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Gregory Royal Pratt
The City Is Up for Grabs

"Gregory Pratt hada rare front-row seat to the passions, problems, peculiarities, hopes, disappointments, shenanigans, and pettiness in the drama and farce that was Lori Lightfoot's uneasy tenure on …

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Amani C Morrison
A Kitchenette to Fit Your Needs

Uncovers how Chicago's kitchenette apartments shaped housing, race, and urban life in the twentieth centuryDuring the twentieth century's Great Migration, kitchenette apartments served as the primary home…

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Rachel Meade Smith
Search Work

It can be enervating, stressful and, occasionally, triumphal---looking for work has never been more of a roller coaster. Now, in compelling testimonies, Search Work shares that experience, giving voice to…

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Larry Racioppo
Memorial '76

A photographic time capsule of a pre-gentrified South Brooklyn Memorial Day parade that preserves a neighborhood and a moment now largely vanishedOn Memorial Day 1976, weeks before the nation marked its 2…

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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 yearsIn 1970, the former Bell Telephone Labora…

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Infrastructuring Assemblies

An investigation into social and political assembly and how urban infrastructure can support pluralism, social resilience, and democracy.Infrastructuring Assemblies investigates the phenomenon of social a…

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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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Amber N Wiley
Model Schools in the Model City

Finalist for the 2026 ASALH Book AwardAccess to educational resources has been a tool of liberation for Black Americans from the antebellum period to the present. With this book, Amber N. Wiley emphasizes…

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Canceled - Notes from Home

Notes from Home weaves a tapestry of personal stories from a group of youth who have experienced family insecurity during childhood. At Rutgers University, the Price Family Fellows Program provides financ…

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Daniella Gandolfo
A Day in the Hole

A single day in a semilegal market in Lima, Peru, reveals a social world that defies conventional economic logic.In the heart of Lima's historic center, the markets of El Hueco ("The Hole") and …

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David W Bates
An Artificial History of Natural Intelligence

A new history of human intelligence that argues that humans know themselves by knowing their machines.We imagine that we are both in control of and controlled by our bodies-autonomous and yet automatic. T…

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Alexandra Freidus
Unequal Lessons

Diversity and racial integration efforts are not sufficient to address educational inequality New York City schools are among the most segregated in the nation. Yet over seven decades after the Brown v. B…

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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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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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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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Helena Hansen, Jules Netherland, David Herzberg
Whiteout

The first critical analysis of how Whiteness drove the opioid crisis.In the past two decades, media images of the surprisingly white "new face" of the US opioid crisis abounded. But why was the …

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Roony Keefe
Grime

A special collectors edition, GRIME is packed with never-before-seen archival material, candid interviews with artists, and striking photography. Featuring some of the most important names to ever touch t…

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Dominic A Pacyga
Clout City

Unearths the religious and cultural roots of a powerful political machine that empowered some everyday Chicagoans but ruled all of the city for decades.In politics, clout is essential. Too often, it deter…

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