{"title":"Mike Davis","description":"Mike Davis is the author of several books including City of Quartz, The Monster at Our Door, Buda's Wagon, and Planet of Slums. He is the recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship and the Lannan Literary Award. He lives in San Diego.","products":[{"product_id":"budas-wagon-a-brief-history-of-the-car-bomb-paperback","title":"Buda's Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe brilliant and disturbing 100-year history of modern terrorism and car bombs--the ubiquitous weapon of urban mass destruction\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e On a September day in 1920, an angry Italian anarchist named Mario Buda exploded a horse-drawn wagon filled with dynamite and iron scrap near New York's Wall Street, killing 40 people. Since Buda's prototype the car bomb has evolved into a \"poor man's air force,\" a generic weapon of mass destruction that now craters cities from Bombay to Oklahoma City. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In this provocative history, Mike Davis traces the its worldwide use and development, in the process exposing the role of state intelligence agencies--particularly those of the United States, Israel, India, and Pakistan--in globalizing urban terrorist techniques. Davis argues that it is the incessant impact of car bombs, rather than the more apocalyptic threats of nuclear or bio-terrorism, that is changing cities and urban lifestyles, as privileged centers of power increasingly surround themselves with \"rings of steel\" against a weapon that nevertheless seems impossible to defeat.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51368262828255,"sku":"9781784786632","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/qAY93qKjX89781784786632.webp?v=1789125136"},{"product_id":"ecology-of-fear-los-angeles-and-the-imagination-of-disaster-paperback","title":"Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA witty and engrossing look at Los Angeles' urban ecology and the city's place in America's cultural fantasies\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEarthquakes. Wildfires. Floods. Drought. Tornadoes. Snakes in the sea, mountain lions, and a plague of bees. In this controversial tour de force of scholarship, unsparing vision, and inspired writing, Mike Davis, the author of \u003ci\u003eCity of Quartz\u003c\/i\u003e, revisits Los Angeles as a Book of the Apocalypse theme park. By brilliantly juxtaposing L.A.'s fragile natural ecology with its disastrous environmental and social history, he compellingly shows a city deliberately put in harm's way by land developers, builders, and politicians, even as the incalculable toll of inevitable future catastrophe continues to accumulate. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCounterpointing L.A.'s central role in America's fantasy life--the city has been destroyed no less than 138 times in novels and films since 1909--with its wanton denial of its own real history, Davis creates a revelatory kaleidoscope of American fact, imagery, and sensibility. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing upon a vast array of sources, \u003ci\u003eEcology of Fear\u003c\/i\u003e meticulously captures the nation's violent malaise and desperate social unease at the millennial end of \"the American century.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith savagely entertaining wit and compassionate rage, this book conducts a devastating reconnaissance of our all-too-likely urban future.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376927015135,"sku":"9781786636249","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/E5eoHx-oJs9781786636249.webp?v=1789228977"},{"product_id":"creating-visual-narratives-through-photography-a-fresh-approach-to-making-a-living-as-a-photographer-paperback","title":"Creating Visual Narratives Through Photography: A Fresh Approach to Making a Living as a Photographer - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book provides photographers with the foundation to craft more compelling photos from concept all the way through to creation and distribution, on the path to making a living. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBased on real-life practice and experience, former National Geographic and White House visual editor, Mike Davis, takes readers on a journey starting with addressing the motivation behind an image and how this determines the rest of the creative process. He goes on to articulate best technical practices to create the narrative through photo composition and what to do with your work after the photos are completed. Each section offers exercises for applied learning and a series of appendices cover assignments structures, a compilation of critical words and concepts, a comprehensive resource guide of organizations, competitions, grants, collectives and agencies, book publishers and printers, and more. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis is an ideal resource for students and practitioners alike to gain a more informed understanding of photographic expression and learn how to effectively execute these visions.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378057478367,"sku":"9781032262857","price":84.22,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/NnNIGsqmL19781032262857.webp?v=1789247802"},{"product_id":"city-of-quartz-excavating-the-future-in-los-angeles-paperback","title":"City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis new edition of the visionary social history of Los Angeles is \"as central to the L.A. canon as anything that . . . Joan Didion wrote in the seventies\" (\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNo metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, \"Los Angeles brings it all together.\" To detractors, L.A. is a sunlit mortuary where \"you can rot without feeling it.\" To Mike Davis, the author of this fiercely elegant and wide- ranging work of social history, Los Angeles is both utopia and dystopia, a place where the last Joshua trees are being plowed under to make room for model communities in the desert, where the rich have hired their own police to fend off street gangs, as well as armed Beirut militias. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eCity of Quartz\u003c\/i\u003e, Davis reconstructs L.A.'s shadow history and dissects its ethereal economy. He tells us who has the power and how they hold on to it. He gives us a city of Dickensian extremes, Pynchonesque conspiracies, and a desperation straight out of Nathaniel West--a city in which we may glimpse our own future mirrored with terrifying clarity. In this new edition, Davis provides a dazzling update on the city's current status.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378732368095,"sku":"9781786635891","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/RaELDFKZs29781786635891.webp?v=1789261608"},{"product_id":"under-the-perfect-sun-the-san-diego-tourists-never-see-paperback","title":"Under the Perfect Sun: The San Diego Tourists Never See - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA muckraking history of San Diego that covers the city's historically recent shift from politically conservative to politically progressive while also outlining a new cast of right-wing villains and tenacious activists fighting for social justice. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Behind the luminous veneer of San Diego, there is also a powerful story of radical activism and resistance--vital inspiration for our times.\" --Angela Davis \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A left-leaning, fascinating history of San Diego that debunks the notion of America's Finest City.\"―\u003ci\u003eSan Diego Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSan Diego is a sunny paradise for over thirty million tourists each year. But America's eighth largest metropolis conceals a vast dark side of militarization, economic inequality, municipal corruption, and racial injustice. This updated and expanded edition of \u003ci\u003eUnder the Perfect Sun \u003c\/i\u003econtains three muckraking essays that expose the underbelly of this city and interrogate its recent turn from red to blue. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMike Davis outlines the making and re-making of San Diego by a series of largely unchecked local plutocrats, from the snarling Republicans of old to what he calls \"high tech . . . opportunist Clinton Democracy.\" He moves from John D. Spreckels' crushing dissent amidst the Free Speech Fight during the Progressive era to a new class of politically shapeshifting business elites ushering in the \"tidal wave of gentrification\" that continues to this day. Jim Miller offers a bottom-up, peoples' history of San Diego from the perspective of activists of all stripes--workers, immigrants, civil rights, and anti-war advocates--seeking to challenge the local hegemony. And oral historian Kelly Mayhew sketches life in this tourist wonderland with a series of interviews that reveal the \"Other San Diego,\" including stories from a wide range of local activists and everyday citizens who share the reality of living in San Diego. This twentieth-anniversary edition is an ode to one of America's most complex cities.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51379005128927,"sku":"9781644215449","price":25.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/jdkzsQLO8W9781644215449.webp?v=1789264978"},{"product_id":"magical-urbanism-latinos-reinvent-the-us-city-paperback","title":"Magical Urbanism: Latinos Reinvent the Us City - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of the 2001 Carey McWilliams Award \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIs the capital of Latin America a small island at the mouth of the Hudson River? Will California soon hold the balance of power in Mexican national politics? Will Latinos reinvigorate the US labor movement? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese are some of the provocative questions that Mike Davis explores in this fascinating account of the Latinization of the US urban landscape. As he forefully shows, this is a demographic and cultural revolution with extraordinary implications. With Spanish surnames increasing five times faster than the general population, salsa is becoming the predominant ethnic rhythm (and flavor) of contemporary city life. In Los Angeles, Houston, San Antonio, and (shortly) Dallas, Latinos outnumber non-Hispanic whites; in New York, San Diego and Phoenix they outnumber Blacks. According to the Bureau of the Census, Latinos will supply fully two-thirds of the nation's population growth between now and the middle of the 21st century when nearly 100 millions Americans will boast Latin American ancestry. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDavis focuses on the great drama of how Latinos are attempting to translate their urban demographic ascendancy into effective social power. Pundits are now unanimous that Spanish-surname voters are the sleeping giant of US politics. Yet electoral mobilization alone is unlikely to redress the increasing income and opportunity gaps between urban Latinos and suburban non-Hispanic whites. Thus in Los Angeles and elsewhere, the militant struggles of Latino workers and students are reinventing the American left. Fully updated throughout, and with new chapters on the urban Southwest and the explodiing counter-migration of Anglos to Mexico, \u003ci\u003eMagical Urbanism\u003c\/i\u003e is essential reading for anyone who wants to grasp the future of urban America \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis paperback edition of Mike Davis's investigation into the Latinization of America incorporates the extraordinary findings of the 2000 Census as well as new chapters on the militarization of the border and violence against immigrants.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51381271691487,"sku":"9781804294734","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/WeloC05QmA9781804294734.webp?v=1789282847"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/mike-davis.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}