Urban City

A lauded expert on European history paints a vivid picture of Paris, London, and New York during the Age of Revolutions, exploring how each city fostered or suppressed political uprisings within its boundaries. In The Unruly City, historian Mike Rapport offers a vivid history of three intertwined cities toward the end of the 18th century - Paris, London, and New York - all in the midst of political chaos and revolution.

🔥 Guilty Pleasures – A bold, seductive, and laugh-out-loud journey into lust, chaos, and the kind of pleasure that just might lead to love. Come as you are—no judgment, no filter—as Belle takes you into her world of sexual misadventures, secret desires, and wild detours through the modern dating jungle. She’s been betrayed, ghosted, lied to, and left heartbroken—but she’s still hoping to find something real. Wealthy, witty, and emotionally raw, Belle is an only child who lost both her parents far too young. She craves connection, even as she stumbles into situations that ...

Vampire Anna Strong never expected to find the witch Sophie Deveraux on her doorstep, asking for a favor. But Sophie needs help, even if it's from the vampire who killed her sister. Anna, driven both by guilt and obligation, agrees to help Sophie and her psychic alter-ego, Jonathan. So begins an adventure that takes them to Leadville, Colorado. All too soon, Anna wonders whether Sophie is truly a victim of circumstance...or the author of a clever plot to rid herself of her unwanted psychic twin.

After news of the attempted murder of his estranged fiancée, Gucci, Animal has two things on his mind: love and gunplay. With the help of his mistress, the deadly Red Sonja, Animal manages to elude his captors in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, and washes up on the shores of Miami. He's one step closer to home, but it may as well be a world away. Animal is still a wanted fugitive, and getting to New York undetected proves to be trickier than he thought.

In this remarkable challenge to conventional thinking about the environment, David Owen argues that the greenest community in the United States is not Portland, Oregon, or Snowmass, Colorado, but New York City.

Simmie Johnson was born the son of a slave. He was also a genius. After earning a PhD in physics from Tuskegee Institute, he wrote a paper outlining a theory for time travel, including plans for a time machine - called a chronocar - which was published in a scientific journal in the early 1900s. Since the technology required to build the chronocar did not yet exist, the paper and its brilliant writer faded into obscurity.

A pioneering exploration of four cities where East meets West and past becomes future: St. Petersburg, Shanghai, Mumbai, and Dubai. Every month, five million people move from the past to the future. Pouring into developing-world “instant cities” like Dubai and Shenzhen, these urban newcomers confront a modern world cobbled together from fragments of a West they have never seen. Do these fantastical boomtowns, where blueprints spring to life overnight on virgin land, represent the dawning of a brave new world? Or is their vaunted newness a mirage?

All places are not created equal. In this groundbreaking book, Richard Florida shows that where we live is increasingly a crucial factor in our lives, one that fundamentally affects our professional and personal prospects. As well as explaining why place matters now more than ever, Who's Your City? provides indispensable tools to help you choose the right place for you.

To his customers and neighbours on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably priced furniture, making a life for himself and his family. He and his wife, Elizabeth, are expecting their second child, and if her parents on Striver's Row don't approve of him or their cramped apartment across from the subway tracks, it's still home. Few people know he descends from a line of uptown hoods and crooks and that his façade of normalcy has more than a few cracks in it. Cracks that are getting bigger and bigger all the time.

Tras décadas de expansión descontrolada, más personas que nunca están volviendo a la ciudad. La vida urbana densa se ha prescrito como la panacea para la crisis medioambiental y de recursos de nuestro tiempo. ¿Pero es mejor o peor para nuestra felicidad? ¿Son el metro, las aceras y las torres de apartamentos una mejora respecto a la dependencia del coche en los suburbios?

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Lisa Belkin penetrates the prejudices, myths, and heated emotions stirred by the most recent trend in public housing as she re-creates a landmark case in riveting detail, showing how a proposal to build scattered-site public housing in middle-class neighborhoods nearly destroyed an entire city and forever changed the lives of many of its citizens.

Dive into the transformative world of "Urban Eden" – your comprehensive guide to mastering the art of urban gardening. Nurturing a green haven amidst concrete and high-rises can seem daunting, but with this eBook, you will unearth the secrets to creating a thriving, verdant space of your own, no matter how compact your urban surroundings may be. "Urban Eden" guides you through every step of your gardening journey, beginning with the Urban Gardening Basics where you will understand the intricacies of the urban environment and discover innovative strategies for making the most out of ...

Discover the blueprint for harmonizing urban life and nature in "Urban Eco-Defense". This guide is your essential handbook for navigating the challenges and rewards of coexisting with urban wildlife in a sustainable, ethical manner. Diving into the essence of eco-friendly strategies, "Urban Eco-Defense" offers a profound introduction to urban wildlife management. Learn to decode wildlife behavior and familiarize yourself with the common species that share our urban spaces, paving the way for compassionate and knowledgeable engagement. Tackle the ethical quandaries of wildlife control ...

USA Today bestselling author Posey Parks brings another heart stopping dark mafia romance. Upon waking up, no one would disclose Tori's whereabouts, nor did they seem willing to do so. My injuries were so severe that I had to be sedated for a period of time to allow my body to heal. When the truth finally came out, I was overcome with emotions and desperate to find Tori. All the near-death experiences I went through for her made me realize that I was deeply in love with her. Tori appeared in my life when I was at my lowest point after losing my boss's girlfriend while on duty. Despite her ...

For human slave Elle, it’s just another night of breaking her stepmother’s rules and sneaking out. Another night of using her unique skills for clients who want to...forget. Get the job done. Get paid. Move one step closer to legitimately buying a wish. But when Elle runs face-first into a charming and handsome faerie and then ends up in the clutches of a vampire, her usual fly-under-the-radar plans are knocked off course.

Raphael Roberts is back in this final installment of the Good Cop, Bad Cop series. Raphael dodges yet another bullet when he's recruited by the feds. He's unleashed on the city of Atlanta's booming drug market. He's so deep undercover the lines begin to blur. He soon loses track and can't recall if he's an undercover cop pretending to be a dope boy or dope boy pretending to be a cop. His old comrade from the police force joins him but officer Johnson has secrets of her own. Not even Superman can dodge all bullets and unlike Superman Raphael isn't bulletproof. Turn the page and see if he'll ...

London. A city apart. Inimitable. Or so it once seemed. Spiralling from the outer limits of the Overground to the pinnacle of the Shard, Iain Sinclair encounters a metropolis stretched beyond recognition. The vestiges of secret tunnels, the ghosts of saints and lost poets lie buried by developments, the cycling revolution and Brexit. An electrifying final odyssey, The Last London is an unforgettable vision of the Big Smoke before it disappears into the air of memory.

On March 11, 2003, in Brownsville, Texas - one of America's poorest cities - John Allen Rubio and Angela Camacho murdered their three young children. The apartment building in which the brutal crimes took place was already run down, and in their aftermath a consensus developed in the community that it should be destroyed. It was a place, neighbors felt, that was plagued by spiritual cancer.

Found wandering the Witch Woods as a child, everything about Sophia is a mystery. With no memories and no family, she’s raised in secret by the professors of Nighthelm Academy...all of whom know far more about her than they’re letting on. But Sophia does know one thing: she’s a contritum, a magical being with a broken soul. Her very existence is illegal, and until she finds the other piece of her soul, her uncontrollable magic will only grow more deadly and untamed. Then she discovers three men who hold a mysterious sway over not just her soul, but also her heart.