Hard Work Hard Times

Author : Anne-Maria Makhulu,Beth A. Buggenhagen,Stephen Jackson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520098749

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Hard Work, Hard Times by Anne-Maria Makhulu,Beth A. Buggenhagen,Stephen Jackson Pdf

Introduction / Anne-Maria Makhulu, Beth A. Buggenhagen, Stephen Jackson. - The search for economic sovereignty / Anne-Maria Makhulu. - "It seems to be going:" the genius of survival in wartime DR Congo / Stephen Jackson. - This is play : popular culture and politics in Côte d'Ivoire / Mike McGovern. - Self-sovereignty and creativity in Ghanian public culture / Jesse Weaver Shipley. - "May God let me share paradise with my fellow believers" : Islam's "female face" and the politics of religious devotion in Mali / Dorothea E. Schulz. - "Killer bargains" : global networks of Senegalese Muslims and the policing of unofficial economies in the war on terror / Beth A. Buggenhagen. - Border practices / Charles Piot.

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10929487

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Hard Times by Charles Dickens Pdf

Author : Stefan Aarnio
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1949572056

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Hard Times Create Strong Men by Stefan Aarnio Pdf

This book is raw, real and politically incorrect, it will threaten and challenge your ideas of what does it mean to be a man and how to better serve your purpose.

Author : E.L. Doctorow
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007-09-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780812978223

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Welcome to Hard Times by E.L. Doctorow Pdf

Here is E. L. Doctorow’s debut novel, a searing allegory of frontier life that sets the stage for his subsequent classics. Hard Times is the name of a town in the barren hills of the Dakota Territory. To this town there comes one day one of the reckless sociopaths who wander the West to kill and rape and pillage. By the time he is through and has ridden off, Hard Times is a smoking ruin. The de facto mayor, Blue, takes in two survivors of the carnage–a boy, Jimmy, and a prostitute, Molly, who has suffered unspeakably–and makes them his provisional family. Blue begins to rebuild Hard Times, welcoming new settlers, while Molly waits with vengeance in her heart for the return of the outlaw. Praise for Welcome to Hard Times “A forceful, credible story of cowardice and evil.”—The Washington Post “We are caught up with these people as real human beings.”—Chicago Sun-Times “Dramatic and exciting.”—The New York Times “Terse and powerful.”—Newsweek “A taut, bloodthirsty read.”—The Times Literary Supplement “A superb piece of fiction.”—The New Republic

Author : Leon Fink,Joseph A. McCartin,Joan Sangster
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780252095979

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Workers in Hard Times by Leon Fink,Joseph A. McCartin,Joan Sangster Pdf

Seeking to historicize the 2007-2009 Great Recession, this volume of essays situates the current economic crisis and its impact on workers in the context of previous abrupt shifts in the modern-day capitalist marketplace. Contributors use examples from industrialized North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia to demonstrate how workers and states have responded to those shifts and to their disempowering effects on labor. Since the Industrial Revolution, contributors argue, factors such as race, sex, and state intervention have mediated both the effect of economic depressions on workers' lives and workers' responses to those depressions. Contributors also posit a varying dynamic between political upheaval and economic crises, and between workers and the welfare state. The volume ends with an examination of today's "Great Recession": its historical distinctiveness, its connection to neoliberalism, and its attendant expressions of worker status and agency around the world. A sobering conclusion lays out a likely future for workers--one not far removed from the instability and privation of the nineteenth century. The essays in this volume offer up no easy solutions to the challenges facing today's workers. Nevertheless, they make clear that cogent historical thinking is crucial to understanding those challenges, and they push us toward a rethinking of the relationship between capital and labor, the waged and unwaged, and the employed and jobless. Contributors are Sven Beckert, Sean Cadigan, Leon Fink, Alvin Finkel, Wendy Goldman, Gaetan Heroux, Joseph A. McCartin, David Montgomery, Edward Montgomery, Scott Reynolds Nelson, Melanie Nolan, Bryan D. Palmer, Joan Sangster, Judith Stein, Hilary Wainright, and Lu Zhang.

Author : Oliver Conant
Publisher : Research & Education Assoc.
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9780738673080

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Hard Times (MAXNotes Literature Guides) by Oliver Conant Pdf

REA's MAXnotes for Charles Dickens' Hard Times MAXnotes offer a fresh look at masterpieces of literature, presented in a lively and interesting fashion. Written by literary experts who currently teach the subject, MAXnotes will enhance your understanding and enjoyment of the work. MAXnotes are designed to stimulate independent thought about the literary work by raising various issues and thought-provoking ideas and questions. MAXnotes cover the essentials of what one should know about each work, including an overall summary, character lists, an explanation and discussion of the plot, the work's historical context, illustrations to convey the mood of the work, and a biography of the author. Each chapter is individually summarized and analyzed, and has study questions and answers.

Author : Jay Mathews
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781565126732

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Work Hard. Be Nice. by Jay Mathews Pdf

When Mike Feinberg and Dave Levin signed up for Teach for America right after college and found themselves utter failures in the classroom, they vowed to remake themselves into superior educators. They did that—and more. In their early twenties, by sheer force of talent and determination never to take no for an answer, they created a wildly successful fifth-grade experience that would grow into the Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP), which today includes sixty-six schools in nineteen states and the District of Columbia. KIPP schools incorporate what Feinberg and Levin learned from America's best, most charismatic teachers: lessons need to be lively; school days need to be longer (the KIPP day is nine and a half hours); the completion of homework has to be sacrosanct (KIPP teachers are available by telephone day and night). Chants, songs, and slogans such as "Work hard, be nice" energize the program. Illuminating the ups and downs of the KIPP founders and their students, Mathews gives us something quite rare: a hopeful book about education.

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393623475

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Hard Times (Fourth International Student Edition) (Norton Critical Editions) by Charles Dickens Pdf

“An excellent collection of critical and social commentary that will help to make Dickens’ image of Victorian England meaningful to all students.” —John Howard Wilson, Dakota Wesleyan University This Norton Critical Edition includes: - Sylvere Monod’s superbly edited text, based on the 1854 edition and accompanied by Fred Kaplan’s expanded annotations. - Fourteen illustrations from 1854 to circa 1890. - Contextual pieces by social critics and theorists of Dickens’ time that give readers outstanding examples of views on industrialism, education, and utilitarianism in the nineteenth century. - Eight new critical essays by Paulette Kidder, David M. Levy, Christopher Barnes, Theodore Dalrymple, Christina Lupton, Efraim Sicher, Nils Clausson, and Kent Greenfield and John E. Nilsson. - A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography.

Author : Tumi Olubode
Publisher : Tumi Olubode
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-23
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Coping in Hard Times, The Pandemic and Beyond by Tumi Olubode Pdf

What is the way forward post-pandemic after there seems to have been such a significant pause? What is the best way to cope during challenging times? How does one shape life beyond our most difficult times, and what coping strategies can be used? Indeed, there are practical steps to discover and rediscover ourselves, ways to stabilise our mental health, ask for support, and value the simple things of life. In this book, you would find advice on how to make that happen and more.

Author : E.L. Doctorow
Publisher : Random House
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307762979

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Welcome to Hard Times by E.L. Doctorow Pdf

Here is E. L. Doctorow’s debut novel, a searing allegory of frontier life that sets the stage for his subsequent classics. Hard Times is the name of a town in the barren hills of the Dakota Territory. To this town there comes one day one of the reckless sociopaths who wander the West to kill and rape and pillage. By the time he is through and has ridden off, Hard Times is a smoking ruin. The de facto mayor, Blue, takes in two survivors of the carnage–a boy, Jimmy, and a prostitute, Molly, who has suffered unspeakably–and makes them his provisional family. Blue begins to rebuild Hard Times, welcoming new settlers, while Molly waits with vengeance in her heart for the return of the outlaw. Praise for Welcome to Hard Times “A forceful, credible story of cowardice and evil.”—The Washington Post “We are caught up with these people as real human beings.”—Chicago Sun-Times “Dramatic and exciting.”—The New York Times “Terse and powerful.”—Newsweek “A taut, bloodthirsty read.”—The Times Literary Supplement “A superb piece of fiction.”—The New Republic

Author : Matt Saincome,Bill Conway,Krissy Howard
Publisher : Mariner Books
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780358022374

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The Hard Times by Matt Saincome,Bill Conway,Krissy Howard Pdf

A sharp, comedic send-up of punk and hardcore culture, from the creators of the popular and critically-lauded satire site The Hard Times.net.

Author : Dave Ramsey
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781101218686

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More than Enough by Dave Ramsey Pdf

In his first bestseller, Financial Peace, Dave Ramsey taught us how to eliminate debt from our lives. Now in More Than Enough, he gives us the keys to building wealth while also creating a successful, united family. Drawing from his years of work with thousands of families and corporate employees, Ramsey presents the ten keys that guarantee family and financial peace, including: values, goals, patience, discipline, and giving back to one's community. Using these essential steps anyone can create prosperity, live debt-free, and achieve marital bliss around the issue of finances. Filled with stories of couples, single men and women, children, and single parents, More Than Enough will show you: • How to create a budget that fits your income and creates wealth • What finances and romance have to do with one another • What role values play in your financial life • How to retire wealthy in every way • And much, much more Resonating with Ramsey's down-home, folksy voice, heartwarming case histories, inspiring insights, quotations from the Bible, and exercises, quizzes, and worksheets, More Than Enough provides an inspiring wealth-building guide and a life-changing blueprint for a vital family dynamic.

Author : Theo Tsaousides
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-04
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780735205451

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Brainblocks by Theo Tsaousides Pdf

Brainblocks are the mental obstacles that keep people from achieving success, defined as setting, pursuing, and achieving a goal. Managing the brain is the solution to preventing mental blocks from interfering with achieving your goals. And neuropsychologist Dr. Theo Tsaousides gives you the tools to improve: Awareness: • the seven brainblocks to success (self-doubt, procrastination, impatience, multitasking, rigidity, perfectionism, negativity) • the characteristic feelings, thoughts, and actions associated with each brainblock • the brain functions involved in goal-oriented action • brain glitches and how they create setbacks • the cost of not removing brainblocks • the best strategies to remove the blocks Engagement: • actively search for brainblocks in your actions, thoughts, and feelings • recognize and label each brainblock as soon as it is identified • practice each strategy consistently until it becomes second nature • track your progress toward a goal Through these strategies you will learn to overcome these cognitive obstacles and harness the power of the brain to achieve success in any endeavor.

Author : Rebecca O’Connell ,Julia Brannen
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781787356559

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Families and Food in Hard Times by Rebecca O’Connell ,Julia Brannen Pdf

Food is fundamental to health and social participation, yet food poverty has increased in the global North. Adopting a realist ontology and taking a comparative case approach, Families and Food in Hard Times addresses the global problem of economic retrenchment and how those most affected are those with the least resources. Based on research carried out with low-income families with children aged 11-15, this timely book examines food poverty in the UK, Portugal and Norway in the decade following the 2008 financial crisis. It examines the resources to which families have access in relation to public policies, local institutions and kinship and friendship networks, and how they intersect. Through ‘thick description’ of families’ everyday lives, it explores the ways in which low income impacts upon practices of household food provisioning, the types of formal and informal support on which families draw to get by, the provision and role of school meals in children’s lives, and the constraints upon families’ social participation involving food. Providing extensive and intensive knowledge concerning the conditions and experiences of low-income parents as they endeavour to feed their families, as well as children’s perspectives of food and eating in the context of low income, the book also draws on the European social science literature on food and families to shed light on the causes and consequences of food poverty in austerity Europe.

Author : Melissa Walker
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Depressions
ISBN : 1570035245

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Country Women Cope with Hard Times by Melissa Walker Pdf

As daughters and wives they milked cows, raised livestock, planted and harvested crops, worked in textile mills, sold butter and eggs, preserved food, made cloth, sewed clothes, and practiced remarkable resourcefulness.