Population and demography Books
University of Missouri Press Population Agriculture and Biodiversity
Book SynopsisWritten by expert scientists, this collection of essays addresses the relationships between human population growth, the need to increase food supplies to feed the world population, and the chances for avoiding the extinction of a major proportion of the world's plant and animal species that collectively makes our survival on earth possible.Trade Review“When the concerns about feeding 10 billion people in 2050 are discussed, issues about population growth, food security, poverty alleviation, environmental sustainability, climate change, water pollution and depletion, threats to biodiversity, resource constraints, crop yield enhancement and pest control strategies come to mind. All these topics are discussed in fifteen chapters authored by respected authorities. This volume should serve as excellent reference for those researching issues of food and agriculture.” —Gurdev S. Khush, University of California, Davis, World Food Prize laureate, author of Cytogenetics of Aneuploids
£999.99
Michigan State University Press Platform for Change The Foundations of the
Book Synopsisa comparative study of the evolution of the free African American community in three cities - New York, Philadelphia, and Boston - from 1776 to 1865.
£999.99
Russell Sage Foundation Where the Hood At
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Urban Land Institute,U.S. Getting Density Right Tools for Creating Vibrant
Book SynopsisBased on expert forums of practitioners from the public and private sectors, this book describes tools used nationwide to better support compact development, including visioning, planning, and new regulations.
£48.60
Urban Land Institute,U.S. INTERSECTIONS Health and the Built Environment
Book SynopsisBased on worldwide public health data, this report lays out the premise for building healthy places and illuminates the role of the real estate and development community in addressing public health issues. This is an essential resource for public officials, real estate developers, engineers, consultants, and students of urban planning.
£23.70
Urban Land Institute,U.S. TEN PRINCIPLES FOR HEALTHY COM
Book SynopsisIncludes up-to-the-minute thinking on how to design and build healthy communities. It serves as a tool for public officials, development professionals, and others to help lay out the key elements that make a community more conducive to activity and that encourage better eating and healthier living.
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St. Martin's Griffin The Address Book
Book SynopsisFinalist for the 2020 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction One of Time Magazines''s 100 Must-Read Books of 2020 Finalist for the Goodreads Choice Awards, Best History & Biography 2020 Longlisted for the 2020 Porchlight Business Book AwardsAn entertaining quest to trace the origins and implications of the names of the roads on which we reside. Sarah Vowell, The New York Times Book Review When most people think about street addresses, if they think of them at all, it is in their capacity to ensure that the postman can deliver mail or a traveler won't get lost. But street addresses were not invented to help you find your way; they were created to find you. In many parts of the world, your address can reveal your race and class. In this wide-ranging and remarkable book, Deirdre Mask looks at the fate of streets named after Martin Luther King Jr., the wayfinding means of ancient Romans, and how Nazis haunt the streets of modern
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WW Norton & Co An Essay on the Principle of Population
Book SynopsisThe world's population is now 7.4 billion people. As we stand witness to a possible reversal of modernity's positive trends, Thomas Malthus's pessimism is worth full reconsideration.
