How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood (Moskowitz Pe)(Paperback)

How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood (Moskowitz Pe)(Paperback)

A journey to the front lines of the battle for the future of American cities, uncovering the massive, systemic forces behind gentrification -- and the lives that are altered in the process. The term gentrification has become a buzzword to describe the changes in urban neighborhoods across the

How to Fight Inequality: (And Why That Fight Needs You) (Phillips Ben)(Paperback)

Inequality is the crisis of our time. The growing gap between a few at the top and the rest of society damages us all. No longer able to deny the crisis, every government in the world is now pledged to fix it - and yet it keeps on getting worse. In this book, international anti-inequality

Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life (Klinenberg Eric)(Paperback)

'A comprehensive, entertaining, and compelling argument for how rebuilding social infrastructure can help heal divisions in our society and move us forward.'--Jon Stewart NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR - 'Engaging.'--Mayor Pete Buttigieg, The New York Times Book Review (Editors'

New Urban Crisis - Gentrification, Housing Bubbles, Growing Inequality, and What We Can Do About It (Florida Richard)(Paperback / softback)

Cities are both the engines of innovation and the seedbeds of inequality - how can we keep what's good and break free of the

How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir (Jones Saeed)(Paperback)

From award-winning poet Saeed Jones, How We Fight for Our Lives--winner of the Kirkus Prize and the Stonewall Book Award--is a 'moving, bracingly honest memoir' (The New York Times Book Review) written at the crossroads of sex, race, and power. One of the best books of the year as selected by The

Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State (Stein Samuel)(Paperback)

'This superbly succinct and incisive book' on urban planning and real estate argues gentrification isn't driven by latte-sipping hipsters--but is engineered by the capitalist state (Michael Sorkin, author of All Over the Map) Our cities are changing. Around the world, more and more money is being

Keto for Cancer: How to Use the Ketogenic Diet and Fasting to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Travis Stone)(Paperback)

In this book, you will learn how to use the ketogenic diet and fasting to fight and prevent cancer. Ketosis is a term many people might have heard, but few people understand what it actually means. Ketosis is a state in which the body burns fat to produce energy. Ketogenic refers to the process,

The Captured Economy: How the Powerful Enrich Themselves, Slow Down Growth, and Increase Inequality (Lindsey Brink)(Pevná vazba)

For years, America has been plagued by slow economic growth and increasing inequality. In The Captured Economy, Brink Lindsey and Steven M. Teles identify a common factor behind these twin ills: breakdowns in democratic governance that allow wealthy special interests to capture the policymaking

Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City (Norton Peter D.)(Paperback)

The fight for the future of the city street between pedestrians, street railways, and promoters of the automobile between 1915 and 1930.Before the advent of the automobile, users of city streets were diverse and included children at play and pedestrians at large. By 1930, most streets were

City on Fire - the fight for Hong Kong (Dapiran Antony)(Paperback / softback)

Fight Study Guide: Winning the Battles That Matter Most (Groeschel Craig)(Paperback)

Don't show up for a fight unarmed! Learn how to fight with faith, with prayer, and with the Word of God--and become a man who knows how to fight for what's right.In this video Bible study (DVD/digital video sold separately), pastor and bestselling author Craig Groeschel helps you and your group

Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor (Eubanks Virginia)(Paperback)

WINNER: The 2019 Lillian Smith Book Award, 2018 McGannon Center Book Prize, and shortlisted for the Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice Astra Taylor, author of The People's Platform: 'The single most important book about technology you will read this year.'Dorothy

Prayer Evangelism: How to Change the Spiritual Climate Over Your Home, Neighborhood and City (Silvoso Ed)(Paperback)

Groundbreaking Book Now Revised and UpdatedA witch's coven in Argentina became a lighthouse of prayer in less than 60 minutes. A prodigal son returned to the Lord in California. An adopted son and the father who had cast him out years before were reunited in Christ. These are real stories of real

