city quartz excavating future von davis mike (46 Ergebnisse)

paperback. Zustand: Gut. 462 Seiten; 9780679738060.3 Gewicht in Gramm: 500.

Zustand: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,600grams, ISBN:9781844675685.

Zustand: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. Book contains pencil markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,650grams, ISBN:9780099998204.

Zustand: very good. Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages.

Zustand: very good. Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages.

Zustand: Very Good. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Shows some signs of wear but in good overall condition. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.

Zustand: VERY GOOD. Trade paperback. A provocative - even a brilliant - book by one of the most thoughtful writers on Los Angeles and California, one who is missed today: "Mike Davis peers into a looking glass to divine the future of Los Angeles, and what he sees is not encouraging: a city torn by racial enmity, economic disparity, and social anomie. Looking backward, Davis suggests that Los Angeles has always been contested ground. In the 1840s, he writes, a combination of drought and industrial stock raising led to the destruction of small-scale Spanish farming in the region. In the 1910s, Los Angeles was the scene of a bitter conflict between management and industrial workers, so bitter that the publisher of the Los Angeles Times retreated to a heavily fortified home he called 'The Bivouac.' And in 1992, much of the city fell before flames and riot in a scenario Davis describes as thus: 'Gangs are multiplying at a terrifying rate, cops are becoming more arrogant and trigger-happy, and a whole generation is being shunted toward some impossible Armageddon.' Davis's voice-in-a-whirlwind approach to the past, present, and future of Los Angeles is alarming and arresting, and his book is essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary affairs."(Gregory MacNamee) Near fine.

8°, 462 S. einige Abb., Kart. m. OU., Min gebrauchspurig. Third impression. Text: engl. 3200 gr. Schlagworte: Architektur - Städtebau.

Softcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Reprint edition. As of 2006 U.N. figures, over 1,000,000,000 human beings lived in the slums of the world. Verso Publishers' blurb about the author of these two (2) books says, "Mike Davis (1946-2022) was a writer, political activist, urban theorist, and historian. He is best known for his investigations of power and class in works such as City of Quartz, Late Victorian Holocausts, and Planet of Slums. His last two non-fiction books are Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties, co-authored by Jon Wiener, and The Monster Enters: COVID-19, Avian Flu, and the Plagues of Capitalism. He was the recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship and the Lannan Literary Award." Two trade paperbacks, one with only superficial wear to front fore-edges, dissipating quickly, the other, in sterling condition, clean, tightly bound and unmarked. 2007 publication date for a stated fifth printing of his Planet of Slums, with 228 pp. and a full comportment of notes, bibliography and index. His magnum opus, in my opinion, is his City of Quartz: excavating the future, and it is a stated fifth printing and with the same full scholarly edifice. Evocative photography also by Robert Morrow. xxvi [1], 2-481 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. Scarce hardcover first edition, first printing of Mike Davis's classic study of Los Angeles, City of Quartz. No additional printings listing, very scarce thus. Well-bound and internally unmarked. Slight shelfwear to dust jacket, particularly along edges, one scratch to rear panel. Jacket now in brodart. Boards have slightest wear to head of spine and along bottom edge, upper corner of rear board is slightly bumped.