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The Address Book

What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power

par Deirdre Mask ...

Finalist for the 2020 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction | One of Time Magazines's 100 Must-Read Books of 2020 | Longlisted for the 2020 Porchlight Business Book Awards"An entertaining quest to trace the origins and implications of the names of the roads on which we reside." —Sarah Vowell, The New York Times Book ReviewWhen most people think about street addresses, if they think of them at all, i... ... En savoir plus

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Finalist for the 2020 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction | One of Time Magazines's 100 Must-Read Books of 2020 | Longlisted for the 2020 Porchlight Business Book Awards"An entertaining quest to trace the origins and implications of the names of the roads on which we reside." —Sarah Vowell, The New York Times Book ReviewWhen most people think about street addresses, if they think of them at all, i...
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El Callejero

par Deirdre Mask ...

Traduit par María Porras ...

Collections series Ensayo
Cuando la mayoría de la gente piensa en las direcciones de las calles, si es que piensa en ellas, es en su capacidad para garantizar que el cartero pueda entregar el correo o que un viajero no se pierda. Pero las direcciones no se inventaron para ayudar a encontrar el camino, sino para encontrarlo a usted. En muchas partes del mundo, tu dirección puede revelar tu raza y tu clase.En este amplio y ... En savoir plus

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Cuando la mayoría de la gente piensa en las direcciones de las calles, si es que piensa en ellas, es en su capacidad para garantizar que el cartero pueda entregar el correo o que un viajero no se pierda. Pero las direcciones no se inventaron para ayudar a encontrar el camino, sino para encontrarlo a usted. En muchas partes del mundo, tu dirección puede revelar tu raza y tu clase.En este amplio y
... En savoir plus
Le vie che orientano

Storia, identità e potere dietro ai nomi delle strade

par Deirdre Mask ...

«L’incantevole studio di Mask è ricco di informazioni illuminanti sul modo in cui gli indirizzi stradali influenzano la gente comune in giro per il mondo».»The Guardian«Una ricerca spassosa che risale alle origini e alle implicazioni dei nomi delle strade in cui viviamo. [...] Mask è una maestra nell’infilarsi in digressioni avvincenti, e perfino poco inerenti, solo per il gusto di divertirci... ... En savoir plus

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«L’incantevole studio di Mask è ricco di informazioni illuminanti sul modo in cui gli indirizzi stradali influenzano la gente comune in giro per il mondo».»The Guardian«Una ricerca spassosa che risale alle origini e alle implicazioni dei nomi delle strade in cui viviamo. [...] Mask è una maestra nell’infilarsi in digressioni avvincenti, e perfino poco inerenti, solo per il gusto di divertirci...
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Címek könyve

par Deirdre Mask ...

Áruld el, hol laksz, megmondom, ki vagy! Hogyan találtak el úti céljukhoz az ókori rómaiak? Miért próbálták meg tömegesen eltüntetni a frissen kifestett házszámokat Mária Terézia idején a Habsburg Birodalom polgárai? Hogyan kísértenek a nácik a mai napig Németország közterein, és mi a közös az USA számos Martin Luther King Jr. utcájának sorsában? Hogyan tájékozódnak Japánban, ahol az utcák ... En savoir plus

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Áruld el, hol laksz, megmondom, ki vagy! Hogyan találtak el úti céljukhoz az ókori rómaiak? Miért próbálták meg tömegesen eltüntetni a frissen kifestett házszámokat Mária Terézia idején a Habsburg Birodalom polgárai? Hogyan kísértenek a nácik a mai napig Németország közterein, és mi a közös az USA számos Martin Luther King Jr. utcájának sorsában? Hogyan tájékozódnak Japánban, ahol az utcák
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Address Book, The

What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power

par Deirdre Mask ...

Lu par Janina Edwards ...

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8 heure 30 min

An extraordinary debut in the tradition of classic works from authors such as Mark Kurlansky, Mary Roach, and Rose George.An exuberant and insightful work of popular history of how streets got their names, houses their numbers, and what it reveals about class, race, power, and identity.When most people think about street addresses, if they think of them at all, it is in their capacity to ensure ... En savoir plus

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An extraordinary debut in the tradition of classic works from authors such as Mark Kurlansky, Mary Roach, and Rose George.An exuberant and insightful work of popular history of how streets got their names, houses their numbers, and what it reveals about class, race, power, and identity.When most people think about street addresses, if they think of them at all, it is in their capacity to ensure
... En savoir plus

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A Peculiar Indifference

The Neglected Toll of Violence on Black America

par Elliott Currie ...

Lu par Sean Patrick Hopkins ...

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6 heure 47 min

From a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a devastating exploration of the racial disparities in violent death and injury in America and a blueprint for ending this fundamental social injusticeAbout 170,000 black Americans have died in homicides just since the year 2000. Violence takes more years of life from black men than cancer, stroke, and diabetes combined; a young black man in the United States has a ... En savoir plus

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From a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a devastating exploration of the racial disparities in violent death and injury in America and a blueprint for ending this fundamental social injusticeAbout 170,000 black Americans have died in homicides just since the year 2000. Violence takes more years of life from black men than cancer, stroke, and diabetes combined; a young black man in the United States has a
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Captive Paradise

A History of Hawaii

par James L. Haley ...

Lu par Joe Barrett ...

