Ulysses
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"We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now"
Author : Annelise Orleck
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 43,21 MB
Release : 2018-02-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0807081787
Book Description
The story of low-wage workers rising up around the world to demand respect and a living wage. Tracing a new labor movement sparked and sustained by low-wage workers from across the globe, “We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now” is an urgent, illuminating look at globalization as seen through the eyes of workers-activists: small farmers, fast-food servers, retail workers, hotel housekeepers, home-healthcare aides, airport workers, and adjunct professors who are fighting for respect, safety, and a living wage. With original photographs by Liz Cooke and drawing on interviews with activists in many US cities and countries around the world, including Bangladesh, Cambodia, Mexico, South Africa, and the Philippines, it features stories of resistance and rebellion, as well as reflections on hope and change as it rises from the bottom up.
The Life of Sir John Falstaff
Author : Robert Barnabas Brough
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Page : 306 pages
File Size : 46,8 MB
Release : 1858
Category : Etching, British
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"The plan of this work [is] ... to illustrate the life of Sir John Falstaff exclusively from the most striking passages in his career, as invented by Shakespeare"--Preface
Progress and Poverty
Author : Henry George
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
Page : 619 pages
File Size : 11,7 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3849657973
Book Description
This is the book that made its author Henry George suddenly famous. From the year 1879 to the present the doctrines of 'Progress and Poverty' have been familiar to all who are interested in social problems. The book has been read by many to whom Political Economy is still 'the dismal science', and it has been circulated in cheap editions by the thousand among the classes to which it holds out such an alluring prospect. 'Progress and Poverty' has become a classic in labor literature. Its doctrines have been accepted not only by many who see in them a means of personal rescue from distress and want, but by many others who are convinced by the reasoning of the author. Clergymen , in the Catholic as well as in the Protestant church, have become Mr. George's disciples, and business and professional men have gladly sat at his feet.
Persons and Places
Author : George Santayana
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File Size : 12,36 MB
Release : 1947
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Working
Author : Studs Terkel
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 867 pages
File Size : 39,32 MB
Release : 2011-07-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1595587667
Book Description
A Pulitzer Prize winner interviews workers, from policemen to piano tuners: “Magnificent . . . To read it is to hear America talking.” —The Boston Globe A National Book Award Finalist and New York Times bestseller Studs Terkel’s classic oral history Working is a compelling look at jobs and the people who do them. Consisting of over one hundred interviews with everyone from a gravedigger to a studio head, this book provides a “brilliant” and enduring portrait of people’s feelings about their working lives. This edition includes a new foreword by New York Times journalist Adam Cohen (Forbes). “Splendid . . . Important . . . Rich and fascinating . . . The people we meet are not digits in a poll but real people with real names who share their anecdotes, adventures, and aspirations with us.” —Business Week “The talk in Working is good talk—earthy, passionate, honest, sometimes tender, sometimes crisp, juicy as reality, seasoned with experience.” —The Washington Post
Queens of the Renaissance
Author : M. Beresford Ryley
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Page : 428 pages
File Size : 45,67 MB
Release : 1907
Category : Kings and rulers
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Includes : Catherine of Siena ; Beatrice d'Este ; Anne of Brittany ; Lucrezia Borgia ; Margaret d'Angouleme ; Renee, Duchess of Ferrara.
The Scarlet Thread
Author : Francine Rivers
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 41,23 MB
Release : 2012-05-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1414340753
Book Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of Redeeming Love and The Masterpiece comes the powerful story of two women, centuries apart, who are joined through a tattered journal as they contend with God, husbands, and even themselves. Sierra Madrid’s life has just been turned upside down when she discovers the handcrafted quilt and journal of her ancestor Mary Kathryn McMurray, a young woman who was uprooted from her home only to endure harsh conditions on the Oregon Trail. Though the women are separated by time and circumstance, Sierra discovers that many of the issues they face are remarkably similar . . . and uncovering Mary Kathryn’s story may help her write the next chapter of hers. “Rivers tells a powerful story of marital love tested in a crucible. Your hankie will not be dry, nor your heart unchallenged, as the characters learn the lessons of surrender to God’s sovereignty and unconditional love.” —Romantic Times Also available in The Francine Rivers Historical Collection (e-book only).
My Brother, Theodore Roosevelt
Author : Corinne Roosevelt Robinson
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Page : 414 pages
File Size : 43,5 MB
Release : 1921
Category : Biography
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Crucibles
Author : Bernard Jaffe
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 18,62 MB
Release : 1976-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780486233420
Book Description
Brief biographies of great chemists, from Trevisan and Paracelsus to Bohr and Lawrence, provide a survey of the discoveries and advances that shaped modern chemistry