£23.35
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Population and Political Theory
Book SynopsisPopulation and Political Theory brings together current thinking on issues at the intersection of population policy and political theory. Topics explored include population size, immigration and refugees, intergenerational justice, population characteristics and shaping children, ageing, and caring labour.Trade Review“This volume will prove to be rewarding reading for all graduate students and scholars in social policy, demography, ethics and political theory who are interested in population issues.” (Social Policy & Administration, 1 February 2013) “As a result the book is both accessible to the uninitiated and valuable to the initiated. Overall, it represents an excellent resource for political philosophers, population theorists and policy makers.” (Political Studies Review, 10 March 2012) Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors. Acknowledgments. Introduction: Population & Political Theory (James S. Fishkin & Robert E. Goodin) 1. Population & Ethics: Expanding the Moral Space (Sissela Bok) 2. Should We Value Population? (John Broome) 3. Regarding Optimum Population (Partha Dasgupta) 4. On Doing the Best for Our Children (Derek Parfit) 5. Shaping Future Children: Parental Rights and Societal Interest (Dan W. Brock) 6. On Future Generations' Future Rights (Axel Grosseries) 7. Justice Between Adjacent Generations: Further Thoughts (Norman Daniels) 8. Generations at War or Sustainable Social Policy in Ageing Societies (Thomas Lindh, Bo Malmberg and Joakim Palme) 9. Dependency, Difference and Global Ethic of Longterm Care (Eva Feder Kittay with Bruce Jennings and Angela Wasunna) 10. Live-in Domestics, Seasonal Workers, and Others Hard to Locate on the Map of Democracy (Joseph H. Carens) 11. Immigrants, Nations and Citizenship (David Miller) 12. Justice in Migration: A Closed Borders Utopia? (Lea Ypi ) 13. The Ethics of Refugee Policy (Peter Singer and Renata Singer)
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Hendrickson Academic Christianity in Oceania
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Why Race Still Matters
Book Synopsis'Why are you making this about race?' This question is repeated daily in public and in the media. Calling someone racist in these times of mounting white supremacy seems to be a worse insult than racism itself. In our supposedly post-racial society, surely it’s time to stop talking about race? This powerful refutation is a call to notice not just when and how race still matters but when, how and why it is said not to matter. Race critical scholar Alana Lentin argues that society is in urgent need of developing the skills of racial literacy, by jettisoning the idea that race is something and unveiling what race does as a key technology of modern rule, hidden in plain sight. Weaving together international examples, she eviscerates misconceptions such as reverse racism and the newfound acceptability of 'race realism', bursts the 'I’m not racist, but' justification, complicates the common criticisms of identity politics and warns against using concerns about antisemitism as a proxy for antiracism. Dominant voices in society suggest we are talking too much about race. Lentin shows why we actually need to talk about it more and how in doing so we can act to make it matter less.Trade Review"Lentin's book is necessary reading. Lentin explains the whitewashing of racial-colonial history and how structural white advantage must be dismantled for progress to take place."Sydney Morning Herald '13 Books to Take Your Mind Off 2020'"The sharp analysis that Lentin offers exposes what [discourses that advance racist ideas under the guise of realism or common sense] actually do – obscure, gaslight or shift blame in order that a white supremacist order is maintained. […A] vital book for those who wish to understand race, and more importantly, desire to make it matter less." Sydney Review of Books"A persuasive and exhaustive study of how race pervades our societies. [Alana Lentin] has crafted this book in race critical scholarship with meticulous attention to the world around us. […] This book is a clear exposition of how race has been made to appear insignificant in certain strands of scholarship and popular culture, and why this is dangerous and must be resisted at all costs."Patterns of Prejudice"A wide-ranging, powerful and timely account of what race is, what is does, and why it still matters in our supposedly 'post-racial' times. […] Eloquent and accessible, [… it] is also valuable to a popular audience for whom the book would provide a thorough entry point into thinking more deeply about race and racism and a resource from which to cultivate racial literacy."The Sociological Review"A bracing corrective to the simplifications and elisions that plague commonsensical and officially sanctioned conceptions of racism." Sivamohan Valluvan, Ethnic and Racial Studies review symposium "Lentin identifies the many actors entangled together in a battle of ideas (and lives) to powerfully portray the ideological mess that sabotages public understanding of how racism works. But although Lentin skilfully measures our many failures in contemporary discussions, she also invites the reader to pause and ask what we can do better. Rising to