The Death and Life of Gentrification: A New Map of a Persistent IdeaA provocative account of what is gained and what is lost when a word that once narrowly referred to neighborhood change takes on a life all its own Sociologist Ruth Glass coined the term gentrification in the 1960s to mark the displacement of working class residents in London neighborhoods by the professional classes. The Death and Life of Gentrification traces how the word has far outgrown Glasss meaning, becoming a socially charged metaphor for

Money Logging investigates what Gordon Brown has called probably the biggest environmental crime of our times the massive destruction of the Borneo rainforest by Malaysian loggers

Li does ‘the things that work’: including not just writing but gardening

Among them are the astronomer Maria Mitchell

punctuated by wit and polemic

Petersburg

responsibility

lucidly translated

‘belief and knowledge’

are unlike traditional owners of housing and other essential infrastructure

Singapore itself was undergoing a metamorphosis

What is most fascinating to discover

From the bestselling author of How Fascism Works