MARC details
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| fixed length control field |
01892 a2200181 4500 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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140323b2013 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780241002759 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
330.97471 |
| Item number |
V3F5 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Venkatesh, Sudhir |
| 9 (RLIN) |
279693 |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Floating city: hustlers, strivers, dealers, call girls and other lives in illicit New York |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Venkatesh, Sudhir |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
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| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2013 |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
Allen Lane |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
London |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
287 p. |
| 365 ## - TRADE PRICE |
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| Price type code |
INR |
| Price amount |
599.00 |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
After his insider's study of Chicago crack gangs electrified the academy, Columbia University sociologist Sudhir Venkatesh spent a decade immersed in New York's underbelly, observing the call girls, drug dealers, prostitutes and other strivers that make up this booming underground economy. Amidst the trust-funder cocktail parties, midtown strip clubs, and immigrant-run sex shops, he discovers a surprisingly fluid and dynamic social world - one that can be found in global cities everywhere - as traditional boundaries between class, race and neighbourhood dissolve.<br/><br/>In Floating City, Venkatesh explores New York from high to low, tracing the invisible threads that bind a handful of ambitious urban hustlers, from a Harvard-educated socialite running a high-end escort service to a Harlem crack dealer adapting to changing demands by selling cocaine to hedge fund managers and downtown artists. In the process, and as he questions his own reasons for going deeper into this subterranean world, Venkatesh finds something truly unexpected - community. Floating City is Venkatesh's journey through the 'vast invisible continent' of New York's underground economy - a thriving yet largely unseen world that exists in parallel to our own, at the heart of every city. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Informal sector (Economics) - New York (State) - New York |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Sociology, Urban - New York (State) - New York |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Koha item type |
Book |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Dewey Decimal Classification |