The Gentrification Reader (Lees Loretta)(Paperback)

Gentrification remains a subject of heated debate in the public realm as well as scholarly and policy circles. This Reader brings together the classic writings and contemporary literature that has helped to define the field, changed the direction of how it is studied and illustrated the points of

Overheated - How Capitalism Broke the Planet - And How We Fight Back (Aronoff Kate)(Paperback / softback)

In the past few years, it has become impossible (for most) to deny the effects of climate change and that the planet is warming, and to acknowledge that we must act. But a new kind of denialism is taking root in the halls of power, shaped by a quarter-century of neoliberal policies, that threatens

Scorecasting: The Hidden Influences Behind How Sports Are Played and Games Are Won (Moskowitz Tobias)(Paperback)

In Scorecasting, University of Chicago behavioral economist Tobias Moskowitz teams up with veteran Sports Illustrated writer L. Jon Wertheim to overturn some of the most cherished truisms of sports, and reveal the hidden forces that shape how basketball, baseball, football, and hockey games are

How to Be a Liberal: The Story of Freedom and the Fight for Its Survival (Dunt Ian)(Paperback)

'A tour de force' - THE SECRET BARRISTER'Urgent and engaging' - NICK COHEN, OBSERVER COLUMNIST'A phenomenal history from a truly big mind' - DAVID SCHNEIDER, WRITER'Required reading for anyone interested in politics and philosophy' - PROSPECTIn this groundbreaking new book, political journalist Ian

Beyond the Valley: How Innovators Around the World Are Overcoming Inequality and Creating the Technologies of Tomorrow (Srinivasan Ramesh)(Paperback)

How to repair the disconnect between designers and users, producers and consumers, and tech elites and the rest of us: toward a more democratic internet.In this provocative book, Ramesh Srinivasan describes the internet as both an enabler of frictionless efficiency and a dirty tangle of politics,

The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality (Pistor Katharina)(Paperback)

A compelling explanation of how the law shapes the distribution of wealthCapital is the defining feature of modern economies, yet most people have no idea where it actually comes from. What is it, exactly, that transforms mere wealth into an asset that automatically creates more wealth? The Code of

The Costs of Inequality in Latin America: Lessons and Warnings for the Rest of the World (Snchez-Ancochea Diego)(Paperback)

From the United States to the United Kingdom and from China to India, growing inequality has led to social discontent and the emergence of populist parties, also contributing to economic crises. We urgently need a better understanding of the roots and costs of growing income gaps. The Costs of

The Creation of Inequality: How Our Prehistoric Ancestors Set the Stage for Monarchy, Slavery, and Empire (Flannery Kent)(Paperback)

Our early ancestors lived in small groups and worked actively to preserve social equality. As they created larger societies, however, inequality rose, and by 2500 bce truly egalitarian societies were on the wane. In The Creation of Inequality, Kent Flannery and Joyce Marcus demonstrate that this

AIDS and Masculinity in the African City: Privilege, Inequality, and Modern Manhood (Wyrod Robert)(Paperback)

AIDS has been a devastating plague in much of sub-Saharan Africa, yet the long-term implications for gender and sexuality are just emerging. AIDS and Masculinity in the African City tackles this issue head on and examines how AIDS has altered the ways masculinity is lived in Uganda--a country known

The Gentrification of the Internet: How to Reclaim Our Digital Freedom (Lingel Jessa)(Pevná vazba)

How we lost control of the internet--and how to win it back. The internet has become a battleground. Although it was unlikely to live up to the hype and hopes of the 1990s, only the most skeptical cynics could have predicted the World Wide Web as we know it today: commercial, isolating, and full

Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers' Rights (Mac Juno)(Paperback)

How the law harms sex workers--and what they want insteadDo you have to endorse prostitution in order to support sex worker rights? Should clients be criminalized, and can the police deliver justice?In Revolting Prostitutes, sex workers Juno Mac and Molly Smith bring a fresh perspective to