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Gregory Royal Pratt
The City Is Up for Grabs

"Gregory Pratt had a 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 the …

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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 Labo…

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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' graced with an und…

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Tye Farrow
Constructing Health

Illuminating how our brain and body engage with our surroundings, Constructing Health answers urgent questions about the role of architecture in creating and maintaining health.

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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 action Climate change is the existential crisis of our time. With extreme heatwaves, wildfires, hurricanes, an…

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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 turne…

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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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Ana Villarreal
The Two Faces of Fear

In The Two Faces of Fear, Ana Villareal provides an in-depth study of how people live in a high-violence environment, drawing on two years of qualitative fieldwork conducted during a violent turf war in h…

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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"--

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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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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. Take a close look at today’s De…

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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 Black…

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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 Black…

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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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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 social, c…

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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 has …

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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 compromi…

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Els De Graauw, Shannon Gleeson
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 compromi…

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