Urban Sociology

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    • An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League
    • Auteur(s): Ron Suskind
    • Narrateur(s): Peter Jay Fernandez
    • Durée: 17 h et 19 min
    • Date de publication: 2008-10-25
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • A moving portrait of inner city life, A Hope in the Unseen offers a view of life through the eyes of someone trying desperately to make his way up from the bottom....

    Prix courant: 33,40$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 33,40$ ou 1 crédit

    • How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities
    • Auteur(s): Davarian L. Baldwin
    • Narrateur(s): Wayne Carr
    • Durée: 8 h et 40 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-03-30
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower takes listeners from Hartford to Chicago and from Phoenix to Manhattan, revealing the increasingly parasitic relationship between universities and our cities...

    Prix courant: 25,24$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 25,24$ ou 1 crédit

    • Work, Life, and Money in the New Not Normal
    • Auteur(s): Felix Salmon
    • Narrateur(s): Felix Salmon
    • Durée: 10 h et 1 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-05-09
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • An award-winning journalist presents a tour-de-force analysis—drawing from history, economics, sociology, and popular culture—of the profound and transformative years of the early 2020s, both for individuals and for the global economy....

    Prix courant: 32,62$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 32,62$ ou 1 crédit

    • MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
    • Auteur(s): Germaine Halegoua
    • Narrateur(s): Wendy Tremont King
    • Durée: 5 h et 33 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-03-17
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • Over the past 10 years, urban planners, technology companies, and governments have promoted smart cities with a somewhat utopian vision of urban life made knowable and manageable through data collection and analysis....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    • Fugitive Life in an American City
    • Auteur(s): Alice Goffman
    • Narrateur(s): Robin Miles
    • Durée: 11 h et 20 min
    • Date de publication: 2015-07-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • A riveting, groundbreaking account of how the war on crime has torn apart inner-city communities....

    Prix courant: 31,26$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 31,26$ 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

    • A Journey Through Cities at the Heart of Europe
    • Auteur(s): Marek Kohn
    • Narrateur(s): Philip Battley
    • Durée: 9 h et 11 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-09-12
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • A fascinating journey through Europe's old towns, The Stories Old Towns Tell explores why we treasure them—but also what they hide about a continent's fraught history....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 27,83$ 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 New York City History at the Corner of Fifth Avenue and Twenty-Third Street
    • Auteur(s): Christiane Bird
    • Narrateur(s): Alex Picard
    • Durée: 13 h et 14 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-03-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Gotham meets The Island at the Center of the World in this dazzling history of a single block in Manhattan from the Age of Exploration to the present....

    Prix courant: 30,06$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 30,06$ ou 1 crédit

    • Notes on an All-American Family
    • Auteur(s): Mitchell S. Jackson
    • Narrateur(s): Mitchell Jackson
    • Durée: 13 h et 32 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-03-05
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • In a thrillingly alive, candid new work, award-winning author Mitchell S. Jackson takes us inside the drug-ravaged neighborhood and struggling family of his youth, while examining the cultural forces - large and small - that led him and his family to this place....

    Prix courant: 29,13$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 29,13$ ou 1 crédit

    • A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City
    • Auteur(s): Mona Hanna-Attisha
    • Narrateur(s): Mona Hanna-Attisha
    • Durée: 11 h et 11 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-06-19
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 évaluations
    • Here is the inspiring story of how Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, alongside a team of researchers, parents, friends, and community leaders, discovered that the children of Flint, Michigan, were being exposed to lead in their tap water - and then battled her own government and a brutal backlash....

    Prix courant: 26,22$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 26,22$ ou 1 crédit

    • Why Our Future Will Be Won or Lost Together
    • Auteur(s): Ian Goldin, Tom Lee-Devlin
    • Narrateur(s): Nathaniel Priestley
    • Durée: 7 h et 1 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-06-22
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Visionary Oxford professor Ian Goldin and The Economist's Tom Lee-Devlin show why the city is where the battles of inequality, social division, pandemics and climate change must be faced....

    Prix courant: 19,12$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 19,12$ ou 1 crédit

    • Exposure collection
    • Auteur(s): Evan Wright
    • Narrateur(s): Neil Shah
    • Série: Exposure Collection
    • Durée: 4 h et 47 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-05-30
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 23 évaluations
    • Inside the biggest scandal in the history of America’s $40 billion drug recovery industry: a predatory Malibu rehab guru - and the fearless female patient who exposed his empire of deceit....

    Prix courant: 2,49$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 2,49$ ou 1 crédit

    • What the City Can Teach the Country About True Sustainability
    • Auteur(s): David Owen
    • Narrateur(s): Patrick Lawlor
    • Durée: 9 h et 48 min
    • Date de publication: 2009-11-03
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • In this remarkable challenge to conventional thinking about the environment, David Owen argues that the greenest community in the United States is New York City....

    Prix courant: 32,41$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 32,41$ ou 1 crédit

    • Experimental Living on the Fringes of the American City
    • Auteur(s): Amanda Kolson Hurley
    • Narrateur(s): Kristin Price
    • Durée: 5 h et 10 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-10-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • America’s suburbs are not the homogenous places we sometimes take them for. American suburbs were once fertile ground for utopian planning, communal living, socially conscious design, and integrated housing. We have forgotten that we built suburbs like these....

    Prix courant: 18,26$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 18,26$ ou 1 crédit

    • Auteur(s): Howard Mansfield
    • Narrateur(s): Howard Mansfield
    • Durée: 5 h et 18 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-04-13
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • In The Habit of Turning the World Upside Down, Howard Mansfield returns with thoughtful linked narratives examining a crucial and overlooked element of American identity: property....

    Prix courant: 25,00$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 25,00$ 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

    • 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

    • How Our American Dream of Homeownership Became a Nightmare
    • Auteur(s): Ryan Dezember
    • Narrateur(s): Sean Patrick Hopkins
    • Durée: 8 h et 42 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-07-14
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • His assignment was to write about a real-estate frenzy lighting up the Redneck Riviera. So Ryan Dezember settled in and bought a home nearby himself. Then the market crashed, and he became one of the millions of Americans who suddenly owed more on their homes than they were worth....

    Prix courant: 19,42$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 19,42$ ou 1 crédit

    • The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation
    • Auteur(s): Jonathan Kozol
    • Narrateur(s): Dick Hill
    • Durée: 9 h et 19 min
    • Date de publication: 2010-02-19
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Amazing Grace is a book about about the hearts of children who grow up in the South Bronx - the poorest congressional district of our nation....

    Prix courant: 26,00$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 26,00$ ou 1 crédit