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Gang Leader for a Day

A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets

By: Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh

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Gang Leader for a Day

A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets

By: Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh

The story of the young sociologist who studied a Chicago crack-dealing gang from the inside captured the world's attention when it was first described in Freakonomics. This is the full story of how Venkatesh managed to gain entrée into the gang, what he learned, and how his method revolutionized the academic establishment. When first-year grad student Venkatesh walked into one of Chicago's most notorious housing projects, he was looking for people to take a survey on urban poverty. He never imagined that he would befriend a gang leader and spend the better part of a decade inside the projects under his protection. He got to know the neighborhood dealers, crackheads, squatters, prostitutes, pimps, activists, cops, organizers, and officials. From his position of unprecedented access, he observed the gang as they operated their crack-selling business and rose or fell within the ranks of the gang's complex organizational structure.--From publisher description.

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1594201501

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The Tomorrow Game

Rival Teenagers, Their Race for a Gun, and a Community United to Save Them

By: Sudhir Venkatesh

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The Tomorrow Game

Rival Teenagers, Their Race for a Gun, and a Community United to Save Them

By: Sudhir Venkatesh

A New York Times bestselling author’s gripping account of a Chicago community coming together to save a group of teenagers from gun violence. In the tradition of works like Random Family and Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Sudhir Venkatesh’s The Tomorrow Game is a deeply reported chronicle of families surviving in a Southside Chicago community. At the heart of the story are two teenagers: Marshall Mariot, an introverted video gamer and bike rider, and Frankie Paul, who leaves foster care to direct his cousin’s drug business while he’s in prison. Frankie devises a plan to attack Marshall and his friends—it is his best chance to showcase his toughness and win respect for his crew. Catching wind of the plan, Marshall and his friends decide they must preemptively go after Frankie’s crew to defend their honor. The pressure mounts as both groups of teens race to find a gun and strike first. All the while, the community at large—a cast that includes the teens’ families, black market gun dealers, local pastors, a bodega owner, and a veteran beat cop—try their best to defuse the conflict and keep the kids alive. Based on Venkatesh’s three decades of immersion in Chicago’s Southside, and as propulsive as a novel, The Tomorrow Game is a nuanced, timely look at the toll that poverty and gun violence take on families and their communities.

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Simon and Schuster

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1501194410

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Gang Leader for a Day

A Rogue Sociologist Crosses the Line

By: Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh

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Gang Leader for a Day

A Rogue Sociologist Crosses the Line

By: Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh

Gang Leader for a Dayis a gripping journey of discovery about life on the wrong side of the tracks. When na�ve sociology student Sudhir Venkatesh went to find out more about urban poverty in Chicago, the last thing he expected was to be held hostage by a gang. And he never guessed that, after being released, he's want to return to find out more about them, ignoring everyone's advice and entering a dangerous world beond anything he'd ever experienced. In the Robert Taylor Homes projects on Chicago's South Side, Sudhir befriends J.T., a gang leader for the Black Kings. As their friendship grows, he slowly gains J.T.'s trust, unil one day, in order to convince Sudhir of his own CEO-like qualities, J.T. makes him leader of the gang. Deciding who cleans up the buildings after a party gets out of hand is one thing, but what do you do when somebody needs to be punished? What's more, why does J.T. make his henchmen, the 'shorties', stay in school? What is the difference between a 'regular' hustler and a 'hype' - and is Peanut telling him the truth about which she is? Why is Moochie sleeping with Ms Bailey, the all-powerful president of the building, theirty years his senior? And, when the FBI finally starts cracking down on the Black Kings, is it time to get out - or is it too late? Incredibly funny and heartbreaking, this is a story of one man's commitment to really crossing the line, to understanding how the people he is studying live day to day. What he doesn't expect is to become a part of their lives.

