Top 10 Best Cities to Live in the USA in 2019 - Live, Raise a family
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
- UPC: 884510967318
- ASIN: 0375725601
- ISBN: 0375725601
- Brand: Erik Larson
- Manufacturer: Vintage
Erik Larson—author of #1 bestseller In the Garden of Beasts—intertwines the true tale of the 1893 World's Fair and the cunning serial killer who used the fair to lure his victims to their death. Combining meticulous research with nail-biting storytelling, Erik Larson has crafted a narrative with all the wonder of newly discovered history and th... [Read More]
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
- ASIN: 0553447459
- ISBN: 0553447459
- Brand: BROADWAY
- Manufacturer: Broadway Books
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • One of the most acclaimed books of our time, this modern classic “has set a new standard for reporting on poverty” (Barbara Ehrenreich, The New York Times Book Review).In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur “Genius” Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee... [Read More]
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Doing the Best I Can: Fatherhood in the Inner City
- ASIN: 0520283929
- ISBN: 9780520283923
- Brand: University of California Press
- Manufacturer: University of California Press
Across the political spectrum, unwed fatherhood is denounced as one of the leading social problems of today. Doing the Best I Can is a strikingly rich, paradigm-shifting look at fatherhood among inner-city men often dismissed as “deadbeat dads.” Kathryn Edin and Timothy J. Nelson examine how couples in challenging straits come together and get ... [Read More]
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On Bicycles: A 200-Year History of Cycling in New York City
- ASIN: 0231182562
- ISBN: 0231182562
- Manufacturer: Columbia University Press
Subways and yellow taxis may be the icons of New York transportation, but it is the bicycle that has the longest claim to New York’s streets: two hundred years and counting. Never has it taken to the streets without controversy: 1819 was the year of the city’s first bicycle and also its first bicycle ban. Debates around the bicycle’s place in... [Read More]
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Cities of the World: Regional Patterns and Urban Environments
- ASIN: 1442249161
- ISBN: 1442249161
- Manufacturer: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
This fully updated and revised sixth edition offers readers a comprehensive set of tools for understanding the urban landscape and, by extension, the world’s politics, cultures, and economies. Providing a sweeping overview of world urban geography, noted experts explore the eleven major global regions. Each regional chapter considers urban histor... [Read More]
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Rosa Lee: A Generational Tale Of Poverty And Survival In Urban America
- ASIN: 0465055885
- ISBN: 9780465055883
- Manufacturer: Basic Books
Based on a heart-rending and much discussed series in the Washington Post, this is the story of one woman and her family living in the projects in Washington, D.C. A transcendent piece of writing, it won the Pulitzer Prize and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award.For four years Leon Dash of the Washington Post followed the lives of Rosa Lee Cunni... [Read More]
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New Age, Neopagan, and New Religious Movements: Alternative Spirituality in Contemporary America
- ASIN: 0520281187
- ISBN: 0520281187
- Brand: imusti
- Manufacturer: University of California Press
New Age, Neopagan, and New Religious Movements is the most extensive study to date of modern American alternative spiritual currents. Hugh B. Urban covers a range of emerging religions from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, including the Nation of Islam, Mormonism, Scientology, ISKCON, Wicca, the Church of Satan, Peoples Temple, and the Br... [Read More]
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Places Rated Almanac: The Classic Guide for Finding Your Best Places to Live in America
- ASIN: 0979319900
- ISBN: 0979319900
- Brand: Places Rated Books, LLC
- Manufacturer: Places Rated Books, LLC
In this unique reference, every one of America’s 379 metropolitan areas is rated by factors that are important to anyone considering a move. Divided into nine thoroughly researched main topics, this guide derives its information as much from private sources as government sources, providing a well-rounded description of all that each metro area ha... [Read More]
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Don't Shoot: One Man, A Street Fellowship, and the End of Violence in Inner-City America
- ASIN: 1608194140
- ISBN: 1608194140
- Brand: Brand: Bloomsbury USA
- Manufacturer: Bloomsbury USA
"Part jeremiad, part gripping crime thriller,"* Don't Shoot is David M. Kennedy's chronicle of his decades-long crusade to solve one of America's most pressing and shameful social problems. Kennedy, who engineered the "Boston Miracle" in the 1990s, cutting youth homicide by two-thirds at the height of the crack epidemic, reveals the history and the... [Read More]
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No Way Out: Precarious Living in the Shadow of Poverty and Drug Dealing
- ASIN: 022629806X
- ISBN: 022629806X
- Manufacturer: University of Chicago Press
