Urban Sociology

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    • The Suburbanization of the United States
    • Auteur(s): Kenneth T. Jackson
    • Narrateur(s): James Patrick Cronin
    • Durée: 14 h et 17 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-06-20
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • This first full-scale history of the development of the American suburb examines how "the good life" in America came to be equated with the a home of one's own....

    Prix courant: 28,14$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 28,14$ ou 1 crédit

    • Walking 6,000 Miles in the City
    • Auteur(s): William B. Helmreich
    • Narrateur(s): Mark Cabus
    • Durée: 13 h et 41 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-10-20
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Truly unforgettable, The New York Nobody Knows will forever change how you view the world's greatest city....

    Prix courant: 33,53$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 33,53$ ou 1 crédit

    • Repairing American Society, One Zip Code at a Time
    • Auteur(s): Seth D. Kaplan
    • Narrateur(s): Ron Butler
    • Durée: 6 h et 11 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-10-17
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Fragile states expert Seth D. Kaplan offers a bold new vision for addressing social decline in America, one zip code at a time....

    Prix courant: 25,24$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 25,24$ ou 1 crédit

    • A Study in Urban Revolution
    • Auteur(s): Dan Georgakas, Marvin Surkin
    • Narrateur(s): Brian Jones, David Sadzin, Allyson Johnson
    • Durée: 10 h et 25 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-02-25
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • This new South End Press edition makes available the full text of this out-of-print classic - along with a new foreword by Manning Marable, interviews with participants in DRUM, and reflections on political developments over the past three decades by Georgakas and Surkin....

    Prix courant: 31,26$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 31,26$ ou 1 crédit

    • A New Mother's Search for Home
    • Auteur(s): Lauren Sandler
    • Narrateur(s): Lauren Sandler
    • Durée: 10 h et 4 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-04-28
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • From an award-winning journalist Lauren Sandler, This Is All I Got is a poignant and gripping immersion in the life of a young, homeless single mother amid her quest to find stability and shelter in the richest city in America....

    Prix courant: 23,31$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 23,31$ ou 1 crédit

    • Auteur(s): David Halberstam
    • Narrateur(s): Mel Foster
    • Durée: 4 h et 14 min
    • Date de publication: 2008-06-22
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Engine 40, Ladder 35, was one of the firehouses hardest hit in the aftermath of the terrorist attack on the World Trade towers....

    Prix courant: 21,00$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 21,00$ ou 1 crédit

    • 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

    • The Rise of Cities and the Fall of Cars
    • Auteur(s): Samuel I. Schwartz, William Rosen - contributor
    • Narrateur(s): Don Hagen
    • Durée: 9 h et 12 min
    • Date de publication: 2015-09-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 évaluations
    • With wit and sharp insight, former Traffic Commissioner of New York City, Sam Schwartz a.k.a. "Gridlock Sam", uncovers how American cities became so beholden to cars....

    Prix courant: 38,96$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 38,96$ ou 1 crédit

    • Smart Cities, Technology, and the Pursuit of Urban Utopias
    • Auteur(s): John Lorinc
    • Narrateur(s): David Attar
    • Durée: 11 h et 57 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-10-31
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • The promise of the so-called smart city has been at the forefront of urban planning and development since the early 2010s, and the tech industry that supplies smart city software and hardware is now worth hundreds of billions a year....

    Prix courant: 26,69$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 26,69$ 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • Auteur(s): Rus Bradburd
    • Narrateur(s): Donald Corren
    • Durée: 8 h et 39 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-05-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Shawn Harrington returned to Marshall High School as an assistant coach years after appearing as a player in the iconic basketball documentary film Hoop Dreams. In January of 2014, Marshall's struggling team was about to improve after the addition of a charismatic but troubled player....

    Prix courant: 20,59$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 20,59$ ou 1 crédit

    • Life and Death on the Streets of Detroit - America's Deadliest City
    • Auteur(s): Michael Matthews
    • Narrateur(s): Richard Spector
    • Durée: 9 h et 34 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-06-28
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • When Michael Matthews first visited Detroit, he was grimly fascinated by the place. American Ruin is the story of Michael’s journey into the soul of this broken city - a shocking, violent, and heartbreaking portrayal of a modern tragedy....

    Prix courant: 25,00$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 25,00$ 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

    • 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

    • Fighting for Housing in America
    • Auteur(s): Conor Dougherty
    • Narrateur(s): Conor Dougherty
    • Durée: 8 h et 15 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-02-18
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • With propulsive storytelling and ground-level reporting, New York Times journalist Conor Dougherty chronicles America’s housing crisis from its West Coast epicenter, peeling back the decades of history and economic forces that brought us here....

    Prix courant: 20,40$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 20,40$ 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

    • On the Frontier of Health and Homelessness in an American City
    • Auteur(s): Josephine Ensign
    • Narrateur(s): Holly Adams
    • Durée: 8 h et 43 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-08-17
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • In Skid Road, Josephine Ensign digs through layers of Seattle history - past its leaders and prominent citizens, respectable or not - to reveal the stories of overlooked and long-silenced people who live on the margins of society....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit