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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America Cover Image
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America (Paperback)
By Erik Larson
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Perseverance Through Severe Dysfunction: Breaking the Curse of Intergenerational Trauma as a Black Man in America Cover Image
Perseverance Through Severe Dysfunction: Breaking the Curse of Intergenerational Trauma as a Black Man in America (Hardcover)
By Reggie D. Ford
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Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness Cover Image
Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness (Hardcover)
By Kristen Radtke
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City Cover Image
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Paperback)
By Matthew Desmond
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Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals Cover Image
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals (Paperback)
By Saidiya Hartman
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Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age Cover Image
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age (Hardcover)
By Annalee Newitz
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Building Communities from the Inside Out: A Path Toward Finding and Mobilizing a Community's Assets Cover Image
Building Communities from the Inside Out: A Path Toward Finding and Mobilizing a Community's Assets (Paperback)
By John P. Kretzmann, John L. McKnight (Joint Author)
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What the Eyes Don't See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City Cover Image
What the Eyes Don't See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City (Paperback)
By Mona Hanna-Attisha
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities Cover Image
The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Paperback)
By Jane Jacobs
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The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation's Neglect of a Deadly Disease Cover Image
The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation's Neglect of a Deadly Disease (Hardcover)
By Daisy Hernández
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Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles Cover Image
Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles (Hardcover)
By Rosecrans Baldwin
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Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life Cover Image
Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life (Paperback)
By Eric Klinenberg
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Humans of New York Cover Image
Humans of New York (Hardcover)
By Brandon Stanton
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Humans of New York: Stories Cover Image
Humans of New York: Stories (Hardcover)
By Brandon Stanton
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Beauty in the City: The Ashcan School (Excelsior Editions) Cover Image
Beauty in the City: The Ashcan School (Excelsior Editions) (Hardcover)
By Robert A. Slayton
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Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention Cover Image
Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention (Hardcover)
By Ben Wilson
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The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, with a New Preface Cover Image
The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, with a New Preface (Paperback)
By Khalil Gibran Muhammad
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Dorchester Girl Cover Image
Dorchester Girl (Paperback)
By Judith Kirwan Kelley
$14.95
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Names of New York: Discovering the City's Past, Present, and Future Through Its Place-Names Cover Image
Names of New York: Discovering the City's Past, Present, and Future Through Its Place-Names (Hardcover)
By Joshua Jelly-Schapiro
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How to Turn a Place Around: A Placemaking Handbook Cover Image
How to Turn a Place Around: A Placemaking Handbook (Paperback)
By Kathy Madden
$35.00
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Squirrel Hill: The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting and the Soul of a Neighborhood Cover Image
Squirrel Hill: The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting and the Soul of a Neighborhood (Hardcover)
By Mark Oppenheimer
$28.95
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Survival of the City: Living and Thriving in an Age of Isolation Cover Image
Survival of the City: Living and Thriving in an Age of Isolation (Hardcover)
By Edward Glaeser, David Cutler
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How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood Cover Image
How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood (Paperback)
By PE Moskowitz
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Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys (New Perspectives in Crime #7) Cover Image
Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys (New Perspectives in Crime #7) (Paperback)
By Victor M. Rios
$26.00
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Soul City: Race, Equality, and the Lost Dream of an American Utopia Cover Image
Soul City: Race, Equality, and the Lost Dream of an American Utopia (Hardcover)
By Thomas Healy
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Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope Cover Image
Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope (Paperback)
By Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn
$16.95
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America Cover Image
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
By Erik Larson
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The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century Cover Image
The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)
By Grace Lee Boggs, Scott Kurashige, Danny Glover (Foreword by)
$20.95
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Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, Its Chaotic Founding... Its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-class Metropolis Cover Image
Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, Its Chaotic Founding... Its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-class Metropolis (Paperback)
By Sam Anderson
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City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles Cover Image
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (Paperback)
By Mike Davis, Robert Morrow (Photographs by)
$19.95
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