Urban Politics

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    • The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change
    • Auteur(s): Ashley Dawson
    • Narrateur(s): L.J. Ganser
    • Durée: 12 h et 20 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-01-30
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • In Extreme Cities, Ashley Dawson argues that cities are ground zero for climate change, contributing the lion's share of carbon to the atmosphere, while also lying on the frontlines of rising sea levels....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    • Life and Death in a Divided City
    • Auteur(s): Samira Shackle
    • Narrateur(s): Amina Zia
    • Durée: 9 h et 37 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-08-19
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Karachi. Pakistan’s largest city is a sprawling metropolis of 20 million people, twice the size of New York City. In this powerful debut, Samira Shackle explores the city of her mother’s birth in the company of a handful of Karachiites....

    Prix courant: 18,17$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 18,17$ ou 1 crédit

    • Americans Reaching for Hope
    • Auteur(s): Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn
    • Narrateur(s): Jennifer Garner, Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn
    • Durée: 9 h et 43 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-01-14
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 évaluations
    • With stark poignancy and political dispassion, Tightrope draws us deep into an "other America". The authors tell this story, in part, through the lives of some of the children with whom Kristof grew up in rural Yamhill, Oregon....

    Prix courant: 23,31$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 23,31$ ou 1 crédit

    • The Unlikely Ukrainian Hero Who Defied Putin and United the World
    • Auteur(s): Andrew L. Urban, Chris McLeod
    • Narrateur(s): Keith Szarabajka
    • Durée: 4 h et 24 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-04-19
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • The first major profile of Ukraine’s courageous President Volodymyr Zelensky....

    Prix courant: 15,33$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 15,33$ ou 1 crédit

    • Auteur(s): Nickle David Nickle
    • Narrateur(s): Ken Kliban
    • Durée: 23 h et 4 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-05-29
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • They were the beautiful dreamers. From a hidden city deep in the Ural mountains, they walked the world as the coldest of Cold Warriors, under the command of the Kremlin and under the power of their own expansive minds....

    Prix courant: 46,23$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 46,23$ ou 1 crédit

    • Auteur(s): Simon Young
    • Narrateur(s): Jonathan Johns
    • Durée: 7 h et 44 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-11-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • In the last fifty years, folklorists have amassed an extraordinary corpus of contemporary legends including "the Choking Doberman," "the Eaten Ticket," and "the Vanishing Hitchhiker." But what about the urban legends of the past? These legends and tales have rarely been collected....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    • Modern Library Chronicles Series, Book 21
    • Auteur(s): Joel Kotkin
    • Narrateur(s): Nelson Runger
    • Durée: 7 h et 45 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-12-08
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Joel Kotkin explores the history of cities around the globe. He argues that urban areas must be places where there is a shared feeling of sacredness, civic identity, and moral order....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    • How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life
    • Auteur(s): Richard Florida
    • Narrateur(s): Mark Boyett
    • Durée: 8 h et 52 min
    • Date de publication: 2010-08-02
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • All places are not created equal. In this groundbreaking book, Richard Florida shows that where we live is increasingly a crucial factor in our lives....

    Prix courant: 33,01$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 33,01$ ou 1 crédit

    • Our Future in Smarter, Simpler, Happier Housing
    • Auteur(s): Diana Lind
    • Narrateur(s): Janina Edwards
    • Durée: 6 h et 45 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-10-13
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • A smart, provocative look at how the American dream of single-family homes, white picket fences, and two-car garages became a lonely, overpriced nightmare, and how new trends in housing can help us live better....

    Prix courant: 25,24$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 25,24$ ou 1 crédit

    • Aspirations and Attainment in a Low-Income Neighborhood
    • Auteur(s): Jay MacLeod
    • Narrateur(s): Christian Rummel
    • Durée: 20 h et 58 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-03-24
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • With the original 1987 publication of Ain’t No Makin’ It Jay MacLeod brought us to the Clarendon Heights housing project where we met the "Brothers" and the "Hallway Hangers"....