In 2005 Waverly Duck was called to a town he calls Bristol Hill to serve as an expert witness in the sentencing of drug dealer Jonathan Wilson. Convicted as an accessory to the murder of a federal witness and that of a fellow drug dealer, Jonathan faced the death penalty, and Duck was there to provide evidence that the environment in which Jonathan... [Read More]
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Believing in Cleveland: Managing Decline in "The Best Location in the Nation" (Urban Life, Landscape and Policy)
- ASIN: 1439913730
- ISBN: 1439913730
- Manufacturer: Temple University Press
Detractors have called it "The Mistake on the Lake." It was once America’s "Comeback City." According to author J. Mark Souther, Cleveland has long sought to defeat its perceived civic malaise. Believing in Cleveland chronicles how city leaders used imagery and rhetoric to combat and, at times, accommodate urban and economic decline. Souther exp... [Read More]
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The New Urban Crisis: How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class-and What We Can Do About It
- ASIN: 0465079741
- ISBN: 0465079741
- Brand: BASIC
- Manufacturer: Basic Books
In recent years, the young, educated, and affluent have surged back into cities, reversing decades of suburban flight and urban decline. And yet all is not well, Richard Florida argues in The New Urban Crisis. Florida, one of the first scholars to anticipate this back-to-the-city movement in his groundbreaking The Rise of the Creative Class, demons... [Read More]
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Mayor: The Best Job in Politics (The City in the Twenty-First Century)
- ASIN: 0812250028
- ISBN: 0812250028
- Manufacturer: University of Pennsylvania Press
In 2007, after serving almost fifteen years on the Philadelphia City Council, Michael A. Nutter became the ninety-eighth mayor of his hometown of Philadelphia. From the time he was sworn in until he left office in 2016, there were triumphs and challenges, from the mundane to the unexpected, from snow removal, trash collection, and drinkable water, ... [Read More]
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Race, Class, and Politics in the Cappuccino City
- ASIN: 022644953X
- ISBN: 022644953X
- Brand: University of Chicago Press
- Manufacturer: University of Chicago Press
For long-time residents of Washington, DC’s Shaw/U Street, the neighborhood has become almost unrecognizable in recent years. Where the city’s most infamous open-air drug market once stood, a farmers’ market now sells grass-fed beef and homemade duck egg ravioli. On the corner where AM.PM carryout used to dish out soul food, a new establishme... [Read More]
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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
- ASIN: 1631494538
- ISBN: 9781631494536
- Manufacturer: Liveright
New York Times Bestseller • Notable Book of the Year • Editors' Choice Selection One of Bill Gates’ “Amazing Books” of the Year One of Publishers Weekly’s 10 Best Books of the Year Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction An NPR Best Book of the Year Winner of the Hillman Prize for Nonfiction Gold Winner • California Book... [Read More]
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The Limits of Racial Domination: Plebeian Society in Colonial Mexico City, 1660-1720 (Writing)
- ASIN: 029914044X
- ISBN: 029914044X
- Manufacturer: University of Wisconsin Press
In this distinguished contribution to Latin American colonial history, Douglas Cope draws upon a wide variety of sources-including Inquisition and court cases, notarial records and parish registers-to challenge the traditional view of castas (members of the caste system created by Spanish overlords) as rootless, alienated, and dominated by a desire... [Read More]
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The Female Marine" and Related Works: Narratives of Cross-Dressing and Urban Vice in America's Early Republic
- ASIN: 1558491244
- ISBN: 1558491244
- Brand: Brand: Univ of Massachusetts Pr
- Manufacturer: University of Massachusetts Press
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Wounded City: Violent Turf Wars in a Chicago Barrio
- ASIN: 0190245913
- ISBN: 0190245913
- Brand: Oxford Univ Pr
- Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
In 2009, Chicago spent millions of dollars to create programs to prevent gang violence in some of its most disadvantaged neighborhoods. Yet in spite of the programs, violence has grown worse in some of the very neighborhoods that the violence prevention programs were intented to help. While public officials and social scientists often attribute the... [Read More]
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Recasting America: Culture and Politics in the Age of Cold War
- ASIN: 0226511766
- ISBN: 0226511766
- Manufacturer: University of Chicago Press
"The freshness of the authors' approaches . . . is salutary. . . . The collection is stimulating and valuable."—Joan Shelley Rubin, Journal of American History
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The City Reader (Routledge Urban Reader Series)
- ASIN: 1138812919
- ISBN: 1138812919
- Brand: Routledge
- Manufacturer: Routledge
The sixth edition of the highly successful The City Reader juxtaposes the very best classic and contemporary writings on the city to provide the comprehensive mapping of the terrain of Urban Studies and Planning old and new. The City Reader is the anchor volume in the Routledge Urban Reader Series and is now integrated with all ten other titles i... [Read More]
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