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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: 27-02-2024
    • 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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    • By: Maria V. Snyder
    • Narrated by: Raphael Corkhill
    • Series: The Chronicles of Ixia
    • Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 04-04-2023
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • 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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    • 60 Years of Bright Lights and Back Alleys... and Baseball
    • By: Robert Whiting
    • Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
    • Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 22-06-2021
    • Language: English
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    • Tokyo Junkie is a memoir that plays out over the dramatic 60-year growth of the megacity Tokyo, once a dark, fetid backwater and now the most populous, sophisticated, and safe urban capital in the world....

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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: 25-02-2020
    • 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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    • 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: 01-08-2017
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    • 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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    • By: Maria V. Snyder
    • Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
    • Series: The Chronicles of Ixia, Book 5
    • Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 26-01-2016
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • The Rise and Fall of Big Meech and the Black Mafia Family
    • By: Mara Shalhoup
    • Narrated by: L. Steven Taylor
    • Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 25-06-2019
    • Language: English
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    • In the early 1990s, Demetrius "Big Meech" Flenory and his brother, Terry "Southwest T", rose up from the slums of Detroit to build one of the largest cocaine empires in American history: the Black Mafia Family....

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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: 31-01-2017
    • Language: English
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    • 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 Study in Shadows, Book 2
    • By: Sara C. Roethle
    • Narrated by: Kim Bretton
    • Series: A Study in Shadows, Book 2
    • Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 21-03-2023
    • Language: English
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    • When another ancient is murdered, Lyssandra alone cannot resist Asher’s call. Aiding him means going against the Potentate’s direct orders, and she won’t bring Steifan and Tholdri down with her. But the murder isn’t the only problem....

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    • How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World
    • By: Richard Cockett
    • Narrated by: Gareth Richards
    • Length: 14 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 26-12-2023
    • Language: English
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    • Richard Cockett gives us the entirety of an extraordinary story of how one city made the modern world—and how we all remain inescapably Viennese....

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    • Urban Power, Earthly Ruin (California Studies in Critical Human Geography, Book 3)
    • By: Gray Brechin
    • Narrated by: Gray Brechin
    • Series: California Studies in Critical Human Geography, Book 3
    • Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-2023
    • Language: English
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    • Imperial San Francisco is the epic saga of how all great cities parasitize their hinterlands for the sake of those elites who own and run them by using the mass media at their command to shape the thought of those who unwittingly serve their interests....

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    • Paris in the Belle Époque
    • By: Mike Rapport
    • Narrated by: Paul Daintry
    • Length: 14 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 14-05-2024
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    • 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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    • How Zoning Shapes Our World
    • By: Sara C. Bronin
    • Narrated by: Rachel Perry
    • Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 29-10-2024
    • Language: English
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    • Legal scholar and architect Sara C. Bronin examines how zoning became such a prevailing force and reveals its impact—and its potential for good.

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    • The Enduring Impact of Color in Everyday Life
    • By: Elijah Anderson
    • Narrated by: Leon Nixon
    • Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 20-09-2022
    • Language: English
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    • In Black in White Space, Anderson brings his immense knowledge and ethnography to bear in this timely study of the racial barriers that are still firmly entrenched in our society at every class level....

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    • How Lot Sellers, Land Scammers, and Retirees Built Modern Florida and Transformed the American Dream
    • By: Jason Vuic
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 21-06-2021
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    • Florida has long beckoned retirees seeking to spend their golden years in the sun, but, for many, the American dream of owning a home there was financially impossible. That changed in the 1950s....

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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: 22-06-2023
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    • 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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    • In Search of the Cities of Tomorrow
    • By: Des Fitzgerald
    • Narrated by: Des Fitzgerald
    • Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 16-01-2024
    • Language: English
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    • What would the city of the future look like if we tried to build a better life from the ground up? And would anyone want to live there? Here, Des Fitzgerald takes us on an urgent, unforgettable journey into the future of urban life....

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