Invisible In Austin

Author : Javier Auyero
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781477303658

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Invisible in Austin by Javier Auyero Pdf

Austin, Texas, is renowned as a high-tech, fast-growing city for the young and creative, a cool place to live, and the scene of internationally famous events such as SXSW and Formula 1. But as in many American cities, poverty and penury are booming along with wealth and material abundance in contemporary Austin. Rich and poor residents lead increasingly separate lives as growing socioeconomic inequality underscores residential, class, racial, and ethnic segregation. In Invisible in Austin, the award-winning sociologist Javier Auyero and a team of graduate students explore the lives of those working at the bottom of the social order: house cleaners, office-machine repairers, cab drivers, restaurant cooks and dishwashers, exotic dancers, musicians, and roofers, among others. Recounting their subjects’ life stories with empathy and sociological insight, the authors show us how these lives are driven by a complex mix of individual and social forces. These poignant stories compel us to see how poor people who provide indispensable services for all city residents struggle daily with substandard housing, inadequate public services and schools, and environmental risks. Timely and essential reading, Invisible in Austin makes visible the growing gap between rich and poor that is reconfiguring the cityscape of one of America’s most dynamic places, as low-wage workers are forced to the social and symbolic margins.

Author : Javier Auyero
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 1477303669

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Invisible in Austin by Javier Auyero Pdf

Author : Jeff Ferdinand
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-17
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 153930227X

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Austin Boulevard by Jeff Ferdinand Pdf

"Ferdinand uses Austin Boulevard-- a street dividing the suburb[s] of Oak Park, Illinois and Austin Village, in Chicago-- to illustrate the divide he sees between black and white, rich and poor, privileged and unprivileged. [Utilizing] many resources, [the author] has gathered together information to help the reader gain a new perspective on this complex issue"--Back cover.

Author : Lysette Maison
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781528984034

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Invisible Liaison by Lysette Maison Pdf

This book is about a US Army officer serving in war-torn Syria, looking for a friendship/relationship online, which eventually becomes more. The woman he is corresponding with becomes suspicious about him when he asks her for money for a vacation for them to meet etc. and fears he is a scammer. She ends the relationship as his demands become more and goes on a pre-planned singles' vacation to India in the hope of forgetting all about this relationship. When she arrives at the first hotel and at the welcome meeting, she introduces herself to the other members of the group just to find that one gentleman in the group has the same name as her army officer. Is it him? She doesn't know, as all she has seen is photos of him on the internet. He looks nothing like those photos, and he doesn't acknowledge her as being known to him, so she dismisses it as pure coincidence. What transpires during the trip is beyond her wildest dreams. It takes you on an incredible journey of love, loss, sex and other complexities of life which makes for an interesting life story that grips you till the very end.

Author : Su Wei
Publisher : Small Beer Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781618731463

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The Invisible Valley by Su Wei Pdf

Lu Beiping is one of 20 million young adults the Chinese government uproots and sends far from their homes for agricultural re-education. And Lu is bored and exhausted. While he pines for romance, instead he’s caught up in a forbidden religious tradition and married off to the foreman’s long-dead daughter so that her soul may rest. The foreman then sends him off to cattle duty up on Mudkettle Mountain, far away from everyone else. On the mountain, Lu meets an outcast polyamorous family led by a matriarch, Jade, and one of her lovers, Kingfisher. They are woodcutters and practice their own idiosyncratic faith by which they claim to placate the serpent-demon sleeping in the belly of the mountains. Just as the village authorities get wind of Lu’s dalliances with the woodcutters, a typhoon rips through the valley. And deep in the jungle, a giant serpent may be stirring. The Invisible Valley is a lyrical fable about the shapes into which human affection can be pressed in extreme circumstances; about what is natural and what is truly deviant; about the relationships between the human and the natural, the human and the divine, the self and the other.

Author : Lucy Devine
Publisher : Austin Macauley
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-28
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1787104397

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My Invisible World by Lucy Devine Pdf

This book is about the advanced awareness of the healing journey. It is inspiring and insightful and provides an in depth detail of a journey that can easily inspire other people to begin their own self-healing journey. It reveals the invisible part of the human being, beginning with the aura, the chakra system, the senses, feelings, emotions, spirit and the mind itself. It reveals how the mind works and the invisible influences that rules it. It reveals how to heal and release these limitations that open the mind to a new enlightened mind perspective.

