Jane Jacobs
Jane Jacobs was the legendary author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities, a work that has never gone out of print and that has transformed the disciplines of urban planning and city architecture. Her other major works include The Economy of Cities, Systems of Survival, The Nature of Economies and Dark Age Ahead. She died in 2006.
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A Schoolteacher In Old Alaska
eBook | 336 pages | Vintage Canada | History
978-0-307-36707-5 (0-307-36707-X)
October 12, 2011 | $12.99
When Hannah Breece came to Alaska in 1904, it was a remote lawless wilderness of prospectors, murderous bootleggers, tribal chiefs, and Russian priests. She spent fourteen years educating Athabascans, Aleuts, Inuit and Russians with the stubborn generosity of a born teacher and the clarity of an original and independent mind. Jane Jacobs, Hannah's...
Written by Jane Jacobs
eBook | 336 pages | Vintage Canada | History
978-0-307-36707-5 (0-307-36707-X)
October 12, 2011 | $12.99
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When Hannah Breece came to Alaska in 1904, it was a remote lawless wilderness of prospectors, murderous bootleggers, tribal chiefs, and Russian priests. She spent fourteen years educating Athabascans, Aleuts, Inuit and Russians with the stubborn generosity of a born teacher and the clarity of an original and independent mind. Jane Jacobs, Hannah's...
The Death and Life of Great American Cities (50th Anniversary Edition)
Hardcover | 640 pages | Modern Library | Social Science - Sociology - Urban
978-0-679-64433-0 (0-679-64433-4)
September 13, 2011 | $25.95
Hardcover | 640 pages | Modern Library | Social Science - Sociology - Urban
978-0-679-64433-0 (0-679-64433-4)
September 13, 2011 | $25.95
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Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of its initial publication, this special edition of Jane Jacobs’s masterpiece, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, features a new Introduction by Jason Epstein, the book’s original editor, who provides an intimate perspective on Jacobs herself and unique insights into the creation...
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities (50th Anniversary Edition)
Unabridged Audiobook Download | pages | Random House Audio | Social Science - Sociology - Urban
978-0-307-96965-1 (0-307-96965-7)
September 13, 2011 | $31.00
Thirty years after its publication, The Death and Life of Great American Cities was described by The New York Times as "perhaps the most influential single work in the history of town planning...[It] can also be seen in a much larger context. It is first of all a work of literature; the...
Unabridged Audiobook Download | pages | Random House Audio | Social Science - Sociology - Urban
978-0-307-96965-1 (0-307-96965-7)
September 13, 2011 | $31.00
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Thirty years after its publication, The Death and Life of Great American Cities was described by The New York Times as "perhaps the most influential single work in the history of town planning...[It] can also be seen in a much larger context. It is first of all a work of literature; the...
Also available as a
hardcover.
The Nature of Economies
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Business & Economics - Economic Conditions; Business & Economics - Economics
978-0-307-36708-2 (0-307-36708-8)
October 22, 2010 | $13.99
Jane Jacobs has spent years changing the way we think about economic life in general. Now, in The Nature of Economies, Jacobs proposes a radical notion that has breath-taking common sense: economies are governed by the same rules as nature itself. With the simplicity of an extremely wise and seasoned thinker...
Written by Jane Jacobs
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Business & Economics - Economic Conditions; Business & Economics - Economics
978-0-307-36708-2 (0-307-36708-8)
October 22, 2010 | $13.99
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Jane Jacobs has spent years changing the way we think about economic life in general. Now, in The Nature of Economies, Jacobs proposes a radical notion that has breath-taking common sense: economies are governed by the same rules as nature itself. With the simplicity of an extremely wise and seasoned thinker...
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trade paperback.
Dark Age Ahead
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Social Science
978-0-307-36963-5 (0-307-36963-3)
June 25, 2010 | $13.99
Visionary thinker Jane Jacobs uses her authoritative work on urban life and economies to show us how we can protect and strengthen our culture and communities.
In Dark Age Ahead, Jane Jacobs identifies five pillars of our culture that we depend on but which are in serious decline: community and family; higher...
Written by Jane Jacobs
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Social Science
978-0-307-36963-5 (0-307-36963-3)
June 25, 2010 | $13.99
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Visionary thinker Jane Jacobs uses her authoritative work on urban life and economies to show us how we can protect and strengthen our culture and communities.
