Author : Nicole Stelle Garnett
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 23,59 MB
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 0300155050
This work highlights the multiple, often overlooked, and frequently misunderstood connections between land use and development policies and policing practices. In order to do so the book draws upon multiple literatures as well as concrete case studies to better explore how these policy arenas intersect and conflict.
Author : China Miéville
Publisher : Del Rey
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 38,84 MB
Release : 2009-05-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0345515668
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE LOS ANGELES TIMES, THE SEATTLE TIMES, AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY. When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to be a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlú of the Extreme Crime Squad. To investigate, Borlú must travel from the decaying Beszel to its equal, rival, and intimate neighbor, the vibrant city of Ul Qoma. But this is a border crossing like no other, a journey as psychic as it is physical, a seeing of the unseen. With Ul Qoman detective Qussim Dhatt, Borlú is enmeshed in a sordid underworld of nationalists intent on destroying their neighboring city, and unificationists who dream of dissolving the two into one. As the detectives uncover the dead woman’s secrets, they begin to suspect a truth that could cost them more than their lives. What stands against them are murderous powers in Beszel and in Ul Qoma: and, most terrifying of all, that which lies between these two cities. BONUS: This edition contains a The City & The City discussion guide and excerpts from China Miéville's Kraken and Embassytown.
Author : Elizabeth Gilbert
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 35,8 MB
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0698408322
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! From the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love and The Signature of All Things, a delicious novel of glamour, sex, and adventure, about a young woman discovering that you don't have to be a good girl to be a good person. "A spellbinding novel about love, freedom, and finding your own happiness." - PopSugar "Intimate and richly sensual, razzle-dazzle with a hint of danger." -USA Today "Pairs well with a cocktail...or two." -TheSkimm "Life is both fleeting and dangerous, and there is no point in denying yourself pleasure, or being anything other than what you are." Beloved author Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction with a unique love story set in the New York City theater world during the 1940s. Told from the perspective of an older woman as she looks back on her youth with both pleasure and regret (but mostly pleasure), City of Girls explores themes of female sexuality and promiscuity, as well as the idiosyncrasies of true love. In 1940, nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris has just been kicked out of Vassar College, owing to her lackluster freshman-year performance. Her affluent parents send her to Manhattan to live with her Aunt Peg, who owns a flamboyant, crumbling midtown theater called the Lily Playhouse. There Vivian is introduced to an entire cosmos of unconventional and charismatic characters, from the fun-chasing showgirls to a sexy male actor, a grand-dame actress, a lady-killer writer, and no-nonsense stage manager. But when Vivian makes a personal mistake that results in professional scandal, it turns her new world upside down in ways that it will take her years to fully understand. Ultimately, though, it leads her to a new understanding of the kind of life she craves - and the kind of freedom it takes to pursue it. It will also lead to the love of her life, a love that stands out from all the rest. Now eighty-nine years old and telling her story at last, Vivian recalls how the events of those years altered the course of her life - and the gusto and autonomy with which she approached it. "At some point in a woman's life, she just gets tired of being ashamed all the time," she muses. "After that, she is free to become whoever she truly is." Written with a powerful wisdom about human desire and connection, City of Girls is a love story like no other.
Author : Stroom Den Haag (The Netherlands)
Publisher : Nai010 Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,25 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : 9789056628543
Seventy-five percent of them will be living in cities.
Author : Ian Whates
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,34 MB
Release : 2011-03-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0857660888
A SECOND VISIT TO THAIBURLEY: THE CITY OF DREAMS, THE FABLED CITY OF A HUNDRED ROWS. Dark forces are gathering in the shadowy depths, and the whole city is under threat. The former street-nick, Tom, embarks on a journey to discover the source of the great river Thair, said to be the ultimate power behind all of Thaiburley. Accompanying him are the assassin Dewar and the young Thaistess Mildra. It soon becomes evident that their journey has more significance than any of them realise, as past secrets catch up with them and unknown adversaries hunt them... to the death! File Under: Fantasy [ Towering City | Ancient Secrets | Assassins & Gods | Soul Thief! ]
Author : Nicole Stelle Garnett
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,46 MB
Release : 2005
Category :
ISBN :
Over the past two decades, the "broken windows" hypothesis by George Kelling and James Q. Wilson has revolutionized thinking about urban policy. This now-familiar theory is that uncorrected manifestations of disorder, even minor ones like broken windows, signal a breakdown in the social order that accelerates neighborhood decline. The response to this theory has been a proliferation of policies focusing on public order. Largely missing from the academic debate about these developments is a discussion of the complex and important role of property regulation in order-maintenance efforts. This Article attempts to fill that property law gap in the public-order puzzle by tackling the complicated relationship between property regulation and order-restoration efforts.
Author : Michael Boudreau
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 40,50 MB
Release : 2012-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0774822074
Interwar Halifax was a city in flux, a place where citizens debated adopting new ideas and technologies but agreed on one thing – modernity was corrupting public morality and unleashing untold social problems on their fair city. In this context, citizens, policy makers, and officials turned to the criminal justice system to create a bulwark against further social dislocation. Officials modernized the city’s machinery of order – courts, prisons, and the police force – and placed greater emphasis on crime control, while residents supported tough-on-crime measures and attached little importance to rehabilitation. These initiatives gave birth to a constructed vision of a criminal class that singled out ethnic minorities, working-class men, and female and juvenile offenders as problem figures in the eternal quest for order. Michael Boudreau’s in-depth study of crime and culture in interwar Halifax, the first of its kind, shows how tough-on-crime measures can compound, rather than resolve, social inequalities and dislocations.
Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 830 pages
File Size : 41,97 MB
Release : 2022-06-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3375047967
Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.
Author : Juanita De Barros
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 10,9 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780773524552
The poor saw these public places as sites of play and livelihood. De Barros shows how these opposing views set the stage for a series of petty disputes and large-scale riots. By uncovering the popular cultural patterns that underlay much of this unrest, De Barros demonstrates both their place within a larger West Indian cultural paradigm and the emergence of a peculiarly Guianese ritual of protest."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Apostle Frederick E. Franklin
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 19,34 MB
Release : 2013-10-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1491829214
This is the (33nd) thirty-second Book which we, F & S F Ministry for JESUS, have written. All of the books that we have written was a result of God giving us revelation (prophecy, words of knowledge and words of wisdom). After God would give us this revelation, He would tell us to write a book of it and reveal it to the world. This Book, New York City Becomes The Capital Of The New World Order, has likewise, been written after revelation from God and by direction from God to write it and reveal it to the world. In this Book we provide you with the prophecies that God gave us on December 2, 1999, with revelation that He has given us in the past. This provides a clear picture of the establishment of the New World Order and the dismantling of the New World Order. This is a very important Book. We are sure that your eyes will be opened to the future like never before. We show New York Citys role in New World Order. We show the United States role in the New World Order. We provide you with the name of the most important people in the New World Order. Much, very much more, we provide.
