IS 195 Urban Studies Partial Book List
Cultural History of San Francisco by Sinclair
Farm City by Novella Carpenter
The Corner: A Year in the life of an Inner-City Neighborhood by David Simon and Edward Burns
The authors write about the stories they encountered when they spent a year in a West Baltimore neighborhood that was a center of the drug trade. At the center of the narrative is the McCullough family--DeAndre, age 15, and his drug-addicted parents, Gary and Fran. This book offers an insightful look into drug culture and the dynamics of life on the street.
What Christians Think About Homosexuality by L. R. Holben
The author presents an objective description of all Christian points of view on Homosexuality, what the biblical and theological bases for each are, how they are criticized and how they answer their critics.
The Slave Next Door by Kevin Bales
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