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Addicts who survived an oral history of narcotic use in America before 1965 / by Courtwright, David T., 1952-

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Bracing for the apocalypse : an ethnographic study of New York's 'prepper' subculture / by Bounds, Anna Maria

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The grid and the village losing electricity, finding community, surviving disaster / by Doheny-Farina, Stephen

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God in Chinatown religion and survival in New York's evolving immigrant community / by Guest, Kenneth J.

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Becoming a footnote : an activist-scholar finds his voice, learns to write, and survives academia / by Schram, Sanford

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Coxsackie : The Life and Death of Prison Reform / by Spillane, Joseph F.

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"No one helped" : Kitty Genovese, New York City, and the myth of urban apathy / by Gallo, Marcia M.

Table of Contents: “…Prologue: A New York story -- Urban villages in the big city -- Hidden in plain sight -- Thirty-eight witnesses -- The metropolitan brand of apathy -- The city responds -- Surviving new city streets -- Challenging the story of urban apathy -- Epilogue: Kitty, fifty years later.…”
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The Rebbe the life and afterlife of Menachem Mendel Schneerson / by Heilman, Samuel C.

Table of Contents: “…Farbrengen : the gathering of the emissaries -- Death and resurrection -- Coming of age in a time of transition -- Entering the court of Lubavitch -- From survival to Uforatzto -- On a mission from the Rebbe in life -- From resurrection to death : we want moshiach now -- On a mission from the Rebbe in his afterlife.…”
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Nuclear Summer : The Clash of Communities at the Seneca Women's Peace Encampment / by Krasniewicz, Louise, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…The lost summer -- The anthropology of fallout -- Coming home -- Introductions -- Circle for survival -- Who goes there -- The plot -- Oh say can you see -- Independence Day -- What did you bring? …”
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Living the revolution Italian women's resistance and radicalism in New York City, 1880-1945 / by Guglielmo, Jennifer, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Women's cultures of resistance in Southern Italy -- La sartina (the seamstress) becomes a transnational labor migrant -- The racialization of Southern Italian women -- Surviving the shock of arrival and everyday resistance -- Anarchist feminists and the radical subculture -- The 1909-1919 strike wave and the birth of industrial unionism -- Red scare, the lure of fascism, and diasporic resistance -- Community organizing in a racial hall of mirrors.…”
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After the Girls Club how teenaged Holocaust survivors built new lives in America / by Ford, Carole Bell, 1934-

Table of Contents: “…A meeting with Holocaust survivors -- Introduction: The women and the Girls Club -- Lodz : a path to the ghetto -- Growing up : coming of age in a nightmare -- Sh'erit ha-Pletah : the "Surviving Remnant" -- America : a home at the Girls Club -- After the Girls Club : settling in, settling down -- Betty and Lucy : different forks in the road -- Child survivors in old age : the aging women.…”
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Coxsackie The Life and Death of Prison Reform / by Spillane, Joseph F.

Table of Contents: “…The reformer's mural -- A new deal for prisons : the politics of reform in New York -- Adolescents adrift : young men on the road to Coxsackie -- Against the wall : survival and resistance at Coxsackie -- Reform at work : ideas into action at Coxsackie -- A conspiracy of frustration : coming home -- The frying pan and the fire : the reformatory in crisis, 1944-1963 -- Out of time : Coxsackie and the end of the reform idea -- Floodtide : Coxsackie and post-reformatory prison politics, 1963-1977 -- Conclusion : the ghost of prisons future.…”
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Public housing that worked : New York in the twentieth century / by Bloom, Nicholas Dagen, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…The boom years; Designs for a new metropolis; The price of design reform; The benefits of social engineering; Meeting the management challenge -- Welfare-state public housing. Surviving the welfare state; The value of consistency -- Affordable housing. …”
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Fright night on Channel 9 Saturday night horror films on New York's WOR-TV, 1973-1987 / by Arena, James, 1960-

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