her own challenge makes the work reflective, insightful and therapeutic." Yassir Morsi, Ethnic and Racial Studies review symposium"An important book that sets out both the progressive and dangerous traits of anti-racism."Göteborgs-Posten"The most prominent strength of Why Race Still Matters is the breadth and depth of analyses, pulling from diverse sources from multiple national contexts to build upon and challenge contemporary discourses on race and racism. Lentin provides critiques of both the political right and left in the ways that both minimise the continued significance of race in the structuring of societies around the world."Chinelo L. Njaka, Sociology“Why Race Still Matters [considers] how our unwillingness to talk about race emboldens the power of whiteness to define and re-define what racism is. […] Centring the voices of Indigenous and Black communities and people of colour helps tear down the structures that presuppose who can and cannot be knowers about race matters.”Leah Hrycun, Aboriginal Policy Studies"Offers key insights on how racism is denied and why naming racism is seen as offensive based on cases in politics and media across US and Australia. These cases, Lentin clearly explains, underlie the systemic redefinition of racism to serve white agendas and make it challenging to bring racial literacy into public discourse. […] A valuable contribution and resource."F. Zehra Colak, European Centre for Populism Studies"Decolonial activists are troubled by the tendency, among certain scholars, towards what is ironically called ‘the race for theory’, or, in other words, academic work which is based on the concept of race but whose real purpose is personal career-building. Alana Lentin escapes this. Not only does this book draw inspiration from decolonial struggles and deepen them, it also fully recognises their legitimacy. For this, my infinite appreciation." Houria Bouteldja, Spokesperson for the Parti des Indigènes de la République (Party of the Indigenous of the Republic) "Presently, mainstream intellectual and public discourse fundamentally lacks literacy in race. Lentin's book provides this literacy with rigor, accessibility and honesty. Above all, Lentin explains why race still matters in sociologically and geopolitically expansive ways." Robbie Shilliam, Johns Hopkins UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction One: Race Beyond Social Construction Two: ‘Not Racism™’ Three: Making it About Race Four: Good Jew/Bad Jew Conclusion: Talking and Not Talking About Race Bibliography Notes Index
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Grand Central Publishing Triumph of the Yuppies
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Basic Books The Sum of the People: How the Census Has Shaped
Book SynopsisIn April 2020, the United States will embark on what has been called "the largest peacetime mobilization in American history": the decennial population census. It is part of a long, if uneven, tradition of counting people that extends back at least three millennia. Tracing the remarkable history of the census from ancient China, through the Roman Empire, revolutionary America, and Nazi-occupied Europe, right up to today's Supreme Court battles, The Sum of the People shows how the impulse to count ourselves is universal, how the census has evolved with time, and how it has always profoundly shaped the societies we have built. As data scientist Andrew Whitby reveals, the earliest censuses in ancient China and the Fertile Crescent had purely extractive aims: taxation and conscription. Later, as Enlightenment-era governments began to answer to citizens, the census was reinvented to support political representation and to delimit the boundaries of new nation-states. As the role of government grew through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, censuses became more complex and scientific. Census bureaus spun out dozens of other surveys, which formed the statistical foundation of modern, technocratic, data-driven government. For the first time, counting every person on the planet became a real possibility-and debates about who was counted, who was not, and what questions they were asked became the subject of intense political controversy in places from Australia to South Africa to the United States. The census at its best is a marvel of democracy, but it has at times been an instrument of exclusion, and, as in the case of Nazi Germany, a tool of tyranny and genocide.Today, governments and businesses alike now routinely collect "big data" that would have been unimaginable just a few decades ago, prompting fears similar to those the census once provoked and leading to some to suggest that traditional censuses will soon be obsolete. The Sum of the People closes by making the case that, for all its past faults, the census can be an alternative and an antidote to a future of constant, invasive surveillance.
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SAGE Publications, Inc Social Inequality in a Global Age
Book SynopsisSocial Inequality in a Global Age examines systems of inequality in the U.S. based on race, class, gender and sexuality, as well as the dynamics of power and privilege. While the focus is on U.S., the the book discusses the interplay of systems of inequality in the U.S, and the changing global economy.
