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“mike fontenot”

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  • Ephemeral Encounter

    by Mike Fontenot ...
    Twenty-two, and famous – in the blink of an eye.One second, she’s just another university student – the next, she is recognized by everyone in Great Britain. Not something easily dealt with, by a farm raised, country girl, from Wales.When her tumultuous life begins to spiral completely out of control, she abandons it – and disappears.Completely.Forty-five years old, single, and comfortable in his ... Read more

    $4.22 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 2 Blocks Down

    An 'All Things Are Possible' Tale

    by Riley Mitchell, Mike Fontenot ...
    Y2K... a time when the music world was filled with new directions and a lot of new groups. A time far past the music I grew up with. A time when my teenage children were discovering their own musical likes and dislikes.Teen Pop... Dance Pop... Bubblegum Pop... Brit Pop... Euro Pop... to name a few genres.Enter four bubbly, high-energy, teenagers from Sweden, with voices that worked perfectly ... Read more

    $7.04 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • New Orleans Under Reconstruction

    by Carol M. Reese, Michael Sorkin, Anthony Fontenot ...
    When the levees broke in August 2005 as a result of Hurricane Katrina, 80 percent of the city of New Orleans was flooded, with a loss of 134,000 homes and 986 lives. In particular, the devastation hit the vulnerable communities the hardest: the old, the poor and the African American. The disaster exposed the hideous inequality of the city. In response to the disaster numerous plans, designs and ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

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    by Samantha Montano ...
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  • Vital Little Plans

    The Short Works of Jane Jacobs

    by Jane Jacobs ...
    A new book by influential urbanist Jane Jacobs, released in Jacobs' centenary, and showing her evolution as a writer and thinker.Vital Little Plans will bring together for the first time a selection of essays, articles, speeches and interviews by the late Jane Jacobs. These works shed light on the development of the ideas she made famous in her best-known works, The Death and Life of Great ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Markets of Sorrow, Labors of Faith

    New Orleans in the Wake of Katrina

    by Vincanne Adams ...
    Markets of Sorrow, Labors of Faith is an ethnographic account of long-term recovery in post-Katrina New Orleans. It is also a sobering exploration of the privatization of vital social services under market-driven governance. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, public agencies subcontracted disaster relief to private companies that turned the humanitarian work of recovery into lucrative business. ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Community Organizing

    A Holistic Approach

    by Joan Kuyek ...
    History is full of stories of the oppressed rebelling against the oppressor, only to reinstate an equally oppressive system. What we learn from oppression is how to oppress. If we want a truly transformative politics, then we must take up methods that embody the kind of world we want to create; we have to change deeply embedded beliefs and behaviours.In this engaging and passionate book, long-time ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • The Metropolitan Revolution

    How Cities and Metros Are Fixing Our Broken Politics and Fragile Economy

    by Bruce Katz, Jennifer Bradley ...
    Across the US, cities and metropolitan areas are facing huge economic and competitive challenges that Washington won't, or can't, solve. The good news is that networks of metropolitan leaders mayors, business and labor leaders, educators, and philanthropists are stepping up and powering the nation forward. These state and local leaders are doing the hard work to grow more jobs and make their ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Uneven Ground

    Appalachia Since 1945

    by Ronald D. Eller ...
    This award-winning history examines the politics of progress in America through a close look at industrial development in Appalachia since WWII.Appalachia has played a complex role in the unfolding of American history. Early-twentieth-century critics of modernity saw the region as a remnant of frontier life that should be preserved and protected. However, supporters of material production and ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Design First

    by David Walters, Linda Brown ...
    Well-grounded in the history and theory of Anglo-American urbanism, this illustrated textbook sets out objectives, policies and design principles for planning new communities and redeveloping existing urban neighborhoods. Drawing from their extensive experience, the authors explain how better plans (and consequently better places) can be created by applying the three-dimensional principles of ... Read more

    $119.99 CAD

  • How Cities Work

    Suburbs, Sprawl, and the Roads Not Taken

    by Alex Marshall ...
    Series series Constructs Series
    "Marshall writes with wit, reason, and style . . . An excellent resource on the history and future of American cities." — Library JournalDo cities work anymore? How did they get to be such sprawling conglomerations of lookalike subdivisions, mega freeways, and "big box" superstores surrounded by acres of parking lots? And why, most of all, don't they feel like real communities? These are the ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Climate Change and the Politics of Interdependence

    by Benjamin R. Barber, Hildegarde Hannum ...
    Series series Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures
    The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.We have created a system in which votes made with the dollar speak louder than votes at the poll. Today’s capitalism, Benjamin Barber argues, makes little distinction between wants and needs. Half a century ago, the model capitalist was one who ... Read more

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