Urban Sociology

Liste de produits
    • How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier
    • Auteur(s): Edward Glaeser
    • Narrateur(s): Lloyd James
    • Durée: 12 h et 28 min
    • Date de publication: 2011-03-28
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 évaluations
    • America is an urban nation. More than two thirds of us live on the three percent of land that contains our cities. Yet cities get a bad rap....

    Prix courant: 41,67$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 41,67$ ou 1 crédit

    • The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America
    • Auteur(s): Alex Kotlowitz
    • Narrateur(s): Dion Graham
    • Durée: 10 h et 41 min
    • Date de publication: 2010-04-30
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 évaluations
    • This New York Public Library selection as one of the 150 most important books of the 20th century is a true-life portrait of growing up in the Chicago projects....

    Prix courant: 20,15$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 20,15$ ou 1 crédit

    • Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City
    • Auteur(s): Jennifer Toth
    • Narrateur(s): Tanya Eby
    • Durée: 7 h et 55 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-10-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 évaluations
    • Thousands of people live in the subway, railroad, and sewage tunnels that form the bowels of New York City. This audiobook is about them, the so-called mole people....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    • The Surprising Science of How Buildings Shape Our Behavior, Health, and Happiness
    • Auteur(s): Emily Anthes
    • Narrateur(s): Suzie Althens
    • Durée: 8 h et 7 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-06-23
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • In this wide-ranging, character-driven audiobook, science-journalist Emily Anthes takes us on an adventure into the buildings in which we spend our days, exploring the profound and sometimes unexpected ways that they shape our lives....

    Prix courant: 19,61$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 19,61$ ou 1 crédit

    • The Evolution, Devolution, and Potential Rebirth of Urban Housing
    • Auteur(s): Max Podemski
    • Narrateur(s): Rob Greenbaum
    • Durée: 10 h et 16 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-03-26
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • From the Haitian-style “shotgun” houses of the 19th century to the lavish high-rises of the 21st century, a walk through the streets of America’s neighborhoods that reveals the rich history—and future—of urban housing.

    Prix courant: 28,28$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 28,28$ ou 1 crédit

    • New York's Long War to Take Back Its Streets from the Car
    • Auteur(s): Nicole Gelinas
    • Narrateur(s): Cara Firestone
    • Durée: 20 h
    • Date de publication: 2025-04-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Movement: New York's Long War to Take Back Its Streets from the Car explores how, in the half-century leading up to the COVID-19 pandemic, New York's re-embracement of its mass-transit system and a livable streetscape helped save the city.

    Prix courant: 26,30$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 26,30$ ou 1 crédit

    • A True Story of Murder in America
    • Auteur(s): Jill Leovy
    • Narrateur(s): Rebecca Lowman
    • Durée: 13 h et 24 min
    • Date de publication: 2015-01-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 15 évaluations
    • A masterly work of literary journalism about a senseless murder, a relentless detective, and the great plague of homicide in America....

    Prix courant: 26,22$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 26,22$ ou 1 crédit

    • Local Politics and Inequality in American Cities
    • Auteur(s): Jessica Trounstine
    • Narrateur(s): Rebecca Gibel
    • Durée: 7 h et 23 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-02-09
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Segregation by Design draws on more than 100 years of quantitative and qualitative data from thousands of American cities to explore how local governments generate race and class segregation....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    • The Quest to Build the World's Tallest Skyscrapers
    • Auteur(s): Jason M. Barr
    • Narrateur(s): Kirby Heyborne
    • Durée: 11 h et 7 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-05-14
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • From one of the world’s top experts on the economics of skyscrapers comes a fascinating account of the ever-growing quest for super tall buildings across the globe....

    Prix courant: 26,99$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 26,99$ ou 1 crédit

    • How Zoning Shapes Our World
    • Auteur(s): Sara C. Bronin
    • Narrateur(s): Rachel Perry
    • Durée: 6 h et 25 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-10-29
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Legal scholar and architect Sara C. Bronin examines how zoning became such a prevailing force and reveals its impact—and its potential for good.

