Urban Studies

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    • Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America
    • By: Khalil Gibran Muhammad
    • Narrated by: Mirron Willis
    • Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 188 ratings
    • Lynch mobs, chain gangs, and popular views of black Southern criminals that defined the Jim Crow South are well known. We know less about the role of the urban North in shaping views of race....

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    • The Lily Singer Adventures, Book 2
    • By: Lydia Sherrer
    • Narrated by: Amy McFadden
    • Series: The Lily Singer Adventures Series, Book 2
    • Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 03-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 404 ratings
    • Modern-day wizard Lily Singer prefers to stay tucked away in her library, studying magic and drinking tea. But with a troublesome witch friend and a past riddled with dangerous secrets, her chances of peace and quiet are slim....

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    • 60 Years of Bright Lights and Back Alleys... and Baseball
    • By: Robert Whiting
    • Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
    • Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 06-22-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 152 ratings
    • Tokyo Junkie is a memoir that plays out over the dramatic 60-year growth of the megacity Tokyo, once a dark, fetid backwater and now the most populous, sophisticated, and safe urban capital in the world....

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    • Segregation and the Making of the Underclass
    • By: Douglas S. Massey, Nancy A. Denton
    • Narrated by: James Anderson Foster
    • Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 03-20-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 61 ratings
    • American Apartheid shows how the Black ghetto was created by Whites during the first half of the 20th century in order to isolate growing urban Black populations. It goes on to show that, despite the Fair Housing Act of 1968, segregation is perpetuated today....

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    • The Story of My Life
    • By: Iceberg Slim
    • Narrated by: Cary Hite
    • Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7,979 ratings
    • A blueprint. A bible. What Sun Tzu’s Art of War was to ancient China, Pimp is to the streets. As real as you can get without jumping in, this is the story of Iceberg Slim’s life as he saw, felt, tasted, and smelled it.

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    • The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America
    • By: Alex Kotlowitz
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,712 ratings
    • This New York Public Library selection as one of the 150 most important books of the 20th century is a true-life portrait of growing up in the Chicago projects....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: MK Asante
    • Narrated by: MK Asante, Adenrele Ojo
    • Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 08-20-13
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 237 ratings
    • A rebellious boy's journey through the wilds of urban America and the shrapnel of a self-destructing family - this is the riveting story of a generation told through one dazzlingly poetic new voice....

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    • The Women Shaping the World's Next Superpower
    • By: Roseann Lake
    • Narrated by: Janet Song
    • Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 02-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • Forty years ago in China, marriage was universal, compulsory, and a woman's only means to a livelihood. Enter the one-child policy, which despite its horrors, resulted in China's first generations of urban only-daughters - girls who were raised without brothers....

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    • How Floating Nations Will Restore the Environment, Enrich the Poor, Cure the Sick, and Liberate Humanity from Politicians
    • By: Joe Quirk, Patri Friedman
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 03-21-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 97 ratings
    • Oil platforms and cruise ships already inhabit the waters; now it's time to take the next step to full-fledged ocean civilizations....

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    • Local Politics and Inequality in American Cities
    • By: Jessica Trounstine
    • Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel
    • Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • Segregation by Design draws on more than 100 years of quantitative and qualitative data from thousands of American cities to explore how local governments generate race and class segregation....

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    • Secrets of Your Man’s Mind Revealed
    • By: Tyrese Gibson, Rev Run
    • Narrated by: Cary Hite
    • Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 10-24-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 324 ratings
    • Manology will help you weed out the cheaters, manipulators, and pimps from the good men, and it will give you the tools to know if your man is the marrying kind....

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    • Race, Real Estate, and the Making of Hasidic Williamsburg
    • By: Nathaniel Deutsch, Michael Casper
    • Narrated by: Steven Jay Cohen
    • Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 05-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • Nathaniel Deutsch and Michael Casper unravel the fascinating history of how a community of determined Holocaust survivors encountered, shaped, and sometimes fiercely resisted the urban processes that transformed their gritty neighborhood....

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    • A Study in Brimstone
    • By: G. S. Denning
    • Narrated by: Robert Garson
    • Series: Warlock Holmes, Book 1
    • Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 05-19-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2,412 ratings
    • Sherlock Holmes is an unparalleled genius who uses the gift of deduction and reason to solve the most vexing of crimes. Warlock Holmes, however, is an idiot.

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    • An Internet Urban Legend Comes to Life
    • By: Nick Redfern
    • Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
    • Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 02-19-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 54 ratings
    • Who - or what - is the Slenderman? His existence began on the Internet, but he didn't stay online. The Slenderman may be a tulpa, a thought-form that can stride out of our darkest imaginations and into reality if enough people believe in it....

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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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    • The Chronicles of Ixia, Book 3
    • By: Maria V. Snyder
    • Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
    • Series: The Chronicles of Ixia, Book 3
    • Length: 14 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 03-12-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • When word that Yelena is a Soulfinder—able to capture and release souls—spreads like wildfire, she faces mistrust and fear in Sitia. What’s more, she keeps discovering unusual new sides of her abilities. As the Council debates Yelena’s fate, she receives a disturbing message....

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    • Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles
    • By: Rosecrans Baldwin
    • Narrated by: Rosecrans Baldwin
    • Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 06-15-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • Rosecrans Baldwin's Everything Now approaches the metropolis from unexpected angles, nimbly interleaving his own voice with a chorus of others, from canonical LA literature to everyday citizens....

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    • Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval
    • By: Saidiya Hartman
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 04-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 150 ratings
    • Saidiya Hartman examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the 20th century. Free love, common-law and transient marriages, queer relations, and single motherhood were among the sweeping changes....

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