Urban communities books

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Urbanization And Public Health In China

Urbanization And Public Health In China

Author: Mu Li (The Univ Of Sydney, Australia) ,  Yangfeng Wu (Peking Univ, China)
ISBN: 9781783268542
Format: Hardback
$346.73

Urbanization has dominated China's development landscape in recent decades, yet the human costs of this economic...  Read More >>

Urban China's Rural Fringe: Actors, Dimensions and Management Challenges

Urban China's Rural Fringe: Actors, Dimensions and Management...

Author: Xiaonan Zhang ,  Yiwen Wang
ISBN: 9781472443571
Format: Electronic book text
$186.30

Bringing together scholars from China and the West, this study offers an innovative overview of the urbanisation...  Read More >>

Urban China's Rural Fringe: Actors, Dimensions and Management Challenges

Urban China's Rural Fringe: Actors, Dimensions and Management...

Author: Xiaonan Zhang ,  Yiwen Wang
ISBN: 9781472443564
Format: Electronic book text
$186.30

Bringing together scholars from China and the West, this study offers an innovative overview of the urbanisation...  Read More >>

Children, Nature, Cities

Children, Nature, Cities

Author: Asst. Prof. Laura Shillington ,  Dr. Ann Marie F. Murnaghan
ISBN: 9781472453198
Format: Electronic book text
$201.83

Why does the way we think about urban children and urban nature matter? This volume explores how dichotomies between...  Read More >>

Children, Nature, Cities

Children, Nature, Cities

Author: Asst. Prof. Laura Shillington ,  Dr. Ann Marie F. Murnaghan
ISBN: 9781472453181
Format: Electronic book text
$201.83

Why does the way we think about urban children and urban nature matter? This volume explores how dichotomies between...  Read More >>

Wake Me from King's Dream

Wake Me from King's Dream

Author: Leonce Gaiter
ISBN: 9781941286777
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Over 150 years after the Civil War, Afro-Americans are still being stamped as a political problem with a political...  Read More >>

Citizen’s Right to the Digital City: Urban Interfaces, Activism, and Placemaking

Citizen’s Right to the Digital City: Urban Interfaces,...

Author: Marcus Foth ,  Martin Brynskov
ISBN: 9789812879172
Format: Hardback
$284.60

Edited by thought leaders in the fields of urban informatics and urban interaction design, this book brings together...  Read More >>

Zambia Social Science Journal Vol. 3, No. 2

Zambia Social Science Journal Vol. 3, No. 2

Author: Jotham Momba
ISBN: 9781443877213
Format: Paperback
$134.51

This journal has been discontinued. Any issues are available to purchase separately.  Read More >>

The Rustication of Urban Youth in China: A Social Experiment

The Rustication of Urban Youth in China: A Social Experiment...

Author: Peter J. Seybolt
ISBN: 9781138191792
Format: Hardback
$284.00

In the 1960s and 70s, the government of China conducted a rather unusual social experiment called ‘Up to the mountains...  Read More >>

Academics in Action!: A Model for Community-Engaged Research, Teaching, and Service

Academics in Action!: A Model for Community-Engaged...

Author: Sandra L. Barnes ,  Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein
ISBN: 9780823268801
Format: Paperback
$67.95

This edited volume, Academics in Action! describes a multi-disciplinary model informed by the educational philosophy...  Read More >>

Academics in Action!: A Model for Community-Engaged Research, Teaching, and Service

Academics in Action!: A Model for Community-Engaged...

Author: Sandra L. Barnes ,  Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein
ISBN: 9780823268795
Format: Hardback
$180.95

This edited volume, Academics in Action! describes a multi-disciplinary model informed by the educational philosophy...  Read More >>

We Can Speak for Ourselves: Parent Involvement and Ideologies of Black Mothers in Chicago

We Can Speak for Ourselves: Parent Involvement and Ideologies...