Author : Pippa Kelly
Publisher : Austin Macauley
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1786124246

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Invisible Ink by Pippa Kelly Pdf

London lawyer Max Rivers has it all - a burgeoning career, a beautiful girlfriend, an exclusive address - but he harbours a long-buried secret that threatens to destroy his carefully constructed world. Invisible Ink is a mesmerising novel of guilt, loss and betrayal within a family - of sibling jealousy that threatens to run out of control, a mother's life all-but forgotten through the fog of dementia and a son who longs to, but cannot, escape his past. Pippa Kelly's haunting debut offers a deft exploration of the complex emotions hidden beneath the surface of our lives; drawing its readers into Max's story and leading them, step by careful step, towards its inevitable dénouement.

Author : Christina Rasmussen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781401940836

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Second Firsts by Christina Rasmussen Pdf

Presents a guide for dealing with grief and loss, detailing five steps of healing that can lead to a lifestyle alignment with personal values and new possibilities for a re-engaged life. --Publisher's description.

Author : Martha Menchaca
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781477324370

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The Mexican American Experience in Texas by Martha Menchaca Pdf

A historical overview of Mexican Americans' social and economic experiences in Texas For hundreds of years, Mexican Americans in Texas have fought against political oppression and exclusion—in courtrooms, in schools, at the ballot box, and beyond. Through a detailed exploration of this long battle for equality, this book illuminates critical moments of both struggle and triumph in the Mexican American experience. Martha Menchaca begins with the Spanish settlement of Texas, exploring how Mexican Americans’ racial heritage limited their incorporation into society after the territory’s annexation. She then illustrates their political struggles in the nineteenth century as they tried to assert their legal rights of citizenship and retain possession of their land, and goes on to explore their fight, in the twentieth century, against educational segregation, jury exclusion, and housing covenants. It was only in 1967, she shows, that the collective pressure placed on the state government by Mexican American and African American activists led to the beginning of desegregation. Menchaca concludes with a look at the crucial roles that Mexican Americans have played in national politics, education, philanthropy, and culture, while acknowledging the important work remaining to be done in the struggle for equality.

Author : Max Holleran
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780691234717

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Yes to the City by Max Holleran Pdf

A fascinating account of the growing "Yes in My Backyard" urban movement The exorbitant costs of urban housing and the widening gap in income inequality are fueling a combative new movement in cities around the world. A growing number of influential activists aren’t waiting for new public housing to be built. Instead, they’re calling for more construction and denser cities in order to increase affordability. Yes to the City offers an in-depth look at the “Yes in My Backyard” (YIMBY) movement. From its origins in San Francisco to its current cadre of activists pushing for new apartment towers in places like Boulder, Austin, and London, Max Holleran explores how urban density, once maligned for its association with overpopulated slums, has become a rallying cry for millennial activists locked out of housing markets and unable to pay high rents. Holleran provides a detailed account of YIMBY activists campaigning for construction, new zoning rules, better public transit, and even candidates for local and state office. YIMBY groups draw together an unlikely coalition, from developers and real estate agents to environmentalists, and Holleran looks at the increasingly contentious battles between market-driven pragmatists and rent-control idealists. Arguing that advocates for more housing must carefully weigh their demands for supply with the continuing damage of gentrification, he shows that these individuals see high-density urbanism and walkable urban spaces as progressive statements about the kind of society they would like to create. Chronicling a major shift in housing activism during the past twenty years, Yes to the City considers how one movement has reframed conversations about urban growth.

Author : Christopher Healy
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780525580294

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This Is Not That Kind of Book by Christopher Healy Pdf

This is a book that answers all the kids who have ever posed the question What kind of book is it? This clever alphabet book... Wait, that's not right. This original fairy tale... Nope. Mystery? Joke book? Superhero story? Pirate adventure? This delightful mash-up features every kind of character found in the picture-book universe--all in one book. Just when the reader is convinced the story is going in one direction, it spins off in another. Ever-changing illustrations keep pace with the rapid reversals, and the setting shifts with nearly every turn of the page. Truly inventive, here's a picture book that can be anything you want it to be!

Author : Daniel WATERLAND
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1843
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BDM:13020100031141

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The Worcks of the Rev. Daniel Waterland...to which is prefixed a review of the Authors life and Writings, by William van Mildert by Daniel WATERLAND Pdf

Author : Daniel Waterland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555070472

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The works of ... Daniel Waterland. To which is prefixed, a review of the author's life and writings, by W. Van Mildert. [With] A general index by Daniel Waterland Pdf

Author : Joy Gordon
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0674035712

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Invisible War by Joy Gordon Pdf

The economic sanctions imposed on Iraq from 1990 to 2003 were the most comprehensive and devastating of any established in the name of international governance. In a sharp indictment of U.S. policy, Gordon examines the key role the nation played in shaping the sanctions.

Author : Ryan Deiss
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 194304600X

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Invisible Selling Machine by Ryan Deiss Pdf