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  • The Barn House

    Confessions of an Urban Rehabber

    by Ed Zotti ...
    A rollicking yarn about a home-improvement project that took a man and his family to hell and back.In 1993, after Chicago lost many of its residents to the suburbs, Ed Zotti and his family gambled their future by fixing up a dilapidated Victorian home in a dicey neighborhood. Where most saw a shabby façade, the Zottis saw promise?even when it dragged and drained every resource. ?The Barn House? ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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    Sarah Jane's Travel Memoirs Series, #2

    by Sarah Jane Butfield ...
    Series Book 2 - Sarah Jane's Travel Memoirs Series
    Now with photographs added 28/10/15The title says it all: what we have and where we are. This book, the sequel to Glass Half Full: Our Australian Adventure, follows our French exploits as we endeavour to rebuild our lives in another new country, after spending four and half years in Australia. Our goal, or hope for the immediate future, is to focus positively on the present, so that we can start a ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Italian Boy

    A Tale of Murder and Body-snatching in 1830s London

    by Sarah Wise ...
    A thrilling history of England's great metropolis at a point of great change, told through the story of a young vagrant murdered by "resurrection men."Before his murder in 1831, the "Italian boy" was one of thousands of orphans on the streets of London, moving among the livestock, hawkers, and con men, begging for pennies. When his body was sold to a London medical college, the suppliers were ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Jumped In

    What Gangs Taught Me about Violence, Drugs, Love, and Redemption

    by Jorja Leap ...
    Jumped In tells the story of the gangs of Los Angeles in the words of the gang members themselves as well as the people who interact with them on a daily basis--trying to arrest them, control them, and help them. There are priests and police officers, murderers and drug dealers, victims and grieving mothers, and other assorted characters, often partnering in unlikely ways. Jorja Leap's work draws ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • House Lust

    America's Obsession With Our Homes

    by Daniel McGinn ...
    A rich narrative that blends social commentary with incisive reporting, House Lust offers an astute, funny, and sometimes disturbing portrait of the behaviors that drove the greatest real estate boom in history—and its eventual bust.Owning a home has long been considered the fulfillment of the American Dream. But in the last decade, as the real estate market boomed, Americans’ fascination with ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Home Girl

    Building a Dream House on a Lawless Block

    by Judith Matloff ...
    After twenty years as a foreign correspondent in tumultuous locales including Rwanda, Chechnya, and Sudan, Judith Matloff is ready to put down roots and start a family. She leaves Moscow and returns to her native New York City to house-hunt for the perfect spot while her Dutch husband, John, stays behind in Russia with their dog to pack up their belongings. Intoxicated by West Harlem’s cultural ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • As Bad as They Say?

    Three Decades of Teaching in the Bronx

    by Janet Grossbach Mayer ...
    Rundown, vermin-infested buildings. Rigid, slow-to-react bureaucratic systems. Children from broken homes and declining communities. How can a teacher succeed? How does a student not only survive but also come to thrive? It can happen, and As Bad as They Say? tells the heroic stories of Janet Mayer’s students during her 33-year tenure as a Bronx high school teacher.In 1995, Janet Mayer’s students ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Cities of North America

    Contemporary Challenges in U.S. and Canadian Cities

    Edited by Lisa Benton-Short ...
    This timely textprovides a comprehensive overview of the dramatic and rapidly evolving issues confronting the cities of North America. Metropolitan areas throughout the United States and Canada face a range of dynamic and complex concerns—including the redistribution of economic activities, the continued decline of manufacturing, and a global growth in services. The contributors provide compelling ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Reckoning with Homelessness

    by Kim Hopper ...
    Series series The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues
    "It must be some kind of experiment or something, to see how long people can live without food, without shelter, without security."—homeless woman, Grand Central Station, winter"Homelessness is a routine fact of life on the margins. Materially, it emerges out of a tangled but unmysterious mix of factors: scarce housing, poorly planned and badly implemented policies of relocation and support, ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Liveability In Singapore: Social And Behavioural Issues

    by David Chan ...
    Cities and countries around the world are focused on enhancing their living conditions through ways that go beyond the brick and mortar of urban planning. Just like in other highly-urbanised cities, life and living in Singapore is highly dependent on many other dimensions such as health, access to various services, social interactions, inter-group relations and community bonds. Social and ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Why Afterschool Matters

    by Ingrid A. Nelson ...
    Series series Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies
    Increasingly, educational researchers and policy-makers are finding that extracurricular programs make a major difference in the lives of disadvantaged youth, helping to reduce the infamous academic attainment gap between white students and their black and Latino peers. Yet studies of these programs typically focus on how they improve the average academic performance of their participants, paying ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Restless City

    A Short History of New York from Colonial Times to the Present

    by Joanne Reitano ...
    The Restless City: A Short History of New York from Colonial Times to the Present is a brief, insightful and lively history of the peoples, events and interactions that have formed New York City. Weaving together the shifting currents of economic, political, social, and cultural life, Joanne Reitano shows how New York has acted both as an indicator and a driver of the American experience in its ... Read more

    $84.99 USD