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  • The City Below The Hill

    The Slums of Montreal, 1897

    Series series Heritage
    The city below the hill is a detailed investigation of social conditions in a working class quarter of Montreal during the 1890s. Based on a house-to-house survey of the neighbourhood, this study catalogues and analyses the life of working people after the first years of rapid industrialization.Sir Herbert Brown Ames was one of the first to recognize that urbanization was inevitable and to set ... Leer más

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  • Crazy Rich Asians

    de Kevin Kwan ...
    Series Libro 1 - Crazy Rich Asians Trilogy
    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The international sensation and blockbuster Hollywood rom com. • "A Pride and Prejudice-like send-up about an heir bringing his Chinese-American girlfriend home to meet his ancestor-obsessed family.” —People“Deliciously decadent.... This 48-karat beach read is crazy fun.” —Entertainment WeeklyWhen New Yorker Rachel Chu agrees to spend the summer in Singapore with her ... Leer más

    $202 MXN

  • Empire of Sin

    A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans

    de Gary Krist ...
    From bestselling author Gary Krist, a vibrant and immersive account of New Orleans’ other civil war, at a time when commercialized vice, jazz culture, and endemic crime defined the battlegrounds of the Crescent CityEmpire of Sin re-creates the remarkable story of New Orleans’ thirty-years war against itself, pitting the city’s elite “better half” against its powerful and long-entrenched underworld ... Leer más

    $109 MXN

  • Madge’s story

    Series Libro 1 - Individual stories from THE SWEETHEARTS
    This is Madge’s story, one of five stories extracted from THE SWEETHEARTS.Whether in wartime or peace, tales of love, laughter and hardship from the girls in the Rowntrees factory in Yorkshire.“On the morning of her Rowntrees job interview, on a warm Monday morning in July 1932, Fourteen-year-old Madge Fisher stood fidgeting in the hallway of her terraced house while her mother, Margaret, pinned ... Leer más

    $28 MXN

  • Fire Lover

    A True Story

    The hunt for the most prolific American arsonist of the twentieth century — in this Edgar Award–winning true crime story that's "stranger than fiction" ( The New York Times) .From Joseph Wambaugh, the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of such classics as The Onion Field and The Choirboys, comes the extraordinary story of the chase for the "Pillow Pyro," led by one ambi... ... Leer más

    $143 MXN

  • A Free Man: A True Story of Life and Death in Delhi

    A True Story of Life and Death in Delhi

    de Aman Sethi ...
    A 2012 New York Times Book Review Editor's ChoiceAn intimate portrait of an invisible man—a powerful story of one man’s life that contains multitudes.Like Dave Eggers’s Zeitoun and Alexander Masters’s Stuart, this is a tour de force of narrative reportage.Mohammed Ashraf studied biology, became a butcher, a tailor, and an electrician’s apprentice; now he is a homeless day laborer in the heart of ... Leer más

    $202 MXN

  • Worktown

    The Astonishing Story of the Project that launched Mass Observation

    de David Hall ...
    In the late 1930s the Lancashire town of Bolton witnessed a ground-breaking social experiment. Over three years, a team of ninety observers recorded, in painstaking detail, the everyday lives of ordinary working people at work and play - in the pub, dance hall, factory and on holiday. Their aim was to create an 'anthropology of ourselves'. The first of its kind, it later grew into the Mass ... Leer más

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  • The New Political Economy of Urban Education

    Neoliberalism, Race, and the Right to the City

    Series series Critical Social Thought
    Urban education and its contexts have changed in powerful ways. Old paradigms are being eclipsed by global forces of privatization and markets and new articulations of race, class, and urban space. These factors and more set the stage for Pauline Lipman's insightful analysis of the relationship between education policy and the neoliberal economic, political, and ideological processes that are ... Leer más

    $1,158 MXN

  • Rape New York

    de Jana Leo ...
    In the gripping first pages of this true story, Jana Leo relives the moment-by-moment experience of a home invasion and rape in her own apartment in Harlem. After she reports the crime, she waits. Between police disinterest and squabbles from the health insurance company over who’s going to pay for the rape kit, she realizes that the violence of such an experience does not stop with the crime. ... Leer más

    $212 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Cities of North America

    Contemporary Challenges in U.S. and Canadian Cities

    Edición de 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 ... Leer más

    $1,335 MXN

  • Reckoning with Homelessness

    de 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, ... Leer más

    $411 MXN

  • Slumming It

    The Tourist Valorization of Urban Poverty

    Have slums become 'cool'? More and more tourists from across the globe seem to think so as they discover favelas, ghettos, townships and barrios on leisurely visits. But while slum tourism often evokes moral outrage, critics rarely ask about what motivates this tourism, or what wider consequences and effects it initiates. In this provocative book, Fabian Frenzel investigates the lure that slums ... Leer más

    $1,681 MXN