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A riveting, groundbreaking account of how the war on crime has torn apart inner-city communities. Forty years in, the tough-on-crime turn in American politics has spurred a prison boom of historic proportions that disproportionately affects Black communities. It has also torn at the lives of those on the outside. As arrest quotas and high-tech surveillance criminalize entire blocks, a climate of fear and suspicion pervades daily life, not only for young men entangled in the legal system but for their family members and working neighbors.

White Americans have long been comfortable in the assumption that they are the cultural norm. Now that notion is being challenged, as white people wrestle with what it means to be part of a fast-changing, truly multicultural nation. Facing chronic economic insecurity, a popular culture that reflects the nation’s diverse cultural reality, a future in which they will no longer constitute the majority of the population, and with a Black president in the White House, whites are growing anxious.

Lucid, forward-looking, and guided by a level-headed optimism that clearly distinguishes between genuine progress and exaggerated claims, Emerald Cities points the way toward a sustainable future for the American city.

All places are not created equal. In this groundbreaking book, Richard Florida shows that where we live is increasingly a crucial factor in our lives, one that fundamentally affects our professional and personal prospects. As well as explaining why place matters now more than ever, Who's Your City? provides indispensable tools to help you choose the right place for you.

Cities and the Creative Class gathers in one place for the first time the research leading up to Richard Florida's theory on how the growth of the creative economy shapes the development of cities and regions. In a new introduction, Florida updates this theory and responds to the critics of his 2002 best seller, The Rise of the Creative Class.

Chris Bathum was a respected therapist, addiction specialist, and founder of one of the fastest-growing rehabilitation chains in America. But Bathum was a total fraud: he was a homicidal meth-head with a history of sexually abusing his patients, scamming insurance companies, and eliminating whistle-blowers. Like Rose Stahl. But this intended victim would be his last. Stahl would risk her life to bring down the monster she and so many other people in need had once trusted for their salvation.

Words Whispered in Water is the story of how - against all odds - one woman exposed the culprit in the catastrophic flooding and compelled the news media, and the government, to tell the truth. Words Whispered in Water highlights the importance of exposing the bad behavior of giant corporations and bureaucracies whose unsavory activities affect millions of people, because once bad behavior is exposed, there is noticeably less fraud and better behavior on the part of an organization.

How does it feel to receive a phone call from your 14-year-old son who is in the back of a squad car because he laughed at a police officer? How does a young person of color cope with being frisked several times a week since the age of 15? These are just some of the stories in No Place on the Corner, which draws on three years of intensive ethnographic fieldwork in the South Bronx before and after the landmark 2013 Floyd v. City of New York decision that ruled that the NYPD's controversial "stop and frisk" policing methods were a violation of rights.

This new South End Press edition makes available the full text of this out-of-print classic - along with a new foreword by Manning Marable, interviews with participants in DRUM, and reflections on political developments over the past three decades by Georgakas and Surkin.

Dai segreti di Porta Palazzo alle sfide dell'integrazione: Torino è da sempre un'avanguardia e un laboratorio dell'Italia che cambia. Ogni settimana Davide Martello aprirà una porta delle mille stanze torinesi, illuminando angoli fuori fuoco e facendo parlare i protagonisti di una città che ha la grandezza iscritta nel suo Dna.

Roman Mars and co-author Kurt Kohlstedt zoom in on the various elements that make our cities work, exploring the origins and other fascinating stories behind everything from power grids and fire escapes to drinking fountains and street signs. With deeply researched entries and beautiful line drawings throughout, The 99% Invisible City will captivate devoted fans of the show and anyone curious about design, urban environments and the unsung marvels of the world around them. You are about to see stories everywhere, you beautiful nerd. Now get out there.

Dai segreti di Porta Palazzo alle sfide dell'integrazione: Torino è da sempre un'avanguardia e un laboratorio dell'Italia che cambia. Ogni settimana Davide Martello aprirà una porta delle mille stanze torinesi, illuminando angoli fuori fuoco e facendo parlare i protagonisti di una città che ha la grandezza iscritta nel suo Dna.

A cautionary tale of Wall Street's push to turn homes into assets, Underwater is a powerful, incisive story that chronicles the crash and its aftermath from a fresh perspective—the forgotten, middle-class homeowner. His assignment was to write about a real-estate frenzy lighting up the Redneck...

Dai segreti di Porta Palazzo alle sfide dell'integrazione: Torino è da sempre un'avanguardia e un laboratorio dell'Italia che cambia. Ogni settimana Davide Martello aprirà una porta delle mille stanze torinesi, illuminando angoli fuori fuoco e facendo parlare i protagonisti di una città che ha la grandezza iscritta nel suo Dna.

Mose, Ilva, Alitalia. Un Paese in crisi: Mose, Ilva e Alitalia, il paese dei fallimenti, di Massimo Giannini; L'irresponsabilità al governo, di Claudio Tito; Il bivio dei Benetton: ingresso nella compagnia o rischio concessioni, di Ettore Livini; Alitalia, il governo cambia rotta. Prima ristrutturazione, poi la vendita, di Lucio De Lellis; Conte: "Mittal rimane ma non escludo intervento pubblico. Non cadremo a gennaio", di Claudio Tito.

The inspiring true story of the first Girl Scout troop founded for and by girls living in a shelter in Queens, New York, and the amazing, nationwide response that it sparked “A powerful book full of powerful women.”—Chelsea Clinton Giselle Burgess was a young mother of five trying to...

An illuminating, elegant history of New York City, told through the stories of the women who made it the most exciting and influential metropolis in the world Read any history of New York City and you will read about men. You will read about men who were political leaders and men who were...

Genova, due mesi dopo. Il racconto in sei articoli di Repubblica: Il veleno nel decreto Genova, di Sergio Rizzo; I cantieri senza regole del partito dell'onestà, di Gianluca Di Feo; Ponte, il muro di Castellucci: "Non so perché è crollato", di Marco Mensurati e Fabio Tonacci; Ponte Morandi, gli sfollati a casa per recuperare gli oggetti della vita, di Maurizio Maggiani.

L'inchiesta dell'Espresso e l'audio di Virginia Raggi in cui la sindaca di Roma chiede all'Ama di chiudere il bilancio in rosso e ammette che la città è fuori controllo. Il fallimento nella gestione dei rifiuti e nei trasporti. La vicenda dello stadio della Roma.

Tav si, Tav no: Toninelli licenzia il sì Tav. Ira di Salvini: "Basta rinvii", di Maria Chiara Giacosa; Tav, Coppola: "Cacciato ma di quella linea non mi occupo da mesi", di Paolo Griseri; Perché la Tav è uno spreco, di Gad Lerner; Tav, lo spreco sarebbe fermarla, di Paolo Griseri; Tav, la mozione bluff del M5S e il rovello Pd: che fare in aula?, di Emanuele Lauria; Pd, Delrio: "Sulla Tav non faremo tatticismi. Saremo in aula contro il M5S", di Giovanna Casadio.