£98.80
Bridge21 Publications, LLC Social Stratification in Contemporary China:
Book Synopsis Social Stratification in Contemporary China raises and debates major sociological issues of modern and present-day China from a historical perspective. Such topics as "equality and inequality"and "acceptability of defined inequality" have been dealt with in a broad historical context since 1949 when the People's Republic was founded. The work is widely accepted as one of the most important studies trying to clarify the difficult perceptions of policy of reform and opening up that was formulated and implemented in the early 1980s in China. Professor Li Qiang is one of the leading sociologists in China.
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University of Arkansas Press Things You Need to Hear: Collected Memories of
Book SynopsisThings You Need to Hear gathers memories of Arkansans from all over the state with widely different backgrounds. In their own words, these people tell of the things they did growing up in the early twentieth century to get an education, what they ate, how they managed to get by during difficult times, how they amused themselves and earned a living, and much more. Some of Margaret Bolsterli's ""informants,"" as she calls them, are famous (Johnny Cash, Maya Angelou, Levon Helm, Joycelyn Elders), but many more are not. Their vivid personal stories have been taken from published works and from original interviews conducted by Bolsterli. All together, these tales preserve memories of ways of life that are compelling, entertaining, and certainly well worth remembering.Trade Review""Margaret Bolsterli has provided not only the informants' stories but also a manner to convey them as an historical aggregate, combining the personal and historical in such a way that neither is diminished. A fine accomplishment and an entertaining read."" --Michael Hodge in Arkansas Review, August 2013|""A richly textured sense of everyday life and how it changed -- or on some fronts, failed to change -- over time a unique piece of social history that other states would do well to emulate."" --John C. Inscoe in Arkansas Historical Quarterly|""An engaging and accessible collection of photographs and oral history interviews with forty-one Arkansans just might convince some suburban Arkansas teenager to turn off his or her computer for a minute and to listen to these 'things you need to hear.'"" --Journal of Southern History, November 2012|""Margaret Jones Bolsterli has a knack for locating interesting and knowledgeable people to interview, and she also asks the right questions of her informants, questions that delve deeply into the lives of Arkansans in the last century. This is an important book, and it adds considerably to the knowledge of our state."" --Tom Dillard, author of Statesmen, Scoundrels, and Eccentrics: A Gallery of Amazing Arkansans
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Verso Books Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the
Book SynopsisJust as Donald Trump's victorious campaign for the US presidency shocked liberal Americans, the seemingly sudden national prominence of white supremacists, xenophobes, militia leaders, and mysterious "Alt-Right" leaders mystifies many. But the extreme Right has been growing steadily in the US since the 1990s, with the rise of patriot militias. Following 9/11, conspiracy theorists found fresh life; and in virulent reaction to the first black president of the country, militant racists have come out of the woodwork. Nurtured by a powerful right-wing media sector in radio, TV, and online, the Far Right, Tea Party movement conservatives, and Republican activists found common ground - an alternative America that is resurgent, even as it has been ignored by the political establishment and mainstream media.Investigative reporter David Neiwert has been tracking extremists for more than two decades, and here he provides a deeply reported and authoritative report on the background, mindset, and growth of Far Right movements across the country. The product of years of reportage, and including the most in-depth investigation of Trump's ties to Far Right figures, this is a crucial book about one of the most disturbing sides of American society.Trade ReviewThe seemingly sudden reemergence of the far right in America has left many in a state of panic and bewilderment. Alt-America will be essential in helping us to comprehend the depth of its foundations in national life. -- Angela Nagle, author of Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars from 4Chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-RightOver the last two decades, David Neiwert has been one of our finest analysts of the American far right, paying sustained, serious and careful attention to the seemingly fringe movements of conspiracy