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  • PLANNING FOR A BETTER URBAN LIVING ENVIRONMENT IN ASIA
    ANTHONY GAR-ON YEH / MEE KAM NG
    This title was first published in 2000. Asia has developed very rapidly in the last quarter of the century and will be a main focus of the world in the 21st century. With rapid growth and development, the urban areas in the region are undergoing dramatic changes. An appreciation of the heterogeneous nature of Asian cities and the related planning practices is the first step to ...

    $1,480.00

  • MAKING A PLACE FOR COMMUNITY
    THAD WILLIAMSON / DAVID IMBROSCIO / GAR ALPEROVITZ
    When pundits refer to the death of community, they are speaking of a number of social ills, which include, but are not limited to, the general increase in isolation and cynicism of our citizens, widespread concerns about declining political participation and membership in civic organizations, and periodic outbursts of small town violence. Making a Place for Community argues tha...

    $1,260.00

  • IT'S NOT A PRETTY SIGHT
    GAR ANTHONY HAYWOOD
    When his ex-fianc é e is murdered, Gunner vows to take vengeance on Los Angeles For more than a decade, private detective Aaron Gunner has regretted letting Nina Hillman go. They met on a city bus while he was on his way to the Los Angeles Coliseum for a football game, and by the time they were through talking he had long since missed kickoff. He proposed to her quickly, only t...

    $119.00

  • NOT LONG FOR THIS WORLD
    GAR ANTHONY HAYWOOD
    A lawyer hires Gunner to help her prove that her gangland client is not a killer Darrel Lovejoy doesn't owe South Central anything. By all accounts, he is lucky to escape this desperate corner of Los Angeles, to go to college and graduate into a well-paid advertising job. But something compels him to return. He dives into social work, attempting to mediate between the gangs whi...

    $149.00

  • WHEN LAST SEEN ALIVE
    GAR ANTHONY HAYWOOD
    An encounter at the Million Man March sucks Gunner into an ice-cold missing persons case Elroy Covington should have run. He had traveled to the Million Man March in Washington, DC, looking forward to a new city and new faces. Then in a Dupont Circle restaurant, a twist of fate brought him face to face with a man from his long-forgotten past. Instead of running, Elroy said hell...

    $119.00

  • ALL THE LUCKY ONES ARE DEAD
    GAR ANTHONY HAYWOOD
    Investigating the alleged suicide of a hip-hop star, Gunner uncovers a murder Carlton Elbridge, better known as C. E. Digga Jones, was too nice for gangsta rap. When he allegedly shot himself, he had millions in the bank, his face on the cover of Time magazine, and a nation of fanatics to mourn his death. He was found in a locked room, gun in his hand and bullet in his brain, a...

    $164.00

  • FEAR OF THE DARK
    GAR ANTHONY HAYWOOD
    Winner of the Shamus Award: A failed private eye searches Los Angeles for a murderous white supremacist.   Aaron Gunner made a lousy private detective. After a year's carnage in Vietnam and a quick exit from the police academy, private work was the only avenue he saw to be a hero. But the seediness, tedium, and lack of real power crushed his hopes, and he quit the job after ina...

    $119.00

  • URBAN DEVELOPMENT IN POST-REFORM CHINA
    FULONG WU / JIANG XU / ANTHONY GAR-ON YEH
    Radically reoriented under market reform, Chinese cities present both the landscapes of the First and Third World, and are increasingly playing a critical role in the country’s economic development. Yet, radical marketization co-exists with the ever-presence of state control. Exploring the interaction of China’s market development, state regulation and the resulting transformat...

    $1,240.00

  • YOU CAN DIE TRYING
    GAR ANTHONY HAYWOOD
    Gunner attempts to set the record straight for a dead police officer with a racist past No one in South Central is surprised when Jack McGovern, a brutally racist cop, is accused of gunning down a black teenager in cold blood. But they are shocked when the LAPD actually responds to the charges, firing McGovern and leaving him without badge, pension, or pride. Eight months later...

    $149.00

  • FORGING THE MALE SPIRIT
    W. MERLE LONGWOOD / WILLIAM C. SCHIPPER / PHILIP CULBERTSON / GAR KELLOM
    Young men undergo significant changes during their years in college. They wrestle with "big questions," which are essentially spiritual questions, as they ponder who they are, what they believe, what kind of persons they want to become, and how they might shape the world into something they can feel comfortable being themselves in. Those who participate in men's groups realize ...

    $373.00

  • MEDICINA Y SOCIEDAD
    GAR
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    $10.00

  • ALL THE LUCKY ONES ARE DEAD
    GAR ANTHONY HAYWOOD
    Investigating the alleged suicide of a hip-hop star, Gunner uncovers a murderCarlton Elbridge, better known as C. E. Digga Jones, was too nice for gangsta rap. When he allegedly shot himself, he had millions in the bank, his face on the cover of Time magazine, and a nation of fanatics to mourn his death. He was found in a locked room, gun in his hand and bullet in his brain, an...

    $149.00