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Baseball in the Middle of Everywhere
Written by Lucas Mann
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $26.95
An unforgettable chronicle of a year of minor-league baseball in a small Iowa town that follows not only the travails of the players of the Clinton LumberKings but also the lives of their dedicated fans and of the town itself.
Award-winning essayist Lucas Mann delivers a powerful debut in his telling of the...
Baseball in the Middle of Everywhere
Written by Lucas Mann
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $13.99
An unforgettable chronicle of a year of minor-league baseball in a small Iowa town that follows not only the travails of the players of the Clinton LumberKings but also the lives of their dedicated fans and of the town itself.
Award-winning essayist Lucas Mann delivers a powerful debut in his telling of the...
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Fear, Prejudice, and Real Estate
Written by Lisa Prevost
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $25.95
An exploration of the corrosive effects of overpriced housing, exclusionary zoning, and the flight of the younger population in the Northeast
Towns with strict zoning are the best towns, aren't they? They're all about preserving local "character," protecting the natural environment, an dmaintaining attractive neighborhoods. Right?
In this bold challenge to conventional wisdom...
Fear, Prejudice, and Real Estate
Written by Lisa Prevost
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $25.95
An exploration of the corrosive effects of overpriced housing, exclusionary zoning, and the flight of the younger population in the Northeast
Towns with strict zoning are the best towns, aren't they? They're all about preserving local "character," protecting the natural environment, an dmaintaining attractive neighborhoods. Right?
In this bold challenge to conventional wisdom...
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Written by Thomas Bender
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 24, 2013
Price: $19.99
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The 12 Days of Disaster That Gave Birth to Modern Chicago
Written by Gary Krist
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $14.95
The masterfully told story of twelve volatile days in Chicago, when an aviation disaster, a race riot, a crippling transit strike, and a sensational child murder transfixed and roiled a city already on the brink of collapse.
When 1919 began, the city of Chicago seemed on the verge of transformation. Modernizers had... Read more >
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Rights, Responsibilities, and the Communitarian Agenda
Written by Dr. Amitai Etzioni
Format: eBook, 323 pages
On Sale: April 3, 2013
Price: $9.99
America needs to move from me to we.
In The Spirit of Community, renowned professor and former White House Fellow Amitai Etzioni, the founder of the Communitarian movement, lays out a blueprint for how in the 1990s Americans can move forward—together.
The Spirit of Community calls for a reawakening of our allegiance to... Read more >
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An E.R. Doctor Returns Home
Written by Sampson Davis and Lisa Frazier Page
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $25.00
A riveting personal exploration of the healthcare crisis facing inner-city communities, written by an emergency room physician who grew up in the very neighborhood he is now serving
Sampson Davis is best known as one of three friends from inner-city Newark who made a pact in high school to become...
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An E.R. Doctor Returns Home
Written by Sampson Davis and Lisa Frazier Page
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $12.99
A riveting personal exploration of the healthcare crisis facing inner-city communities, written by an emergency room physician who grew up in the very neighborhood he is now serving
Sampson Davis is best known as one of three friends from inner-city Newark who made a pact in high school to become...
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Written by Alan Ehrenhalt
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $16.95
Eye-opening and thoroughly engaging, this is an indispensible look at American urban/suburban society and its future.
In The Great Inversion, Alan Ehrenhalt, one of our leading urbanologists, reveals how the roles of America’s cities and suburbs are changing places—young adults and affluent retirees moving in, while immigrants and the less affluent are...
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What Gangs Taught Me about Violence, Drugs, Love, and Redemption
Written by Jorja Leap
Format: Trade Paperback
On Sale: January 8, 2013
Price: $16.00
When Jorja Leap began studying Los Angeles gang violence in 2002, she encountered a myriad of proposed solutions to the seemingly intractable “gang problem” and set out to discover what was really going on. The stakes—then and now—could not be higher: a child or teenager is killed by gunfire every three...
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At Work and at Play
Written by David Nasaw
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2012
Price: $15.95
This classic title, which was the inspiration for the story behind the new musical Newsies, paints a surprising and indelible portrait of the bitter hardships, amazing resourcefulness, and unadulterated joys experienced by immigrant children in American metropolises at the turn of the century.
The turn of the century was a time of explosive growth for... Read more >
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Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America
Written by Jonathan Kozol
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: August 28, 2012
Price: $27.00
In this powerful and culminating work about a group of inner-city children he has known for many years, Jonathan Kozol returns to the scene of his prize-winning books Rachel and Her Children and Amazing Grace, and to the children he has vividly portrayed, to share with us their fascinating journeys and...