theorists and insurrectionists. Now it turns out these movements are not so fringe after all but have helped elect Donald Trump as president. This crisply written book, grounded in his solid reporting, tells the whole sordid story with clarity and force. More than anyone else, Neiwert understands that Trumpism has deep roots in American culture and history. In this book, he lays out those roots for all to see. -- Jeet Heer, Senior Editor at the New RepublicFor over a decade, David Neiwert has been America's canary in the coal mine-our national early-warning system on the spread of corrosive, eliminationist, right-wing hatred in our midst. -- Rick Perlstein, author of Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of AmericaDavid Neiwert is among the most astute analysts of the contemporary right. -- Joe Conason, author of Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the TruthNeiwert has not only earned his investigative chops over the past decade or so by exploring the dangerous side of right-wing extremism-he's proven himself to be one of the more lyrical and elegant writers on the beat. * Daily Kos *An alarming, well-researched account of how the far-right extremist underground became empowered in the era of Trump . A prescient discussion of one of the darkest issues facing America today. -- KirkusOffers the most comprehensive account of the United States' renewed extremist cultures . Alt-America excites in its ability to connect the seemingly extraordinary alt-right to the broader culture of wing-nut conservatism, drawing white nationalism, 4chan, Donald Trump, Alex Jones and Fox News together into a wonky negaverse version of political life. -- John Semley * Globe and Mail *Neiwert's book masterfully exposes so many of the interstices between Trump, the far-right nationalists and the toxic manipulators of social media, each feeding off the others. -- Michael Hirsch * The Indypendent *Tracing the ebbs and flows of this far-right extremism in the United States over the last 20 years, Neiwert argues that white nationalist activity in the age of Trump is simply the latest flare-up of what he calls 'Alt-America,' or the segment of the American population that has fed on conspiracy theories, racist misinformation, and deep distrust of federal institutions for decades. -- J.C. Pan * New Republic *
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Baraka Books The Question of Separatism: Quebec and the
Book SynopsisIn this, her third and least-known book, first published in 1980, Jane Jacobs examines not only the particular question of Quebec and Canada, but also the larger issue of sovereignty and autonomy in general. Using Norway as a model, Jacobs details that country's campaign of peaceful persistence that led to breaking ties with Sweden—and suggests that Canada and Canadians should be inspired by the example. An essential component of Jacobs's urban activism, this new edition of the book incorporates and expands the 1979 Massey Lectures, Canadian Cities and Sovereignty-Association, commissioned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). Also included is a previously unpublished exclusive interview with Jane Jacobs in her Toronto home in 2005, 25 years after the book appeared and 10 years after the 1995 Quebec referendum. In these musings, she reasserts and updates her thoughts on Separatism—and addresses new issues such as tar sand development in Alberta, the finance of gambling, and the future of the Euro and of Europe.Trade ReviewJacobs’s thought and writing comprise a resounding symphony of lessons and ideas; they compose a life’s work about economic, social, and environmental justice." —Nation
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University of Nevada Press A Tale of Two Bridges: The San Francisco-Oakland
Book SynopsisA Tale of Two Bridges is a history of two versions of the San Francisco—Oakland Bay Bridge: the original bridge built in 1936 and a replacement for the eastern half of the bridge finished in 2013. The 1936 bridge revolutionized transportation in the Bay Area and profoundly influenced settlement patterns in the region. It was also a remarkable feat of engineering. In the 1950s the American Society of Civil Engineers adopted a list of the “Seven Engineering Wonders” of the United States. The 1936 structure was the only bridge on the list, besting even the more famous Golden Gate Bridge. One of its greatest achievements was that it was built on time (in less than three years) and came in under budget. Mikesell explores in fascinating detail how the bridge was designed by a collection of the best-known engineers in the country as well as the heroic story of its construction by largely unskilled laborers from California, joined by highly skilled steel workers. By contrast, the East Span replacement, which was planned