Urban Sociology – alle Bücher, Seite 5

Amin Ghaziani
Long Live Queer Nightlife

It's closing time for an alarming number of gay bars in cities around the globe---but it's definitely not the last danceIn this exhilarating journey into underground parties, pulsating with life and limit…

lieferbar ab 17.2.2026.

Buch

Ruchira Das
City, Marginality and Education

Exploring Urban Change in South Asia

This book examines the socially segregated Santals, a tribal community that migrated from various parts of Bengal and its neighbouring states of Bihar, Orissa, and Jharkhand to Kolkata, a city currently d…

lieferbar ab 11.12.2025.

Buch

Nicholas A Hyrnyk
Liberation and Libido

Liberation and Libido delves into the vibrant, messy, and deeply political history of gay liberation in Canada, exploring how The Body Politic (TBP ) shaped and challenged ideas of gay male masculinity --…

lieferbar ab 23.1.2026.

Buch

Charles Baudelaire,
The Flowers of Evil

Bilingual edition of the French masterpiece--with the definitive English translation.

lieferbar innerhalb 1-2 Wochen

Buch

Ontario Since Confederation

Essential reading for history students, this collection examines the evolution of Ontario since Confederation, demonstrating how earlier changes inform present-day Ontario.

lieferbar innerhalb 2-3 Wochen

Buch

Robert J Sampson
Marked by Time

A leading sociologist's groundbreaking three-decade study challenges outdated views of crime and character, revealing that traditional risk factors alone poorly predict children's futures.Between 1970 and…

lieferbar ab 10.2.2026.

Buch

Chandan Gowda
Longing for an Elsewhere

Longing for an Elsewhere is about the colonial ancestry of India's contemporary embrace of economic development. Unlike existing scholarship that traces the emergence of the developmental state to the mid…

lieferbar ab 1.4.2026.

Buch

Tanzil Shafique
City of Desire

In this major open access contribution to Global South urban studies, Tanzil Shafique offers a new way of knowing and engaging with the most common urban environment in the Global South - informal settlem…

Erscheint bald

Buch

Stefano Mancuso,
Phytopolis

"A renowned plant expert explains how we can make urgent, positive changes to our cities that protect against and reduce global warming. The conquest of new lands has been the greatest occupation of …

lieferbar innerhalb 1-2 Wochen

Buch

David Omotoso Stovall
Engineered Conflict

A hard-hitting exploration of how state policy displaces and isolates Black communities and how collective resistance creates spaces for working-class people of color to identify the true cause of conflic…

lieferbar ab 20.1.2026.

Buch

Walter Zev Feldman
From the Bronx to the Bosphorus

Discover the vibrant journey of music from New York's melting pot to the mystical shores of the BosphorusFrom the Bronx to the Bosphorus explores the vibrant, yet largely concealed, musical culture of New…

lieferbar innerhalb 1-2 Wochen

Buch

David Omotoso Stovall
Engineered Conflict

A hard-hitting exploration of how state policy displaces and isolates Black communities and how collective resistance creates spaces for working-class people of color to identify the true cause of conflic…

lieferbar ab 20.1.2026.

Buch

Scott W. Berg
The Burning of the World

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

WINNER OF THE MIDLAND AUTHORS AWARD FOR HISTORY • LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE • A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • The "illuminating" (New Yorker ) story of the Gre…

lieferbar in mind. 4 Wochen

Buch

Critical Futures

Bringing together leading scholars, Critical Futures explores how community-engaged research can address social justice, decolonization, and transformation in response to contemporary crises.

lieferbar ab 16.12.2025.

Buch

Mark D Steinberg
Moral Storytelling in 1920s New York, Odessa, and Bombay

A comparative examination of everyday social moralities relating to sex, crime, violence, and nightlife in cities of the 1920s.

lieferbar ab 11.12.2025.

Buch

Simon Pare-Poupart,
Trash!

A Montreal garbageman's sharp and funny memoir/exposé, in which he attempts to convince people to "stop imagining that your garbage magically disappears" . . .This fascinating no-bullshit accoun…

Erscheint bald

Buch

Urban Contact Zones

Habitat-International: Schriften zur internationalen Urbanistik - Band 28

Global trends as well as translocal exchanges and the everyday realities of local communities shape urban transformation. Turning to the idea of ¿contact zones¿, the contributors to this volume explore th…

lieferbar in mind. 4 Wochen

Buch

Stefanie Mercado Altman, Claire Altman, Stan Altman
Twice Blessed

A deeply moving memoir of love, resilience, and identity, chronicling one family's journey through adoption, caregiving, and the profound connections that define usTwice Blessed is a beautifully written m…

lieferbar innerhalb 1-2 Wochen

Buch

Matthew D Lassiter
The Suburban Crisis

How the drug war transformed American political cultureSince the 1950s, the American war on drugs has positioned white middle-class youth as sympathetic victims of illegal drug markets who need rehabilita…

lieferbar ab 17.3.2026.

Buch

Maria Foscarinis
And Housing for All

A groundbreaking legal advocate argues that only by recognizing housing as a fundamental human right can we hope to solve America's homelessness crisis.In And Housing for All , founder of the National Hom…

lieferbar innerhalb 1-2 Wochen

Buch