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David Alff
The Northeast Corridor

All aboard for the first comprehensive history of the hard-working and wildly influential Northeast Corridor.Traversed by thousands of trains and millions of riders, the Northeast Corridor might be Americ…

lieferbar ab 11.3.2026.

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Joe William Trotter Jr
From Enslavement to Covid-19

During the COVID- 9 pandemic, commentators opined that the high concentration of African Americans in dangerous and unsafe work and living environments exposed them to the virus at higher and more deadly …

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Jonathan Butler
Join the Conspiracy

Dive into the electrifying tale of a Brooklyn-born patriot turned radical activist, in an era when America was torn by its ideological extremesIn the shadow of recent turmoil, Join the Conspiracy transpor…

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Global Cities in Indonesia

This book examines the development of global cities in Indonesia and proposes a new paradigm for urban development, grounded in inclusive social development. Inclusive development is defined as a new appr…

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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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Timo Bartholl, Christos Filippidis, Antonis Vradis, Minhocas Urbanas
Favela Resistance

Food is at the heart of well-being, peace, and health. But millions live without access to basic nutrition, and billions live without control or understanding of where their food will come from and how it…

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Emily Hauser
Penelope's Bones

Weaving together literary and archaeological evidence, Emily Hauser illuminates the rich, intriguing lives of the real women behind Homer's Iliad and Odyssey.Achilles. Agamemnon. Odysseus. Hector. The liv…

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Teresa Ghilarducci
Work, Retire, Repeat

A damning portrait of the dire realities of retirement in the United States--and how we can fix it.While the French went on strike in 2023 to protest the increase in the national retirement age, workers i…

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Nicholas L Caverly
Demolishing Detroit

Pioneering field work reveals how infrastructural systems-buildings, laws, algorithms, excavators, regulations, toxins-maintain white supremacy within the urban landscapeFor decades, Detroit residents, po…

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René Esparza
From Vice to Nice

Shifting the focus of AIDS history away from the coasts to the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, this impressive book uncovers how homonormative political strategies weaponized the AIDS crisis to f…

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Omar G Encarnación
Framing Equality

The book explains why the struggle over gay marriage differed among democratic countries, especially in the severity of the conservative backlash and the legacy for LGBTQ equality.

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An Atlantic City Reader

An Atlantic City Reader provides a representative sampling of the best of the many disparate interpretations of the iconic resort by famous authors (Walt Whitman, William Carlos Williams, Damon Runyon, La…

lieferbar ab 12.5.2026.

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An Atlantic City Reader

An Atlantic City Reader provides a representative sampling of the best of the many disparate interpretations of the iconic resort by famous authors (Walt Whitman, William Carlos Williams, Damon Runyon, La…

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Susan Crabtree, Jedd McFatter
Fool's Gold

"An investigation that shows how the most ambitious figures in the Democratic Party want to transform the rest of America into the progressive dystopia that is California"--Inside jacket flap.

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Rebecca Kobrin
Credit to the Nation

From a leading historian, the story of how entrepreneurial Jewish immigrants transformed commercial banking and enabled the economic and social advancement of Jews in America.What are immigrants to do whe…

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Mike Davis,
City of Quartz

No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, "Los Angeles brings it all together." To detractors, LA is a sunlit mortuary where "you can rot without feeling it…

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Maggie Helwig
Encampment

WINNER OF THE 2025 TORONTO BOOK AWARD"Striking, elegant." -- Publishers Weekly, ★ STARRED ReviewAn activist priest provides sanctuary for an encampment of unhoused people in her churchyardThe ho…

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Robert A. Caro
The Power Broker

Everywhere acknowledged as a modern American classic, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and chosen by the Modern Library as one of the hundred greatest books of the twentieth century, The Power Broker is a hu…

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Rebecca Jo Kinney
Mapping Asiatown Cleveland

Forthcoming Spring 2025This book examines the tensions that emerged between Asian American racial identity formation and the establishment of organized urban community in Cleveland. Moving from 1943 to th…

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Rebecca Jo Kinney
Mapping Asiatown Cleveland

Forthcoming Spring 2025This book examines the tensions that emerged between Asian American racial identity formation and the establishment of organized urban community in Cleveland. Moving from 1943 to th…

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