between 1989 and 1998, and built between 1998 and 2013, fell victim to cost overruns in the billions of dollars, was a decade behind schedule, and suffered from structural problems that has made it a perpetual maintenance nightmare. This is narrative history in its purest form. Mikesell excels at explaining highly technical engineering issues in language that can be understood and appreciated by general readers. Here is the story of two very important bridges, which provides a fair but uncompromising analysis of why one bridge succeeded and the other did not.Trade ReviewThis is an engaging and well-written account of the design and construction of two radically different bridges. Stephen Mikesell is excellent at telling a hugely complex and technical story in an approachable and engaging way. The propulsive narrative is unfailingly entertaining and takes us behind the scenes of two defining and contrasting projects in the history of California."" - Luis G. Hoyos RA, Professor of Architecture, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona""Stephen Mikesell is one of the most prominent professional historians working in the state of California today. During his long and distinguished career, Mikesell has developed a special expertise in the history of bridge design, engineering, and construction. Today he is widely recognized as the leading authority on the history of bridges in California. Consequently, there is no one better qualified to write a history of the spectacular and controversial San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridges."" - Michael Magliari, Professor of History, California State University, Chico
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Rutgers University Press The Street: A Photographic Field Guide to
Book SynopsisVacant lots. Historic buildings overgrown with weeds. Walls and alleyways covered with graffiti. These are sights associated with countless inner-city neighborhoods in America, and yet many viewers have trouble getting beyond the surface of such images, whether they are denigrating them as signs of a dangerous ghetto or romanticizing them as traits of a beautiful ruined landscape. The Street: A Field Guide to Inequality provides readers with the critical tools they need to go beyond such superficial interpretations of urban decay. Using MacArthur fellow Camilo José Vergara’s intimate street photographs of Camden, New Jersey as reference points, the essays in this collection analyze these images within the context of troubled histories and misguided policies that have exacerbated racial and economic inequalities. Rather than blaming Camden’s residents for the blighted urban landscape, the multidisciplinary array of scholars contributing to this guide reveal the oppressive structures and institutional failures that have led the city to this condition. Tackling topics such as race and law enforcement, gentrification, food deserts, urban aesthetics, credit markets, health care, childcare, and schooling, the contributors challenge conventional thinking about what we should observe when looking at neighborhoods.Trade Review"The street scenes in this book provide a literal 'field guide' of inequality evidence, visualizing the codes, metaphors, policies and social exchanges involved in characterizing and contesting inequality. The authors’ arguments are compelling and provocative." -- Emily Talen * Professor of Urbanism, University of Chicago *"[The Street] includes a number of informative essays about aspects of inequality, including infant mortality, policing, and fast food. Readers will undoubtedly agree with much that is written here and find the endnotes a useful guide to recent scholarship." * The Metropole *Table of ContentsForeword Introduction Part I State Systems and Predatory Profit No. 1 Racial Patterning of Travel in America No. 2 Dignity in an Era of Financialization No. 3 The Inequitable Erosion of Hospital Care Part II Symbols and Sentiments No. 4 Building Codes: Built Elements of the Housing Landscape No. 5 Symbols of Social Suffering No. 6 Dissonance No. 7 Race, Gentrification, and the Making of Domestic Refugees Part III Social Stories and Stigmatized Space No. 8 Housing Segregation and the Forgotten Latino American Story No. 9 Stolen Narratives and Racialized Structural Inequality No. 10 Disinvestment v. The People’s Persistence No. 11 Racial Patterning of Fast Food Part IV Safety and Security No. 12 Persistence of Black/White Inequities in Infant Mortality No. 13 Urban Childcare Dilemmas No. 14 Disinvestment in Urban Schools No. 15 Racism in Law Enforcement AcknowledgmentsNotes on Contributors
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Rutgers University Press The Street: A Photographic Field Guide to
