Urban Sociology

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    • 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

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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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    • Life on the Rue Des Martyrs
    • Auteur(s): Elaine Sciolino
    • Narrateur(s): Elaine Sciolino
    • Durée: 8 h
    • Date de publication: 2015-11-24
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 évaluations
    • While many cities suffer from the leveling effects of globalization, the rue des Martyrs maintains its distinct allure....

    Prix courant: 37,04$ 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: 25,20$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): David Wilkerson
    • Narrateur(s): Paul Michael
    • Durée: 6 h et 57 min
    • Date de publication: 2011-01-17
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 51 évaluations
    • The astonishing true story of Wilkerson's outreach to New York teens trapped by drugs and gangs....

    Prix courant: 16,68$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Biography
    • Auteur(s): Scott Martelle
    • Narrateur(s): William Hughes
    • Durée: 10 h et 5 min
    • Date de publication: 2012-04-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Economies are made up of people, and the effect of the economic downfall of Detroit is one of the most compelling stories in America....

    Prix courant: 20,15$ 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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    • 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....

    Prix courant: 29,14$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Schools, Police, and the Criminalization of Latino Youth
    • Auteur(s): Victor M. Rios
    • Narrateur(s): A.T. Chandler
    • Durée: 6 h et 53 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-04-11
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • At 15, Victor Rios found himself a human target - flat on his ass amid a hail of shotgun fire, desperate for money and a place on the street....

    Prix courant: 18,92$ ou 1 crédit

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    • 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

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    • How Parking Explains the World
    • Auteur(s): Henry Grabar
    • Narrateur(s): Rob Shapiro
    • Durée: 10 h et 53 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-05-09
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 évaluations
    • An entertaining and enlightening, Paved Paradise is an utterly original investigation into one of the most quietly influential forces in modern American life—the humble parking spot....

    Prix courant: 23,99$ ou 1 crédit

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    • 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
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    • The NBA has returned to prominence on the backs of phenoms like LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, and Kevin Garnett....

    Prix courant: 24,68$ 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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    • 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
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    • 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 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
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    • 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

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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 37 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: 14,09$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 14,09$ ou 1 crédit

    • 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....

    Prix courant: 20,40$ ou 1 crédit

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    • An E.R. Doctor Returns Home
    • Auteur(s): Sampson Davis
    • Narrateur(s): Cary Hite
    • Durée: 8 h et 16 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-02-05
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Dr. Sampson Davis looks at the health-care crisis in the inner city from a rare perspective: as a doctor who works on the front line of emergency medical care in the poor urban neighborhood where he grew up....

    Prix courant: 27,75$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 27,75$ ou 1 crédit

    • How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
    • Auteur(s): Jeff Speck
    • Narrateur(s): Jeff Speck
    • Durée: 6 h et 45 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-02-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 évaluations
    • Jeff Speck has dedicated his career to determining what makes cities thrive. And he has boiled it down to one key factor: walkability....

    Prix courant: 25,00$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 25,00$ ou 1 crédit

    • Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America
    • Auteur(s): Khalil Gibran Muhammad
    • Narrateur(s): Mirron Willis
    • Durée: 12 h et 43 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-08-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • Lynch mobs, chain gangs, and popular views of black Southern criminals that defined the Jim Crow South are well known. We know less about the role of the urban North in shaping views of race....

    Prix courant: 20,04$ ou 1 crédit

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