Urban Nonfiction
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48 Laws of Power
- By: Robert Greene
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
- Length: 23 hrs and 6 mins
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Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills 3,000 years of the history of power into 48 well-explicated laws. This bold volume outlines the laws of power in their unvarnished essence, synthesizing the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, Carl von Clausewitz, and other infamous strategists. The 48 Laws of Power will fascinate any listener interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control.
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You don't have to be a psychopath to like this.
- By Gaggleframpf on 02-25-16
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48 Laws of Power
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
- Length: 23 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 05-01-15
- Language: English
- Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills 3,000 years of the history of power into 48 well-explicated laws....
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Not in My Neighborhood
- How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City
- By: Antero Pietila
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
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Baltimore is the setting for (and typifies) one of the most penetrating examinations of bigotry and residential segregation ever published in the United States. Antero Pietila shows how continued discrimination practices toward African Americans and Jews have shaped the cities in which we now live. Eugenics, racial thinking, and white supremacist attitudes influenced even the federal government's actions toward housing in the 20th century, dooming American cities to ghettoization.
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Interesting view of my hometown but...
- By Talmidah on 03-20-21
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Not in My Neighborhood
- How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 11-11-20
- Language: English
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Baltimore is the setting for (and typifies) one of the most penetrating examinations of bigotry and residential segregation ever published in the United States. Antero Pietila shows how continued discrimination practices toward African Americans and Jews have shaped cities....
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The Devil in the White City
- Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
- By: Erik Larson
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins
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Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America’s rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fair’s brilliant director of works and the builder of many of the country’s most important structures, including the Flatiron Building in New York and Union Station in Washington, D.C. The murderer was Henry H. Holmes, a young doctor who, in a malign parody of the White City, built his “World’s Fair Hotel” just west of the fairgrounds.
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A Rich Read!
- By D on 09-18-03
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The Devil in the White City
- Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 12-29-02
- Language: English
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The true tale of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago and the cunning serial killer who used the magic and majesty of the fair to lure his victims to their death....
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How to Kill a City
- Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood
- By: Peter Moskowitz
- Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
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The term gentrification has become a buzzword to describe the changes in urban neighborhoods across the country, but we don't realize just how threatening it is. It means more than the arrival of trendy shops, much-maligned hipsters, and expensive lattes. The very future of American cities as vibrant, equitable spaces hangs in the balance. How to Kill a City takes listeners from the kitchen tables of hurting families who can no longer afford their homes to the corporate boardrooms and political backrooms where destructive housing policies are devised.
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Unproductive criticism.
- By Aaron Rogers on 06-01-18
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How to Kill a City
- Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood
- Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 12-05-17
- Language: English
- "Gentrification" has become a buzzword to describe changes in urban neighborhoods across the country, but we don't realize just how threatening it is. It means more than the arrival of trendy shops....
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The Willie Lynch Letter and the Making of a Slave
- By: Willie Lynch
- Narrated by: Willie Lynch
- Length: 25 mins
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The Willie Lynch Letter and the Making of a Slave by Willie Lynch.
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Proud of who I am
- By Regina Byrd on 02-13-22
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The Willie Lynch Letter and the Making of a Slave
- Narrated by: Willie Lynch
- Length: 25 mins
- Release date: 04-15-20
- Language: English
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The Willie Lynch Letter and the Making of a Slave by Willie Lynch....
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Planet of Slums
- By: Mike Davis
- Narrated by: Mike Lenz
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
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From the sprawling barricadas of Lima to the garbage hills of Manila, urbanization has been disconnected from industrialization, even economic growth. Davis portrays a vast humanity warehoused in shantytowns and exiled from the formal world economy. He argues that the rise of this informal urban proletariat is a wholly original development unforeseen by either classical Marxism or neoliberal theory. Are the great slums, as a terrified Victorian middle class once imagined, volcanoes waiting to erupt?
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A little dated ring when was originally published
- By Terence A. Dodge on 07-05-22
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Planet of Slums
- Narrated by: Mike Lenz
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 06-23-20
- Language: English
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The classic, brilliant, best-selling account of the rise of the world's slums, where, according to the United Nations, one billion people now live....
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Vanishing New York
- How a Great City Lost Its Soul
- By: Jeremiah Moss
- Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
- Length: 15 hrs and 16 mins
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New York City has long been a destination for rebels and rule breakers, artists, writers, and other hopefuls longing to be part of its rich cultural exchange and unique social fabric. But today, modern gentrification is transforming the city from an exceptional, iconoclastic metropolis into a suburbanized luxury zone. Blogger and cultural commentator Jeremiah Moss leads us on a colorful guided tour of the most changed parts of town lovingly eulogizing iconic institutions as they're replaced with soulless upscale boutiques, luxury condo towers, and suburban chains.
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A compelling story, but the narration???
- By S. McGee on 11-30-17
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Vanishing New York
- How a Great City Lost Its Soul
- Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
- Length: 15 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 11-28-17
- Language: English
- An unflinching portrait of gentrification in the 21st century, and a love letter to lost New York, by the creator of the popular and incendiary blog Vanishing New York....
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Detroit: I Do Mind Dying
- A Study in Urban Revolution
- By: Dan Georgakas, Marvin Surkin
- Narrated by: Brian Jones, David Sadzin, Allyson Johnson
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
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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.
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Important labor, organizing, & Detroit history
- By L.A. on 08-12-20
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Detroit: I Do Mind Dying
- A Study in Urban Revolution
- Narrated by: Brian Jones, David Sadzin, Allyson Johnson
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 02-25-20
- Language: English
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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....
