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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • One of the most acclaimed books of our time, this modern classic “has set a new standard for reporting on poverty” (Barbara Ehrenreich, The New York Times Book Review).
In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur “Genius” Matthew...
In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur “Genius” Matthew...
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After her best friend dies, Hannah Russell becomes the guardian of five-year-old Noah. Realizing they need time to get to know each other, Hannah rents a country house in rural Colorado. The home's handsome owner, Owen Abrams, promises to stay out of their way, but that plan is upended after Noah bonds with his dog. While Hannah learns to be a mother, Owen, who is also grieving, is drawn out of his solitude by his guests. But as life throws more...
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"Richard Rothstein explodes the myth that America's cities came to be racially divided through de facto segregation -- that is, through individual prejudices, income differences, or the actions of private institutions like banks and real estate agencies. Rather, The Color of Law incontrovertibly makes it clear that it was de jure segregation -- the laws and policy decisions passed by local, state, and federal governments -- that actually promoted...
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From the New York Times bestselling creator of the Vanderbeekers series comes a triumphant tale of friendship, healing, and the power of believing in ourselves told from the perspective of biracial sixth-graders June and Tyrell, two children living in a homeless shelter. As their friendship grows over a shared love of classical music, June and Tyrell confront a new housing policy that puts homeless families in danger.It's June's first day at Huey...
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"Bennett Driscoll is a Turner Prize-nominated artist who was once a rising star. Now, at age fifty-five, his wife has left him, he hasn't sold a painting in two years, and his gallery wants to stop selling his work, claiming they'll have more value retrospectively...when he's dead. So, left with a large West London home and no income, he's forced to move into his artist's studio in the back garden and list his house on the popular vacation rental...
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When a storm comes, Rover expects to have his doghouse all to himself but finds that various other animals, including a skunk, come to join him. It's raining cats and dogs! Good thing Rover is snuggled safe and dry inside his doghouse--until, one by one,a soggy menagerie of creatures shows up looking for a cozy place to sit out the storm. But who's the very unwelcome surprise visitor? Skunk, of course. Suddenly that doghouse isn't quite so crowded...
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"Over the past century, American demographics and social norms have shifted dramatically. If trends continue, we should expect to see more people living alone, later-in-life marriages, fewer (and smaller) new families, and a majority-minority population that skews older and older. Americans' daily life and preferences have also changed, whether by choice or by force, to become more virtual, more mobile, and less stable. But housing today largely looks...
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"New York Times bestselling author Tatiana de Rosnay's Flowers of Darkness explores how artificial intelligence tampers with love, sex, and the basis of artistic creation in a new future Paris. CASA is a brand new artist residency in an ultra-modern apartment, with a view of all of Paris. A dream for any novelist in search of tranquility. But is this residency a dream or a nightmare? Since moving in, Clarissa Katsef has had ominous discomfort, the...
13) Wellness by design: a room-by-room guide to optimizing your home for health, fitness, and happiness
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"A room-by-room guide on designing your home for maximum wellness, whether you're building it from scratch or decorating your new rental"--
14) The last guests
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When newlyweds rent out their seldom used lakeside house to strangers, things take a sudden deadly turn.
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Joining the ranks of Evicted, The Warmth of Other Sons, and classic works of literary non-fiction by Alex Kotlowitz and J. Anthony Lukas, High-Risers braids personal narratives, city politics, and national history to tell the timely and epic story of Chicago's Cabrini-Green, America's most iconic public housing project.
Built in the 1940s atop an infamous Italian slum, Cabrini-Green grew to twenty-three towers and a population of 20,000-all of it...
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La historiadora Trinidad Simó visita de nuevo el Cabanyal, 40 años después de dedicarle en su tesis doctoral el apartado «El modernismo valenciano popular». Tal y como hizo en los años 70, en este recorrido la acompaña el fotógrafo Francesc Jarque. A través del texto y las imágenes, el volumen pretende dejar constancia de cómo está el barrio en la actualidad, teniendo en cuenta todos los cambios producidos en 40 años. Sin duda el barrio...
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Este libro es el resultado de investigación del proyecto "Feminización de la migración venezolana en Colombia: análisis regional con enfoque de derechos humanos, 2014-2018". Presenta una serie de reflexiones en torno al rol de la mujer dentro de la dinámica de los procesos de movilidad humana provenientes de Venezuela. En este texto los investigadores se concentran en analizar la doble situación de vulnerabilidad de las mujeres migrantes, toda...
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Este libro tiene como punto de partida el examen de algunos documentos elaborado en el ámbito del derecho internacional de los derechos humanos, para después viajar a través de diferentes espacios conceptuales como la filosofía del derecho, la bioética, la biopolítica y la filosofía de la biología, de los que se tomaron algunos conceptos apropiados para formular una explicación de los fundamentos del derecho humano al agua. Así, la obra...
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El Infonavit es una institución del Estado mexicano enfocada en proveer bienestar social a través de la dotación de vivienda para el trabajador mexicano. Sin embargo, desde los años ochenta, esta institución ha experimentado reformas y transformaciones importantes ante el cambio del modelo económico, de tal manera que su actividad ahora prioriza la participación en el mercado financiero, relegando la función social por la cual fue concebida.
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