Urban communities books

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Urban Girls Revisited: Building Strengths

Urban Girls Revisited: Building Strengths

Author: Bonnie J. Leadbeater ,  Niobe Way
ISBN: 9780814752135
Format: Paperback
$64.99

Urban girls are marginalized by poverty, ethnic discrimination, and stereotypes suggesting that they have deficits...  Read More >>

Urban Growth and Land Degradation in Developing Cities: Change and Challenges in Kano, Nigeria. King's Soas Studies in Development Geography.

Urban Growth and Land Degradation in Developing Cities:...

Author: Roy Maconachie
ISBN: 9786611099015
Format: Electronic book text
$527.74

Peri-urban livelihood strategies have become an increasingly important survival mechanism in the context of rapid...  Read More >>

Urban Girls Revisited: Building Strengths

Urban Girls Revisited: Building Strengths

Author: Bonnie J. Leadbeater ,  Niobe Way
ISBN: 9780814752128
Format: Hardback
$184.00

Urban girls are marginalized by poverty, ethnic discrimination, and stereotypes suggesting that they have deficits...  Read More >>

Cities, Nationalism, and Democratization

Cities, Nationalism, and Democratization

Author: Scott A Bollens (University of California, Irvine, USA)
ISBN: 9781280764486
Format: Electronic book text
$557.57

Cities, Nationalism, and Democratization fills a gap in the peacemaking and conflict management literatures. Bollens...  Read More >>

A Common Art: Urban Ceremonials in Antwerp and Brussels

A Common Art: Urban Ceremonials in Antwerp and Brussels...

Author: Margit Thofner
ISBN: 9789040082955
Format: Hardback
$145.00

This richly illustrated and ground-breaking volume reassesses the relationship between art, material culture and...  Read More >>

Places Rated Almanac: The Classic Guide for Finding Your Best Places to Live in America

Places Rated Almanac: The Classic Guide for Finding...

Author: David Savageau
ISBN: 9780979319907
Format: Paperback
$65.97

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Do, Die, or Get Along: A Tale of Two Appalachian Towns

Do, Die, or Get Along: A Tale of Two Appalachian Towns...

Author: Peter Crow
ISBN: 9780820328713
Format: Paperback
$60.59

Weaves together voices of twenty-six people who have intimate connections to two neighboring towns in the southwestern...  Read More >>

Still Separate and Unequal: Segregation and the Future of Urban School Reform

Still Separate and Unequal: Segregation and the Future...

Author: Barry A. Gold
ISBN: 9780807747568
Format: Paperback
$73.79

By documenting the effects that the New Jersey Supreme Court Abbott V decision had on schools and classrooms, this...  Read More >>

Stieffamilien. Lebenssituationen - Beziehungen - Erziehung. Herausforderungen und Chancen im Lichte der sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschung und neuerer Kinder- und Jugendliteratur

Stieffamilien. Lebenssituationen - Beziehungen - Erziehung....

Author: Ruth Dumke
ISBN: 9783898217637
Format: Paperback
$123.94

Ruth Dumke fasst in ihrer Studie die Ergebnisse der aktuellen sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschung zu Grundfragen...  Read More >>

Do, Die, or Get Along: A Tale of Two Appalachian Towns

Do, Die, or Get Along: A Tale of Two Appalachian Towns...

Author: Peter Crow
ISBN: 9780820328638
Format: Hardback
$158.27

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The Family Fortune

The Family Fortune

Author: Laurie Horowitz
ISBN: 9780060875275
Format: Paperback
$36.83

"It's the turn of the century--the 21st--and times are tough for the Fortunes, comprised of ""divinely dysfunctional...  Read More >>

Encyclopedia of American Urban History

Encyclopedia of American Urban History

Author: David R. Goldfield
ISBN: 9780761928843
Format: Hardback
$858.00

The Encyclopedia of American Urban History  Read More >>

The Second Law of Life: Energy, Technology, and the Future of Earth As We Know It

The Second Law of Life: Energy, Technology, and the...

