From the critically acclaimed author of The 25th Hour, a captivating novel about war, courage, survival — and a remarkable friendship that... ripples across a lifetime. During the Nazis’ brutal siege of Leningrad, Lev Beniov is arrested for looting and thrown into the same cell as a handsome deserter named Kolya. Instead of being executed, Lev and Kolya are given a shot at saving their own lives by complying with an outrageous directive: secure a dozen eggs for a powerful Soviet colonel to use in his daughter’s wedding cake. In a city cut off from all supplies and suffering unbelievable deprivation, Lev and Kolya embark on a hunt through the dire lawlessness of Leningrad and behind enemy lines to find the impossible. By turns insightful and funny, thrilling and terrifying, City of Thieves is a gripping, cinematic World War II adventure and an intimate coming-of-age story with an utterly contemporary feel for how boys become men.

Women in Saudi Arabia are expected to lead quiet lives circumscribed by Islamic tradition. But Katya, one of the few women in the medical examiner's... office, is determined to make her work mean something.When the body of a brutally beaten woman is found on the beach in Jeddah, detectives are ready to dismiss the case as another unsolvable murder. Only Katya is convinced that the victim can be identified and her killer found.Katya soon discovers that the dead girl was a young filmmaker named Leila whose controversial documentaries earned her many enemies. Was it Leila's connection to an incendiary Koranic scholar or a missing American man that got her killed?In CITY OF VEILS, the award-winning novelist Zoë Ferraris combines a thrilling, fast-paced mystery with a rare and intimate look into women's lives in the Middle East.

Teresa Caldeira's pioneering study of fear, crime, and segregation in São Paulo poses essential questions about citizenship and urban change in... contemporary democratic societies. Focusing on São Paulo, and using comparative data on Los Angeles, she identifies new patterns of segregation developing in these cities and suggests that these patterns are appearing in many metropolises.

In City of Widows, Haifa Zangana tells the story of her country, from the early twentieth century through the US-UK invasion and the current occupation.... She brings to light a sense of Iraq as a society mainly of secularists who have been denied, through years of sanctions, war, and occupation, a systemwithin which to build the country according to their own values. She points to the long history of political activism and social participation of Iraqi women, and the fact that, before the recent invasion, they had been among the most liberated of their gender in the Middle East. Finally, she writes aboutBaghdad today as a city populated by bereaved women and children who have lost their loved ones and their land, but who are still emboldened by the native right to resist and liberate themselves to create an independent Iraq.

A renowned anthropologist explores the history and meaning of eating in America.Addressing issues ranging from the global phenomenon of Coca-Cola to the... diets of American slaves, Sidney Mintz shows how our choices about food are shaped by a vast and increasingly complex global economy. He demonstrates that our food choices have enormous and often surprising significance.

The first book written in the Islamic world to study Christ's crucifixion, this text recreates the city of Jerusalem on Good Friday, considering the... actions and states of mind of the bystanders and participants.

"The authors reveal how the Cuban success story has transformed the character of Miami while delineating more sharply the identity of other ethnic... communities." --New York Times Book Review"Makes a case for the importance of political capital . . . in building ethnic solidarity."--Contemporary Sociology

"The authors reveal how the Cuban success story has transformed the character of Miami while delineating more sharply the identity of other ethnic... communities." --New York Times Book Review"Makes a case for the importance of political capital . . . in building ethnic solidarity."--Contemporary Sociology

For more than a hundred years, Buffalo was one of the world's great industrial cities. Its grand office buildings and stately mansions overlooked a... metropolis that was the eleventh largest industrial centre in the United States, the third largest producer of steel, and the largest inland port. Its diverse ethnic heritage, represented by sizeable enclaves of Irish, Italians, Poles, Jews, Germans, and African-Americans, gave the city a vibrant sense of community. But by the early 1970's, all of that had changed. Unrest in the inner city had led to riots; student protests had shut down the city's largest university; and the economy in Buffalo, as in all the 'Rust Belt' cities, was crumbling as the nation entered the post-industrial age. The population was dropping, too, dramatically altering the streets and neighbourhoods where the people of this ageing metropolis had lived for generations. Like the Jerusalem of Jeremiah's "Lamentations", Buffalo was a dying city whose gates were desolate and whose people were embittered. It is here that Mark Goldman's "City on the Lake" takes up its story. Goldman analyses the factors that contributed to the city's decline and describes the efforts of its leaders and citizens to restore Buffalo to its former vitality. Goldman presents the facts - like the immigration patterns in Old Buffalo and the intricate details of the city's 1976 desegregation case - and he also introduces us to the people of Buffalo and puts the city's history into context by interweaving it with the colourful ethnic patchwork of its day-to-day life. By the end of this careful analysis, Goldman's narrative is one of hope. The 1980s witnessed the slow but sure calming of ethnic strife, a new mandate for quality education, and the revitalisation of downtown. Goldman believes that the grandeur of Buffalo's past will be recaptured and that Buffalonians are dedicated to building 'new gates for the old city'.

This study explains the parallel development of urbanization and modernization in late nineteenth-century American society, demonstrating how the... successful features of big-city life spread across the country and transformed towns all over America.

Updated in its 8th Edition, City Politics argues that the politics of growth, the politics of governance, and enclave politics are the three imperatives... that dissolve the past and present into a singular, continuous narrative.  Praised for the clarity of its writing, careful research, and distinctive theme - that urban politics in the United States has evolved as a dynamic interaction among governmental power, private actors, and a politics of identity - City Politics  remains a classic study of urban politics.

City Politics, Canada is an introduction to the basic politics and core policies of today's city halls. While the book surveys classic discussions and... accurately describes municipal institutions in Canada, it also explains why particular policies assume the specific shape they do. James Lightbody draws on over thirty years experience researching and participating in city politics to argue that transparent accountability from local public officials, related to specific policies and the general condition of the community, is an important and desired end for democratic city government. Arguments for change within city politics are insufficient if the result is that everyone has a say but no one is accountable. In following this theme throughout the book, Lightbody examines the various facets of metropolitan politics in a lively and engaging manner, and explains why city politics are important to all Canadians. Provincial agenda setting is viewed through the lens of the urban political landscape, as are the reasons behind the Toronto Megacity (1996) and Montreal's consolidation. Finally, the book expands its discussion to explore the global reach of the urban phenomenon and the impact of world practices on Canada's metropolitan cities. The ultimate hope for this book is that readers, as citizens, will be better able to understand the basic politics and core policies of today's city halls--and will be better equipped to participate effectively in the processes by which those policies are made.

Praised for the clarity of its writing, careful research, and distinctive theme — that urban politics in the United States has evolved as a... dynamic interaction among governmental power, private actors, and a politics of identity — the Sixth Edition of this text brings city politics of the global era into sharp focus by tracing the continuous development of urban America from the nation’s founding to the present.

Praised for the clarity of its writing, careful research, and distinctive theme — that urban politics in the United States has evolved as a dynamic... interaction among governmental power, private actors, and a politics of identity — the Seventh Edition of this text brings city politics of the global era into sharp focus by tracing the continuous development of urban America from the nation’s founding to the present.