-Karachi area schools to establish the complex reasons middle- and upper-class families enroll in religious Islamic schools. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD