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Language
English
Description
From the beet fields of North Dakota to the National Forest campgrounds of California to Amazon's CamperForce program in Texas, employers have discovered a new, low-cost labor pool, made up largely of transient older Americans. Finding that social security comes up short, often underwater on mortgages, these invisible casualties of the Great Recession have taken to the road by the tens of thousands in late-model RVs, travel trailers, and vans, forming...
Publisher
Video Project
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodiscc (52 min.) : sound, color, 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Migration is frequently a multi-generational experience for families; not an individual choice or the particular economic decision of a single family, but rather a collective practice, repeated again and again by both individuals and communities. The Time of the Fireflies portrays this interconnected history through the narrative of Miguel and his family, questioning long-held misconceptions about immigration.
83) Dust bowl diary
Author
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
c1984
Physical Desc
188 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The author recounts her experiences growing up in North Dakota from 1928 to 1937 the years of the Dust bowl and Depression.
Author
Publisher
Crown Forum
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 407 p. : ill., charts ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A critique of the white American class structure argues that the paths of social mobility that once advanced the nation are now serving to further isolate an elite upper class while enforcing a growing and resentful white underclass.
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Language
English
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Description
In her collection of linked essays, Jerkins takes on perhaps one of the most provocative contemporary topics: What does it mean to "be"--To live as, to exist as-- a black woman today? Doubly disenfranchised by race and gender, often deprived of a place within the mostly white mainstream feminist movement, black women are objectified, silenced, and marginalized with devastating consequences, in ways both obvious and subtle, that are rarely acknowledged...
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English
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"The former dean of the Yale School of Management and Undersecretary of Commerce in the Clinton administration chronicles the 1971 August meeting at Camp David, where President Nixon unilaterally ended the last vestiges of the gold standard--breaking the link between gold and the dollar--transforming the entire global monetary system"--
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Language
English
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Description
In this blockbuster follow-up to the "New York Times"-bestseller "The Roots of Obama's Rage," D'Souza reveals how President Obama's recent actions prove his anti-colonialist roots and predicts how much worse America will be if President Obama wins a second term.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
304 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A plea -- deeply personal and told through the lives of real Americans -- to address the crisis in working-class America, while focusing on solutions to mend a half century of governmental failure.
Through the lives of real Americans, Kristof and WuDunn address the crisis in working-class America, while focusing on solutions to mend a half century of governmental failure. Rural Yamhill, Oregon, prospered for much of the twentieth century but has...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 444 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"An accessible, compelling introduction to today's major policy issues from columnist, best-selling author, and Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman. There is no better guide than Paul Krugman to basic economics, the ideas that animate much of our public policy. Likewise, there is no better foe of zombie economics, the misunderstandings that just won't die. This delightful new book finds Krugman at his best, turning readers into intelligent...
90) Roger & me
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sd., color & b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Michael Moore is a hometown hero who tries to get to the man at the top, General Motors Chairman Roger Smith, and persuade him to visit Flint, Michigan and do something about the hard times that have come there.
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
viii, 422 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Foreign policy expert and key impeachment witness Fiona Hill reveals how declining opportunity has set America on the grim path of modern Russia--and shows how we can return hope to our forgotten places. In this deeply personal account, she shares what she has learned, and explains that only by expanding opportunity can we save our democracy.
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
402 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The story of the metropolis that never should have been and the visionaries who dreamed it into reality. Little more than a century ago, the southern coast of California--bone-dry, harborless, isolated by deserts and mountain ranges--seemed destined to remain scrappy farmland. Then, as if overnight, one of the world's iconic cities emerged. At the heart of Los Angeles's meteoric rise were three flawed visionaries: William Mulholland, an immigrant...
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 285 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"As the US and Cuba move toward the normalization of diplomatic relations after an epic fifty-six-year standoff, we find ourselves face-to-face with one of the few places in the world that has been off limits to most Americans. Standing on both sides of the divide, twelve of our most celebrated writers investigate this period of momentous transition in Cuba on the Verge. These essays span the spectrum, from Carlos Manuel Álvarez's story of being...
Author
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
30 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A history of the Industrial Revolution focusing primarily on the United States during the nineteenth century and on the change from an agrarian society to one based on machines and factories.
96) Propaganda
Publisher
Sabineprogram
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 inches.
Language
Korean
Description
"Presented by an anonymous North Korean professor, this anti-Western propaganda film attacks the moral attenuation, political manipulation and hyper-consumerism that characterize the Western world. ... Toward the end of this propaganda piece, the role of North Korea in all of this becomes clear: the country would like to offer itself as headquarters for the mounting fight against consumer slavery and greed worldwide. Propaganda is the world's first...
Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 316 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the coauthors of the New York Times bestseller Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle comes the highly anticipated follow up, The Genius of Israel, which outlines the defining factors behind Israel's successful track record of innovation and explaining how other nations can learn from its development. In Start-Up Nation, Saul Singer and Dan Senor addressed the trillion dollar question: How is it that Israel-a country of 7.1...
Author
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xv, 236 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this work of creative nonfiction, Kate Benz provides an intimate look at the present-day residents of Courtland, Kansas (population 285), a town whose economy depends almost entirely on agriculture. Her narrative shows how macro-level issues, from rising tariffs and operation costs to sinking commodity prices and infusions of federal farm subsidies affect these Americans' daily lives, and how their love of their community continues their collective...
99) The Appalachians
Publisher
Evening Star Productions
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (172 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Explores the social, economic, and cultural history of the people in the Appalachian Mountains.
100) The Great Depression
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
144 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents information about the Great Depression that left millions of Americans without jobs, including how people struggled to make a living in a time of high unemployment and how the government tried to solve the country's economic troubles.
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