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Cities Made Differently

Cities Made Differently

Full of playful graphics, provocative questions, and curious facts, this book asks what makes a city and how we might ma......more

In the Merrimack Valley: A Farm Trilogy

In the Merrimack Valley: A Farm Trilogy

  • Ingram,出版日期:2024-10-22

A journey through both family history and the fascinating and quintessentially American history of New England’s Merrima......more

An Alternative History of Cleveland

An Alternative History of Cleveland

Dive into Cleveland’s deep past and return with a new vision for how we should think about the region today. The land we......more

DNA #17: Landscape

DNA #17: Landscape

An exploration of the constantly changing, manufactured nature of physical landscapes The essays in this book draw on sp......more

All Souls: A Family Story from Southie

All Souls: A Family Story from Southie

The anti-busing riots of 1974 forever changed Southie, Boston’s working class Irish community, branding it as a violent,......more

Flyover Church: How Jesus’ Ministry in Rural Places Is Good News Everywhere

Flyover Church: How Jesus’ Ministry in Rural Places Is Good News Everywhere

Christ is present and at work in rural communities. How do we lead from that reality? The tensions unleashed over the pa......more

Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America’s Edge

Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America’s Edge

From Pulitzer Prize finalist and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Newjack, a passage through an Amer......more

When Crack Was King: A People’s History of a Misunderstood Era

When Crack Was King: A People’s History of a Misunderstood Era

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD - A "vivid and frank" (NPR) account of the crack cocaine era and a community’s ul......more

Worth Seeing: Viewing Others Through God’s Eyes

Worth Seeing: Viewing Others Through God’s Eyes

"We are in the business of seeing others, seeing them the way God sees them, and letting them know they have value." Amy......more

Youth Change Agent: Empower a Young Person to Make the Transition to a Better Life

Youth Change Agent: Empower a Young Person to Make the Transition to a Better Life

Youth Change Agent empowers adults dedicated to preventing young people from taking the wrong path. You can become the c......more

Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World

Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World

Shortlisted for the Zócalo Book Prize "Consistently entertaining and often downright funny." --The New Yorker "You might......more

Rural Wealth and Welfare: Economic Principles Illustrated and Applied in Farm Life

Rural Wealth and Welfare: Economic Principles Illustrated and Applied in Farm Life

In giving these pages to the public I offer no apology for a restatement of fundamental principles always requiring adju......more

Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies

Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies

How gentrification is killing our cities and what we can do about it from the author of Feminist City What does gentrifi......more

The Rentier City: Making Modern Manchester

The Rentier City: Making Modern Manchester

How did Manchester became the poster-child of neoliberal urbanisation, and what can the people that live there do about ......more

Growing Grapes Might Be Fun: How We Made a Vineyard Out of a Junkyard at Cockatoo Hill

Growing Grapes Might Be Fun: How We Made a Vineyard Out of a Junkyard at Cockatoo Hill

An honest, very funny account of a couple’s move to the country for a fresh start. Bursting with optimism and a can-do a......more

Indianapolis: A Concise History

Indianapolis: A Concise History

"As its name denotes, Indianapolis is without question Indiana’s city. Known as the Crossroads of America, Indianapolis ......more

The Quest Of The Simple Life

The Quest Of The Simple Life

The book was first published in 1907 and reflects the author’s experiences and thoughts on the pursuit of a simpler and ......more

Architect, Verb.: The New Language of Building

Architect, Verb.: The New Language of Building

The Hidden Rules of Architecture: how to build world-class, award winning, creative, innovative, sustainable, liveable a......more

Vagabonds: Life on the Streets of Nineteenth-Century London

Vagabonds: Life on the Streets of Nineteenth-Century London

London, 1857: A pair of teenage girls holding a sign that says "Fugitive Slaves" ask for money on the corner of Blackman......more

The Lifestyles of New Yorkers

The Lifestyles of New Yorkers

To the best of my knowledge understandably when I first saw the New Yorkers, I was in a state of euphoria concerning the......more

Big Mall

Big Mall

  • Ingram,出版日期:2024-02-13

A phenomenology of the mall: If the mall makes us feel bad, why do we keep going back? In a world poisoned by capitalism......more

2020: The Year the World Cracked Open

2020: The Year the World Cracked Open

A meticulously reported, character-driven, unforgettable investigation of a time when nothing was certain and everything......more

