Author : Ho-fung Hung
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 30,62 MB
Release : 2022-05-19
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
ISBN : 1108840337
A timely study of Hong Kong's politics and society since the 1997 handover that explores the city's long history of resistance.
Author : Michael Streissguth
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 27,11 MB
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1438479891
Why do people stay in a struggling city? City on the Edge explores this question through the lives of five people in Syracuse, New York, a quintessential rust-belt metropolis. Once a booming industrial center with a dynamic civic life and prominence on the world stage, Syracuse has endured decades of crime, drugs, economic depression, absent-minded political leadership, and population decline. Michael Streissguth spent more than three years interviewing a young survivor of the streets, a refugee from Cuba, an urban farmer, a community activist, and a city elder, who shared their stories as they found ways to make life work against sometimes formidable odds. He also contextualizes their extended commentary and storytelling with secondary characters and various episodes, such as a tragic Father's Day riot and the trial that followed. The result is an eye-opening look at life in America in the twenty-first century, where people strive to turn their ideas, frustrations, and disadvantages into new hope for themselves and the city where they live.
Author : Prof. Alejandro Portes
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 13,35 MB
Release : 1993-09-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520915541
Winner, 1995 American Sociological Association Robert E. Park Award? Projecting fantasies of wealth and excess, Miami, "America's Riviera," occupies a unique place in our national imagination. Uncovering the hidden story of this dreamlike place, Portes and Stepick explore the transformations of Miami from a light-hearted tourist resort to a troubled, complex city.
Author : David Swinson
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 43,4 MB
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0316528552
An American teen living abroad discovers the truth about himself and his family in this thrilling novel from "one of the best dialogue hounds in the business" (New York Times Book Review). 1972, Beirut, Lebanon. Young American Matthew lives with his father, a rising foreign service attache, and mother, in an exclusive community of ex-patriots. It is the summer Matthew becomes a teenager, falls in love, nearly dies, and watches his family, and the city, fall apart. It is in this world of Western schemers and local merchants, of hoodlums and politicians, that Matthew begins to solve the mystery of who his father really is, and what role he is really playing in the upheaval that is shaking the city loose of its old, civilized and way and ushering in a new and frightening radicalism. This is the story of a boy and a family, besieged. Intimate in scope and wrenching in its vision of lost innocence, City on the Edge is a mystery and spy story from the past, and a coming of age story for our time.
Author : Peter Lunenfeld
Publisher : Viking
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 16,37 MB
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 0525561935
"An engaging account of the uniquely creative spirit and bustling cultural ecology of contemporary Los Angeles ... [The author] weaves together the city's art, architecture, and design, juxtaposes its entertainment and literary histories, and moves from restaurant kitchens to recording studios to ultra-secret research and development labs. In the process, he reimagines Los Angeles as simultaneously an exemplar and cautionary tale for the 21st century"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Kate Bird
Publisher :
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 50,45 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781771643139
A collection of photographs documenting the moments Vancouver stood up, took to the streets, rallied for change, or exploded in anger.
Author : Joel Garreau
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 37,16 MB
Release : 2011-07-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0307801942
First there was downtown. Then there were suburbs. Then there were malls. Then Americans launched the most sweeping change in 100 years in how they live, work, and play. The Edge City.
Author : Harlan Ellison
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 11,28 MB
Release : 2012-06-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0575123540
The Original teleplay that became the classic Star Trek episode, with an expanded introductory essay by Harlan Ellison 'The City on the Edge of Forever' has been surrounded by controversy since the airing of an "eviscerated" version - which subsequently has been voted the most beloved episode in the series' history. In its original form, 'The City on the Edge of Forever' won the 1966-67 Writers Guild of America Award for best teleplay. As aired, it won the 1967 Hugo Award. 'The City on the Edge of Forever' is, at its most basic, a poignant love story. Ellison takes the reader on a breathtaking trip through space and time, from the future, all the way back to 1930s America. In this harrowing journey, Kirk and Spock race to apprehend a renegade criminal and restore the order of the universe. It is here that Kirk faces his ultimate dilemma: a choice between the universe - or his one true love. This edition makes available this astonishing teleplay as Ellison intended it to be aired. The author's introductory essay (expanded by 15,000 words from the limited edition) reveals all of the details of what Ellison describes as a "fatally inept treatment" of his creative work. Was he unjustly edited, unjustly accused, and unjustly treated?
Author :
Publisher : Borealis
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,63 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Science fiction
ISBN : 9781565049642
The controversy has raged for almost 30 years--now readers can judge for themselves. Harlan Ellison wrote the original award-winning teleplay for "The City on the Edge of Forever", which was rewritten and became the most-loved Star Trek episode of all time. Ellison sued Paramount in protest and one. This book contains the teleplay and afterwords by Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, George Takei and others.
Author : S. A. Bailey
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 756 pages
File Size : 48,88 MB
Release : 2017-05-31
Category :
ISBN : 9781545129968
For years, south Dallas has been ruled by a corrupt caste of politicians who espouse populist rhetoric. Growing fat and rich while their constituents wallow in crime and poverty. Jebediah Shaw never wanted to make the city his home. It had never been more than a place to rest between wars. And now, working in that dark area between government and private business, he's given an impossible task. To keep a man alive that everyone, including himself, has a reason to want dead while choosing sides in a Civil War no one even knows is happening. At the beginning of the end of the American empire, at the edge of what was and what will be, he knows in the end all a man has, all he has any control over, is his word and his work. He will do whatever it takes to complete his mission. Dallas, may never be the same.
