Urban Politics

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    • Working and Homeless in America
    • Auteur(s): Brian Goldstone
    • Narrateur(s): Dion Graham, Brian Goldstone
    • Durée: 13 h et 19 min
    • Date de publication: 2025-03-25
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Through the unforgettable stories of five Atlanta families, this landmark work of journalism exposes a new and troubling trend—the dramatic rise of the “working homeless” in cities across America

    Prix courant: 29,14 $ ou 1 crédit

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    • Poverty and Profit in the American City
    • Auteur(s): Matthew Desmond
    • Narrateur(s): Dion Graham
    • Durée: 11 h et 3 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-03-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 78 évaluations
    • In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur “Genius” Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they each struggle to keep a roof over their heads....

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    • Insurgent Spaces in the Fight for Justice
    • Auteur(s): Stathis G. Yeros
    • Narrateur(s): Kyla Garcia, Daniel Henning
    • Durée: 7 h et 19 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-04-24
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Conflicts about space and access to resources have shaped queer histories from at least 1965 to the present. As spaces associated with middle-class homosexuality enter mainstream urbanity in the United States, cultural assimilation increasingly erases insurgent aspects of these social movements.

    Prix courant: 25,25 $ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life, in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies
    • Auteur(s): Geoffrey West
    • Narrateur(s): Bruce Mann
    • Durée: 19 h et 13 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-05-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 évaluations
    • Visionary physicist Geoffrey West is a pioneer in the field of complexity science, the science of emergent systems and networks....

    Prix courant: 32,05 $ ou 1 crédit

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    • A People's History of a Misunderstood Era
    • Auteur(s): Donovan X. Ramsey
    • Narrateur(s): Donovan X. Ramsey
    • Durée: 11 h et 33 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-07-11
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • The crack epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s is arguably the least examined crisis in American history....

    Prix courant: 26,22 $ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Franz Kafka
    • Narrateur(s): Ralph Cosham
    • Durée: 2 h et 3 min
    • Date de publication: 2011-04-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 184 évaluations
    • “One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug....”

    Prix courant: 8,73 $ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Gail de Vos
    • Narrateur(s): Kelly Burke
    • Durée: 13 h et 8 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-11-12
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • A comprehensive and entertaining collection of urban legends from around the world, with a history and analysis of the origin of each tale, The Watkins Book of Urban Legends is compiled by a leading authority in the field.

    Prix courant: 31,27 $ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Deep Roots of the Urban-Rural Political Divide
    • Auteur(s): Jonathan A. Rodden
    • Narrateur(s): Mike Lenz
    • Durée: 10 h et 13 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-07-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Why is it so much easier for the Democratic Party to win the national popular vote than to build and maintain a majority in Congress? Why can Democrats sweep statewide offices in places like Pennsylvania and Michigan yet fail to take control of the same states' legislatures? Find out....

    Prix courant: 22,26 $ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood
    • Auteur(s): David Simon, Edward Burns
    • Narrateur(s): Dion Graham, David Simon
    • Durée: 25 h et 28 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-10-06
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10 évaluations
    • The crime-infested intersection of West Fayette and Monroe Streets is well-known - and cautiously avoided - by most of Baltimore. But this notorious corner's 24-hour open-air drug market provides the economic fuel for a dying neighborhood....

    Prix courant: 37,88 $ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): James C. Scott
    • Narrateur(s): Michael Kramer
    • Durée: 16 h et 6 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-05-22
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 évaluations
    • Why do well-intentioned plans for improving the human condition go tragically awry? Author James C. Scott analyzes failed cases of large-scale authoritarian plans in a variety of fields....

    Prix courant: 21,89 $ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Donald Shoup
    • Narrateur(s): Mike Chamberlain
    • Durée: 23 h et 47 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-06-30
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 évaluations
    • In this no-holds-barred treatise, Donald Shoup argues that free parking has contributed to auto dependence, rapid urban sprawl, extravagant energy use, and a host of other problems....

    Prix courant: 44,54 $ ou 1 crédit

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    • Blood Destiny, Book 4
    • Auteur(s): Helen Harper
    • Narrateur(s): Saskia Maarleveld
    • Série: Blood Destiny, Livre 4
    • Durée: 8 h et 46 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-07-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 évaluations
    • You'd think that life would finally be dealing Mack Smith a kind hand. Living in London, things appear to be settling down. Other than the terrible nightmares about dragons, that is....

    Prix courant: 20,04 $ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): David Wilkerson
    • Narrateur(s): Raymond Todd
    • Durée: 6 h et 43 min
    • Date de publication: 2008-11-06
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 38 évaluations
    • David Wilkerson stepped onto some of the world's most dangerous streets armed only with the simple message of God's love and the promise of the Holy Spirit's power....

    Prix courant: 12,24 $ ou 1 crédit

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    • Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
    • Auteur(s): Katherine Boo
    • Narrateur(s): Sunil Malhotra
    • Durée: 8 h et 16 min
    • Date de publication: 2012-02-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 évaluations
    • In this breathtaking book by Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human through the dramatic story of families striving toward a better life in Annawadi, a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels....

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    • The True Story of an 11-Year-Old Panhandler, a Busy Sales Executive, and an Unlikely Meeting with Destiny
    • Auteur(s): Laura Schroff, Alex Tresniowski
    • Narrateur(s): Pam Ward
    • Durée: 7 h et 2 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-05-28
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 37 évaluations
    • This inspirational New York Times best seller chronicles the lifelong friendship between a busy sales executive and a disadvantaged young boy and how both of their lives were changed by what began as one small gesture of kindness....

    Prix courant: 19,99 $ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Remarkable History of the Lagoon City
    • Auteur(s): Dennis Romano
    • Narrateur(s): David Colacci
    • Durée: 30 h et 45 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-02-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • No city stirs the imagination more than Venice. From the richly ornamented palaces emerging from the waters of the Grand Canal to the dazzling sites of Piazza San Marco, visitors and residents alike sense they are entering, as fourteenth-century poet Petrarch remarked, “another world.”....

    Prix courant: 38,97 $ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Strange History of New York's Oldest Street
    • Auteur(s): Stephen Paul DeVillo
    • Narrateur(s): Daniel Henning
    • Durée: 10 h et 20 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-06-29
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • It was the street your mother warned you about - even if you lived in San Francisco. Long associated with skid row, saloons, freak shows, violence, and vice, the Bowery often showed the worst New York City had to offer. Yet there were times when it showed its best as well....

    Prix courant: 22,26 $ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets
    • Auteur(s): Sudhir Venkatesh
    • Narrateur(s): Reg Rogers, Sudhir Venkatesh, Stephen J. Dubner
    • Durée: 8 h et 42 min
    • Date de publication: 2008-01-09
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 évaluations
    • The story of the young sociologist who studied a Chicago crack-dealing gang from the inside captured the world's attention when it was first described in Freakonomics....

    Prix courant: 27,96 $ ou 1 crédit

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    • How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
    • Auteur(s): Gregg Colburn, Clayton Page Aldern
    • Narrateur(s): Adam Verner
    • Durée: 6 h et 22 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-02-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Colburn and Aldern seek to explain the substantial regional variation in rates of homelessness in cities across the United States. In a departure from many analytical approaches, the authors shift their focus from the individual experiencing homelessness to the metropolitan area....

    Prix courant: 22,26 $ ou 1 crédit

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