Defying Displacement

Defying Displacement

  • Ingram,出版日期:2024-02-06

A revolutionary new study of gentrification ... and how to stop it. Cities around the world are in the midst of a profou......more

Care of the City: Ruination, Abandon, and Hospitality in Contemporary Practice

Care of the City: Ruination, Abandon, and Hospitality in Contemporary Practice

Innovative readings in critical theory at the intersection of spatial and social practices. Care of the City offers a se......more

Going Wild in Woolly Bush: Bernard and Barbara’s Guide to Getting It All Out in the Open

Going Wild in Woolly Bush: Bernard and Barbara’s Guide to Getting It All Out in the Open

Nudinits is back with a guide to getting it all out in the open. Bernard and Barbara, from the eccentric village of Wool......more

Gaffs: Why No One Can Get a House, and What We Can Do about It

Gaffs: Why No One Can Get a House, and What We Can Do about It

The book that has been waiting to be written - how Ireland’s housing policy has locked an entire generation out of the h......more

Artless: Fashion, Image, Media, New York 2014-2022

Artless: Fashion, Image, Media, New York 2014-2022

Composed of stories, fragmentary essays, and even press releases Stagg has been commissioned to write, Artless captures ......more

In The Village

In The Village

Anthony Bailey’s intimate look at life in Stonington borough made waves when it was published. First appearing in 1971 a......more

One Kensington

One Kensington

Kensington and Chelsea - one of the wealthiest spots on planet Earth - is also one of the most unequal. A short walk fro......more

The Other Side of Prospect: A Story of Violence, Injustice, and the American City

The Other Side of Prospect: A Story of Violence, Injustice, and the American City

A landmark work of intimate reporting on inequality, race, class, and violence, told through a murder and intersecting l......more

On the Gaze: Dubai and Its New Cosmopolitanisms

On the Gaze: Dubai and Its New Cosmopolitanisms

"ON THE GAZE is an exploration of cosmopolitanism and its 21st-century manifestation in Dubai. "What do I see? Neon cont......more

The Improvement Of The Dwellings Of The Labouring Classes Through The Operation Of Government Measures [&c.]

The Improvement Of The Dwellings Of The Labouring Classes Through The Operation Of Government Measures [&c.]

This book presents an alternative view on housing policy, arguing that the government should take an active role in buil......more

Neighborhood In South Minneapolis

Neighborhood In South Minneapolis

  • Ingram,出版日期:2023-07-18

A sociological study of a neighborhood in South Minneapolis, including detailed demographic information and analysis of ......more

The Tomorrow Game: Rival Teenagers, Their Race for a Gun, and a Community United to Save Them

The Tomorrow Game: Rival Teenagers, Their Race for a Gun, and a Community United to Save Them

A New York Times bestselling author’s gripping account of a Chicago community coming together to save a group of teenage......more

Love Our Cities: How a City-Wide Volunteer Day Can Unite Your Community

Love Our Cities: How a City-Wide Volunteer Day Can Unite Your Community

  • Ingram,出版日期:2023-04-11

By shining a spotlight on the cities that have been supported through Love Our Cities’ local volunteer efforts, Jeff Pis......more

Acid Detroit: A Psychedelic Story of Motor City Music

Acid Detroit: A Psychedelic Story of Motor City Music

"Redefining the counterculture as a time of Acid Communism, Acid Detroit diverges from most books on the Sixties, which ......more

A Block in Time: A New York City History at the Corner of Fifth Avenue and Twenty-Third Street

A Block in Time: A New York City History at the Corner of Fifth Avenue and Twenty-Third Street

Gotham meets The Island at the Center of the World in this dazzling history of a single block in Manhattan from the Age ......more

The SideRoad Columnist: Observations from an Upper Michigan Author

The SideRoad Columnist: Observations from an Upper Michigan Author

Take a trip down the U.P.’s many SideRoads with Sharon Kennedy Penned by the author in recent years, The SideRoad Column......more

Health Colonialism: Urban Wastelands and Hospital Frontiers

Health Colonialism: Urban Wastelands and Hospital Frontiers

The role of American hospital expansions in health disparities and medical apartheid Health Colonialism considers how U.......more

