Urban Nonfiction

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    • By: Robert Greene
    • Narrated by: Richard Poe
    • Length: 23 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 05-01-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24,811 ratings
    • Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills 3,000 years of the history of power into 48 well-explicated laws....

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    • How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City
    • By: Antero Pietila
    • Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
    • Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 11-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • Baltimore is the setting for (and typifies) one of the most penetrating examinations of bigotry and residential segregation ever published in the United States. Antero Pietila shows how continued discrimination practices toward African Americans and Jews have shaped cities....

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    • How a Great City Lost Its Soul
    • By: Jeremiah Moss
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 15 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 11-28-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 71 ratings
    • An unflinching portrait of gentrification in the 21st century, and a love letter to lost New York, by the creator of the popular and incendiary blog Vanishing New York....

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    • Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
    • By: Erik Larson
    • Narrated by: Scott Brick
    • Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 12-29-02
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 30,522 ratings
    • The true tale of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago and the cunning serial killer who used the magic and majesty of the fair to lure his victims to their death....

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    • The Great Crime Decline, the Renewal of City Life, and the Next War on Violence
    • By: Patrick Sharkey
    • Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan
    • Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 01-16-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 71 ratings
    • Beginning in the mid-1990s, American cities experienced an astonishing drop in violent crime. By 2014, the United States was safer than it had been in 60 years....

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    • A Study in Urban Revolution
    • By: Dan Georgakas, Marvin Surkin
    • Narrated by: Brian Jones, David Sadzin, Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 02-25-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • This new South End Press edition makes available the full text of this out-of-print classic - along with a new foreword by Manning Marable, interviews with participants in DRUM, and reflections on political developments over the past three decades by Georgakas and Surkin....

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    • The Functions of Public Welfare
    • By: Cloward Fox Piven
    • Narrated by: Karen Chilton
    • Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 01-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Piven and Cloward have updated their classic work on the history and function of welfare to cover the American welfare state's massive erosion during the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton years....

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    • Quitting the City and Coping with a New Reality
    • By: Erin Clune
    • Narrated by: Erin Clune
    • Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 11-20-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Author Erin Clune regales listeners with priceless stories of her own experiences leaving New York for her hometown in Wisconsin in this uproarious memoir/tongue-in-cheek guide to leaving the cool city in which you "found" yourself and moving somewhere far more ordinary....

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    • A Tale of Corruption and Betrayal in the City of Brotherly Love
    • By: Wendy Ruderman, Barbara Laker
    • Narrated by: Rachel Fulginiti
    • Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 11-18-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • Busted is Ruderman and Laker's riveting account of their explosive investigation into the acts committed by rogue members of the narcotics squad....

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    • Urban Escape and Evasion Techniques for Civilians
    • By: Sam Fury
    • Narrated by: Oliver Smith
    • Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 03-18-22
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Teach yourself escape and evasion tactics! Whether you're a high-profile individual, a tourist, or a random target for an opportunistic criminal, there's a chance you'll be taken. This book is packed with covert military and spy escape techniques adapted for the average person....

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    • Love, Death and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville
    • By: Akash Kapur
    • Narrated by: Vikas Adam
    • Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 07-20-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • A spellbinding story about love, faith, the search for utopia - and the often devastating cost of idealism....

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    • American Culture for Kids - Communities Edition | 3rd Grade Social Studies
    • By: Baby Professor
    • Narrated by: Frank Block
    • Length: 10 mins
    • Release date: 09-28-21
    • Language: English
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    • There are three types of communities in the USA - the urban, suburban, and the rural. This book will provide definitions and examples of each type of community....

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