Author: John E.J. Schmitz (Philips Semiconductor; former COO of SEMATECH)
ISBN: 9780815515371
Format: Hardback
$200.51

Entropy explains the amount of energy no longer capable of conversion into work; in other words, wasted energy or...  Read More >>

The African City: A History. New Approaches to African History.

The African City: A History. New Approaches to African...

Author: Bill Freund
ISBN: 9786611040307
Format: Electronic book text
$475.20

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Hull-House Maps and Papers: A Presentation of Nationalities and Wages in a Congested District of Chicago, Together with Comments and Essays on Problems Growing Out of the Social Conditions

Hull-House Maps and Papers: A Presentation of Nationalities...

Author: Jane Addams ,  Rima Lunin Schultz
ISBN: 9780252031342
Format: Hardback
$124.00

Jane Addams’s early attempt to empower the people with information  Read More >>

Race, Ethnicity, and Inequality in the U.S. Labor Market: Critical Issues in the New Millennium

Race, Ethnicity, and Inequality in the U.S. Labor Market:...

Author: George Wilson
ISBN: 9781412955034
Format: Paperback
$141.00

What patterns of racial and ethnic stratification are emerging in the American labor market as representation of...  Read More >>

Urban Groundwater, Meeting the Challenge: IAH Selected Papers on Hydrogeology 8

Urban Groundwater, Meeting the Challenge: IAH Selected...

Author: Ken W.F. Howard (University of Toronto at Scarborough, Toronto, Canada)
ISBN: 9780415407458
Format: Hardback
$150.00

Broadly divided into five sections, this book covers recharge mechanisms and the urban water balance, urban recharge...  Read More >>

Estates: An Intimate History

Estates: An Intimate History

Author: Lynsey Hanley
ISBN: 9781862079090
Format: Paperback
$73.79

Britain's council estates have become a media shorthand for poverty, social mayhem, drugs, drink and violence -...  Read More >>

State of the World 2007: An Urban Planet

State of the World 2007: An Urban Planet

Author: The Worldwatch Institute
ISBN: 9780393329230
Format: Paperback
$53.25

“Top-ranked annual books on sustainable development.”—GlobeScan survey of sustainability experts  Read More >>

Studyguide for the Urban World by Palen, ISBN 9780072434569

Studyguide for the Urban World by Palen, ISBN 9780072434569...

Author: 6th Edition Palen ,  Cram101 Textbook Reviews
ISBN: 9781428816459
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Never HIGHLIGHT a Book Again! Includes all testable terms, concepts, persons, places, and events. Cram101 Just the...  Read More >>

Studyguide for Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream by Speck, ISBN 9780865476066

Studyguide for Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and...

Author: 1st E Duany and Plater-Zyberk and Speck ,  Cram101 Textbook Reviews
ISBN: 9781428815940
Format: Paperback
$73.79

Never HIGHLIGHT a Book Again! Includes all testable terms, concepts, persons, places, and events. Cram101 Just the...  Read More >>

Hidden Heads of Households: Child Labor in Urban Northeast Brazil

Hidden Heads of Households: Child Labor in Urban Northeast...

Author: Mary Lorena Kenny
ISBN: 9781442600843
Format: Paperback
$44.99

""Kenny treats the often taboo topic of child labor with clear-eyed perception and a bracing lack of sentimentality.""...  Read More >>

Scapegoating for Columbine: Collateral Damage in the War on School Violence

Scapegoating for Columbine: Collateral Damage in the...

Author: Louise Benson
ISBN: 9780595406142
Format: Paperback
$44.75

Since the 1999 Columbine tragedy, when two boys who were bullied committed the worst school shooting in U.S. history,...  Read More >>

Energy from the Desert: Very Large Scale Photovoltaic Systems: Socio-economic, Financial, Technical and Environmental Aspects

Energy from the Desert: Very Large Scale Photovoltaic...

Author: Keiichi Komoto ,  Masakuza Ito
ISBN: 9781844077946
Format: Hardback
$199.00

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