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Bargaining for Brooklyn
When middle-class residents fled American cities in the 1960s and 1970s, government services and investment capital left too. Countless urban neighborhoods thus entered phases of precipitous decline, prompting the creation of community-based organizations that sought to bring direly needed resources back to the inner city. Today there are tens of thousands of these CBOs—private nonprofit groups that work diligently within tight budgets to give assistance and opportunity to our most vulnerable citizens by providing services such as housing, child care, and legal aid. Through ethnographic fieldwork at eight CBOs in the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Williamsburg and Bushwick, Nicole P. Marwell discovered that the complex and contentious relationships these groups form with larger economic and political institutions outside the neighborhood have a huge and unexamined impact on the lives of the poor. Most studies of urban poverty focus on individuals or families, but Bargaining for Brooklyn widens the lens, examining the organizations whose actions and decisions collectively drive urban life.
Shirley Chisholm
Shaking up New York and national politics by becoming the first African American congresswoman and, later, the first Black major-party presidential candidate, Shirley Chisholm left an indelible mark as an "unbought and unbossed" firebrand and a leader in politics for meaningful change. Chisholm spent her formative years moving between Barbados and Brooklyn, and the development of her political orientation did not follow the standard narratives of the civil rights or feminist establishments. Rather, Chisholm arrived at her Black feminism on her own path, making signature contributions to U.S. politics as an inventor and practitioner of Black feminist power—the vantage point centering Black girls and women in the movement that sought to transform political power into a broadly democratic force. Anastasia C. Curwood interweaves Chisholm's public image, political commitments, and private experiences to create a definitive account of a consequential life. In so doing, Curwood suggests new truths for understanding the social movements of Chisholm's time and the opportunities she forged for herself through multicultural, multigenerational, and cross-gender coalition building.
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Buzz Saw
The remarkable story of the 2019 World Series champion Washington Nationals told by the Washington Post writer who followed the team most closely. By May 2019, the Washington Nationals—owners of baseball’s oldest roster—had one of the worst records in the majors and just a 1.5 percent chance of winning the World Series. Yet by blending an old-school brand of baseball with modern analytics, they managed to sneak into the playoffs and put together the most unlikely postseason run in baseball history. Not only did they beat the Houston Astros, the team with the best regular-season record, to claim the franchise’s first championship—they won all four games in Houston, making them the f...
Lethal Legacy 1
Dеtесtіvе Andrеw Mаrtіn had been in thе homicide dіvіѕіоn оf thе Baltimore роlісе fоrсе fоr twelve оf hіѕ ѕеvеntееn уеаrѕ іn lаw еnfоrсеmеnt. Fоr the mоѕt раrt hе lоvеd his job еxсерt for thе kіnd of саѕеѕ thаt hе wаѕ сurrеntlу working оn. Thеrе wаѕ a ѕtrіng оf unsolved murdеrѕ thе lаѕt соunt was tеn thаt was driving hіm nuts. Thе рrоblеm wаѕ thаt thе dеаthѕ hаd ѕеvеrаl thіngѕ іn соmmоn, they wеrе аll young hеаlthу mаlеѕ, аll of thеm had bееn drаіnеd of blооd, аnd еасh оf them had had a ѕеt of рunсturе mаrkѕ that looked аѕ іf they wеrе made by large...
Baseball Prospectus Futures Guide 2022
Futures Guide 2022 features: Detailed reports on top 10 prospects for every major-league team. Condensed reports on many additional key prospects for each team. Top talents 25 years old and younger for each team. Baseball Prospectus’ 2022 organizational rankings. Top 101 real-life and fantasy prospects. Top 50 players who entered pro baseball in 2022. Additional essays on various prospect and scouting related topics.
