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Last Subway: The Long Wait for the Next Train in New York City
- By: Philip Mark Plotch
- Narrated by: Chaz Allen
- Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Last Subway is the fascinating and dramatic story behind New York City's struggle to build a new subway line under Second Avenue and improve transit services all across the city. With his extraordinary access to powerful players and internal documents, Philip Mark Plotch reveals why the city's subway system, once the best in the world, is now too often unreliable, overcrowded, and uncomfortable. Last Subway offers valuable lessons in how governments can overcome political gridlock and enormous obstacles to build grand projects.
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Last Subway: The Long Wait for the Next Train in New York City
- Narrated by: Chaz Allen
- Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 10-08-2020
- Language: English
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City of Big Shoulders: Second Edition
- A History of Chicago
- By: Robert G. Spinney
- Narrated by: Doug McDonald
- Length: 13 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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City of Big Shoulders links key events in Chicago's development, from its marshy origins in the 1600's to today's robust metropolis. Robert G. Spinney presents Chicago in terms of the people whose lives made the city - from the tycoons and the politicians, to the hundreds of thousands of immigrants from all over the world. In this revised and updated second edition that brings Chicago's story into the 21st century, Spinney sweeps his historian's gaze across the colorful and dramatic panorama of the city's explosive past.
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City of Big Shoulders: Second Edition
- A History of Chicago
- Narrated by: Doug McDonald
- Length: 13 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 16-04-2020
- Language: English
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Moving Up, Moving Out
- The Rise of the Black Middle Class in Chicago
- By: Will Cooley
- Narrated by: Andrew L. Barnes
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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In Moving Up, Moving Out, Will Cooley discusses the damage racism and discrimination have exacted on black Chicagoans in the 20th century, while accentuating the resilience of upwardly mobile African Americans. Cooley examines how class differences created fissures in the black community and produced quandaries for black Chicagoans interested in racial welfare. While black Chicagoans engaged in collective struggles, they also used individualistic means to secure the American Dream.
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Moving Up, Moving Out
- The Rise of the Black Middle Class in Chicago
- Narrated by: Andrew L. Barnes
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 10-04-2020
- Language: English
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Cities That Think Like Planets: Complexity, Resilience, and Innovation in Hybrid Ecosystems
- By: Marina Alberti
- Narrated by: Brittany A
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
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As human activity and environmental change come to be increasingly recognized as intertwined phenomena on a rapidly urbanizing planet, the field of urban ecology has risen to offer useful ways of thinking about coupled human and natural systems. On the forefront of this discipline is Marina Alberti, whose innovative work offers a conceptual framework for uncovering fundamental laws that govern the complexity and resilience of cities, which she sees as key to understanding and responding to planetary change and the evolution of Earth.
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Cities That Think Like Planets: Complexity, Resilience, and Innovation in Hybrid Ecosystems
- Narrated by: Brittany A
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 06-01-2020
- Language: English
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Muerte Y Vida De Las Grandes Ciudades (Narración en Castellano) [The Death and Life of Big Cities]
- By: Jane Jacobs
- Narrated by: Paloma Insa Rico
- Length: 18 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Cincuenta años después de su publicación, Muerte y vida de las grandes ciudades es, según el New York Times, «probablemente la obra más influyente en la historia de la planificación urbana». Jane Jacobs, columnista y crítica de arquitectura en Nueva York de principios de los años sesenta, afirmaba que la diversidad y la vitalidad de las ciudades estaban siendo destruidas por algunos arquitectos y urbanistas muy influyentes.
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Muerte Y Vida De Las Grandes Ciudades (Narración en Castellano) [The Death and Life of Big Cities]
- Narrated by: Paloma Insa Rico
- Length: 18 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 06-09-2019
- Language: Spanish
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New York Sports: Glamour and Grit in the Empire City
- Sport, Culture, and Society
- By: Stephen Norwood
- Narrated by: Dean Collins
- Length: 15 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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New York has long been both America’s leading cultural center and its sports capital, with far more championship teams, intracity World Series, and major prizefights than any other city. New York Sports collects the work of 14 leading sport historians, providing new insight into the social and cultural history of America’s major metropolis and of the United States.