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Uneasy Peace
- The Great Crime Decline, the Renewal of City Life, and the Next War on Violence
- By: Patrick Sharkey
- Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan
- Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
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Beginning in the mid-1990s, American cities experienced an astonishing drop in violent crime. By 2014, the United States was safer than it had been in 60 years. Sociologist Patrick Sharkey gathered data from across the country to understand why this happened. Sharkey puts forth an entirely new approach to confronting violence and urban poverty. At a time when inequality, complacency, and conflict all threaten a new rise in violent crime, and the old methods of policing are unacceptable, the ideas in this book are indispensable.
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A New Way Forward
- By DNA989 on 01-09-23
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Uneasy Peace
- The Great Crime Decline, the Renewal of City Life, and the Next War on Violence
- Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan
- Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 01-16-18
- Language: English
- Beginning in the mid-1990s, American cities experienced an astonishing drop in violent crime. By 2014, the United States was safer than it had been in 60 years....
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Regulating the Poor
- The Functions of Public Welfare
- By: Cloward Fox Piven
- Narrated by: Karen Chilton
- Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
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Piven and Cloward have updated their classic work on the history and function of welfare to cover the American welfare state's massive erosion during the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton years. The authors present a boldly comprehensive, brilliant new theory to explain the comparative underdevelopment of the US welfare state among advanced industrial nations. Their conceptual framework promises to shape the debate within current and future administrations as they attempt to rethink the welfare system and its role in American society.
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Regulating the Poor
- By Anonymous User on 07-12-21
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Regulating the Poor
- The Functions of Public Welfare
- Narrated by: Karen Chilton
- Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 01-06-21
- Language: English
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Piven and Cloward have updated their classic work on the history and function of welfare to cover the American welfare state's massive erosion during the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton years....
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Evading & Escaping Capture
- Urban Escape and Evasion Techniques for Civilians
- By: Sam Fury
- Narrated by: Oliver Smith
- Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins
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Teach yourself escape and evasion tactics! Whether you're a high-profile individual, a tourist, or a random target for an opportunistic criminal, there's a chance you'll be taken. This book is packed with covert military and spy escape techniques adapted for the average person. Learn how to bolster your home security, create a covert escape and survival kit, track a missing person, disappear permanently, escape from restraints, endure captivity until you escape or are rescued, survive a car chase, evade guard dogs, and more. You never know when they will save your life.
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Evading & Escaping Capture
- Urban Escape and Evasion Techniques for Civilians
- Narrated by: Oliver Smith
- Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 03-18-22
- Language: English
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Teach yourself escape and evasion tactics! Whether you're a high-profile individual, a tourist, or a random target for an opportunistic criminal, there's a chance you'll be taken. This book is packed with covert military and spy escape techniques adapted for the average person....
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How to Leave
- Quitting the City and Coping with a New Reality
- By: Erin Clune
- Narrated by: Erin Clune
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
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In this uproarious memoir/tongue-in-cheek guide to leaving the cool city in which you "found" yourself and moving somewhere far more ordinary, author Erin Clune regales listeners with priceless stories of her own experiences leaving New York for her hometown in Wisconsin and provides a jocular but useful guide - for anyone leaving, or thinking about leaving, their own personal mecca - to finding contentment while staying true to yourself in a place far, far away from The City.
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How to Leave
- Quitting the City and Coping with a New Reality
- Narrated by: Erin Clune
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 11-20-18
- Language: English
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Author Erin Clune regales listeners with priceless stories of her own experiences leaving New York for her hometown in Wisconsin in this uproarious memoir/tongue-in-cheek guide to leaving the cool city in which you "found" yourself and moving somewhere far more ordinary....
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Busted
- A Tale of Corruption and Betrayal in the City of Brotherly Love
- By: Wendy Ruderman, Barbara Laker
- Narrated by: Rachel Fulginiti
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
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The remarkable lengths Ruderman and Laker go to for the story - chasing down witnesses on the city's grimmest streets, sifting through archive boxes and hours of surveillance tape for crucial clues, and coaxing reluctant victims to come forward - put their determination to balance motherhood with the career they love to the ultimate test.
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Not for me
- By B Hart on 02-22-15
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Busted
- A Tale of Corruption and Betrayal in the City of Brotherly Love
- Narrated by: Rachel Fulginiti
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 11-18-14
- Language: English
- Busted is Ruderman and Laker's riveting account of their explosive investigation into the acts committed by rogue members of the narcotics squad....
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Better to Have Gone
- Love, Death and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville
- By: Akash Kapur
- Narrated by: Vikas Adam
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
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It’s the late 1960s, and two lovers converge on an arid patch of earth in South India. John Walker is the handsome scion of a powerful East-Coast American family. Diane Maes is a beautiful hippie from Belgium. They have come to build a new world - Auroville, an international utopian community for thousands of people. Their faith is strong, the future bright.
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Better to Have Gone
- Love, Death and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville
- Narrated by: Vikas Adam
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 07-20-21
- Language: English
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A spellbinding story about love, faith, the search for utopia - and the often devastating cost of idealism....
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Urban, Suburban and Rural Regions in the USA
- American Culture for Kids - Communities Edition | 3rd Grade Social Studies
- By: Baby Professor
- Narrated by: Frank Block
- Length: 10 mins
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There are three types of communities in the USA - the urban, suburban, and the rural. This book will provide definitions and examples of each type of community. It will also discuss, although in summary, what the American culture is all about, and what differences can be seen in each type of community. In which of these communities do you belong?
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Urban, Suburban and Rural Regions in the USA
- American Culture for Kids - Communities Edition | 3rd Grade Social Studies
- Narrated by: Frank Block
- Length: 10 mins
- Release date: 09-28-21
- Language: English
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There are three types of communities in the USA - the urban, suburban, and the rural. This book will provide definitions and examples of each type of community....
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