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

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Floating City: A Rogue Sociologist Lost and Found in New York's Underground Economy - Venkatesh, Sudhir
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Based on Venkatesh's interviews with New York City prostitutes and socialites, immigrants and academics, high end drug bosses and street-level dealers, "Floating City" exposes the underground as the city's true engine of social transformation and economic prosperity-- revealing a wholly unprecedented vision of New York. A remarkable memoir of sociological investigation.

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Floating City: A Rogue Sociologist Lost and Found in New York's Underground Economy 2014, Penguin Publishing Group

ISBN-13: 9780143125792

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Floating City: A Rogue Sociologist Lost and Found in New York's Underground Economy 2013, Penguin Press

ISBN-13: 9781594204166

Hardcover