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13 heure 33 min

In the tradition of Nathaniel Philbrick and David McCullough comes the first full-scale narrative history of Hawaii, an epic tale of empire, industry, war, and culture.The most recent state to join the union, Hawaii is the only one to have once been a royal kingdom. After its discovery by Captain Cook in the late eighteenth century, Hawaii was fought over by European powers determined to take ... En savoir plus

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In the tradition of Nathaniel Philbrick and David McCullough comes the first full-scale narrative history of Hawaii, an epic tale of empire, industry, war, and culture.The most recent state to join the union, Hawaii is the only one to have once been a royal kingdom. After its discovery by Captain Cook in the late eighteenth century, Hawaii was fought over by European powers determined to take
... En savoir plus

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Once Upon an Algorithm

How Stories Explain Computing

par Martin Erwig ...

Lu par Walter Dixon ...

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10 heure 48 min

How Hansel and Gretel, Sherlock Holmes, the movie Groundhog Day, Harry Potter, and other familiar stories illustrate the concepts of computing.Picture a computer scientist, staring at a screen and clicking away frantically on a keyboard, hacking into a system, or perhaps developing an app. Now delete that picture. In Once Upon an Algorithm, Martin Erwig explains computation as something that takes ... En savoir plus

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How Hansel and Gretel, Sherlock Holmes, the movie Groundhog Day, Harry Potter, and other familiar stories illustrate the concepts of computing.Picture a computer scientist, staring at a screen and clicking away frantically on a keyboard, hacking into a system, or perhaps developing an app. Now delete that picture. In Once Upon an Algorithm, Martin Erwig explains computation as something that takes
... En savoir plus

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Missionaries

A Novel

par Phil Klay ...

Lu par MacLeod Andrews, Cynthia Farrell, Henry Levya, Anthony Rey Perez ...

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14 heure 28 min

**One of President Obama's Favorite Books of the Year | A New York Times Notable Book | One of the Wall Street Journal Ten Best Books of the Year"Missionaries is a courageous book: It doesn’t shy away, as so much fiction does, from the real world.” —Juan Gabriel Vásquez, The New York Times Book Review“A sweeping, interconnected novel of ideas in the tradition of Joseph Conrad and Norman Mailer . . ... En savoir plus

$29.50 CAD

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**One of President Obama's Favorite Books of the Year | A New York Times Notable Book | One of the Wall Street Journal Ten Best Books of the Year"Missionaries is a courageous book: It doesn’t shy away, as so much fiction does, from the real world.” —Juan Gabriel Vásquez, The New York Times Book Review“A sweeping, interconnected novel of ideas in the tradition of Joseph Conrad and Norman Mailer . .
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Who Is Wellness For?

An Examination of Wellness Culture and Who It Leaves Behind

par Fariha Roisin ...

Lu par Fariha Roisin ...

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10 heure 25 min

The multi-disciplinary artist and author of Like a Bird and How to Cure a Ghost explores the commodification and appropriation of wellness through the lens of social justice, providing resources to help anyone participate in self-care, regardless of race, identity, socioeconomic status or able-bodiedness.Growing up in Australia, Fariha Róisín, a Bangladeshi Muslim, struggled to fit in. In attempts ... En savoir plus

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The multi-disciplinary artist and author of Like a Bird and How to Cure a Ghost explores the commodification and appropriation of wellness through the lens of social justice, providing resources to help anyone participate in self-care, regardless of race, identity, socioeconomic status or able-bodiedness.Growing up in Australia, Fariha Róisín, a Bangladeshi Muslim, struggled to fit in. In attempts
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Stealing Rembrandts

The Untold Stories of Notorious Art Heists

par Anthony M. Amore, Tom Mashberg ...

Lu par Paul Heitsch ...

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8 heure 47 min

Today, art theft is one of the most profitable criminal enterprises in the world, exceeding $6 billion in losses to galleries and art collectors annually. And the masterpieces of Rembrandt van Rijn are some of the most frequently targeted.In Stealing Rembrandts, art security expert Anthony M. Amore and award-winning investigative reporter Tom Mashberg reveal the actors behind the major Rembrandt ... En savoir plus

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Today, art theft is one of the most profitable criminal enterprises in the world, exceeding $6 billion in losses to galleries and art collectors annually. And the masterpieces of Rembrandt van Rijn are some of the most frequently targeted.In Stealing Rembrandts, art security expert Anthony M. Amore and award-winning investigative reporter Tom Mashberg reveal the actors behind the major Rembrandt
... En savoir plus

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Trace

Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape

par Lauret Savoy ...

Lu par Allyson Johnson ...

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6 heure 6 min

Sand and stone are Earth's fragmented memory. Each of us, too, is a landscape inscribed by memory and loss. One life-defining lesson Lauret Savoy learned as a young girl was this: the American land did not hate. As an educator and Earth historian, she has tracked the continent's past from the relics of deep time; but the paths of ancestors toward her—paths of free and enslaved Africans, colonists ... En savoir plus

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Sand and stone are Earth's fragmented memory. Each of us, too, is a landscape inscribed by memory and loss. One life-defining lesson Lauret Savoy learned as a young girl was this: the American land did not hate. As an educator and Earth historian, she has tracked the continent's past from the relics of deep time; but the paths of ancestors toward her—paths of free and enslaved Africans, colonists
... En savoir plus

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