In Dark Age Ahead, Jane Jacobs identifies five pillars of our culture that we depend on but which are in serious decline: community and family; higher...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
The Innocents Abroad
eBook | 560 pages | Modern Library | Travel
978-0-307-43231-5 (0-307-43231-9)
December 18, 2007 | $13.99
The Innocents Abroad is one of the most prominent and influential travel books ever written about Europe and the Holy Land. In it, the collision of the American “New Barbarians” and the European “Old World” provides much comic fodder for Mark Twain—and a remarkably perceptive lens on the human condition. Gleefully...
eBook | 560 pages | Modern Library | Travel
978-0-307-43231-5 (0-307-43231-9)
December 18, 2007 | $13.99
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The Innocents Abroad is one of the most prominent and influential travel books ever written about Europe and the Holy Land. In it, the collision of the American “New Barbarians” and the European “Old World” provides much comic fodder for Mark Twain—and a remarkably perceptive lens on the human condition. Gleefully...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
The Jungle
Trade Paperback | 416 pages | Modern Library | Fiction
978-0-8129-7623-6 (0-8129-7623-1)
June 6, 2006 | $13.00
In this powerful book we enter the world of Jurgis Rudkus, a young Lithuanian immigrant who arrives in America fired with dreams of wealth, freedom, and opportunity. And we discover, with him, the astonishing truth about "packingtown," the busy, flourishing, filthy Chicago stockyards, where new world visions perish in a jungle of human suffering. Upton Sinclair, master of...
Trade Paperback | 416 pages | Modern Library | Fiction
978-0-8129-7623-6 (0-8129-7623-1)
June 6, 2006 | $13.00
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In this powerful book we enter the world of Jurgis Rudkus, a young Lithuanian immigrant who arrives in America fired with dreams of wealth, freedom, and opportunity. And we discover, with him, the astonishing truth about "packingtown," the busy, flourishing, filthy Chicago stockyards, where new world visions perish in a jungle of human suffering. Upton Sinclair, master of...
Dark Age Ahead
Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Vintage Canada | Social Science
978-0-679-31310-6 (0-679-31310-9)
April 21, 2005 | $21.00
Visionary thinker Jane Jacobs uses her authoritative work on urban life and economies to show us how we can protect and strengthen our culture and communities.
In Dark Age Ahead, Jane Jacobs identifies five pillars of our culture that we depend on but which are in serious decline: community and family; higher...
Written by Jane Jacobs
Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Vintage Canada | Social Science
978-0-679-31310-6 (0-679-31310-9)
April 21, 2005 | $21.00
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Visionary thinker Jane Jacobs uses her authoritative work on urban life and economies to show us how we can protect and strengthen our culture and communities.
In Dark Age Ahead, Jane Jacobs identifies five pillars of our culture that we depend on but which are in serious decline: community and family; higher...
Also available as an
eBook.
The Innocents Abroad
Trade Paperback | 560 pages | Modern Library | Travel
978-0-8129-6705-0 (0-8129-6705-4)
February 11, 2003 | $21.00
The Innocents Abroad is one of the most prominent and influential travel books ever written about Europe and the Holy Land. In it, the collision of the American “New Barbarians” and the European “Old World” provides much comic fodder for Mark Twain—and a remarkably perceptive lens on the human condition. Gleefully...
Trade Paperback | 560 pages | Modern Library | Travel
978-0-8129-6705-0 (0-8129-6705-4)
February 11, 2003 | $21.00
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The Innocents Abroad is one of the most prominent and influential travel books ever written about Europe and the Holy Land. In it, the collision of the American “New Barbarians” and the European “Old World” provides much comic fodder for Mark Twain—and a remarkably perceptive lens on the human condition. Gleefully...
Also available as an
eBook.
Hard Times
Trade Paperback | 368 pages | Modern Library | Fiction - Classics
978-0-679-64217-6 (0-679-64217-X)
July 10, 2001 | $10.50
Dickens's widely read satirical account of the Industrial Revolution.
Dickens creates the Victorian industrial city of Coketown, in northern England, and its unforgettable citizens, such as the unwavering utilitarian Thomas Gradgrind and the factory owner Josiah Bounderby, and the result is his famous critique of capitalist philosophy, the exploitative force he...