Book SynopsisVacant lots. Historic buildings overgrown with weeds. Walls and alleyways covered with graffiti. These are sights associated with countless inner-city neighborhoods in America, and yet many viewers have trouble getting beyond the surface of such images, whether they are denigrating them as signs of a dangerous ghetto or romanticizing them as traits of a beautiful ruined landscape. The Street: A Field Guide to Inequality provides readers with the critical tools they need to go beyond such superficial interpretations of urban decay. Using MacArthur fellow Camilo José Vergara’s intimate street photographs of Camden, New Jersey as reference points, the essays in this collection analyze these images within the context of troubled histories and misguided policies that have exacerbated racial and economic inequalities. Rather than blaming Camden’s residents for the blighted urban landscape, the multidisciplinary array of scholars contributing to this guide reveal the oppressive structures and institutional failures that have led the city to this condition. Tackling topics such as race and law enforcement, gentrification, food deserts, urban aesthetics, credit markets, health care, childcare, and schooling, the contributors challenge conventional thinking about what we should observe when looking at neighborhoods.Trade Review"The street scenes in this book provide a literal 'field guide' of inequality evidence, visualizing the codes, metaphors, policies and social exchanges involved in characterizing and contesting inequality. The authors’ arguments are compelling and provocative." -- Emily Talen * Professor of Urbanism, University of Chicago *"[The Street] includes a number of informative essays about aspects of inequality, including infant mortality, policing, and fast food. Readers will undoubtedly agree with much that is written here and find the endnotes a useful guide to recent scholarship." * The Metropole *Table of ContentsForeword Introduction Part I State Systems and Predatory Profit No. 1 Racial Patterning of Travel in America No. 2 Dignity in an Era of Financialization No. 3 The Inequitable Erosion of Hospital Care Part II Symbols and Sentiments No. 4 Building Codes: Built Elements of the Housing Landscape No. 5 Symbols of Social Suffering No. 6 Dissonance No. 7 Race, Gentrification, and the Making of Domestic Refugees Part III Social Stories and Stigmatized Space No. 8 Housing Segregation and the Forgotten Latino American Story No. 9 Stolen Narratives and Racialized Structural Inequality No. 10 Disinvestment v. The People’s Persistence No. 11 Racial Patterning of Fast Food Part IV Safety and Security No. 12 Persistence of Black/White Inequities in Infant Mortality No. 13 Urban Childcare Dilemmas No. 14 Disinvestment in Urban Schools No. 15 Racism in Law Enforcement AcknowledgmentsNotes on Contributors
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Rutgers University Press The Philadelphia Irish: Nation, Culture, and the
Book SynopsisThis book describes the flowering of the Irish American community and the 1890s growth of a Gaelic public sphere in Philadelphia, a movement inspired by the cultural awakening in native Ireland, transplanted and acted upon in Philadelphia’s robust Irish community. The Philadelphia Irish embraced this export of cultural nationalism, reveled in Gaelic symbols, and endorsed the Gaelic language, political nationalism, Celtic paramilitarism, Gaelic sport, and a broad ethnic culture. Using Jurgen Habermas’s concept of a public sphere, the author reveals how the Irish constructed a plebian “counter” public of Gaelic meaning through various mechanisms of communication, the ethnic press, the meeting rooms of Irish societies, the consumption of circulating pamphlets, oratory, songs, ballads, poems, and conversation. Settled in working class neighborhoods of vast spatial separation in an industrial city, the Irish resisted a parochialism identified with neighborhood and instead extended themselves to construct a vibrant, culturally engaged network of Irish rebirth in Philadelphia, a public of Gaelic meaning.Trade Review"Mullan is to be commended for his very impressive original study of Irish Philadelphia and the way that the people who migrated there from Ireland drew from their past to build their present. I strongly believe that readers will profit from his insights."— Timothy McMahon, author of Grand Opportunity: The Gaelic Revival and Irish Society, 1893-1910 "In this path-breaking work, Michael Mullan demonstrates the importance of studying the many links between the Irish American community in 1890s Philadelphia and the Irish cultural revival in Ireland. Mullan gives us a novel perspective with the concept of a Gaelic public sphere resulting from the meeting between the American milieu and the Irish roots. This is a compelling study, which should be required reading for all those who wish to understand how to write innovatively transnational cultural history."