The Barn: The Lives, Landscape and Lost Ways of an Old Yorkshire Farm

The Barn: The Lives, Landscape and Lost Ways of an Old Yorkshire Farm

A revelatory uncovering of a vanished agricultural way of life by bestselling nature writer Sally Coulthard. ’A gem of a......more

Stories of a Small Town Farm Boy

Stories of a Small Town Farm Boy

Stories of a small town farm boy is a collection of humorous anecdotes illustrating some of the problems, solutions, and......more

Courting: Tractor Dates, Macra Babies and Swiping Right in Rural Ireland

Courting: Tractor Dates, Macra Babies and Swiping Right in Rural Ireland

’Courting is a wonderfully empathic and inclusive book about love and community and all the different ways people can bu......more

Walkable City (Tenth Anniversary Edition): How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time

Walkable City (Tenth Anniversary Edition): How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time

TENTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION WINNER OF THE GREEN PRIZE FOR SUSTAINABLE LITERATURE Updated with 100+ pages of new material a......more

Beyond Our Walls: Finding Jesus in the Slums of Jakarta

Beyond Our Walls: Finding Jesus in the Slums of Jakarta

Finding True Worth in the Slums With over one billion people living in urban slums today, these communities are arguably......more

The Kingdom Began in Puerto Rico: Neil Connolly’s Priesthood in the South Bronx

The Kingdom Began in Puerto Rico: Neil Connolly’s Priesthood in the South Bronx

How the South Bronx and Puerto Rican migration defined Fr. Neil Connolly’s priesthood as he learned to both serve and be......more

Desperate: An Epic Battle for Clean Water and Justice in Appalachia

Desperate: An Epic Battle for Clean Water and Justice in Appalachia

Set in Appalachian coal country, this "superb" (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) legal drama follows one determined lawyer as he......more

Gentrifier: A Memoir

Gentrifier: A Memoir

Taking on the thorny ethics of owning and selling property as a white woman in a majority Black city and a majority Bang......more

Invisible China: How the Urban-Rural Divide Threatens China’s Rise

Invisible China: How the Urban-Rural Divide Threatens China’s Rise

As the glittering skyline in Shanghai seemingly attests, China has quickly transformed itself from a place of stark pove......more

Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains

Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains

"This book--the first ethnography of water conservation on the Great Plains--provides an account of High Plains aquifer ......more

Leaving the Suburbs

Leaving the Suburbs

In this adventure story, the author rides a bicycle back home nearly 3,300 miles in order to witness firsthand how the l......more

Cities That Shaped the Ancient World

Cities That Shaped the Ancient World

  • Ingram,出版日期:2022-09-13

John Julius Norwich presents a sweeping tour of forty great cities that shaped the ancient world and its civilizations--......more

Survival of the City: Living and Thriving in an Age of Isolation

Survival of the City: Living and Thriving in an Age of Isolation

One of our great urbanists and one of our great public health experts join forces to reckon with how cities are changing......more

The Neighborhood Manhattan Forgot: Audubon Park and the Families Who Shaped It

The Neighborhood Manhattan Forgot: Audubon Park and the Families Who Shaped It

Audubon Park’s journey from farmland to cityscape The study of Audubon Park’s origins, maturation, and disappearance is ......more

Handover of Power - Barter Economy: Volume 10/21 Global Version

Handover of Power - Barter Economy: Volume 10/21 Global Version

Barter Economy rethought Do you sometimes worry that you won’t be able to live without money or the internet? And do you......more

Up to Heaven and Down to Hell: Fracking, Freedom, and Community in an American Town

Up to Heaven and Down to Hell: Fracking, Freedom, and Community in an American Town

The United States is the only country in the world where property rights commonly extend "up to heaven and down to hell,......more

The Quiet Zone: Unraveling the Mystery of a Town Suspended in Silence

The Quiet Zone: Unraveling the Mystery of a Town Suspended in Silence

In this riveting account of an area of Appalachia known as the Quiet Zone where cell phones and WiFi are banned, journal......more

Dream States: Smart Cities and the Pursuit of Utopian Urbanism

Dream States: Smart Cities and the Pursuit of Utopian Urbanism

  • Ingram,出版日期:2022-08-23

WINNER OF THE 2022 WRITERS’ TRUST BALSILLIE PRIZE FOR PUBLIC POLICY SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 DONNER BOOK PRIZE WINNER OF......more

