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The award-winning look at an ugly aspect of American racism by the bestselling author of Lies My Teacher Told Me, reissued with a new preface by the author In this groundbreaking work, sociologist James W. Loewen, author of the classic bestseller Lies My Teacher Told Me, brings to light decades of hidden racial exclusion in America. In a provocative, sweeping analysis of American residential patterns, Loewen uncovers the thousands of "sundown towns"-almost...
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"[The author] takes us into the poorest neighborhoods of Milwaukee to tell the story of eight families on the edge. Arleen is a single mother trying to raise her two sons on the 20 dollars a month she has left after paying for their rundown apartment. Scott is a gentle nurse consumed by a heroin addiction. Lamar, a man with no legs and a neighborhood full of boys to look after, tries to work his way out of debt. Vanetta participates in a botched...
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Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xii, 240 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"Strong Towns is a book of forward thinking ideas that breaks with modern wisdom to present a new vision of urban development in the United States. Presenting the foundational ideas of the Strong Towns movement he co founded, Charles Marohn explains why cities of all sizes continue to struggle to meet their basic needs, and reveals the new paradigm that can solve this longstanding problem. Inside, you'll learn why inducing growth and development has...
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Publisher
Heinemann Library
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 p. : ill. (some col.), col. map ; 27 cm.
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English
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Introduces the daily lives of people who settled in the first cities in the United States, discussing houses, clothing, schools, and work.
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Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
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343 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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English
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"Three of the nation's top scholars, known for tackling key mysteries about poverty in America, turn their attention from the country's poorest people to its poorest places. Based on a fresh, data-driven approach, they discover that America's most disadvantaged communities are not the big cities that get the most notice. Instead, nearly all are rural. Little if any attention has been paid to these places or to the people who make their lives there....
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Angel City Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
207 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
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English
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"With more than 500 photographs and rare ephemera, all collected by author Tom Zimmerman, Paradise promoted is the first book to showcase the era from 1870 to 1930 when boosters developed the small town of Los Angeles into the city that would become Americas most cutting-edge metropolis"--Provided by publisher.
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
300 pages
Language
English
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"For most of America's history, rural people and culture have been casually mocked, stereotyped, and, in general, deeply misunderstood. Now an array of short stories, poetry, graphic short stories, and personal essays, along with anecdotes from the authors' real lives, dives deep into the complexity and diversity of rural America and the people who call it home. Fifteen extraordinary authors--diverse in ethnic background, sexual orientation, geographic...
19) Broken bridges
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The death of a loved one brings fading country music star Bo Price back to his hometown where he is reunited with his childhood sweetheart and meets his 16-year-old-daughter for the first time.
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Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2014]
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xvi, 413 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
Language
English
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This timely text provides 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?????Þincluding the redistribution of economic activities, the continued decline of manufacturing, manufacturing, increased social polarization and how to plan a sustainable future. The book explores how the combined...
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