books about: community-university     books:     Community-university      College Handbook 2009 The College Board College Board, 2008 invaluable college selection resource I found this book to be an invaluable resource. It helps to streamline the college selection process by organizing important college data several different ways: first by state and then by college type (4 year, 2-year, private, public). Additionally, it delves into ...             Ways with Words: Language, Life and Work in Communities and Classrooms (Cambridge Paperback Library) Shirley Brice Heath Cambridge University Press, 2006 Shirley Brice Heath Has a "Way With Words" Language is power. Heath, a reflective practitioner of both human nature and schooling, provides an in-depth view of communities which epitomize the struggle for such power. In her ethnographic study of Trackton and Roadville, Heath lays bare the socializing process ...             Community Practice: Theories and Skills for Social Workers David A. Hardcastle, Patricia R. Powers Oxford University Press, USA, 2004 Community Practice is a comprehensive resource for social workers and students eager to learn how to practice effectively in complex systems and diverse communities. In this completely revised edition of the definitive text in the field, the authors have thoroughly updated each chapter and added two entirely new chapters on community building and ...             Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh Harvard University Press, 2008 The Geography and Calculus of survival ghetto Style is not mere La Vie Quotidienne Americaine Here in its fullest glory, we get to see both the geography and the calculus of living in the American ghetto: the everyday tradeoffs being made hourly to survive, between "whoring and pimping" or "flipping burgers and cleaning toilets:" hustling pure and simple, from ...             Mama Might Be Better Off Dead: The Failure of Health Care in Urban America Laurie Kaye Abraham University Of Chicago Press, 1994 Great book If you're interested in health care in America, Medicare, Medicaid, Chicago, poverty, and health care disparities read this book. Great investigative journalism style.             The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit (Princeton Studies in American ... Thomas J. Sugrue Princeton University Press, 2005 Excellent history of urban decline This was required reading for a graduate course in American history. Thomas J. Sugrue attempts to prove that resistance to the civil rights movement had much deeper roots than the white backlash of the 1960s and 1970s. The author contends that resistance to the civil ...             The City's End: Two Centuries of Fantasies, Fears, and Premonitions of New York's Destruction Max Page Yale University Press, 2008 From nineteenth-century paintings of fires raging through New York City to scenes of Manhattan engulfed by a gigantic wave in the 1998 movie Deep Impact , images of the city?s end have been prolific and diverse. Why have Americans repeatedly imagined New York?s destruction? What do the fantasies of annihilation played out in virtually every form ...             Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing Baltimore's Eastern District Peter Moskos Princeton University Press, 2008 Cop in the Hood is Gold! This book is amazing. It takes you into the real life of becoming a polie officer through the academy to life on the streets. Peter Moskos does an excellent job in telling the truth of the life of a police officer. For anyone interesting in becoming a police officer or ...             Working Hard and Making Do: Surviving in Small Town America Margaret K. Nelson, Joan Smith University of California Press, 1999 The Beckoning Country Is Revealed As a result of hard schlorship on the part of Smith and Nelson we have a unvarnished and well researched story of what goes on behind the Norman Rockwell postcard towns here in Vermont. It is a bitter lesson that we had all better head and it is one that regional ...             The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy William Julius Wilson University Of Chicago Press, 1990 One of the 3 most important books written on race and policy Groundbreaking and unconventional, Wilson took a completely independent stance in this book, one that managed to displease partisans on both left and right. What he argues for is, among other things, that race-based programs and policies are doomed to fail because they ...             The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South John W. Blassingame Oxford University Press, USA, 1979 Excellent for Leisure Reading and as a Reference Guide I read this book for my history of American slavery class and I really enjoyed it. It is one of the books I did not sell back to the college when the semester ended. Blassingame focuses on the slave culture and uses such sources as folk songs, fugitive wanted ...             Sprawl: A Compact History Robert Bruegmann University Of Chicago Press, 2006 Excellent Urban History and Sociology Even Queen Elizabeth I (in the 1600s) was against sprawl, but the author shows that without a doubt all cities have been growing (sprawling) ever since as populations concentrate in fewer and fewer areas. The history of anti-sprawl movements is detailed and the ...             Human Behavior and the Social Environment: Micro Level: Individuals and Families Katherine van Wormer Oxford University Press, USA, 2007 Best Book on the Market I can't wait to use this book in my course! Very easy to read. The author uniquely integrates recent empirical research ranging from neuroimaging technology to international studies on the psychological impact of war upon women and children. Drawing upon ...             Black on the Block: The Politics of Race and Class in the City Mary Pattillo University Of Chicago Press, 2008 In Black on the Block , Mary Pattillo?a Newsweek Woman of the 21st Century?uses the historic rise, alarming fall, and equally dramatic renewal of Chicago?s North Kenwood?Oakland neighborhood to explore the politics of race and class in contemporary urban America.             There was a time when North Kenwood?Oakland was plagued by gangs, ...             Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States Kenneth T. Jackson Oxford University Press, USA, 1987 A classical look at the suburbs of the United States Jackson writes one of the seminal studies in urban history relating to the suburbs. The end conclusion is that suburbs have not been beneficial to the United States. This tracks things from the start of suburbanization to the downfall of downtowns. 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