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New York Sports: Glamour and Grit in the Empire City
- Sport, Culture, and Society
- Narrated by: Dean Collins
- Length: 15 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 06-09-2019
- Language: English
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Fariña
- Historia e indiscreciones del narcotráfico en Galicia
- Narrated by: Humberto Solorzano
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 08-02-2019
- Language: Spanish
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Pictures of a Gone City
- Tech and the Dark Side of Prosperity in the San Francisco Bay Area
- By: Richard A. Walker
- Narrated by: Martin Nicolaus
- Length: 14 hrs and 51 mins
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This exploration begins by tracing the concentration of IT in Greater Silicon Valley and the resulting growth in start-ups, jobs, and wealth. This is followed by a look at the new working class of color and the millions earning poverty wages. The middle chapters survey the urban scene, including the housing bubble and the newly exploded metropolis, and the final chapters take on the political questions raised by the environmental impact of the boom, the fantastical ideology of TechWorld, and the tech-led transformation of the region.
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Pictures of a Gone City
- Tech and the Dark Side of Prosperity in the San Francisco Bay Area
- Narrated by: Martin Nicolaus
- Length: 14 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 05-02-2019
- Language: English
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Seismic City
- An Environmental History of San Francisco's 1906 Earthquake
- By: Joanna L. Dyl
- Narrated by: Ginger White
- Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
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On April 18, 1906, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake shook the San Francisco region, igniting fires that burned half the city. The disaster in all its elements - earthquake, fires, and recovery - profoundly disrupted the urban order and challenged San Francisco's perceived permanence. The crisis temporarily broke down spatial divisions of class and race and highlighted the contested terrain of urban nature in an era of widespread class conflict, simmering ethnic tensions, and controversial reform efforts.
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Seismic City
- An Environmental History of San Francisco's 1906 Earthquake
- Narrated by: Ginger White
- Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 11-12-2018
- Language: English
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Il crollo del ponte a Genova. Quale futuro per le autostrade italiane?
- Rep Digest 6
- By: Mario Calabresi, Massimo Giannini, Fabio Bogo, and others
- Narrated by: Daria Esposito, Matteo De Martino, Tommaso Mor
- Length: 27 mins
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Il crollo del Ponte Morandi a Genova e le conseguenze per le autostrade italiane. Il racconto e l'analisi in sei articoli di Repubblica: Crollo ponte Morandi: Genova ferita si cura ricucendo, non strappando, di Mario Calabresi; La stagione di avvoltoi e coccodrilli, di Massimo Giannini; Il nodo delle privatizzazioni e il padrone imperfetto, di Fabio Bogo; Il miraggio del monopolio di Stato, di Michele Ainis; Crollo Ponte Morandi, commissione d'inchiesta: tre investigatori del ministero rischiano di saltare, di Tommaso Ciriaco; Autostrade, governo spaccato. Lega: "No alla statalizzazione", di Tommaso Ciriaco.
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Il crollo del ponte a Genova. Quale futuro per le autostrade italiane?
- Rep Digest 6
- Narrated by: Daria Esposito, Matteo De Martino, Tommaso Mor
- Series: Rep Digest 1-50, Book 6
- Length: 27 mins
- Release date: 29-08-2018
- Language: Italian
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Between Riverside and Crazy
- By: Stephen Adly Guirgis
- Narrated by: Elisa Bocanegra, John Cothran, Seamus Dever, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 36 mins
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After his wife’s death, retired cop Walter "Pops" Washington has made a home for his ex-felon son in his sprawling, rent-controlled, Riverside Drive apartment. Will a long-simmering feud with the NYPD cause him to lose his home and the family he’s built there?
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Between Riverside and Crazy
- Narrated by: Elisa Bocanegra, John Cothran, Seamus Dever, James Martinez, Ana Ortiz, Larry Powell, Emily Swallow
- Length: 1 hr and 36 mins
- Release date: 01-03-2018
- Language: English
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Extreme Cities
- The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change
- By: Ashley Dawson
- Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
- Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
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In Extreme Cities, Ashley Dawson argues that cities are ground zero for climate change, contributing the lion's share of carbon to the atmosphere, while also lying on the frontlines of rising sea levels. Today, the majority of the world's megacities are located in coastal zones, yet few of them are adequately prepared for the floods that will increasingly menace their shores. Instead, most continue to develop luxury waterfront condos for the elite and industrial facilities for corporations. These not only intensify carbon emissions, but also place coastal residents at greater risk.
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Extreme Cities
- The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change
- Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
- Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 30-01-2018
- Language: English
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Crown Heights
- By: Colin Warner, Carl King, Holly Lorincz
- Narrated by: Lakeith Stanfield, Nnamdi Asomugha
- Length: 2 hrs and 28 mins
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Childhood friends from Trinidad, Colin Warner and Carl King grew into men on opposite sides of prison bars after Colin was arrested for murder in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. With no evidence against him, Colin was wrongfully convicted and wrongfully imprisoned for more than two decades. But time and walls could not break the friends' bond. Carl's extraordinary resolve, sacrifice, and courage were Colin's last rays of hope in a harrowing struggle for freedom and justice.