Author: Billye Sankofa Waters
ISBN: 9789463002691
Format: Paperback
$62.10

This work is an intervention of self-representation that explores experiences of five Black mothers of the same...  Read More >>

Barrio Nerds: Latino Males, Schooling, and the Beautiful Struggle

Barrio Nerds: Latino Males, Schooling, and the Beautiful...

Author: Juan F. Carrillo
ISBN: 9789463007658
Format: Paperback
$62.10

When Pulitzer Prize nominated author Richard Rodriguez published his autobiography, Hunger of Memory: The Education...  Read More >>

Cities and Crisis

Cities and Crisis

Author: Josef W. Konvitz ,  Bethan Hirst
ISBN: 9780719099649
Format: Paperback
$50.99

An ambitious global study of the state of cities in the early twenty-first century, their role in society, and their...  Read More >>

We Can Speak for Ourselves: Parent Involvement and Ideologies of Black Mothers in Chicago

We Can Speak for Ourselves: Parent Involvement and Ideologies...

Author: Billye Sankofa Waters
ISBN: 9789463002707
Format: Hardback
$168.19

This work is an intervention of self-representation that explores experiences of five Black mothers of the same...  Read More >>

Barrio Nerds: Latino Males, Schooling, and the Beautiful Struggle

Barrio Nerds: Latino Males, Schooling, and the Beautiful...

Author: Juan F. Carrillo
ISBN: 9789463007665
Format: Hardback
$168.19

When Pulitzer Prize nominated author Richard Rodriguez published his autobiography, Hunger of Memory: The Education...  Read More >>

Better Principals, Better Schools: What Star Principles Know, Believe, and Do

Better Principals, Better Schools: What Star Principles...

Author: Delia Stafford ,  Valerie Hill-Jackson
ISBN: 9781681233642
Format: Paperback
$111.54

A school is only as good as its principal. This quip forms the thesis of Better Principals as it provides a bird’s...  Read More >>

Hispanic and Latino New Orleans: Immigration and Identity since the Eighteenth Century

Hispanic and Latino New Orleans: Immigration and Identity...

Author: Andrew Sluyter ,  Case Watkins
ISBN: 9780807160879
Format: Paperback
$85.80

Often overlooked in historic studies of New Orleans, the city's Hispanic and Latino populations have contributed...  Read More >>

Blackness: The Life and Times of an Unpopular People

Blackness: The Life and Times of an Unpopular People...

Author: T Nicole Shockley
ISBN: 9781514379110
Format: Paperback
$52.67

A terrible tragedy has befallen the African American and it appears to play out in different ways over generations....  Read More >>

Better Principals, Better Schools: What Star Principles Know, Believe, and Do

Better Principals, Better Schools: What Star Principles...

Author: Delia Stafford ,  Valerie Hill-Jackson
ISBN: 9781681233659
Format: Hardback
$239.05

A school is only as good as its principal. This quip forms the thesis of Better Principals as it provides a bird’s...  Read More >>

Urban Change in Iran: Stories of Rooted Histories and Ever-accelerating Developments

Urban Change in Iran: Stories of Rooted Histories and...

Author: Fatemeh Farnaz Arefian ,  Seyed Hossein Iradj Moeini
ISBN: 9783319261133
Format: Hardback
$310.47

This book, based on conference excerpts, investigates various aspects of contemporary Iranian urbanism. The topics...  Read More >>

Ways of Residing in Transformation: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Ways of Residing in Transformation: Interdisciplinary...

Author: Sten Gromark ,  Mervi Ilmonen
ISBN: 9781472426079
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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Motherhood, Poverty, and the WIC Program in Urban America: Life Strategies

Motherhood, Poverty, and the WIC Program in Urban America:...

Author: Suzanne Morrissey
ISBN: 9780739189337
Format: Hardback
$263.00

This urban ethnography examines the relationship between urban residence and endemic poverty and health inequalities....  Read More >>

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