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The cover of a book by E.M. Ippolito titled "The Tears of Other People: A history and memoir of displacement in Portsmouth, New Hampshire." The cover shows a composite image of photos, maps, and collage of Portsmouth underneath a gray sky.
Urban Environments
Class, Hegemony, and the Will to End a Neighborhood
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Book cover depicting red text on a white background, accompanied by a stylized line drawing of a rat. The text in red reads: What Would You Do Alone in a Cage with Nothing but Cocaine?
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What Would You Do Alone in a Cage With Nothing but Cocaine?
February 10, 2026
A lantern slideshows four overlapping illustrations of the Earth depicting its tilt at different time periods in the past, present and future. Dates represented are 13000 BC, 5544 BC, 1921 AD, 2296AD. Handwritten in blue ink at bottom left corner of plate is the text 'G53 CLW [illegible] Aug '22'.
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