Urban Sociology

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    • Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood
    • Auteur(s): P. E. Moskowitz
    • Durée: 9 h et 30 min
    • Date de publication: 2025-08-12
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Taking listeners from the kitchen tables of hurting families who can no longer afford their homes to the corporate boardrooms and political backrooms where destructive housing policies are devised, How to Kill a City reveals who holds power in our cities and how we can get it back.

    Prix courant: 27,01$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 27,01$ 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

    • 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

    Prix réduit: 20,04$ ou 1 crédit

    • Race, Real Estate, and the Making of Hasidic Williamsburg
    • Auteur(s): Nathaniel Deutsch, Michael Casper
    • Narrateur(s): Steven Jay Cohen
    • Durée: 13 h et 32 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-05-11
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Nathaniel Deutsch and Michael Casper unravel the fascinating history of how a community of determined Holocaust survivors encountered, shaped, and sometimes fiercely resisted the urban processes that transformed their gritty neighborhood....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 27,83$ 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

    • The Devastating Consequences of Urban Violence - and a Bold New Plan for Peace in the Streets
    • Auteur(s): Thomas Abt
    • Narrateur(s): Brad Raymond
    • Durée: 8 h et 34 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-06-25
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • Urban violence is one of the most divisive and allegedly intractable issues of our time. But as Harvard scholar Thomas Abt shows in Bleeding Out, we actually possess all the tools necessary to stem violence in our cities....

    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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • A World History in Fifteen Cities
    • Auteur(s): Caroline Campbell
    • Narrateur(s): Melanie McHugh
    • Durée: 13 h et 30 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-10-12
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • The Power of Art is an epic work of non-fiction that will transform our understanding of the world by unlocking the human stories behind millennia of art....

    Prix courant: 37,83$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 37,83$ ou 1 crédit

    • The True Story of White Ethnic Flight from America's Cities
    • Auteur(s): Jack Cashill
    • Narrateur(s): Jack Cashill
    • Durée: 6 h et 47 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-07-04
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Long accused of racism and “white flight”, the ethnic Americans driven from their homes and neighborhoods—the author included—finally get the chance to tell their side of the story....

    Prix courant: 25,00$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 25,00$ ou 1 crédit

    • The Eruption of Delhi
    • Auteur(s): Rana Dasgupta
    • Narrateur(s): Dana Hickox
    • Durée: 15 h et 58 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-06-13
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • In Capital, Commonwealth Prize-winning author Rana Dasgupta examines one of the great trends of our time: The expansion of the global elite....

    Prix courant: 44,53$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 44,53$ 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

    • 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

    • The Once and Future City
    • Auteur(s): Thomas Campanella
    • Narrateur(s): William Hope
    • Durée: 22 h et 23 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-09-10
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • An unprecedented history of Brooklyn, told through its places, buildings, and the people who made them, from the early 17th century to today....

    Prix courant: 22,17$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 22,17$ ou 1 crédit

    • Insurgent Spaces in the Fight for Justice
    • Auteur(s): Stathis G. Yeros
    • Narrateur(s): Kyla Garcia, Daniel Henning
    • Durée: 7 h et 19 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-04-24
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Conflicts about space and access to resources have shaped queer histories from at least 1965 to the present. As spaces associated with middle-class homosexuality enter mainstream urbanity in the United States, cultural assimilation increasingly erases insurgent aspects of these social movements.

    Prix courant: 25,25$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 25,25$ ou 1 crédit

    • A Traveling Musician's Guide to Rebuilding America's Communities-One Coffee Shop, Dog Run, and Open-Mike Night at a Time
    • Auteur(s): Dar Williams
    • Narrateur(s): Dar Williams
    • Durée: 8 h et 4 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-09-05
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • A beloved folk singer presents an impassioned account of the fall and rise of the small American towns she cherishes. Dubbed by the New Yorker as "one of America's very best singer-songwriters", Dar Williams has made her career not in stadiums, but touring America's small towns....

    Prix courant: 25,24$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 25,24$ ou 1 crédit

    • The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary 24 Hours in America
    • Auteur(s): Gene Weingarten
    • Narrateur(s): Johnathan McClain
    • Durée: 11 h et 50 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-10-22
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • One Day asks and answers the question of whether there is even such a thing as "ordinary" when we are talking about how we all lurch and stumble our way through the daily, daunting challenge of being human....

    Prix courant: 26,22$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 26,22$ ou 1 crédit

    • Auteur(s): Gary Krist
    • Narrateur(s): Robertson Dean
    • Durée: 10 h et 49 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-12-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Empire of Sin re-creates the remarkable story of New Orleans' 30-years war against itself, pitting the city's elite "better half" against its powerful and long-entrenched underworld of vice....

    Prix courant: 36,95$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 36,95$ ou 1 crédit