Twilight in Hazard: An Appalachian Reckoning

Twilight in Hazard: An Appalachian Reckoning

  • Ingram,出版日期:2022-07-05

When Alan Maimon got the assignment in 2000 to report on life in rural Eastern Kentucky, his editor at the Louisville Co......more

Regeneration: The Rescue of a Wild Land

Regeneration: The Rescue of a Wild Land

Longlisted for the Highland Book Prize In 1995 the National Trust for Scotland acquired Mar Lodge Estate in the heart of......more

Stories of old Gippsland

Stories of old Gippsland

Prolific Gippsland author, Jim Connelly, digs into the past to find twenty tales of intrigue and adventure, bringing the......more

Decolonize Hipsters

Decolonize Hipsters

Few urban critters are more reviled than the hipster. They are notoriously difficult to define, and yet we know one when......more

Disappearing Desert: The Growth of Phoenix and the Culture of Sprawl

Disappearing Desert: The Growth of Phoenix and the Culture of Sprawl

Phoenix, Arizona, is one of the fastest-growing metropolitan areas in the United States. The city’s expansion--at the ra......more

Gimme Shelter: A Life of Public Service in New York City (paperback)

Gimme Shelter: A Life of Public Service in New York City (paperback)

Now and then, there really is good government. Bonnie Stone spent 40 years in New York City-and social services-oriented......more

Who Moved My Neighborhood?: Leading Congregations Through Gentrification and Economic Change

Who Moved My Neighborhood?: Leading Congregations Through Gentrification and Economic Change

Neighborhoods are moving. While neighborhood changes can mean exciting and fresh opportunities for some, the experience ......more

Soul City: Race, Equality, and the Lost Dream of an American Utopia

Soul City: Race, Equality, and the Lost Dream of an American Utopia

"A history of Floyd McKissick’s 1969 plan to build a Black city in North Carolina, examining the story of the idealists ......more

A Collection of Collections: Black American Poetry

A Collection of Collections: Black American Poetry

A Collection of Collections is work of poetry that explores the author’s experiences as a young Black man in America tod......more

The Uses of Disorder

The Uses of Disorder

Reissue of the classic text on how cities should be planned When first published in 1970, The Uses of Disorder, was a ca......more

fullback

fullback

FULLBACK is a soberingly compelling story about a young man’s unwavering pursuit of an ever-fleeting dream. Tank’s trium......more

The Walker: On Finding and Losing Yourself in the Modern City

The Walker: On Finding and Losing Yourself in the Modern City

From Charles Dickens’ London to today’s megacities, a fascinating exploration of what urban walking tells us about moder......more

Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind’’s Greatest Invention

Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind’’s Greatest Invention

In a captivating tour of cities famous and forgotten, acclaimed historian Ben Wilson tells the glorious, millennia-spann......more

City at the Edge of Forever: Los Angeles Reimagined

City at the Edge of Forever: Los Angeles Reimagined

An engaging account of the uniquely creative spirit and bustling cultural ecology of contemporary Los Angeles How did Lo......more

Bunker: Building for the End Times

Bunker: Building for the End Times

As seen on 60 Minutes, a thought-provoking, chilling, and eerily prescient look at "prepper" communities around the worl......more

The Cabin in the Mountains: A Norwegian Odyssey

The Cabin in the Mountains: A Norwegian Odyssey

The wooden holiday cabin, or hytte, is a staple of Norwegian life. Robert Ferguson, author of Scandinavians, explores th......more

Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness

Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness

From the acclaimed author of Imagine Wanting Only This--a timely and moving meditation on isolation and longing, both as......more

Perseverance Through Severe Dysfunction: Breaking the Curse of Intergenerational Trauma as a Black Man in America

Perseverance Through Severe Dysfunction: Breaking the Curse of Intergenerational Trauma as a Black Man in America

Book Description In Reggie Ford’s bold reassessment of the Black experience in America, he demonstrates that a new under......more

Rotten Days in Late Summer

Rotten Days in Late Summer

In Rotten Days in Late Summer, Ralf Webb turns poetry to an examination of the textures of class, youth, adulthood and d......more

It Is Not Now: Tales of Maine

It Is Not Now: Tales of Maine

It is Not Now is collection of stories based upon real life, as well as a reflection on lost ways and changing values. I......more

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