Tag: Struggle

Philadelphia, Corrupt and Consenting A City’s Struggle against an Epithet


Free Download Brett H. Mandel, "Philadelphia, Corrupt and Consenting: A City’s Struggle against an Epithet"
English | ISBN: 1439924279 | 2023 | 272 pages | PDF | 4 MB
More than a century after muckraking journalist Lincoln Steffens derided the city of Philadelphia as being "corrupt and contented," Philadelphia struggles to rise above this unfortunate characterization. Philadelphia, Corrupt and Consentingis the story of a city’s confrontation with a history that threatens its future. Author Brett Mandel, who has been a reform-oriented government official and political insider, provides a detailed account of the corruption investigation of John Dougherty, one of the city’s most powerful political figures, in order to expose and explore networks of corruption.

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Philadelphia, Corrupt and Consenting A City’s Struggle against an Epithet


Free Download Brett H. Mandel, "Philadelphia, Corrupt and Consenting: A City’s Struggle against an Epithet"
English | ISBN: 1439924279 | 2023 | 272 pages | PDF | 4 MB
More than a century after muckraking journalist Lincoln Steffens derided the city of Philadelphia as being "corrupt and contented," Philadelphia struggles to rise above this unfortunate characterization. Philadelphia, Corrupt and Consentingis the story of a city’s confrontation with a history that threatens its future. Author Brett Mandel, who has been a reform-oriented government official and political insider, provides a detailed account of the corruption investigation of John Dougherty, one of the city’s most powerful political figures, in order to expose and explore networks of corruption.

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The Struggle


Free Download Matema Magagane, "The Struggle"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 1467000248 | EPUB | pages: 136 | 1.3 mb
The book is about a black woman who is stuggling to achieve goals in a capitalistic society.

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Refugee Voices Performativity and the Struggle for Recognition


Free Download Refugee Voices: Performativity and the Struggle for Recognition
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032727403 | 173 Pages | PDF (True) | 12 MB
This book explores how participatory creative production can allow refugees to be recognized in emotional, legal and social ways. It also explains how decisions around participation in these forms of creative production can equally exclude refugee voices from the public sphere, inhibit recognition, and in fact lead to refugee misrecognition.

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Just Urban Design The Struggle for a Public City (Urban and Industrial Environments)


Free Download Just Urban Design: The Struggle for a Public City (Urban and Industrial Environments) by Kian Goh, Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Vinit Mukhija
English | November 22, 2022 | ISBN: 026254427X | 368 pages | PDF | 58 Mb
Contributions by urban planners, sociologists, anthropologists, architects, and landscape architects on the role and scope of urban design in creating more just and inclusive cities.

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