New Releases by Sudhir Venkatesh

"At the heart of the story are two teenagers: Marshal Mariot, an introverted video gamer and bike rider, and Frankie Paul, who leaves foster care to direct his cousin''s drug business while he''s in prison. Frankie devises a plan to attack Marshall and his friends--it is his best chance to showcase his toughness and win respect for his crew. Catching wind of the plan, Marshall and his friends decide they must preemptively go after Frankie''s crew to defend their honor. The pressure mounts as both groups of teens race to find a gun and strike first. All the while, the community at large--a cast that includes the teens'' families, black market gun dealers, local pastors, a bodega owner and a veteran beat cop--try their best to defuse the conflict and keep the kids alive."--Provided by publisher.

Quels liens unissent les hommes d’affaires de Manhattan, la haute société de l’Upper East Side, les travailleurs du sexe de Brooklyn, les artistes de Tribeca, les agences d’escort de Hell’s Kitchen, les dealers de Harlem et de petits marchands bangladais ? Après avoir passé dix ans dans le ghetto de Chicago pour en percer les secrets (Dans la peau d’un chef de gang), Sudhir Venkatesh, sociologue renommé de l’université Columbia, retourne arpenter les rues de New York pour y comprendre le fonctionnement de l’économie souterraine. Épaulé par un petit baron de la drogue qui espère percer dans le marché « haut de gamme » de la cocaïne, il va de nouveau tâcher de cerner le réseau invisible de transactions illicites entre riches et pauvres qui, secrètement, raccorde toute la ville. Trafics, c’est dix ans d’enquêtes, entre échecs et découvertes, dans cette zone instable qu’est New York, où vos sujets de recherches disparaissent du jour au lendemain, où vos amis les plus proches peuvent s’avérer faire partie des pires criminels.

Traditional Chinese edition of Gang Leader For A Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes To the Streets by Sudhir Venkatesh (author of another social observation book titled: Floating City, ) a New York Times bestseller and The Economist''s Best Book of 2008. It is also the third of Mark Zuckerberg''s 2015 reading list. In Traditional Chinese. Annotation copyright Tsai Fong Books, Inc. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.

A New York Times Bestseller "A rich portrait of the urban poor, drawn not from statistics but from vivid tales of their lives and his, and how they intertwined." —The Economist "A sensitive, sympathetic, unpatronizing portrayal of lives that are ususally ignored or lumped into ill-defined stereotype." —Finanical Times Foreword by Stephen J. Dubner, coauthor of Freakonomics When first-year graduate student Sudhir Venkatesh walked into an abandoned building in one of Chicago’s most notorious housing projects, he hoped to find a few people willing to take a multiple-choice survey on urban poverty--and impress his professors with his boldness. He never imagined that as a result of this assignment he would befriend a gang leader named JT and spend the better part of a decade embedded inside the projects under JT’s protection. From a privileged position of unprecedented access, Venkatesh observed JT and the rest of his gang as they operated their crack-selling business, made peace with their neighbors, evaded the law, and rose up or fell within the ranks of the gang’s complex hierarchical structure. Examining the morally ambiguous, highly intricate, and often corrupt struggle to survive in an urban war zone, Gang Leader for a Day also tells the story of the complicated friendship that develops between Venkatesh and JT--two young and ambitious men a universe apart. Sudhir Venkatesh’s latest book Floating City: A Rogue Sociologist Lost and Found in New York’s Underground Economy—a memoir of sociological investigation revealing the true face of America’s most diverse city—is also published by Penguin Press.