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For millennia, urban centers were pivots of power and trade that ruled and linked rural majorities. After 1950, explosive urbanization led to unprecedented urban majorities around the world. That transformation--inextricably tied to rising globalization--changed almost everything for nearly everybody: production, politics, and daily lives. In this book, seven eminent scholars look at the similar but nevertheless divergent courses taken by Mexico City,...
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In the constant deluge of media coverage on Islam, Muslims are often portrayed as terrorists, refugees, radicals, or victims, depictions that erode human responses of concern, connection, or even a willingness to learn about Muslims. On Islam helps break this cycle with information and strategies to understand and report the modern Muslim experience. Journalists, activists, bloggers, and scholars offer insights into how Muslims are represented in...
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From the southern influence on nineteenth-century New York to the musical legacy of late-twentieth-century Athens, Georgia, to the cutting-edge cuisines of twenty-first-century Asheville, North Carolina, the bohemian South has long contested traditional views of the region. Yet, even as the fruits of this creative South have famously been celebrated, exported, and expropriated, the region long was labeled a cultural backwater. This timely and illuminating...
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""Book Title of the Year," as selected for Curbed.com's Architecture in 2015: A Year in Review" Nicholas Dagen Bloom is professor of urban policy and planning at Hunter College, City University of New York. His books include Public Housing That Worked: New York in the Twentieth Century. Matthew Gordon Lasner is associate professor of urban studies and planning at Hunter College, City University of New York. He is the author of High Life: Condo Living...
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Labor in the Time of Trump critically analyzes the right-wing attack on workers and unions and offers strategies to build a working-class movement.
While President Trump's election in 2016 may have been a wakeup call for labor and the Left, the underlying processes behind this shift to the right have been building for at least forty years. The contributors show that only by analyzing the vulnerabilities in the right-wing strategy can the labor...
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More than a decade after the New York Times bestselling anthology The Bitch in the House spoke up loud and clear for a generation of young women, nine of the original contributors are back-along with sixteen captivating new voices-sharing their ruminations from an older, stronger, and wiser perspective about love, sex, work, family, independence, body image, health, and aging: the critical flash points of women's lives today
"Born out of anger,"...
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The New Urban World Journal was started by the International Society of Urban Mission and is now published semi annually by the Urban Shalom Society. This edition is the second part of our series on the City We Need. Inspired by the United Nations' Habitat 3 and the New Urban Agenda, the journal explores themes related to creating city spaces where all can thrive and flourish. Articles include what a safe city looks like; the connection between shalom...
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The South often seems like a foreign country to newcomers from other parts of the United States. And for people from other countries, Southern customs and lifestyle can be even more bewildering. For anyone who has ever wondered why the style of conducting business in the South is different or why some Southerners are still fighting the Civil War, this book will be a valuable guide. The informative and entertaining essays will help new Southerners...
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The world was shocked in April 2013 when more than 1100 garment workers lost their lives in the collapse of the Rana Plaza factory complex in Dhaka. It was the worst industrial tragedy in the two-hundred-year history of mass apparel manufacture. This so-called accident was, in fact, just waiting to happen, and not merely because of the corruption and exploitation of workers so common in the garment industry. In Achieving Workers' Rights in the Global...
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In recent years, the food question has been a central concern for politicians, economists, international organizations, activists and NGOs alike, as well as social scientists at large. This interest has emerged from the global food crisis and its impact on the environment and the political economy and security of the global south, as well as the expansion of scholarly studies relating food issues to agrarian questions with the objective of developing...
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Extrait: "Dans tous les temps de ma vie, la jeunesse a été pour moi un objet d'études; je l'observais déjà même alors que je figurais dans ses rangs, et que je me livrais, avec mes émules, aux distractions et aux plaisirs de notre âge. Je me rappellerai toujours ma surprise en voyant des pères de famille envoyer chaque année leurs fils dans cette grande capitale o souvent ils se trouvaient abandonnés à eux-mêmes sans appui, sans conseil...
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Extrait : "Il existerait une immense lacune dans cette immense galerie de portraits, o figurent tous les types qui particularisent les diverses classes de la société française, si nous omettions d'y comprendre celui qui les embrasse et les reflète tous, celui du détenu, autrement dit de l'habitué de nos prisons et de nos bagnes."
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Authors from across Europe consider the diverse theoretical and conceptual issues in understanding ageing in late modern society with an emphasis on active ageing. Integrated approaches are, emphasized, without privilege one theoretical conception above others. The examples used will act as examples of positive contributions to ageing, even when, physical and cognitive frailty looms large
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Extrait : "Un ouvrage o l'on se proposait de peindre les mœurs des Français au dix-neuvième siècle ne devait point se borner à les considérer dans leurs divers états. Les modèles, toujours pris à Paris, n'auraient représenté que Paris au lieu de la France, et auraient achevé d'accorder à la capitale une prépondérance qui, Dieu merci, n'a rien encore de si bien établi."
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Cybercafés play a key role in providing internet access to developing countries. This paper examines the challenges of internet connectivity in rural and remote areas and how cybercafés now serve as a model behind government efforts to set up telecenters to extend internet connectivity to rural communities. Find out why telecenters remain popular as highlighted in two case studies: a government run initiative in the Philippines and a public-private...
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Extrait: "De toutes les professions calomniées, celle-ci est la plus calomniée, la plus méconnue. Ceux qui en parlent, l'outrage à la bouche, sont presque tous des trembleurs, des vanités froissées, des grands hommes ignorés, des gloires bâtardes ; ils se vengent, avec de petites morsures obscures, des grands coups de pied qu'ils ont reçus à la face du ciel."
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Extrait: "On a dit avec raison que la Statistique est l'arsenal des sciences économiques. Elles lui empruntent, en effet, tous leurs arguments: il n'est pas un fait social ou politique de quelque importance qui puisse être démontré sans le secours des documents qu'elle fournit. Toutefois la relation intime de l'Économie et de la Statistique est fondée sur le besoin qu'elles ont mutuellement l'une de l'autre."
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This book is the result of two historic events that took place in Quito, Ecuador during October 2016. The first was the Gospel and the Future of Cities Summit at which a contingent of Kingdom focused urban leaders gathered to explore what the gospel has to say to the development of cities globally. The participants then formed a delegation to the United Nation's Habitat III conference, joining with 45,000 city leaders, academics, NGOs and others from...
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Extrait: "C'est la nature des lieux et du climat qui détermine l'histoire des nations. Élevons-nous par la pensée à une hauteur d'o nous puissions embrasser d'un coup d'œil la France entière, et nous verrons que la place qu'elle occupe au centre de l'Europe, entre l'Espagne et la Hollande, l'Angleterre et l'Allemagne, l'appelait à être le théâtre des plus grands événements."
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Extrait: "Il faut bien toujours que les écrivains d'une époque rendent au public ce que le public leur a prêté, et l'écrivain n'est jamais si heureux et si populaire que lorsque le public lui a beaucoup demandé, et lorsqu'il lui a beaucoup rendu. Plus ses emprunts sont nombreux, et plus il est lui-même un homme de génie."
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