— Enrico Dal Lago, Author of Civil War and Agrarian Unrest: The Confederate South and Southern ItalyTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 Outlines of a Gaelic Public Sphere 2 Inserting the Gaelic in the Public Sphere 3 Irish Philadelphia in and out of the Gaelic Sphere 4 Transatlantic Origins of Irish American Voluntary Associations 5 A Microanalysis of Irish American Civic Life: Ireland’s Donegal and Cavan Emerge in Philadelphia 6 The Forging of a Collective Consciousness: Militant Irish Nationalism and Civic Life in Gaelic Philadelphia 7 Sport, Culture, and Nation among the Irish of Philadelphia Conclusion: A Gaelic Public Sphere—Its Rise and Fall Acknowledgments Notes Index
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Brepols N.V. Crisis in the Later Middle Ages: Beyond the
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Brill U Schoningh Armenians in Old Poland and Austrian Galicia: A
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Brill U Schoningh The Wallachian Gold-Washers: Unlocking the Golden
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£79.00
Austrian Academy of Sciences Press Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2008: Can
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Austrian Academy of Sciences Press Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2010
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Schwabe Verlagsgruppe Diffraction Normative, Comportements Caches Et
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V&R unipress GmbH Migrationsforschung -- interdisziplinar &
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V&R Unipress Singlehood in Europe: Rates and Factors
Book SynopsisHow many single people live in Europe, and are they happy?
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Archeobooks Etudes de Demographie Du Monde Greco-Romain
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Toxosoutos A DEMOGRAFIA NA GALICIA CONTEMPORANEA 19001936
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NUS Press Heritage and Identity in Contemporary Thailand:
Book SynopsisUsing Thailand as a case study, Ross King examines the role of place in the formation of identity through memory. Employing the idea of French historian Pierre Nora that because we no longer live in environments of memory—places where the past is still vividly alive—we compensate by attaching ourselves to sites of memory, King explores whether Thailand offers an alternative vision, a place where modernity and heritage coexist. He looks closely at the myths of ancient Thai cities, the remaining royal palaces, historical monuments, small towns and villages, and the proliferating slums of Bangkok in order to create a unique and nuanced perspective of contemporary Thailand and its many ideas of Thai identity.
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NUS Press Las Vegas in Singapore: Violence, Progress and
Book SynopsisLas Vegas is famous for its glitter and greed, but it rarely gets the recognition it deserves for another specialty: inventing a globalized corporate model of institutional control. For decades, the gambling mecca has perfected the concept of the casino-hotel, which has been exported to countries around the world, including Singapore with the opening of the Marina Bay Sands. When this luxury resort opened in 2010, it was the convergence of two cities' very different histories of gambling.Las Vegas in Singapore looks at moments in Singapore's and Las Vegas' pasts when the moral and legal status of gambling changed significantly, and examines how modern states and corporations capitalized on it. The book begins in colonial Singapore in the 1880s, when British administrators revised the law in response to the political threat posed by Chinese-run gambling syndicates. It then looks at the 1960s when the newly independent city-state created a national lottery while at the same time criminalizing both organized and petty gambling. From there the focus moves to corporate Las Vegas in the 1950s. The book reveals how the Las Vegas model of casino development evolved into a highly rationalized template designed to maximize profits. It all comes together when the Vegas model is architecturally re-fashioned into Singapore's Marina Bay Sands.Ultimately, Lee Kah-Wee argues that the historical project of the control of vice is also about the control of space and capital. The result is an uneven landscape where the legal and moral status of gambling is contingent on where it is located. As the current wave of casino expansion spreads across Asia, he warns that these developments should not be seen as liberalization but instead as a monopolization by modern states and corporations.
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