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Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
Battle-hardened Tom Kedrick is hired by Alton Burwick to drive a pack of renegades and outlaws from his land, but soon Kendrick suspects that he is fighting for the wrong man and that he is the only one who can stop a massacre of innocent men and women.
Author
Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A radical history of squatting and the struggle for the right to remake the city The Autonomous City is the first popular history of squatting as practised in Europe and North America. Alex Vasudevan retraces the struggle for housing in Amsterdam, Berlin, Copenhagen, Detroit, Hamburg, London, Madrid, Milan, New York, and Vancouver. He looks at the organisation of alternative forms of housing--from Copenhagen's Freetown Christiana to the squats of...
Series
Urban food security volume Number 25
Publisher
African Food Security Urban Network
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
In Manhattan Hunt Club John Saul plumbs the depths of the Manhattan underground--the network of subway tunnels and secret caverns and chambers where the homeless denizens of the city have created their own society. It's a world Jeff Converse, a young college student convicted of a crime he didn't commit, never knew existed until he is plunged into it after an "accident" that occurs while he is being transported to prison.
Author
Series
Basel Namibia studies volume 11
Publisher
Basler Afrika Bibliographien
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
UCT Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
"The UN's Millennium Development Target to improve the lives of 100 million 'slum' dwellers has been inappropriately communicated as a target to free cities of slums. ... [The book] traces the proliferation of this misunderstanding across several African countries, and explains how current urban policy ... encourages this interpretation. The cases it presents cover a range of conflicts between poor urban residents and the local and national authorities...
Author
Series
Human settlement issues volume 7
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press
Pub. Date
1985
Language
English
Series
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
When a rich man, Elias Graves, buys a waterfront stretch of land, the squatters who have always fished there fight back. Tess persuades the rich man's son, Frederick, that his father is wrong to evict the poor folk. After much conflict and comedy, they wind up engaged.