Trade Paperback | 368 pages | Modern Library | Fiction - Classics
978-0-679-64217-6 (0-679-64217-X)
July 10, 2001 | $10.50
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Dickens's widely read satirical account of the Industrial Revolution.
Dickens creates the Victorian industrial city of Coketown, in northern England, and its unforgettable citizens, such as the unwavering utilitarian Thomas Gradgrind and the factory owner Josiah Bounderby, and the result is his famous critique of capitalist philosophy, the exploitative force he...
The Nature of Economies
Trade Paperback | 208 pages | Vintage Canada | Business & Economics - Economic Conditions; Business & Economics - Economics
978-0-679-31096-9 (0-679-31096-7)
March 13, 2001 | $18.95
Jane Jacobs has spent years changing the way we think about economic life in general. Now, in The Nature of Economies, Jacobs proposes a radical notion that has breath-taking common sense: economies are governed by the same rules as nature itself. With the simplicity of an extremely wise and seasoned thinker...
Written by Jane Jacobs
Trade Paperback | 208 pages | Vintage Canada | Business & Economics - Economic Conditions; Business & Economics - Economics
978-0-679-31096-9 (0-679-31096-7)
March 13, 2001 | $18.95
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Jane Jacobs has spent years changing the way we think about economic life in general. Now, in The Nature of Economies, Jacobs proposes a radical notion that has breath-taking common sense: economies are governed by the same rules as nature itself. With the simplicity of an extremely wise and seasoned thinker...
Also available as an
eBook.
Systems of Survival
Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Vintage | Political Science - Economic Conditions
978-0-679-74816-8 (0-679-74816-4)
January 13, 1994 | $19.00
The author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities looks at business fraud and criminal enterprise, overextended government farm subsidies and zealous transit police, to show what happens when the moral systems of commerce collide with those of politics.
Written by Jane Jacobs
Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Vintage | Political Science - Economic Conditions
978-0-679-74816-8 (0-679-74816-4)
January 13, 1994 | $19.00
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The author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities looks at business fraud and criminal enterprise, overextended government farm subsidies and zealous transit police, to show what happens when the moral systems of commerce collide with those of politics.
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Trade Paperback | 480 pages | Vintage | Social Science - Sociology - Urban
978-0-679-74195-4 (0-679-74195-X)
December 1, 1992 | $19.95
A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, The Death and Life of Great American Cities has, since its first publication in 1961, become the standard against which all endeavors in that field are measured. In prose...
Written by Jane Jacobs
Trade Paperback | 480 pages | Vintage | Social Science - Sociology - Urban
978-0-679-74195-4 (0-679-74195-X)
December 1, 1992 | $19.95
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A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, The Death and Life of Great American Cities has, since its first publication in 1961, become the standard against which all endeavors in that field are measured. In prose...
Cities and the Wealth of Nations
Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Vintage | Social Science - Sociology - Urban
978-0-394-72911-4 (0-394-72911-0)
March 12, 1985 | $18.00
"Learned, iconoclastic and exciting...Jacobs' diagnosis of the decay of cities in an increasingly integrated world economy is on the mark."—New York Times Book Review
"Jacobs' book is inspired, idiosyncratic and personal...It is written with verve and humor; for a work of embattled theory, it is wonderfully concrete, and its leaps are breathtaking."—Los...
Written by Jane Jacobs
Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Vintage | Social Science - Sociology - Urban
978-0-394-72911-4 (0-394-72911-0)
March 12, 1985 | $18.00
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"Learned, iconoclastic and exciting...Jacobs' diagnosis of the decay of cities in an increasingly integrated world economy is on the mark."—New York Times Book Review
"Jacobs' book is inspired, idiosyncratic and personal...It is written with verve and humor; for a work of embattled theory, it is wonderfully concrete, and its leaps are breathtaking."—Los...
The Economy of Cities
Paperback | 288 pages | Vintage | Business & Economics - Economic History
978-0-394-70584-2 (0-394-70584-X)
February 12, 1970 | $17.95
Written by Jane Jacobs
Paperback | 288 pages | Vintage | Business & Economics - Economic History
978-0-394-70584-2 (0-394-70584-X)
February 12, 1970 | $17.95
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