Urban Studies

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    • The Chronicles of Ixia, Book 3
    • By: Maria V. Snyder
    • Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
    • Series: The Chronicles of Ixia, Book 3
    • Length: 14 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 12-03-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • When word that Yelena is a Soulfinder—able to capture and release souls—spreads like wildfire, she faces mistrust and fear in Sitia. What’s more, she keeps discovering unusual new sides of her abilities. As the Council debates Yelena’s fate, she receives a disturbing message....

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    • True Fictions from an Unreal City
    • By: Iain Sinclair
    • Narrated by: Iain Sinclair
    • Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • 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....

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    • By: Maria V. Snyder
    • Narrated by: Raphael Corkhill
    • Series: The Chronicles of Ixia
    • Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 04-04-23
    • Language: English
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    • As Chief of Security of Ixia, Valek has spent the last 15 years keeping Commander Ambrose and his citizens safe. With his complex network of spies, informers, and soldiers, it’s his job to hunt down and capture criminals, including the intriguing Yelena....

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    • The Remarkable History of the Lagoon City
    • By: Dennis Romano
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 30 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 27-02-24
    • Language: English
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    • No city stirs the imagination more than Venice. From the richly ornamented palaces emerging from the waters of the Grand Canal to the dazzling sites of Piazza San Marco, visitors and residents alike sense they are entering, as fourteenth-century poet Petrarch remarked, “another world.”....

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    • Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America
    • By: Khalil Gibran Muhammad
    • Narrated by: Mirron Willis
    • Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 01-08-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Lynch mobs, chain gangs, and popular views of black Southern criminals that defined the Jim Crow South are well known. We know less about the role of the urban North in shaping views of race....

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    • Homosexuality, Prostitution, and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris (Sexuality Studies)
    • By: Andrew Israel Ross
    • Narrated by: Sebastian Brown
    • Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 29-11-22
    • Language: English
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    • Public City/Public Sex examines how the notion that male sexual desire required suitable outlets shaped urban policing and development. Ross traces the struggle to control sex in public....

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    • Journeys in the Deep City
    • By: Tom Chivers
    • Narrated by: Tom Chivers
    • Length: 14 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 09-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • Tom Chivers follows hidden pathways, explores lost islands and uncovers the geological mysteries that burst up through the pavement and bubble to the surface of our streets....

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    • By: Maria V. Snyder
    • Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
    • Series: The Chronicles of Ixia, Book 6
    • Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 31-01-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • Despite the odds, Yelena and Valek have forged an irrevocable bond - and a family - that transcends borders. Now, when their two homelands stand on the brink of war....

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    • A World History in Fifteen Cities
    • By: Caroline Campbell
    • Narrated by: Melanie McHugh
    • Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 12-10-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • The Power of Art is an epic work of non-fiction that will transform our understanding of the world by unlocking the human stories behind millennia of art....

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    • Paris in the Belle Époque
    • By: Mike Rapport
    • Narrated by: Paul Daintry
    • Length: 14 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 14-05-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Paris in the Belle Époque is remembered as a golden age of cultural flourishing and political progress. But as Mike Rapport reveals in this authoritative and beautifully written new history, City of Light, City of Shadows, beneath the elegant veneer Paris was at war with itself....

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    • A Study in Urban Revolution
    • By: Dan Georgakas, Marvin Surkin
    • Narrated by: Brian Jones, David Sadzin, Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 25-02-20
    • Language: English
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    • This new South End Press edition makes available the full text of this out-of-print classic - along with a new foreword by Manning Marable, interviews with participants in DRUM, and reflections on political developments over the past three decades by Georgakas and Surkin....

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    • By: Gail de Vos
    • Narrated by: Kelly Burke
    • Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 12-11-24
    • Language: English
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    • A comprehensive and entertaining collection of urban legends from around the world, with a history and analysis of the origin of each tale, The Watkins Book of Urban Legends is compiled by a leading authority in the field.

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    • The Chronicles of Ixia, Book 2
    • By: Maria V. Snyder
    • Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
    • Series: The Chronicles of Ixia, Book 2
    • Length: 14 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 13-02-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • After the discovery of her magical abilities leads to her execution being ordered, Yelena has no choice but to flee to Sitia, her long-lost birthplace. There, she has the chance to meet the family she never knew....

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    • Why Our Future Will Be Won or Lost Together
    • By: Ian Goldin, Tom Lee-Devlin
    • Narrated by: Nathaniel Priestley
    • Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 22-06-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Visionary Oxford professor Ian Goldin and The Economist's Tom Lee-Devlin show why the city is where the battles of inequality, social division, pandemics and climate change must be faced....

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    • The Heady Rise and Slow Fall of America's Bohemian Music Capital
    • By: David Browne
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 15 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 17-09-24
    • Language: English
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    • The definitive history of the rise and heyday of the revolutionary Greenwich Village music scene, based on new research and first-hand interviews with many of its legendary performers.

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    • By: Iain Sinclair
    • Narrated by: Iain Sinclair
    • Length: 22 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 11-03-21
    • Language: English
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    • London Orbital is Iain Sinclair's voyage of discovery into the unloved outskirts of the city....

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    • By: Maria V. Snyder
    • Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
    • Series: The Chronicles of Ixia, Book 5
    • Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 26-01-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 48 ratings
    • Ever since being kidnapped from the Illiais Jungle as a child, Yelena Zaltana's life has been fraught with peril. But the recent loss of her Soulfinding abilities has endangered her....

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