    Prix courant: 17,53$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 17,53$ ou 1 crédit

    • The True Story of the "Looking for Mr. Goodbar" Murder
    • Auteur(s): Lacey Fosburgh
    • Narrateur(s): Cynthia Farrell
    • Durée: 6 h et 45 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-07-30
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • In 1973, Roseann Quinn, an Irish-Catholic teacher at a school for deaf children, was killed in New York City after bringing a man home to her apartment from an Upper West Side pub. The crime made headlines and the ensuing case quickly evolved into a cultural phenomenon....

    Prix courant: 26,00$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 26,00$ ou 1 crédit

    • The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York
    • Auteur(s): Ross Perlin
    • Narrateur(s): Ross Perlin
    • Durée: 10 h et 53 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-04-09
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Half of all 7,000-plus human languages may disappear over the next century, and when they're gone, it will be forever.

    Prix courant: 26,31$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 26,31$ ou 1 crédit

    • The Design of Everyday Life
    • Auteur(s): Adam Greenfield
    • Narrateur(s): Michael Butler Murray
    • Durée: 12 h et 14 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-06-30
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • In this urgent and revelatory excavation of our Information Age, leading technology thinker Adam Greenfield forces us to reconsider our relationship with the networked objects, services, and spaces that define us....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

    • A Journey into the Real Russia
    • Auteur(s): Anne Garrels
    • Narrateur(s): Anne Garrels
    • Durée: 8 h et 12 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-03-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • In Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia, Garrels crafts an intimate portrait of the nation's heartland. We meet ostentatious mafiosos, upwardly mobile professionals....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

    • Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles
    • Auteur(s): Rosecrans Baldwin
    • Narrateur(s): Rosecrans Baldwin
    • Durée: 7 h et 40 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-06-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Rosecrans Baldwin's Everything Now approaches the metropolis from unexpected angles, nimbly interleaving his own voice with a chorus of others, from canonical LA literature to everyday citizens....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    • Children in America's Schools
    • Auteur(s): Jonathan Kozol
    • Narrateur(s): Mark Winston
    • Durée: 8 h et 43 min
    • Date de publication: 2010-03-23
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Jonathan Kozol traveled from the most blighted neighborhoods of Chicago to the urban wreckage of Camden, New Jersey; from the ghetto suburbs of Detroit to inner-city San Antonio....

    Prix courant: 26,00$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 26,00$ ou 1 crédit

    • An Appeal to the Young, Law and Authority, Mutual Aid, & the Conquest of Bread
    • Auteur(s): Peter Kropotkin
    • Narrateur(s): MuseumAudiobooks.com Cast
    • Durée: 19 h et 7 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-06-23
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin was a Russian activist, writer, revolutionary, scientist, economist, sociologist, historian, essayist, researcher, political scientist and philosopher who advocated anarcho-communism....

    Prix courant: 48,24$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 48,24$ ou 1 crédit

    • In Search of the Future in Northern Heartlands
    • Auteur(s): Alex Niven
    • Narrateur(s): Dan Pye
    • Durée: 9 h et 12 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-02-02
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • An in-depth exploration of the importance of the North of England in the modern era....

    Prix courant: 19,12$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 19,12$ ou 1 crédit

    • The Great Chicago Fire and the War for a City's Soul
    • Auteur(s): Scott W. Berg
    • Narrateur(s): Sean Patrick Hopkins
    • Durée: 13 h et 47 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-09-26
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • In the fall of 1871, Chicagoans knew they were due for the “big one”—a massive, uncontrollable fire that would decimate the city. It had been bone-dry for months, and a recent string of blazes had nearly outstripped the fire department’s already scant resources....

    Prix courant: 29,14$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 29,14$ ou 1 crédit

    • A Coach, His Star Recruit, and the Youth Basketball Machine
    • Auteur(s): George Dohrmann
    • Narrateur(s): Emily Rose Speer
    • Durée: 15 h et 6 min
    • Date de publication: 2010-10-05
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • The NBA has returned to prominence on the backs of phenoms like LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, and Kevin Garnett....

    Prix courant: 25,20$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 25,20$ ou 1 crédit