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Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America
Written by Jonathan Kozol
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: August 28, 2012
Price: $13.99
In this powerful and culminating work about a group of inner-city children he has known for many years, Jonathan Kozol returns to the scene of his prize-winning books Rachel and Her Children and Amazing Grace, and to the children he has vividly portrayed, to share with us their fascinating journeys and...
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Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America
Written by Jonathan Kozol
Read by Keythe Farley
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: August 28, 2012
Price: $40.00
In this powerful and culminating work about a group of inner-city children he has known for many years, Jonathan Kozol returns to the scene of his prize-winning books Rachel and Her Children and Amazing Grace, and to the children he has vividly portrayed, to share with us their fascinating journeys and...
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Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America
Written by Jonathan Kozol
Read by Keythe Farley
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: August 28, 2012
Price: $22.50
In this powerful and culminating work about a group of inner-city children he has known for many years, Jonathan Kozol returns to the scene of his prize-winning books Rachel and Her Children and Amazing Grace, and to the children he has vividly portrayed, to share with us their fascinating journeys and...
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The Life and Lessons of a City Builder
Written by Ken Greenberg
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: August 7, 2012
Price: $21.00
One of the world's foremost urban designers shares his passion and methods for rejuvenating neglected cities and argues passionately for the importance and possibilities of their renewal.
From a youth spent in the boroughs of New York City and other great cities of the world, to his beginnings as an architect in... Read more >
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Children in the Years of Hope
Written by Jonathan Kozol
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: July 24, 2012
Price: $16.00
Jonathan Kozol's books have become touchstones of the American conscience. In Ordinary Resurrections, he spends four years in the South Bronx with children who have become his friends at a badly underfunded but enlightened public school. A fascinating narrative of daily urban life, Ordinary Resurrections gives a human face to...
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Children in America's Schools
Written by Jonathan Kozol
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: July 24, 2012
Price: $15.00
For two years, beginning in 1988, Jonathan Kozol visited schools in neighborhoods across the country, from Illinois to Washington D.C., and from New York to San Antonio. He spoke with teachers, principals, superintendents, and, most important, children. What he found was devastating. Not only were schools for rich and poor blatantly... Read more >
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Children in America's Schools
Written by Jonathan Kozol
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: July 24, 2012
Price: $11.99
For two years, beginning in 1988, Jonathan Kozol visited schools in neighborhoods across the country, from Illinois to Washington D.C., and from New York to San Antonio. He spoke with teachers, principals, superintendents, and, most important, children. What he found was devastating. Not only were schools for rich and poor blatantly... Read more >
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The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation
Written by Jonathan Kozol
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: June 26, 2012
Price: $15.00
Amazing Grace is Jonathan Kozol’s classic book on life and death in the South Bronx—the poorest urban neighborhood of the United States. He brings us into overcrowded schools, dysfunctional hospitals, and rat-infested homes where families have been ravaged by depression and anxiety, drug-related violence, and the spread of AIDS. But he...
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The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation
Written by Jonathan Kozol
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: June 26, 2012
Price: $11.99
The author of Savage Inequalities, a New York Times best-seller, and Rachel and Her Children, winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, tells the stories of a handful of children who have--through the love and support of their families and dedicated community leaders--not yet lost their battle with the perils... Read more >
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At Work and at Play
Written by David Nasaw
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: May 16, 2012
Price: $11.99
This classic title, which was the inspiration for the story behind the new musical Newsies, paints a surprising and indelible portrait of the bitter hardships, amazing resourcefulness, and unadulterated joys experienced by immigrant children in American metropolises at the turn of the century.
The turn of the century was a time of explosive growth for... Read more >
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Written by Gwendolyn Wright
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: May 9, 2012
Price: $19.99
For Gwendolyn Wright, the houses of America are the diaries of the American people. They create a fascinating chronicle of the way we have lived, and a reflection of every political, economic, or social issue we have been concerned with. Why did plantation owners build uniform cabins for their slaves? Why were... Read more >
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Written by Alan Ehrenhalt
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: April 24, 2012
Price: $12.99
In The Great Inversion and the Future of the American City we travel the nation with Alan Ehrenhalt, one of our leading urbanists, as he explains how America’s cities are changing, what makes them succeed or fail, and what this means for our future.
Just a couple of decades ago, we...
