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Although the seemingly apocalyptic scale of the World Trade Center disaster continues to haunt people across the globe, it is only the most recent example of a city tragically wounded. Cities are, in fact, perpetually caught up in cycles of degeneration and renewal. As with the WTC, from time to time these cycles are severely ruptured by a sudden, unpredictable event. In the wake of recent terrorist activities, this timely book explores how urban populations are affected by wounds inflicted through violence, civil wars, overbuilding, drug trafficking, and the collapse of infrastructures, as well as natural disasters such as earthquakes. Mexico City, New York, Beirut, Belfast, Bangkok and Baghdad are just a few examples of cities riddled with problems that undermine, on a daily basis, the quality of urban life. What does it mean for urban dwellers when the infrastructure of a city collapses transport, communication grids, heat, light, roads, water, and sanitation? What are the effects of foreign investment and huge construction projects on urban populations and how does this change the look and character of a city? How does drug trafficking intersect with class, race, and gender, and what impact does it have on vulnerable urban communities? How do political corruption and mafia networks distort the built environment? Drawing on in-depth case studies from across the globe, this book answers these intriguing questions through its rigorous consideration of changing global and national contexts, social movements, and corrosive urban events. Adopting a grass roots up approach, it places emphasis on peoples experiences of uneven development and inequality, their engagement with memory in the face of continual change, and the relevance of political activism to bettering their lives. It is especially attentive to the historical interaction of particular cities with wider political and economic forces, as these interactions have shaped local governance over time. Imagining e
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9781859736838 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, April 17, 2004, cover price $109.95
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9781859736883 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, November 1, 2003, cover price $37.95 | About this edition: Although the seemingly apocalyptic scale of the World Trade Center disaster continues to haunt people across the globe, it is only the most recent example of a city tragically wounded.
Product Description: Reversible Destiny traces the history of the Sicilian mafia to its nineteenth-century roots and examines its late twentieth-century involvement in urban real estate and construction as well as drugs. Based on research in the regional capital of Palermo, this book suggests lessons regarding secretive organized crime: its capacity to reproduce a subculture of violence through time, its acquisition of a dense connective web of political and financial protectors during the Cold War era, and the sad reality that repressing it easily risks harming vulnerable people and communities...read more
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9780520221000 | Univ of California Pr, March 1, 2003, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: Reversible Destiny traces the history of the Sicilian mafia to its nineteenth-century roots and examines its late twentieth-century involvement in urban real estate and construction as well as drugs.
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9780520236097 | Univ of California Pr, March 1, 2003, cover price $34.95
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9781930820425 | Board book edition (Garlic Pr, January 1, 2003), cover price $7.95
Explains basic communication using American Sign Language, organized around various topics, including family, health, shopping, and pets.
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9781930820128 | Garlic Pr, June 1, 2001, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Explains basic communication using American Sign Language, organized around various topics, including family, health, shopping, and pets.
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9780931993992 | Garlic Pr, July 1, 1998, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Songs, The Story of Jesus, and Bible verses all in a simple illustrated vocabulary.
Product Description: A collection of greetings, questions; the Lord's Prayer; a passage from John; and other illustrated signing vocabulary. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780931993985 | Garlic Pr, July 1, 1998, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: A collection of greetings, questions; the Lord's Prayer; a passage from John; and other illustrated signing vocabulary.
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9781859739921 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, March 1, 1998, cover price $120.95 | About this edition: Jane Schneider is a Professor of Anthropology, at the Graduate and University Center, City University of New York.
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9781859739976 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, March 1, 1998, cover price $37.95 | About this edition: Jane Schneider is a Professor of Anthropology, at the Graduate and University Center, City University of New York.
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9780931993954 | Garlic Pr, January 1, 1998, cover price $9.95
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9780520085817 | Univ of California Pr, January 1, 1995, cover price $85.00
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9780520085824 | Univ of California Pr on Demand, January 1, 1995, cover price $36.95
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9781561450886 | Revised edition (Peachtree Pub Ltd, October 1, 1994), cover price $9.95
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9780962853043 | Bookmark, May 1, 1992, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Book by McGinnis, Charles, Schneider, Jane
Essays discuss cloth in smalland large-scale societies, cultural identity, cloth production, fabric folklore, and the political and religious aspects of cloth
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9780874749953 | Reprint edition (Smithsonian Inst Pr, April 1, 1991), cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Essays discuss cloth in smalland large-scale societies, cultural identity, cloth production, fabric folklore, and the political and religious aspects of cloth
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9780317663303 | Amer Anthropological Assn, December 1, 1987, cover price $12.50
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9780126278507 | Academic Pr, June 1, 1976, cover price $43.00 | About this edition: Textbook on Culture and Political Economy in Western Sicily
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