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0713999942

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Off the Books

The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor

By: Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh

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The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor

By: Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh

In this revelatory book, Sudhir Venkatesh takes us into Maquis Park, a poor black neighborhood on Chicago's Southside, to explore the desperate and remarkable ways in which a community survives. The result is a dramatic narrative of individuals at work, and a rich portrait of a community. But while excavating the efforts of men and women to generate a basic livelihood for themselves and their families, Off the Books offers a devastating critique of the entrenched poverty that we so often ignore in America, and reveals how the underground economy is an inevitable response to the ghetto's appalling isolation from the rest of the country.

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Harvard University Press

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0674044649

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9780674044647

Floating City

A Rogue Sociologist Lost and Found in New York's Underground Economy

By: Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh

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Floating City

A Rogue Sociologist Lost and Found in New York's Underground Economy

By: Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh

The best-selling author of Gang Leader for a Day takes his next sociological study to Manhattan, where he travels through the underground economy utilized by prostitutes, madams, drug dealers, immigrants, hedge fund traders, hipster artists and nannies.

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Penguin Press HC

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1594204160

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American Project

The Rise and Fall of a Modern Ghetto

By: Sudhir Alladi VENKATESH,Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh

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American Project

The Rise and Fall of a Modern Ghetto

By: Sudhir Alladi VENKATESH,Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh

High-rise public housing developments were signature features of the post-World War II city. A hopeful experiment in providing temporary, inexpensive housing for all Americans, the "projects" soon became synonymous with the black urban poor, with isolation and overcrowding, with drugs, gang violence, and neglect. As the wrecking ball brings down some of these concrete monoliths, Sudhir Venkatesh seeks to reexamine public housing from the inside out, and to salvage its troubled legacy.

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Harvard University Press

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0674044657

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The Tomorrow Game

Rival Teenagers, Their Race for a Gun, and a Community United to Save Them

By: Sudhir Venkatesh

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Rival Teenagers, Their Race for a Gun, and a Community United to Save Them

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American Project

The Rise and Fall of a Modern Ghetto

By: Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh

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The Rise and Fall of a Modern Ghetto

By: Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh

High-rise public housing developments were signature features of the post–World War II city. A hopeful experiment in providing temporary, inexpensive housing for all Americans, the "projects" soon became synonymous with the black urban poor, with isolation and overcrowding, with drugs, gang violence, and neglect. As the wrecking ball brings down some of these concrete monoliths, Sudhir Venkatesh seeks to reexamine public housing from the inside out, and to salvage its troubled legacy. Based on nearly a decade of fieldwork in Chicago's Robert Taylor Homes, American Project is the first comprehensive story of daily life in an American public housing complex. Venkatesh draws on his relationships with tenants, gang members, police officers, and local organizations to offer an intimate portrait of an inner-city community that journalists and the public have only viewed from a distance. Challenging the conventional notion of public housing as a failure, this startling book re-creates tenants' thirty-year effort to build a safe and secure neighborhood: their political battles for services from an indifferent city bureaucracy, their daily confrontation with entrenched poverty, their painful decisions about whether to work with or against the street gangs whose drug dealing both sustained and imperiled their lives. American Project explores the fundamental question of what makes a community viable. In his chronicle of tenants' political and personal struggles to create a decent place to live, Venkatesh brings us to the heart of the matter.

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0674257332

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Off the Books

The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor

By: Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh

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The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor

By: Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh

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Molecular Evolution and Phylogenetics

By: Masatoshi Nei,Sudhir Kumar

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Molecular Evolution and Phylogenetics

By: Masatoshi Nei,Sudhir Kumar

During the last ten years, remarkable progress has occurred in the study of molecular evolution. Among the most important factors that are responsible for this progress are the development of new statistical methods and advances in computational technology. In particular, phylogenetic analysis of DNA or protein sequences has become a powerful tool for studying molecular evolution. Along with this developing technology, the application of the new statistical and computational methods has become more complicated and there is no comprehensive volume that treats these methods in depth. Molecular Evolution and Phylogenetics fills this gap and present various statistical methods that are easily accessible to general biologists as well as biochemists, bioinformatists and graduate students. The text covers measurement of sequence divergence, construction of phylogenetic trees, statistical tests for detection of positive Darwinian selection, inference of ancestral amino acid sequences, construction of linearized trees, and analysis of allele frequency data. Emphasis is given to practical methods of data analysis, and methods can be learned by working through numerical examples using the computer program MEGA2 that is provided.

