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Popular opinion holds that public housing is a failure; so what more needs to be said about seventy-five years of dashed hopes and destructive policies? Over the past decade, however, historians and social scientists have quietly exploded the common wisdom about public housing. Public Housing Myths pulls together these fresh perspectives and unexpected findings into a single volume to provide an updated, panoramic view of public housing.
With eleven...
2942) The Climate Majority
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The Climate Majority is the first book to investigate climate apathy, to describe how it prevents action to stop climate change and to show how it can be beaten with an approach developed for political campaigns. Leo Barasi argues that dangerous climate change will only be prevented if the majority of people-including those who aren't environmentalists-are persuaded of the need to limit emissions. He applies his policy and campaign experience to...
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Oui ou non à l'immigration de masse?
L'auteur expose les positions contraires qui divisent les Français. Entre partisans d'un accueil ouvert et généreux, adeptes d'une France multiculturelle et fractionnée par divers communitarismes, d'une part, et les nationaux résolument inquiets pour la sauvegarde de l'identité française, résolus à renvoyer les irréguliers et à limiter drastiquement le nombre des nouveaux arrivants, d'autre part, ces...
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From Manchester's deadly cotton works to London's literary salons, a brilliant exploration of how the Victorians created the modern city
Since Charles Dickens first described Coketown in Hard Times, the nineteenth-century city, born of the industrial revolution, has been a byword for deprivation, pollution, and criminality. Yet, as historian Tristram Hunt argues in this powerful new history, the Coketowns of the 1800s were far more than a monstrous...
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So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Hillbilly Elegy tells you what you need to know-before or after you read J.D. Vance's book. Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader. This short summary and analysis of Hillbilly Elegy includes: Historical context; Chapter-by-chapter overviews; Character profiles; Important quotes; Fascinating trivia;...
2946) Critique sociale
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Extrait : "L'économie politique est le code de l'usure, la description de la mécanique sociale et l'inventaire de son matériel. Rien de plus, rien de moins. Pas trace de philosophie, ni de morale..."
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Illuminating the class issues that shaped the racial uplift movement, Toure Reed explores the ideology and policies of the national, New York, and Chicago Urban Leagues during the first half of the twentieth century. Reed argues that racial uplift in the Urban League reflected many of the class biases pervading contemporaneous social reform movements, resulting in an emphasis on behavioral, rather than structural, remedies to the disadvantages faced...
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Vulnerable Communities examines the struggles of smaller cities in the United States, those with populations between 20,000 and 200,000. Like many larger metropolitan centers, these places are confronting change within a globalized economic and cultural order. Many of them have lost their identities as industrial or commercial centers and face a complex and distinctive mix of economic, social, and civic challenges. Small cities have not only fewer...
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In Saving Our Cities, William W. Goldsmith shows how cities can be places of opportunity rather than places with problems. With strongly revived cities and suburbs, working as places that serve all their residents, metropolitan areas will thrive, thus making the national economy more productive, the environment better protected, the citizenry better educated, and the society more reflective, sensitive, and humane.
Goldsmith argues that America has...
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"Winner of the 2016 James Coleman Award for Outstanding Book, Rationality and Society Section of the American Sociological Association" "Winner of the 2016 Gaddis Smith International Book Prize, MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University" "Co-Winner of the 2015 Ralph Gomory Prize, Business History Conference" "Co-Winner of the 2015 Sharlin Memorial Award, Social Science History Association" Emily Erikson is an assistant...
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"Winner of the PROSE Award for Excellence in Social Sciences, Association of American Publishers" "Winner of the PROSE Award in Business, Finance, and Management, Association of American Publishers" "Winner of the Best Scholarly Book Award, Global and Transnational Section of the American Sociological Association" "Winner of the Asia/Transnational Book Award, Asia and Asian America Section of the American Sociological Association" Kimberly Kay Hoang...
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Catherine E. De Vries is professor of political science at Bocconi University in Milan. She is the author of Euroscepticism and the Future of European Integration. Twitter @CatherineDVries Sara B. Hobolt is professor and the Sutherland Chair in European Institutions at the London School of Economics. She is the author of Europe in Question, coauthor of Blaming Europe?, and coeditor of Democratic Politics in a European Union under Stress. Twitter @sarahobolt...
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For more than one hundred years, governments have grappled with the complex problem of how to revitalize distressed urban areas. In 1995, the original urban Empowerment Zones (Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit, New York, and Philadelphia) each received a $100 million federal block grant and access to a variety of market-oriented policy tools to support the implementation of a ten-year strategic plan to increase economic opportunities and promote...
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Hamilton's industrial age is over. In the steel capital of Canada, there are no more skies lit red by foundries at sunset, no more traffic jams at shift change. Instead, an urban renaissance is taking shape. But, who wins and who loses in the city's not-too-distant future? Is it possible to lift a downtrodden, post-industrial city out of poverty in a way that benefits people across the social spectrum, not just a wealthy elite?
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"Honorable Mention for the Best Scholarly Book, Global and Transnational Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association" Nitsan Chorev is the Harmon Family Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs at Brown University. She is the author of The World Health Organization between North and South and Remaking U.S. Trade Policy.
Give and Take looks at local drug manufacturing in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, from the early...
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MAY 2014. The Irish public woke to the horrific discovery of a mass grave containing the remains of most 800 babies in the 'Angels' Plot' of Tuam's Mother and Baby Home. What followed would rock the last vestiges of Catholic Ireland, enrage an increasingly secularised nation, and lead to a Commission of Inquiry. In The Adoption Machine, Paul Jude Redmond, Chairperson of the Coalition of Mother and Baby Homes Survivors, who himself was born in the...
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A study of the generation of Germans dealing with the psychological effects of the parents' and grandparents' experiences during and after World War II.
How is it possible for people who were born in a time of relative peace and prosperity to suddenly discover war as a determining influence on their lives?
For decades to speak openly of German suffering during World War II-to claim victimhood in a country that had victimized millions-was unthinkable....
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"Winner of the Viviana Zelizer Award for Best Book, Economic Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association" "Honorable Mention for the Theory Prize, Theory Section of the American Sociological Association" Sarah L. Quinn is associate professor of sociology at the University of Washington.
How the American government has long used financial credit programs to create economic opportunities
Federal housing finance policy and mortgage-backed...
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2017 PROSE Award Winner: Outstanding Scholarly Work by a Trade Publisher
In the vein of Jane Jacobs's The Death and Life of Great American Cities and Edward Glaeser's Triumph of the City, Jonathan F. P. Rose-a visionary in urban development and renewal-champions the role of cities in addressing the environmental, economic, and social challenges of the twenty-first century.
Cities are birthplaces of civilization; centers of culture, trade, and progress;...
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"Co-Winner of the 2014 Best Book Award, The Labor Project of the American Political Science Association" John S. Ahlquist is the Lyons Family Faculty Scholar and associate professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Margaret Levi is the Jere L. Bacharach Professor of International Studies at the University of Washington and Foundational Chair in Politics at the University of Sydney's United States Studies Centre.
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