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Two documentaries from Marc Isaacs:
All White in Barking (2007) examines the attitudes the white citizens of Barking have towards the immigrants living in the area. These attitudes generally involve prejudices which focus on what clothes the immigrants wear, the religion they follow and the food they eat.
Men of the City (2009) follows a trader, a street-sweeper, an immigrant and an insurance agent in London as they attempt to move forward in the economic crisis and discover their place in the capital city.

• Director: Marc Isaacs
• Running time: 133 minutes
• Subtitle options: none

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Making a trip to Edinburgh? This wonderful collection of stories, articles, memoirs, letters, poems and tales about Edinburgh past and present will prove invaluable:
For centuries Edinburgh, ‘the most beautiful city in Europe’ according to John Betjeman, has inspired affection and admiration from both natives and visitors alike. This absorbing anthology spans five hundred years of the city's history from the Battle of Flodden to the novels of lan Rankin, with famous names such as Sir Walter Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson alongside less familiar ones such as the Chinese writer Chiang Yee. This book is a great tribute to a city now in the full flood of a social, political and cultural renaissance. Editor: Ralph Lownie. (335 pages)

Contents: Introduction — First Impressions — Places — People — Visitors — Everyday Life In Adversity And Joy — Pillars of the City — A Final Tribute.

This is an accessible narrative which explores the remarkable history of Hong Kong from the early 1800s through the 1997 handover, when this former colony became a Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China. The book explores Hong Kong as a place with a unique identity, yet also a crossroads where Chinese history, British colonial history, and world history intersect. The book concludes by exploring the legacies of colonial rule, the consequences of Hong Kong's reintegration with China, and significant developments and challenges since 1997. Author: John Carroll. (270 pages)
Level: A/Interdisciplinary projects

The crime-infested intersection of West Fayette and Monroe Streets is well-known — and avoided — by most citizens of Baltimore. But this corner's 24-hour open-air drug market provides the economic fuel for a dying neighborhood. This book tells the chilling story of this desolate crossroad. Through the eyes of one broken family — two drug-addicted adults and their smart, vulnerable 15-year-old son, DeAndre McCollough — it examines the realities of inner cities across the country. It assesses why law enforcement policies, moral crusades, and the welfare system have accomplished so little. It looks at the price of the drug culture but also the poignant scenes of hope, caring, and love that rise in the midst of a place America has abandoned. Film available. Authors: Edward Burns and David Simon. (576 pages)
Level: A great resource for the Gymnasium etc.

This excellent mini-series (from the creators of The Wire) is based on the book The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood. It tells the true story of men, women, and children living amid the open-air drug markets of West Baltimore. It chronicles a year in the lives of 15-year old DeAndre McCullough, his mother Fran Boyd, and his father Gary McCullough, as well as other addicts and low-level drug dealers caught up in the economy of heroin and cocaine. Acting performances are superb. While we see the explicit fallout of addiction, the series pictures the humanity and neglected potential of lost souls. The Corner is riveting, rather than depressing.

• Directed by: Charles S. Dutton
• Starring: T.K. Carter, Khandi Alexander & Sean Nelson
• Running time: 6 hours
• Subtitle options: English, Danish

Divisions between Protestants and Catholics remain a significant problem in Glasgow today.  This book tells the story of two teenage boys — one Catholic, one Protestant — who become friends when they play on the same football team, even though they support opposing teams themselves:
A young man lies bleeding in the street. It could be any street, in any city. But it's not. It's Glasgow. And it's May — the marching season. The Protestant Orange Walks have begun. Graham doesn't want to get involved. He just wants to play football with his new mate, Joe. But when he witnesses a shocking moment of violence, suddenly he and Joe are involved — with Catholics and Protestants, a young Muslim asylum-seeker and his girlfriend, and all the old rivalries, and fears. This is a gripping tale about two boys, who must find their own answers — and their own way forward — in a world divided by differences. Author: Theresa Breslin. (230 pages)
Level: 9.-10. kl/1.g/Frilæsning

