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Suzanne Mettler, Trevor E Brown
Rural Versus Urban

How the urban-rural divide drives partisan polarizationWhy have Americans living in different places come to experience politics as a battle between "us" and "them"? In Rural Versus Ur…

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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. …

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Junji Ito
Mimi's Tales of Terror

Von urbanen Legenden & persönlichen Albträumen - Unheimliches vom Kultautor Junji Ito"Mimis Tales of Terror" entführt in eine Welt, in der das Alltägliche plötzlich von unheimlichen Schatten…

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Anastasia Dukova
A History of Policing Cities

Elements in Global Urban History

Current policing practices directly continue from historical methods. City policing in the Global North emerged as a response to unrest and subsistence crises during the late stage of the Little Ice Age, …

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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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Joseph Mitchell,
The Bottom of the Harbor

A classic of literary reporting from one of The New Yorker's most iconic writers reveals the vibrant world of old New York and the ordinary people who made it great, now with illustrations by renowned art…

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Richard Cimino, Hans Tokke
Micro-City

An on-the-ground study of how faith communities create belonging and build bridges across one of the most diverse urban landscapes in the worldMicro-City follows congregations, clergy, and everyday New Yo…

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Anastasia Dukova
A History of Policing Cities

Elements in Global Urban History

Current policing practices directly continue from historical methods. City policing in the Global North emerged as a response to unrest and subsistence crises during the late stage of the Little Ice Age, …

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Davida Siwisa James
Hamilton Heights and Sugar Hill

Explores four centuries of colonization, land divisions, and urban development around this historic landmark neighborhood in West Harlem It was the neighborhood where Alexander Hamilton built his country …

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Richard E Ocejo
Sixty Miles Upriver

An unvarnished portrait of gentrification in an underprivileged, majority-minority small cityNewburgh is a small postindustrial city of some twenty-eight thousand people located sixty miles north of New Y…

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Briem
Beyond Steel

Learning from one Rust Belt city's postindustrial transitionWhile Pittsburgh is sometimes held up as a successful example of urban reinvention in the era after heavy industry (think "eds and meds&quo…

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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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Robert T Gannett Jr
In the Spirit of Alinsky

Community-based organizing stands at a crossroads at a time when anti-democratic headwinds and authoritarian impulses threaten American society as never before. Robert T. Gannett Jr. draws on a forty-year…

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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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Deirdre Mayer Dougherty
Race and Place

Race and Placeconsiders the everyday experiences of community members throughout the process of school desegregation and how race, place, and truth came to matter in this process in Prince George's County…

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The New Deal in South Florida

Revealing how the New Deal impacted South Florida's design and developmentThe New Deal sought to restore national economic strength in part by reallocating resources and restructuring local landscapes. Fe…

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Thomas J Campanella
Designing the American Century

"Gilmore D. Clarke and Michael Rapuano were the foremost spatial designers of the American century. Their vast portfolio of public landscapes propelled the legacy of Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert…

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Deirdre Mayer Dougherty
Race and Place

Race and Placeconsiders the everyday experiences of community members throughout the process of school desegregation and how race, place, and truth came to matter in this process in Prince George's County…

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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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Christopher Wadibia
Political Pentecostalism and Faith-Based Development in Nigeria

This book examines how the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), mobilises its theological and political interests to invest in social development in Nigeria . Focusing on the church's extensive develo…

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