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Ecology of Tropical Cities, Volume I

This contributed volume addresses the global scale of urbanization and its impacts on biodiversity. By adding human capital, cities are incubators for new ideas and technologies, creating the possibility …

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Michael Pollack
Sidewalk Nation

An illuminating ramble along the American sidewalk: routinely unnoticed, yet central to daily life, neighborhood vitality, and significant legal controversies.Public infrastructure is as essential to our …

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Richard Hodges,
The Origins of Anglo-Saxon Towns

Reconsiders the debate about the archaeology of Anglo-Saxon towns on the occasion of the centennial of Henri Pirenne's celebrated bookMedieval Cities(1925).

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Jooyoung Lee
The Walking Wounded

A sobering encounter with lives transformed by gun violence and an urgent call to build more comprehensive systems of care for wounded people.Gun violence is a plague in the United States; even survivors …

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Rachel Humphris
Making Sanctuary Cities

"From its development in the 1980s, the sanctuary city movement--municipal protection of people with uncertain migration status from national immigration enforcement--has been a powerful and controve…

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Rachel Humphris
Making Sanctuary Cities

"From its development in the 1980s, the sanctuary city movement--municipal protection of people with uncertain migration status from national immigration enforcement--has been a powerful and controve…

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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…

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Nadina Galle
The Nature of Our Cities

In the tradition of Elizabeth Kolbert and Michael Pollan, The Nature of Our Cities is a stirring exploration of how innovators from around the world are combining urban nature with emerging technologies, …

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Avelardo Valdez
Homeboys Forever

What is the end of the story after a lifetime in gangs?Violence, addiction, imprisonment . . . we don't have to look hard to see the negative consequences of gang involvement. But what does it look like t…

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Rebecca Roanhorse
Mirrored Heavens

Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Series! The interwoven destinies of the people of Meridian will finally be determined in this "stunning, fevered conclusion" (NPR) to New York Timesbestselling …

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Chris Fitch
Wild Cities

**'Mind-shifting, heart-lifting'**ISABELLA TREE**'Inspiring and essential'**ALASTAIR HUMPHREYS'As entertaining as it is enlightening' INDEPENDENT,¿¿¿¿¿Nature isn't a luxury, it's a necessity. But today th…

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Patrick Markee
Placeless

In the tradition of Matthew Desmond's Evicted, a longtime housing activist presents a vivid and myth-breaking account of why homelessness endures in contemporary America...Millions of people are affected …

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Michal Huss
Remaking Urban Heritage

This book follows the perspectives of refugee activists to examine cities shaped by layered histories of war, colonialism, and partition. Challenging the crisis-driven, state-centric frameworks that domin…

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Peter F Burns
Disneyland Politics

Forthcoming Fall 2025

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Peter F Burns
Disneyland Politics

When Walt Disney decided to build Disneyland in Anaheim, CA in the 1950s, the move presented a puzzle for Anaheim's government: How would the city balance the interests of private investors against those …

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Eric Klinenberg
2020

A meticulously reported, character-driven, unforgettable investigation of a time when nothing was certain and everything was at stake, by the acclaimed sociologist and best-selling author Eric Klinenberg …

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Berna Turam
The Geopolitics of Fear

"The intensified securitization of the borderlands between Europe and the Middle East/North Africa over the past decade has turned the Mediterranean Sea into a graveyard. This book delves into the mo…

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