Urban Behavior

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Ch. Didier Gondola
Tropical Cowboys: Westerns, Violence, and Masculinity in Kinshasa (African Expressive Cultures)
During the 1950s and 60s in the Congo city of Kinshasa, there emerged young urban male gangs known as "Bills" or "Yankees." Modeling themselves on the images of the iconic American cowboy from Hollywood film, the "Bills" sought to negotiate lives lived under oppressive economic, social, and politica...
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James K. Nelsen
Educating Milwaukee: How One City’s History of Segregation and Struggle Shaped Its Schools
"Milwaukee's story is unique in that its struggle for integration and quality education has been so closely tied to [school] choice." --from the Introduction "Educating Milwaukee: How One City's History of Segregation and Struggle Shaped Its Schools" traces the origins of the modern school choice mo...
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Robert Richardson
The Ultimate Situational Survival Guide: Self-Reliance Strategies for a Dangerous World
In The Ultimate Situational Survival Guide , survival expert Robert Richardson, founder of offgridsurvival.com, gives you real world advice on how to survive the very real dangers present in today's society. From surviving natural disasters, man-made disasters and disease outbreaks, to essential ta...
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George Martin
Verdi at the Golden Gate: Opera and San Francisco in the Gold Rush Years
Opera is a fragile, complex art, but it flourished extravagantly in San Francisco during the Gold Rush years, a time when daily life in the city was filled with gambling, duels, murder, and suicide. In the history of the United States there has never been a rougher town than Gold Rush San Francisco,...
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Anthony Downs
Stuck in Traffic: Coping with Peak-Hour Traffic Congestion
Peak-hour traffic congestion has become a major problem in most U.S. cities. In fact, a majority of residents in metropolitan and suburban areas consider congestion their most serious local problem. As citizens have become increasingly frustrated by repeated traffic delays that cost them money and w...
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Richard W. Fox
So Far Disordered in Mind: Insanity in California 1870 - 1930
Between the San Francisco earthquake in 1906 and the Great Depression in 1929 the San Francisco Superior Court committed more than 12,000 city residents to the insane asylums of California. Who were these people? What brought them to the attention of the court, and what behavior did the medical exam...
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Joyce A. Ladner
Tomorrow's Tomorrow: The Black Woman
Tomorrow’s Tomorrow is a pioneering sociological study of black girls growing up in the city. The author, in a substantial new introduction, considers what has changed and what has remained constant for them since the book was first published in 1971.   Joyce A. Ladner spent four years intervi...
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Patsy Eubanks Owens
Outdoor Environments for People: Considering Human Factors in Landscape Design
Outdoor Environments for People addresses the everyday human behavior in outdoor built environments and explains how designers can learn about and incorporate their knowledge into places they help to create. Bridging research and practice, and drawing from disciplines such as environmental psycholo...
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Linwood Barclay
Bad Guys (Zack Walker)
“Fans of the crime caper will rejoice” that Linwood Barclay is back with the hilarious follow-up to his “riotously funny and irreverent” debut, in which paranoid pop Zack Walker plotted to transplant his city-savvy wife and two teenage kids to the tranquillity of the burbs–where planned co...
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Robert E. Bartholomew
Social Panics & Phantom Attackers: A Study of Imaginary Assailants
This book provides an accessible overview of one particular type of social panic: that of the phantom attacker. Such panics are characterised by outbreaks of sensational claims of attacks by mysterious figures that seem to emerge from nowhere, attack their innocent human and animal victims, only to ...
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Rajkumar Venkatesan
Cutting Edge Marketing Analytics: Real World Cases and Data Sets for Hands On Learning (FT Press Analytics)
This is today's most complete and practical guide to modern marketing analytics methods and tools. Through real case studies, you'll learn how to connect marketing inputs to customer behavior, use predictive models to develop forward-looking, what-if scenarios, and effectively apply analytics to str...
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Cheryl A. Picard
Practising Insight Mediation
A practical companion to the much-acclaimed Transforming Conflict through Insight , Practising Insight Mediation is a book about how insight mediators do their work and why they do it that way. In the book, Cheryl A. Picard, co-founder of insight mediation, explains how the theory of cognition pr...
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Gretchen Rubin
The Four Tendencies: The Indispensable Personality Profiles That Reveal How to Make Your Life Better (and Other People's Lives Better, Too)
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Are you an Upholder, a Questioner, an Obliger, or a Rebel? From the author of Better Than Before and The Happiness Project comes a groundbreaking analysis of personality type that “will immediately improve every area of your life” (Melissa Urban, co-founder o...
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Jenna Black
The Devil Inside (Morgan Kingsley, Exorcist, Book 1)
Posession. Murder. Mayhem. Let the games begin... Exorcism isn’t a job, it’s a calling—and a curse. Just ask Morgan Kingsley, a woman who has a stronger aura than any Demon. Or so she thought. Now, in a pair of black leather pants and a kick-ass tattoo, Morgan is heading back to Philadelphia ...
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Ale Gomez
TransformAcción: Cuando las palabras se convierten en acción (Spanish Edition)
Este libro encierra una propuesta de liderazgo innovadora, cuyo éxito se ha traducido en cientos de miles de jóvenes alcanzados para Cristo, transformados por su amor, y miles de ellos convertidos en discípulos para llegar aún a más jóvenes. La meta del equipo es clara: una transformación e...
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Victoria W. Wolcott
Remaking Respectability: African American Women in Interwar Detroit
In the early decades of the twentieth century, tens of thousands of African Americans arrived at Detroit’s Michigan Central Station, part of the Great Migration of blacks who left the South seeking improved economic and political conditions in the urban North. The most visible of these migrants ha...
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Robert Palestini
A Commonsense Approach to Educational Leadership
Leaders and aspiring leaders are constantly searching for role models who are successful in placing leadership theory into effective practice. This book identifies ten such role models whose heroic leadership behavior is analyzed in order to reveal what particular abilities and skills made them succ...
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Adrian Forsyth
Mammals of North America: Temperate and Arctic Regions
This landmark reference by award-winning science writer Adrian Forsyth is completely up-to-date with the latest scientific names and behavioral data on the wild mammals of North America. Much more than a field guide, Mammals of North America goes beyond simple identification and description, and d...
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Isabelle Groc
A Hummingbird on My Balcony
Noah’s family has just moved in to a new apartment on the 22nd floor when an Anna’s hummingbird visits their balcony. Soon the young boy notices a fuzzy nest being built―like Noah's family, this hummingbird is making a new home. This true story shows the hummingbird through Noah’s eyes as he...
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Seanan McGuire
Ashes of Honor (October Daye)
New York Times -bestselling October Daye series • Hugo Award-winning author Seanan McGuire • "Top of my urban-paranormal series list!" —Felicia Day It’s been almost a year since October “Toby” Daye averted a war, gave up a county, and suffered personal losses that have left her wis...
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