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Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"This is the first comprehensive account of the health care workers who have been at the forefront of our fight against COVID-19. In fact, America's economy and politics have been, for years, increasingly defined by the growth of the healthcare industry, yet we have lacked convincing accounts of its rise and make-up. Winant delivers an incisive investigation of this new world"--
Series
Countries peoples and cultures volume 8
Publisher
EBSCO Information Services, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Provides an introduction to the social, cultural, economic, historical, and religious practices and beliefs of North America and islands located in the Caribbean Sea.
23) Eastern Europe
Series
Countries peoples and cultures volume 4
Publisher
EBSCO Information Services, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Provides an introduction to the social, cultural, economic, historical, and religious practices and beliefs of Eastern Europe.
24) Western Europe
Series
Countries peoples and cultures volume 3
Publisher
EBSCO Information Services, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Provides an introduction to the social, cultural, economic, historical, and religious practices and beliefs of Western Europe.
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
"Senator Elizabeth Warren has long been an outspoken champion of America's middle class, and by the time the people of Massachusetts elected her in 2012, she had become one of the country's leading progressive voices. Now, at a perilous moment for our nation, she has written a book that is at once an illuminating account of how we built the strongest middle class in history, a scathing indictment of those who have spent the past thirty-five years...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Relates how four undocumented Mexican immigrants in Arizona put together an underwater robot from scavenged parts and went on to win the National Underwater Robotics Competition at UC Santa Barbara.
Four undocumented Mexican American students, two great teachers, one robot-building contest ... and a major motion picture. In 2004, four Latino teenagers arrived at the Marine Advanced Technology Education Robotics Competition at the University of California,...
Author
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
2004 Washington State Book Award Finalist
"Company town." The words evoke images of rough-and-tumble loggers and gritty miners, of dreary shacks in isolated villages, of wages paid in scrip good only at price-gouging company stores, of paternalistic employers. But these stereotypes are outdated, especially for those company towns that flourished well into the twentieth century. In Company Towns of the Pacific Northwest, Linda Carlson provides
...Series
Countries peoples and cultures volume 2
Publisher
EBSCO Information Services, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Provides an introduction to the social, cultural, economic, historical, and religious practices and beliefs of Central, South and Southeast Asia.
Series
Countries peoples and cultures volume 5
Publisher
EBSCO Information Services, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Provides an introduction to the social, cultural, economic, historical, and religious practices and beliefs of the Middle East and North Africa.
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
New York Times Bestseller
New York Times reporter and "Corner Office" columnist David Gelles reveals legendary GE CEO Jack Welch to be the root of all that's wrong with capitalism today and offers advice on how we might right those wrongs.
In 1981, Jack Welch took over General Electric and quickly rose to fame as the first celebrity CEO. He golfed with presidents, mingled with movie stars, and was idolized...
New York Times reporter and "Corner Office" columnist David Gelles reveals legendary GE CEO Jack Welch to be the root of all that's wrong with capitalism today and offers advice on how we might right those wrongs.
In 1981, Jack Welch took over General Electric and quickly rose to fame as the first celebrity CEO. He golfed with presidents, mingled with movie stars, and was idolized...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
For the entire history of human civilization, gold has enraptured people around the globe. The Nazis were no less enthralled by it and felt gold was the solution to funding Hitler's war machine. Gold was also on the mind of FDR across the Atlantic, as he worked with Europe's other leaders to bring the United States and the rest of the world out of a severe depression. FDR was hardly the first head of state to turn to gold in difficult times. Throughout...
Author
Language
English
Description
From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, this book is a probing look at the struggles of America's white working class through the author's own story of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town. Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis -- that of poor, white Americans. The disintegration of this group, a process that has been slowly occurring now for over forty years, has been reported with growing frequency...
Author
Publisher
Tuttle Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The long-running "Ask a North Korean" column produced by NK News in Washington D.C. invites readers to ask questions of recent North Korean defectors about everyday issues that are not generally discussed in the media. Various aspects of life in North Korea are discussed in this book through a series of interviews . These interviews show that even in the world's most authoritarian regime, there is still a degree of normality and continuity.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"During Sarah Smarsh's turbulent childhood in Kansas in the 1980s and 1990s, the country's changing economic policies solidified her family's place among the working poor. By telling the story of her life and the lives of the people she loves, Smarsh challenges us to examine the class divide in our country and the myths about people thought to be less because they earn less. Her personal history affirms the corrosive impact intergenerational poverty...
Series
Countries peoples and cultures volume 6
Publisher
EBSCO Information Services, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Provides an introduction to the social, cultural, economic, historical, and religious practices and beliefs of the Eastern and Southern Africa.
Series
Countries peoples and cultures volume 7
Publisher
EBSCO Information Services, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Provides an introduction to the social, cultural, economic, historical, and religious practices and beliefs of Western and Central Africa.
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