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Bang Crunch creates an extraordinary world inhabited by all-too-human characters, and heralds the arrival of a literary talent with an unfailing, exacting concern for the profundities of our lives.]]> 35193 3.81 185 49 2008 993097 041513255X 9780415132558 5 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180054479m/993097.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180054479s/993097.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/993097.The_New_Urban_Frontier_Gentrification_and_the_Revanchist_City 4.00 23 Why have so many central and inner cities been radically revamped in the last three decades, converting urban decay into new chic? Will the process continue in the twenty-first century or has it ended? The New Urban Frontier challenges the conventional wisdom, which holds gentrification to be the simple outcome of changing middle-class tastes and a growing demand for urban living, and emphasizes instead gentrification as part of a much larger shift in the political economy and culture of the late twentieth century.

Documenting in gritty detail the conflicts that gentrification brings to the new urban 'frontiers', Neil Smith explores the interconnections of urban policy, patterns of investment, eviction, and homelessness. The failure of liberal urban policy and the end of the 1980s' financial boom have made the end-of-the-century city a darker and more dangerous place. Public policy and the private market are conspiring against minorities, working people, the poor, and the homeless as never before. In the emerging revanchist city, gentrification has become part of this policy of revenge.

]]> 35193 3.81 185 49 1996 374493 0415950120 9780415950121 2 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174266970m/374493.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174266970s/374493.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/374493.The_Endgame_of_Globalization 3.75 12 The recent American invasion of Iraq represents the "endgame" of America's decades-old effort to impose its vision of globalization-a system dominated by multinational firms and buttressed by the liberalism of John Locke and Adam Smith. Whereas the war surely ended Saddam Hussein's regime, the storm of countervailing forces it unleashed points to another end: that of America's latest global project.
This is not the first time that the US has tried to reshape the world in its own liberal image, but the third. The first effort stretched from the late nineteenth century to 1920, ending when America rejected entry into the League of Nations. The FDR administration engineered the second attempt in the 1940s, but it withered in the Cold War. The third moment-the era of globalization-began in the late 1960s, when the US transformed the Bretton Woods financial institutions and used its own economic power to enforce a worldwide neoliberal orthodoxy tied to an ideal of liberal democracy. But the effort is failing for the same reasons the preceding attempts failed.
As Neil Smith shows, the Lockean liberalism that animates American globalism has always been undercut by a crippling nationalism that exposes the contradictions built into the ideal. In each instance, a hard-edged nationalism-evident in the rejection of the League of Nations, in the policies of the Cold War, and in the current Iraq war-always surfaces and drives US actions despite America's self-perception as a champion of benign universal values. Moreover, it always generates opposition.
Attuned to history, political economy, and geography, The Endgame of Globalization is a sweeping and powerful account of America's century-long quest for global dominance and the nationalism within that invariably unravels the dream.

]]> 35193 3.81 185 49 2004 2132043 0631136851 9780631136859 2 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2132043.Uneven_Development_Nature_Capital_and_the_Production_of_Space 4.00 10 35193 3.81 185 49 1984 743355 0521546885 9780521546881 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177937316m/743355.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177937316s/743355.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/743355.Chomsky_Ideas_and_Ideals 4.33 3 35193 3.81 185 49 1999 534424 0520243382 9780520243385 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175608878m/534424.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175608878s/534424.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/534424.American_Empire_Roosevelt_s_Geographer_and_the_Prelude_to_Globalization 4.33 3 The story unfolds through a decisive account of the career of Isaiah Bowman (1878-1950), the most famous American geographer of the twentieth century. For nearly four decades Bowman operated around the vortex of state power, working to bring an American order to the global landscape. An explorer on the famous Machu Picchu expedition of 1911 who came to be known first as "Woodrow Wilson's geographer," and later as Frankin D. Roosevelt's, Bowman was present at the creation of U.S. liberal foreign policy.
A quarter-century later, Bowman was at the center of Roosevelt's State Department, concerned with the disposition of Germany and heightened U.S. access to European colonies; he was described by Dean Acheson as a key "architect of the United Nations." In that period he was a leader in American science, served as president of Johns Hopkins University, and became an early and vociferous cold warrior. A complicated, contradictory, and at times controversial figure who was very much in the public eye, he appeared on the cover of Time magazine.
Bowman's career as a geographer in an era when the value of geography was deeply questioned provides a unique window into the contradictory uses of geographical knowledge in the construction of the American Empire. Smith's historical excavation reveals, in broad strokes yet with lively detail, that today's American-inspired globalization springs not from the 1980s but from two earlier moments in 1919 and 1945, both of which ended in failure. By recharting the geography of this history, Smith brings the politics--and the limits--of contemporary globalization sharply into focus.]]> 35193 3.81 185 49 2003 869233 0631228721 9780631228721 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179050800m/869233.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179050800s/869233.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/869233.Language_Bananas_and_Bonobos_Linguistic_Problems_Puzzles_and_Polemics 4.00 2 35193 3.81 185 49 2001 6495601 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6495601-democracy-states-and-the-struggle-for-global-justice 4.00 1 35193 3.81 185 49 917329 4.00 1 0 513031 4.25 4 0 516991 2.00 3 0 2009 3177551 1886110638 9781886110632 1 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3177551.Yes_I_Can_Struggles_from_Childhood_to_the_NFL 4.00 1 35193 3.81 185 49 2002 2299638 0631190171 9780631190172 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/22/638/2299638-m-1255645075.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/22/638/2299638-s-1255645075.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2299638.The_Mind_of_a_Savant_Language_Learning_and_Modularity 4.00 1 35193 3.81 185 49 1995