Urban Sociology

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    • The Great Crime Decline, the Renewal of City Life, and the Next War on Violence
    • Auteur(s): Patrick Sharkey
    • Narrateur(s): P. J. Ochlan
    • Durée: 6 h et 56 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-01-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • Beginning in the mid-1990s, American cities experienced an astonishing drop in violent crime. By 2014, the United States was safer than it had been in 60 years....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit
    • Auteur(s): Thomas J. Sugrue
    • Narrateur(s): Adam Lofbomm
    • Durée: 13 h et 17 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-12-08
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Once America's "arsenal of democracy," Detroit is now the symbol of the American urban crisis. In this reappraisal of America's racial and economic inequalities, Thomas Sugrue asks why Detroit and other industrial cities have become the sites of persistent racialized poverty....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Discovering the Health, Wealth, and Power of Neighborhoods
    • Auteur(s): Cormac Russell, John McKnight
    • Narrateur(s): Janina Edwards
    • Durée: 5 h et 17 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-09-02
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Find out how to uncover the hidden talents, assets, and abilities in your neighborhood and bring them together to create a vibrant and joyful community....

    Prix courant: 23,18$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Heady Rise and Slow Fall of America's Bohemian Music Capital
    • Auteur(s): David Browne
    • Narrateur(s): Sean Runnette
    • Durée: 15 h et 9 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-09-17
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • The definitive history of the rise and heyday of the revolutionary Greenwich Village music scene, based on new research and first-hand interviews with many of its legendary performers.

    Prix courant: 32,31$ ou 1 crédit

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    • 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

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    • Auteur(s): Dennis Smith
    • Narrateur(s): Lloyd James
    • Durée: 2 h et 55 min
    • Date de publication: 2003-05-02
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 11 évaluations
    • Report from Engine Co. 82 is the story of one company of New York firefighters...

    Prix courant: 19,46$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Community Trauma and Toxic Stress in Urban America
    • Auteur(s): Jonathan Foiles
    • Narrateur(s): Kevin Kenerly
    • Durée: 3 h et 12 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-08-06
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • It is easy to be depressed if you live in a neighborhood that has few supportive resources available or is marred by gun violence. We are able to diagnose people with depression, but how does one heal a neighborhood? This City Is Killing Me brings policy and psychology together....

    Prix courant: 15,10$ ou 1 crédit

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    • 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

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    • The Many Lives of America's Hippest Street
    • Auteur(s): Ada Calhoun
    • Narrateur(s): Carla Mercer-Meyer
    • Durée: 10 h et 18 min
    • Date de publication: 2015-11-02
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • St. Marks Place in New York City has spawned countless artistic and political movements. Here Frank O'Hara caroused, Emma Goldman plotted, and the Velvet Underground wailed....

    Prix courant: 23,38$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier
    • Auteur(s): Edward Glaeser
    • Narrateur(s): Lloyd James
    • Durée: 12 h et 28 min
    • Date de publication: 2011-03-28
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 évaluations
    • America is an urban nation. More than two thirds of us live on the three percent of land that contains our cities. Yet cities get a bad rap....

    Prix courant: 41,67$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
    • Auteur(s): Gregg Colburn, Clayton Page Aldern
    • Narrateur(s): Adam Verner
    • Durée: 6 h et 22 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-02-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Colburn and Aldern seek to explain the substantial regional variation in rates of homelessness in cities across the United States. In a departure from many analytical approaches, the authors shift their focus from the individual experiencing homelessness to the metropolitan area....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Living and Thriving in an Age of Isolation
    • Auteur(s): Edward Glaeser, David Cutler
    • Narrateur(s): Edward Glaeser, David Cutler, Teri Schnaubelt
    • Durée: 12 h et 7 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-09-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • One of our great urbanists and one of our great public health experts join forces to reckon with how cities are changing in the face of existential threats the pandemic has only accelerated....

    Prix courant: 26,22$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Finding Joy Together in Chaotic Times
    • Auteur(s): Paul Born
    • Narrateur(s): Jon Repp
    • Durée: 4 h et 10 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-06-02
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • It's up to us to create community. Born shows that the opportunity is right in front of us if we have the courage and conviction to pursue it....

    Prix courant: 19,78$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The True Story of the "Looking for Mr. Goodbar" Murder
    • Auteur(s): Lacey Fosburgh
    • Narrateur(s): Cynthia Farrell
    • Durée: 6 h et 45 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-07-30
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • In 1973, Roseann Quinn, an Irish-Catholic teacher at a school for deaf children, was killed in New York City after bringing a man home to her apartment from an Upper West Side pub. The crime made headlines and the ensuing case quickly evolved into a cultural phenomenon....

    Prix courant: 26,00$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Reporting from the Brink of Change
    • Auteur(s): Andrew Solomon
    • Narrateur(s): Andrew Solomon
    • Durée: 22 h et 12 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-04-19
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Far and Away collects Andrew Solomon's writings about places undergoing seismic shifts - political, cultural, and spiritual....

    Prix courant: 33,98$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Murder and Memory in an American City
    • Auteur(s): Laura Tillman
    • Narrateur(s): Julia Whelan
    • Durée: 6 h et 47 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-04-05
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • On March 11, 2003, in Brownsville, Texas - one of America's poorest cities - John Allen Rubio and Angela Camacho murdered their three young children....

    Prix courant: 19,42$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Life and Death in the City at the Center of the World
    • Auteur(s): Sinclair McKay
    • Narrateur(s): Leighton Pugh
    • Durée: 16 h et 47 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-08-23
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Sinclair McKay's portrait of Berlin from 1919 forward explores the city's broad human history, from the end of the Great War to the Blockade, rise of the Wall, and beyond....

    Prix courant: 25,24$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Ethics for the City
    • Auteur(s): Richard Sennett
    • Narrateur(s): Danny Campbell
    • Durée: 13 h et 24 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-11-28
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • The preeminent sociologist Richard Sennett traces the anguished relation between how cities are built and how people live in them, from ancient Athens to twenty-first-century Shanghai....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

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    • From Ancient Metropolis to Modern Megacity
    • Auteur(s): Paul Strathern
    • Narrateur(s): Elliot Fitzpatrick
    • Durée: 8 h et 58 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-02-10
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Great cities are complex, chaotic and colossal. These are cities that dominate the world stage and define eras; where ideas flourish, revolutions are born and history is made....

    Prix courant: 30,09$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 30,09$ ou 1 crédit