This volume looks at the plusses and minusses of the development of green cities. What is practical and what is unrealistic idealism? Editor: Ronald D. Lankford Jr. (128 pages)
Level: Mainly Second and Third year Gymnasium

Contents: Introduction; Green Cities: An Overview (Terry White); Cities Are More Sustainable Than Suburbs (Edward Glaeser); Cities Are Not Sustainable Environments (William E. Rees); American Cities Can Be Green Cities (Theresa Sullivan Barger); Green Cities Need Green Transportation (PR Newswire); Green City Transportation Has Drawbacks (Max Wideman); New Orleans Is Being Rebuilt as a Green City (Husna Haq); The Green Rebuilding of New Orleans Has Drawbacks (Fred A. Bernstein); Local Agriculture Can Help Create Green Cities (Sophie Johnson); Urban Agriculture Is Not Practical or Efficient (Adam Stein); Green Roofs Benefit Urban Environments (April Holladay); Green Architecture Requires Good Design (Cathleen McGuigan); Green Cities Must Serve People Instead of Cars (Richard Register); Sensible Urban Growth Is Achievable (Anthony Flint); Organizations to Contact; Bibliography; Index.

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This documentary examines the history of New York's African-American citizens and culture from the early 1600s through today. There are segments on civil rights, politics, business, military heroes, the Harlem Renaissance and much more. In addition to examining the social and cultural contributions of African-Americans such as Malcolm X, Marcus Garvey, and Count Basie.

• Director: Marino Amaruso
• Contributors: Colin Powell, Malcolm X, Jackie Robinson, Cab Calloway, Adam Clayton Powell
• Running time: 50 minutes
• Subtitle options: none

This is more than just a history (thought it is also that) — it is an account of London as a living organism, with its own laws of growth and change (thus a biography rather than a history). It differs from other histories in the range and diversity of its contents. It portrays London from the time of the Druids to the beginning of the twenty-first century but is more than a simple chronological record. There are chapters on the history of childhood, the history of suicide, the history of Cockney speech, the history of drink etc. Lots of material for the teacher to draw on. Author: Peter Ackroyd. (848 pages/Large format)
Level: A great resource for the Gymnasium etc.

Revised 2010.

Revised 2010.

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Getting Started
Index

The classic stories collected here provide a kaleidoscopic vision of New York in all its grittiness and glamour. Acclaimed writers past and present, ranging from Truman Capote, Bernard Malamud, John Cheever and Shirley Jackson to Jay McInerney, Edwidge Danticat and Junot Diaz, introduce us to starry-eyed tourists and ambitious immigrants, starving artists and hedonistic yuppies, Jewish matchmakers in the Bronx and Haitian nannies in Central Park. Colourful characters of all kinds come alive in these pages, nursing their dreams in the tiny apartments, the lonely cafes, and the bustling streets of the city that never sleeps. Editor: Diana Secker Tesdell. Hardback ( pages)
Level: Gymnasiet

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Actvities: For each text: Before you read; What's it about?; Thinking about the text?; Introduction; Further Reading; English glosses. For each section: Compare and contrast. Notes on authors.

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Contents: a) Printable, editable support material (including lesson plans and differentiated worksheets); b) A large selection of multimedia support material (such as photographs and audio clips). For use both with interactive whiteboards and on individual computers.

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A literary anthology:
This widely acclaimed multi-genre anthology presents an unprecedented portrait of New York as seen through the eyes of over a hundred writers from Washington Irving, the first New York author to establish an international reputation, to such contemporary voices as Jane Jacobs, Oscar Hijuelos, Louis Auchincloss, Colson Whitehead, Vijay Sishadri and Don DeLillo. Residents and tourists, novelists and poets, architects and politicians, social reformers and sports writers, naturalists and humorists take on the challenge of capturing New York's enduring spirit, its public spectacle, its gossip, its hard-luck stories, its tragedies and disasters. Click on “Flere oplysninger” to see the Contents. (1049 pages)
Level: Gymnasiet