    Prix courant: 46,24$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 46,24$ ou 1 crédit

    • How Lot Sellers, Land Scammers, and Retirees Built Modern Florida and Transformed the American Dream
    • Auteur(s): Jason Vuic
    • Narrateur(s): Mike Chamberlain
    • Durée: 9 h et 35 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-06-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Florida has long beckoned retirees seeking to spend their golden years in the sun, but, for many, the American dream of owning a home there was financially impossible. That changed in the 1950s....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    • The Peri Reed Chronicles, Book 1
    • Auteur(s): Kim Harrison
    • Narrateur(s): January LaVoy
    • Série: The Peri Reed Chronicles, Livre 1
    • Durée: 15 h et 45 min
    • Date de publication: 2015-09-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 évaluations
    • During a routine but dangerous Opti task, Peri Reed finds out her trusted partner has made her a corrupt agent....

    Prix courant: 29,13$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 29,13$ ou 1 crédit

    • Coming to Terms with Los Angeles
    • Auteur(s): David Ulin
    • Narrateur(s): LJ Ganser
    • Durée: 4 h et 56 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-04-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • David L. Ulin offers a compelling inquiry into the evolving landscape of Los Angeles. Part personal narrative, part investigation of the city as both idea and environment, Sidewalking is many things....

    Prix courant: 19,77$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 19,77$ ou 1 crédit

    • Their History and Culture
    • Auteur(s): DK
    • Narrateur(s): Tim Rumboll
    • Durée: 14 h et 36 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-08-31
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • From the first towns in Mesopotamia to today's global metropolises, cities have marked the progress of civilization. Great Cities offers a rich historical overview of each featured city....

    Prix courant: 26,22$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 26,22$ ou 1 crédit

    • How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Rules of Work
    • Auteur(s): Alex Rosenblat
    • Narrateur(s): Emily Beresford
    • Durée: 7 h et 28 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-10-23
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 5 évaluations
    • Silicon Valley technology is transforming the way we work, and Uber is leading the charge. Upending our understanding of work in the digital age, Uberland reveals the complicated politics of popular technologies and paints a future where any of us might be managed by a faceless boss....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

    • Technology and the End of the Future
    • Auteur(s): James Bridle
    • Narrateur(s): Emily Beresford
    • Durée: 8 h et 43 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-01-22
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 2.5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • In his brilliant new work, leading artist and writer James Bridle surveys the history of art, technology, and information systems and reveals the dark clouds that gather over our dreams of the digital sublime....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    • An Inside-Out Model of Prevention and Resiliency in Action
    • Auteur(s): Jack Pransky
    • Narrateur(s): Risa Rae
    • Durée: 9 h et 21 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-12-24
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Modello is an inspirational true story from beginning to end of how Dr. Roger Mills and staff accomplished the "miracle" in the Modello and Homestead Gardens Housing Projects, applying the Three Principles/Health Realization approach based on an innovative spiritual psychology....

    Prix courant: 30,25$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 30,25$ ou 1 crédit

    • Auteur(s): Viet Than Nguyen
    • Narrateur(s): Frank Arnold
    • Durée: 14 h et 59 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-03-24
    • Langue: Allemand
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Paris, 1981: Die Hauptstadt der ehemaligen Kolonialmacht ist für viele vietnamesische Flüchtlinge der rettende Hafen nach einer langen...

    Prix courant: 27,16$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 27,16$ ou 1 crédit

    • How Floating Nations Will Restore the Environment, Enrich the Poor, Cure the Sick, and Liberate Humanity from Politicians
    • Auteur(s): Joe Quirk, Patri Friedman
    • Narrateur(s): Sean Pratt
    • Durée: 10 h et 45 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-03-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Oil platforms and cruise ships already inhabit the waters; now it's time to take the next step to full-fledged ocean civilizations....

    Prix courant: 20,04$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 20,04$ ou 1 crédit

    • A World History in Fifteen Cities
    • Auteur(s): Caroline Campbell
    • Narrateur(s): Melanie McHugh
    • Durée: 13 h et 30 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-10-12
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • The Power of Art is an epic work of non-fiction that will transform our understanding of the world by unlocking the human stories behind millennia of art....

    Prix courant: 37,83$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 37,83$ ou 1 crédit