Urban Sociology

Liste de produits
    • Working and Homeless in America
    • Auteur(s): Brian Goldstone
    • Durée: 14 h
    • Date de publication: 2025-03-25
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • 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: 28,51$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 28,51$ ou 1 crédit

    • How Racist Policies Undermine Black Homeownership in America
    • Auteur(s): Bernadette Atuahene
    • Durée: 10 h et 30 min
    • Date de publication: 2025-01-28
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • In the spirit of Evicted, a property law scholar uses the story of two grandfathers—one white, one black—who arrived in Detroit at the turn of the twentieth century to reveal how racist policies weaken Black families, widen the racial wealth gap, and derive profit from pain.

    Prix courant: 27,01$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 27,01$ ou 1 crédit

    • Los Angeles Reimagined
    • Auteur(s): Peter Lunenfeld
    • Narrateur(s): Kaleo Griffith
    • Durée: 8 h et 29 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-08-11
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • How did Los Angeles start the 20th century as a dusty frontier town and end up a century later as one of the globe's supercities - with unparalleled cultural, economic, and technological reach....

    Prix courant: 23,31$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 23,31$ ou 1 crédit

    • Toxic Masculinity and How I Faced the Man Within the Man
    • Auteur(s): Guvna B
    • Narrateur(s): Guvna B
    • Durée: 7 h et 24 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-02-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • In this intimate, honest and unflinching memoir, rapper Guvna B draws on his personal experiences to explore how toxic masculinity affects young men today. Exploring ideas of male identity, Unspoken is an inspirational account of Guvna’s journey....

    Prix courant: 25,63$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 25,63$ ou 1 crédit

    • Hurricane Katrina, the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, and the Aftermath of Disaster: Katrina Bookshelf
    • Auteur(s): Steve Kroll-Smith
    • Narrateur(s): Peter Lerman
    • Série: The Katrina Bookshelf
    • Durée: 7 h et 7 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-05-14
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • A lethal mix of natural disaster, dangerously flawed construction, and reckless human actions devastated San Francisco in 1906 and New Orleans in 2005...the poor, the elderly, and the medically infirm were disproportionately among the thousands who perished....

    Prix courant: 25,00$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 25,00$ ou 1 crédit

    • San Francisco in the Long Shadow of the Valley
    • Auteur(s): Cary McClelland
    • Narrateur(s): Alma Cuervo, Ali Ahn, L. J. Ganser, Jonathan Todd Ross, Luis Moreno
    • Durée: 7 h et 48 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-10-09
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • The tech boom of our time is changing San Francisco at warp speed. Famously home to artists and activists, and known as the birthplace of the Beats, the Black Panthers, and the LGBTQ movement, the Bay Area has been transformed by Silicon Valley....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    • A Plot of Land, An Average Neighborhood, and the Systems that Make Our World Work
    • Auteur(s): Scott Huler
    • Narrateur(s): Bronson Pinchot
    • Durée: 8 h et 40 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-07-29
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • A lively, captivating investigation into the infrastructure that makes society possible....

    Prix courant: 26,40$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 26,40$ ou 1 crédit

    • Driverless Cars and the Road of the Future
    • Auteur(s): Samuel I. Schwartz, Karen Kelly - contributor
    • Narrateur(s): Gregory Abbey
    • Durée: 8 h et 34 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-11-13
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • The country's leading transport expert describes how the driverless-vehicle revolution will transform highways, cities, workplaces, and laws not just here, but across the globe....

    Prix courant: 25,24$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 25,24$ ou 1 crédit

    • Community Transformation for the Common Good
    • Auteur(s): Alvin Sanders, Efrem Smith - foreword
    • Narrateur(s): Mirron Willis
    • Durée: 4 h et 53 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-10-13
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Pastors and church planters interested in Christian community development will find here practical insights into the power of the local church, which is often underrated. Churches can serve their communities and improve the quality of life of every facet of the neighborhood....

    Prix courant: 17,81$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 17,81$ ou 1 crédit

    • Race and Housing in Chicago 1940-1960
    • Auteur(s): Arnold R. Hirsch
    • Narrateur(s): Rhett Samuel Price
    • Durée: 12 h et 52 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-01-05
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • In Making the Second Ghetto, Arnold Hirsch argues that in the post-depression years Chicago was a "pioneer in developing concepts and devices" for housing segregation....