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Oxford University Press

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0199881227

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9780199881222

The Right to Information Act 2005

A Handbook

By: Sudhir Naib

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The Right to Information Act 2005

A Handbook

By: Sudhir Naib

The Indian state till recently denied information about its functioning and decision-making to its citizens, ironically, using laws made during the colonial period. Apart from being an anomaly in a democratic set-up, it created an adverse impact on the quality of governance, accountability, and transparency. It was only in 2005, after a prolonged freedom of information movement, that this situation was finally rectified. The government enacted the landmark Right to Information Act 2005, and gave to all its citizens the right to access information held by or under the control of public authorities. This Handbook is meant to serve as a practical guide to the implementation of the Act. The book begins by locating the Act in the context of a global movement for freedom of information (FOI), and discusses the efforts made by international bodies for adoption of FOI. It also presents a detailed comparative study of FOI in five countries—the US, the UK, Canada, South Africa, and India. In subsequent chapters, the book adopting a step-by-step approach, discusses the provisions of the Right to Information Act, how citizens should make use of the right to information, the comprehensive guidelines for public authorities and their obligations under the Act, which includes relevant central information commission decisions, the role of the public information officers (PIO), who are to be appointed as per the provisions in the Act by all public authorities, the exemptions allowed under the Act, and, finally, the appellate authorities to whom a citizen can appeal in case of unsatisfactory response by the PIO.

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Oxford University Press

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0199088225

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Democracy and Constitutionalism in India

A Study of the Basic Structure Doctrine

By: Sudhir Krishnaswamy

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Democracy and Constitutionalism in India

A Study of the Basic Structure Doctrine

By: Sudhir Krishnaswamy

The basic strucure doctrine articulated by the Indian Supreme Court in 1973 made it amply clear that the basic features of the Constitution must remain inviolable. The doctrine has generatd serious debates ever since as it placed substantive and procedural limits on the amending powers of the Execuive. Despite the lack of clarity as to its nature, the scope of the doctrine has been broadened in recent years, and a wide range of state actions are covered in its purview. In this book, Krishnaswamy analyses its legitimacy in legal, moral and sociological terms, and argues that the doctrine has emerged from a valid interpretation of the constituitional provisions. This book will be of interest to scholars of Indian Constitutional law, political theory and jurisprudence as well as judges and legal practitioners.

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Oxford University Press

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0199088446

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Western Frame and Indian Psyche: An Expressional Confluence in Selected Plays of Mahesh Elkunchwar

By: Dr. Sudhir Maruti Kakade

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Western Frame and Indian Psyche: An Expressional Confluence in Selected Plays of Mahesh Elkunchwar

By: Dr. Sudhir Maruti Kakade

This book explores the expressionist elements found in four plays by Mahesh Elkunchwar - The Old Stone Mansion, Pond, Apocalypse and An Actor's Exits. It examines how Elkunchwar used Expressionism to depict the Indian psyche in the context of Western dramatic influences. It also highlights how Indian playwrights, like Elkunchwar, were inspired by European expressionism, contributing to the evolution of postmodern Indian drama.

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Shine Book Publishing

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8197659842

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Gang Leader for a Day

A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets

By: Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh

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A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets

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Molecular Evolution and Phylogenetics

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The Right to Information Act 2005

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Democracy and Constitutionalism in India

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Western Frame and Indian Psyche: An Expressional Confluence in Selected Plays of Mahesh Elkunchwar

Western Frame and Indian Psyche: An Expressional Confluence in Selected Plays of Mahesh Elkunchwar

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