Urban Sociology

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    • The Real Story of How Christianity Became an Urban Movement and Conquered Rome
    • Auteur(s): Rodney Stark
    • Narrateur(s): Bob Souer
    • Durée: 6 h et 24 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-05-26
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Drawing on both archaeological and historical evidence, Stark is able to provide hard statistical evidence on the religious life of the Roman Empire to discover the facts that set conventional history on its head....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 22,26$ 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

    • Life and Death in a Divided City
    • Auteur(s): Samira Shackle
    • Narrateur(s): Amina Zia
    • Durée: 9 h et 37 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-08-19
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Karachi. Pakistan’s largest city is a sprawling metropolis of 20 million people, twice the size of New York City. In this powerful debut, Samira Shackle explores the city of her mother’s birth in the company of a handful of Karachiites....

    Prix courant: 18,17$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 18,17$ 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • A Tale of Corruption and Betrayal in the City of Brotherly Love
    • Auteur(s): Wendy Ruderman, Barbara Laker
    • Narrateur(s): Rachel Fulginiti
    • Durée: 6 h et 55 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-11-18
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Busted is Ruderman and Laker's riveting account of their explosive investigation into the acts committed by rogue members of the narcotics squad....

    Prix courant: 22,13$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 22,13$ ou 1 crédit

    • True Fictions from an Unreal City
    • Auteur(s): Iain Sinclair
    • Narrateur(s): Iain Sinclair
    • Durée: 13 h et 4 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-03-05
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Spiralling from the outer limits of the Overground to the pinnacle of the Shard, Iain Sinclair encounters a metropolis stretched beyond recognition. The vestiges of secret tunnels, the ghosts of saints and lost poets lie buried by developments, the cycling revolution and Brexit....

    Prix courant: 25,95$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 25,95$ 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 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