    Prix courant: 31,26$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 31,26$ ou 1 crédit

    • Race, Equality, and the Lost Dream of an American Utopia
    • Auteur(s): Thomas Healy
    • Narrateur(s): Larry Herron
    • Durée: 12 h et 38 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-02-02
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Author Thomas Healy resurrects a forgotten saga of race, capitalism, and the struggle for equality in this fascinating, forgotten story of the 1970s attempt to build a city dedicated to racial equality in the heart of “Klan Country”....

    Prix courant: 26,21$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 26,21$ ou 1 crédit

    • Historia e indiscreciones del narcotráfico en Galicia
    • Auteur(s): Nacho Carretero
    • Narrateur(s): Humberto Solorzano
    • Durée: 9 h et 15 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-02-08
    • Langue: Espagnol
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Un ensayo muy bien documentado sobre una realidad oscura de Galicia....

    Prix courant: 25,00$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 25,00$ ou 1 crédit

    • How Cities Can Thrive in the Age of Populism
    • Auteur(s): Bruce Katz, Jeremy Nowak
    • Narrateur(s): Tristan Morris
    • Durée: 9 h et 49 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-09-11
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • In their new audiobook, The New Localism, urban experts Bruce Katz and Jeremy Nowak reveal where the real power to create change lies and how it can be used to address our most serious social, economic, and environmental challenges....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    • Boyhood and Football in a Changing American Inner City
    • Auteur(s): Albert Samaha
    • Narrateur(s): Albert Samaha
    • Durée: 9 h et 11 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-09-13
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • This uplifting story of a boys' football team shines light on the underappreciated virtues that can bloom in impoverished neighborhoods, even as nearby communities exclude them from economic progress....

    Prix courant: 28,27$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 28,27$ ou 1 crédit

    • The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town
    • Auteur(s): Brian Alexander
    • Narrateur(s): Bob Souer
    • Durée: 11 h et 7 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-04-11
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • The Anchor Hocking Glass Company, once the world's largest maker of glass tableware, was the base on which Lancaster's society was built....

    Prix courant: 33,40$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 33,40$ ou 1 crédit

    • A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives
    • Auteur(s): Gary Younge
    • Narrateur(s): Mirron Willis
    • Durée: 10 h et 28 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-10-04
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • In Another Day in the Death of America, award-winning Guardian journalist Gary Younge tells the stories of the lives lost during the course of a single day in the United States....

    Prix courant: 32,38$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 32,38$ ou 1 crédit

    • Politics and Class in the Making of Modern Atlanta
    • Auteur(s): Maurice J. Hobson
    • Narrateur(s): Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Durée: 11 h et 26 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-09-22
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • For more than a century, the city of Atlanta has been associated with Black achievement in education, business, politics, media, and music, earning it the nickname "the Black Mecca." Atlanta's long tradition of Black education dates back to Reconstruction....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

    • One Man’s Journey from Gangleader to Peacekeeper
    • Auteur(s): Charles Barber
    • Narrateur(s): Adam Lazarre-White
    • Durée: 10 h et 54 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-10-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • A dramatic narrative account of the life of William Juneboy Outlaw III, whose journey from housing-project youth to ruthless gangland kingpin to change-making community advocate represents a vital next chapter in the ongoing conversation about race and social justice in America....

    Prix courant: 31,46$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 31,46$ ou 1 crédit

    • Auteur(s): R. J. King
    • Narrateur(s): R. J. King
    • Durée: 6 h et 33 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-02-04
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • This is the story of how a crude French settlement along the Detroit River in 1701 became the birthplace of the automotive industry in 1900....

    Prix courant: 25,00$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 25,00$ ou 1 crédit

    • America's Lost Street Kids
    • Auteur(s): Vivian Ho
    • Narrateur(s): Emily Woo Zeller
    • Durée: 6 h et 23 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-09-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • In Those Who Wander, Vivian Ho delves deep into a rising subculture that’s changing the fabric of her city and urban America. Moving beyond the disheartening statistics, she gives voices to these people - victims of abuse, failed foster care, mental illness, and drug addiction....

    Prix courant: 26,00$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 26,00$ ou 1 crédit