Socio-political History – alle Bücher, LPs und CDs, Seite 6

John Shjarback
Chasing Change in Camden

In the 1990s and 2000s, Camden, NJ, across the river from Philadelphia, was perennially designated one of America's most dangerous cities. The functionally bankrupt city dissolved the Camden Police Depart…

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Edward M Epstein
Race, Real Estate and Education

Philadelphia's urban renewal efforts in the 1950s, which re-envisioned the city as a residential enclave, were an early example of gentrification. In West Philadelphia in the 1960s, a coalition of univers…

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Bruno Carvalho
The Invention of the Future

A kaleidoscopic and original new history of urbanization---from Lisbon to New York, Paris to Rio de Janeiro, and Buenos Aires to LagosFor the past three centuries, urban dwellers and planners have imagine…

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Dalai Lama
Voice for the Voiceless

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn this unique Dalai Lama memoir offering personal, spiritual, and historical reflections---some never shared before---His Holiness the Dalai Lama tells the full story of …

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Elizabeth Detention Center

The United States detains and deports several hundred thousand migrants every year. Many spend significant amounts of time in immigration detention as they await adjudication of their immigration cases. T…

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Elizabeth Detention Center

The United States detains and deports several hundred thousand migrants every year. Many spend significant amounts of time in immigration detention as they await adjudication of their immigration cases. T…

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Deborah N Archer
Dividing Lines

Our nation's transportation system is crumbling: highways are collapsing, roads are pockmarked, and commuter trains are unreliable. But as acclaimed scholar and ACLU president Deborah Archer warns in Divi…

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Ming-Sho Ho
Be Water

Forthcoming Spring 2025

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Gal Beckerman
How to Be a Dissident

An invigorating guide to fighting back---part philosophy, part history, and part manual for living with integrity in an age of conformity and authoritarian driftHow do we push back in a world where politi…

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Deborah N Archer
Dividing Lines

Our nation's transportation system is crumbling: highways are collapsing, roads are pockmarked, and commuter trains are unreliable. But as acclaimed scholar and ACLU president Deborah Archer warns in Divi…

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Ming-Sho Ho
Be Water

Forthcoming Spring 2025

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Bruce Berglund
The Moscow Playbook

An eye-opening account of how Russia's leaders have used sports as a political tool to solidify their global power"Victories in sport do more to cement the nation than a hundred political slogans.&qu…

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Miles Kenney-Lazar
Socializing Land

Since 2008, there has been tremendous public interest in the social and ecological ramifications of the global land rush, a rapid increase of capital investment into land, especially for the establishment…

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Epidemics and the Law from Plague to the Present

An interdisciplinary collection of essays on the socio-legal history of epidemics from the medieval period to the present day.

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Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft, Merry White
Ways of Eating

"The intricate ways in which human history is formed by food are catacombs full of stories, waiting to be exposed, unraveled, and told. Benjamin Wurgaft and Merry White's vignettes and chapters are f…

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Rebecca Gibb
Vintage Crime

"This slim yet insightful and entertaining volume documents the many instances where wine drinkers did not get what they paid for, sometimes with deadly consequences."--New York Times, Best Wine…

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Tom Hanchett
Affordable Housing in Charlotte

Shows in detail the housing crisis in North Carolina's (USA) most populous city and beyond.

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David S Dalton
Digital Activism in the Mexican Nations

Digital Activism in the Mexican Nations analyzes Mexico's rich history of digital activism, which is among the most vibrant of any country in the Hispanic world. The book begins with a discussion of the Z…

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A Mechele Dickerson
The Middle-Class New Deal

"We are at a moment of reckoning as a country, and this bold and ambitious book should be at the center of the conversation on what can be done to make the American Dream more realistic for the many-…

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Emmanuelle Arpin, Lara Gautier, Amélie Quesnel-Vallée
Québec

This book provides a comprehensive overview of Québec's distinctive health care system, analysing its organizational structure, policy reforms, socio-political history, and trailblazing innovations in Can…

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