Urban Studies

Liste de produits
    • A True Story of Murder in America
    • Auteur(s): Jill Leovy
    • Narrateur(s): Rebecca Lowman
    • Durée: 13 h et 24 min
    • Date de publication: 2015-01-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 15 évaluations
    • A masterly work of literary journalism about a senseless murder, a relentless detective, and the great plague of homicide in America....

    Prix courant: 26,22 $

    • Segregation and the Making of the Underclass
    • Auteur(s): Douglas S. Massey, Nancy A. Denton
    • Narrateur(s): James Anderson Foster
    • Durée: 10 h et 42 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-03-20
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • American Apartheid shows how the Black ghetto was created by Whites during the first half of the 20th century in order to isolate growing urban Black populations. It goes on to show that, despite the Fair Housing Act of 1968, segregation is perpetuated today....

    Prix courant: 22,26 $

    • Paris in the Belle Époque
    • Auteur(s): Mike Rapport
    • Narrateur(s): Paul Daintry
    • Durée: 14 h et 48 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-05-14
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • A top historian offers a new history of Paris’s Belle Époque, the luminous age of the Eiffel Tower and the Sacré-Cœur Basilica, but also of social unrest and violent clashes over what it meant to be French....

    Prix courant: 32,31 $

    • Auteur(s): Claude Brown
    • Narrateur(s): Cary Hite
    • Durée: 17 h et 48 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-06-18
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • With more than two million copies in print, Manchild in the Promised Land is one of the most remarkable autobiographies of our time - the definitive account of African-American youth in Harlem of the 1940s and 1950s, and a seminal work of modern literature....

    Prix courant: 23,18 $

    • Restoring Black Dignity with the Gospel
    • Auteur(s): Eric Mason
    • Narrateur(s): Isaiah Young
    • Série: Urban Apologetics
    • Durée: 11 h et 40 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-04-06
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 évaluations
    • Urban Apologetics examines the legitimate issues that Black communities have with Western Christianity and shows how the gospel of Jesus Christ—rather than popular, socioreligious alternatives—restores our identity....

    Prix courant: 32,62 $

    • Auteur(s): Simon Young
    • Narrateur(s): Jonathan Johns
    • Durée: 7 h et 44 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-11-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • In the last fifty years, folklorists have amassed an extraordinary corpus of contemporary legends including "the Choking Doberman," "the Eaten Ticket," and "the Vanishing Hitchhiker." But what about the urban legends of the past? These legends and tales have rarely been collected....

    Prix courant: 22,26 $

    • Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940
    • Auteur(s): George Chauncey
    • Narrateur(s): Graham Halstead
    • Durée: 18 h et 40 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-05-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • The award-winning, field-defining history of gay life in New York City in the early to mid-20th century....

    Prix courant: 39,38 $

    • The Rise and Fall of Big Meech and the Black Mafia Family
    • Auteur(s): Mara Shalhoup
    • Narrateur(s): L. Steven Taylor
    • Durée: 8 h et 58 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-06-25
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 évaluations
    • In the early 1990s, Demetrius "Big Meech" Flenory and his brother, Terry "Southwest T", rose up from the slums of Detroit to build one of the largest cocaine empires in American history: the Black Mafia Family....

    Prix courant: 24,58 $

    • How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World
    • Auteur(s): Richard Cockett
    • Narrateur(s): Gareth Richards
    • Durée: 14 h et 49 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-12-26
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Richard Cockett gives us the entirety of an extraordinary story of how one city made the modern world—and how we all remain inescapably Viennese....

    Prix courant: 27,83 $

    • The Cold War and the Making of Miami
    • Auteur(s): Vince Houghton, Eric Driggs
    • Narrateur(s): Eric Driggs, Vince Houghton
    • Durée: 8 h et 10 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-04-23
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Secret operations, corruption, crime, and a city teeming with spies: Covert City examines why Miami was as crucial to winning the Cold War as Washington DC or Moscow....

    Prix courant: 25,24 $

    • Gay Urban Erotica
    • Auteur(s): Shane Allison
    • Narrateur(s): Shannon Gunn, Greg Mason
    • Durée: 6 h et 42 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-11-10
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • In Homeboys, we ride shotgun with the wild and fancy-free outlaws of the streets....

    Prix courant: 26,82 $

    • Local Politics and Inequality in American Cities
    • Auteur(s): Jessica Trounstine
    • Narrateur(s): Rebecca Gibel
    • Durée: 7 h et 23 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-02-09
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Segregation by Design draws on more than 100 years of quantitative and qualitative data from thousands of American cities to explore how local governments generate race and class segregation....

    Prix courant: 22,26 $

    • Auteur(s): Iain Sinclair
    • Narrateur(s): Iain Sinclair
    • Durée: 22 h et 11 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-03-11
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • London Orbital is Iain Sinclair's voyage of discovery into the unloved outskirts of the city....

    Prix courant: 35,51 $

    • A History of a New Religion
    • Auteur(s): Hugh B. Urban
    • Narrateur(s): Contessa Brewer
    • Durée: 9 h et 52 min
    • Date de publication: 2012-05-08
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Scientology is one of the wealthiest and most powerful new religions to emerge in the past century....

    Prix courant: 31,26 $

    • The Functions of Public Welfare
    • Auteur(s): Cloward Fox Piven
    • Narrateur(s): Karen Chilton
    • Durée: 14 h et 32 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-01-06
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Piven and Cloward have updated their classic work on the history and function of welfare to cover the American welfare state's massive erosion during the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton years....

    Prix courant: 31,26 $

    • 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 $

    • 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 $

    • 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 $

    • 60 Years of Bright Lights and Back Alleys... and Baseball
    • Auteur(s): Robert Whiting
    • Narrateur(s): Stefan Rudnicki
    • Durée: 11 h et 50 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-06-22
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • Tokyo Junkie is a memoir that plays out over the dramatic 60-year growth of the megacity Tokyo, once a dark, fetid backwater and now the most populous, sophisticated, and safe urban capital in the world....

    Prix courant: 20,13 $

    • Why Our Future Will Be Won or Lost Together
    • Auteur(s): Ian Goldin, Tom Lee-Devlin
    • Narrateur(s): Nathaniel Priestley
    • Durée: 7 h et 1 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-06-22
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Visionary Oxford professor Ian Goldin and The Economist's Tom Lee-Devlin show why the city is where the battles of inequality, social division, pandemics and climate change must be faced....

    Prix courant: 19,12 $