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Crown Heights
- Narrated by: Lakeith Stanfield, Nnamdi Asomugha
- Length: 2 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 28-11-2017
- Language: English
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Guts
- The Anatomy of The Walking Dead
- By: Paul Vigna
- Narrated by: Graham Halstead
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
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In this first and only guide to AMC’s exceptional hit series The Walking Dead, the Wall Street Journal’s Walking Dead columnist celebrates the show, its storylines, characters, and development, and examines its popularity and cultural resonance. From its first episode, The Walking Dead took...
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Guts
- The Anatomy of The Walking Dead
- Narrated by: Graham Halstead
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 03-10-2017
- Language: English
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Designing Gotham
- West Point Engineers and the Rise of Modern New York, 1817-1898
- By: Jon Scott Logel
- Narrated by: Mark Kamish
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
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Between 1817 and 1898, New York City evolved from a vital Atlantic port of trade to the center of American commerce and culture. Although this important urban transformation is well documented, the critical role of select Union soldiers turned New York engineers has, until now, remained largely unexplored.
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Designing Gotham
- West Point Engineers and the Rise of Modern New York, 1817-1898
- Narrated by: Mark Kamish
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 14-08-2017
- Language: English
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Abandoned Families: Social Isolation in the Twenty-First Century
- By: Kristin S. Seefeldt
- Narrated by: Dana Brewer Harris
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
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Education, employment, and home ownership have long been considered stepping stones to the middle class. But in Abandoned Families, social policy expert Kristin Seefeldt shows how many working families have access only to a separate but unequal set of poor-quality jobs, low-performing schools, and declining housing markets, which offer few chances for upward mobility. Through in-depth interviews over a six-year period with women in Detroit, Seefeldt charts the increasing social isolation of many low-income workers.
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Abandoned Families: Social Isolation in the Twenty-First Century
- Narrated by: Dana Brewer Harris
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 11-07-2017
- Language: English
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Coming of Age in the Other America
- By: Stefanie DeLuca, Susan Clampet-Lundquist, Kathryn Edin
- Narrated by: Nancy Peterson
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
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Coming of Age in the Other America shows that despite overwhelming odds, some disadvantaged urban youth do achieve upward mobility. Drawing from 10 years of fieldwork with parents and children who resided in Baltimore public housing, sociologists Stefanie DeLuca, Susan Clampet-Lundquist, and Kathryn Edin highlight the remarkable resiliency of some of the youth who hailed from the nation's poorest neighborhoods and show how the right public policies might help break the cycle of disadvantage.
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Coming of Age in the Other America
- Narrated by: Nancy Peterson
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 17-05-2017
- Language: English
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Thirty-Eight Witnesses
- The Kitty Genovese Case
- By: A.M. Rosenthal
- Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
- Length: 2 hrs and 22 mins
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On March 13, 1964, Kitty Genovese was brutally beaten and murdered in the street near her apartment, in full view of more than three dozen friends and neighbors - and no one did a thing to stop it. More than thirty-five years after its first publication, Thirty-Eight Witnesses, the true account of what transpired that night in Queens, New York, continues to disturb us. We would like to think that we would step in and do what we could to stop the carnage.
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Thirty-Eight Witnesses
- The Kitty Genovese Case
- Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
- Length: 2 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 23-05-2017
- Language: English
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Punished
- Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys
- By: Victor M. Rios
- Narrated by: Rudy Sanda
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
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Victor Rios grew up in the ghetto of Oakland, California, in the 1980s and '90s. A former gang member and juvenile delinquent, Rios managed to escape the bleak outcome of many of his friends and earned a PhD at Berkeley and returned to his hometown to study how inner-city young Latino and African American boys develop their sense of self in the midst of crime and intense policing. Punished examines the difficult lives of these young men.
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Punished
- Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys
- Narrated by: Rudy Sanda
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 16-05-2017
- Language: English
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Making Rent in Bed-Stuy
- A Memoir of Trying to Make It in New York City
- By: Brandon Harris
- Narrated by: Brandon Massey
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
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A young African American millennial filmmaker s funny, sometimes painful, true-life coming-of-age story of trying to make it in New York City a chronicle of poverty and wealth, creativity and commerce, struggle and insecurity, and the economic and cultural forces intertwined with "the serious...
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Making Rent in Bed-Stuy
- A Memoir of Trying to Make It in New York City
- Narrated by: Brandon Massey
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 06-06-2017
- Language: English
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