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Dawn Day Biehler,
Animating Central Park

"Telling a multispecies history of Central Park from the 1850s until the 1970s, Dawn Day Biehler illuminates the vibrant lives of humans and animals in the park, showcasing stories of decorative shee…

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Jacob Heilbrunn
America Last

Why do Donald Trump, Tucker Carlson and much of the far Right so explicitly admire the murderous and incompetent Russian dictator Vladimir Putin? Why is Ron DeSantis drawing from Victor Orbán's illiberal …

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Miriam Chaiken
Creative Ozone

A captivating portrait of Westbeth, the legendary artists' residence that shaped contemporary art, activism, and New York's cultural landscape for over fifty years In 1970, the former Bell Telephone Labor…

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Peter Quinn
Cross Bronx

"A ripping good story . . . Political junkies will delight."-The Wall Street Journal"If, as Peter Quinn contends, citizens of the Bronx are funny, earthy, 'in your face truth tellers' grace…

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Andrew Alden,
Deep Oakland

Now in paperback: This San Francisco Chronicle bestseller and California Book Award finalist drills down into Oakland's geological history and its impacts on the city's urban present."This book has t…

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David Brown Morris
Ten Thousand Central Parks

A visionary look at Central Park's creation as an urban success story inspiring bold climate actionClimate change is the existential crisis of our time. With extreme heatwaves, wildfires, hurricanes, and …

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Edward Muller, Rob Ruck
Pittsburgh Rising

Traces the Arc of Pittsburgh's Rise from Frontier Outpost to Dynamic Industrial Region

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Bernadette Atuahene
Plundered

Follows the lives of two Detroit grandfathers--one Black, the other white--and their grandchildren, while uncovering the effects of racist policies on their lives, how those policies take root, why they f…

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Sybil Derrible
The Infrastructure Book

World-renown urban engineering expert Sybil Derrible reveals the behind-the-scenes machinations of the foundational systems that make our societies function. After reading The Infrastructure Book, readers…

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Spaces of Creative Resistance

This edited volume brings together an exciting cross-regional inter-disciplinary group of scholars, scholar activists, artists and others. Each chapter focuses on a different form of "creative resist…

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Alexandra Freidus
Unequal Lessons

"Unequal Lessons examines the lessons children learn in diversifying schools, asking whom school diversity serves and how we can better understand both the costs and benefits of school integration&qu…

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Spaces of Creative Resistance

This edited volume brings together an exciting cross-regional inter-disciplinary group of scholars, scholar activists, artists and others. Each chapter focuses on a different form of "creative resist…

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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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Alex J Moffett-Bateau
Redefining the Political

"Identifies socio-political concepts and frameworks that can be used to recognize and understand the styles of political engagement, political rebellion, and political identity creation used by poor …

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Alex J Moffett-Bateau
Redefining the Political

"Identifies socio-political concepts and frameworks that can be used to recognize and understand the styles of political engagement, political rebellion, and political identity creation used by poor …

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Dominic A Pacyga
Clout City

"In politics, clout is the Chicago Way: insider access granted or denied, favors given or withheld, payoffs made or received. But Chicago clout is more than that. It's the absolute currency of a soci…

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Angus Kress Gillespie, Michael Aaron Rockland
Looking for America on the New Jersey Turnpike, Second Edition

This classic work reveals the fascinating history, iconography, and people behind the twelve-lane behemoth we call the New Jersey Turnpike. Now a special updated and expanded edition examines how the road…

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Angus Kress Gillespie, Michael Aaron Rockland
Looking for America on the New Jersey Turnpike, Second Edition

This classic work reveals the fascinating history, iconography, and people behind the twelve-lane behemoth we call the New Jersey Turnpike. Now a special updated and expanded edition examines how the road…

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Sana Murrani
Rupturing Architecture

"This is the first book to critically and visually explore the incidental and improvised approaches that create spaces of protection from conflict and displacement. Written by an Iraqi architect, who…

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Els De Graauw
Advancing Immigrant Rights in Houston

"Shows that the advancement of immigrant rights in Houston has necessitated a diverse, and at times unusual, set of governmental and non-governmental actors to collaborate and negotiate difficult com…

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