Surviving America

Author : Jessica Bruder
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780393249323

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Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century by Jessica Bruder Pdf

The inspiration for Chloé Zhao's 2020 Golden Lion award-winning film starring Frances McDormand. "People who thought the 2008 financial collapse was over a long time ago need to meet the people Jessica Bruder got to know in this scorching, beautifully written, vivid, disturbing (and occasionally wryly funny) book." —Rebecca Solnit From the beet fields of North Dakota to the 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 adults. These invisible casualties of the Great Recession have taken to the road by the tens of thousands in RVs and modified vans, forming a growing community of nomads. Nomadland tells a revelatory tale of the dark underbelly of the American economy—one which foreshadows the precarious future that may await many more of us. At the same time, it celebrates the exceptional resilience and creativity of these Americans who have given up ordinary rootedness to survive, but have not given up hope.

Author : Larry Charles Peterson
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781477142790

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Surviving America by Larry Charles Peterson Pdf

Surviving America is a true story, an autobiography, of Larry Charles Peterson. Through the years Larry has had the hard luck experiencing bad things right during a time when America was experiencing similar hard luck. A professional victim of sorts, Mr. Peterson tells how he dealt with each situation. It's a good entertaining, honest read.

Author : Mila Christine Bourdon
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781642982688

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Surviving America's Decline and the Progressive Agenda by Mila Christine Bourdon Pdf

After more than a decade in the Middle East, Grace Winders returns to the States only to find the warnings of her friends in Riyadh correct. This wasn't the robust America she'd left. This one was in decline with its unprecedented debt, lawlessness at the highest levels of government, lack of well-paying jobs resulting in a burgeoning underclass eking out a living on entitlements, its military weakened and influence around the globe diminished, its cities polluted by drugs and street gangs, the proliferation of sanctuary cities allowing illegal aliens pouring into the country freedom from the law, terrorist activity on our own soil, and political correctness making many of these changes possible. Dispirited by her angst-ridden experiences here, she fingers the country's liberal element and its progressive agenda as the cause of her woes. People like her just didn't seem to count in their new America eschewing both capitalism and the ideas of the founding fathers. Grace's story offers a voice in the conversation to those whom America's dogmatic left would forever silence.

Author : Fran Drescher,Cary Presant
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-21
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781475937770

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Surviving American Medicine by Fran Drescher,Cary Presant Pdf

We live in a time when the business of health care has superseded the care of health. Health-care reform isnt just political rhetoric: its a reality. Its happening every dayand for you it means new ways of getting your care. Virtually every American understands we are experiencing dramatic changes in the delivery of health care and the insurance programs that pay for it. In Surviving American Medicine, Dr. Cary Presant lays the foundation to help you take control of these issues and help you become your own advocate. Surviving American Medicine shows you how to make the best decisions by providing inside tips about getting the best doctors, good insurance, safe hospitals, and affordable medicinesfrom an author and physician who is a national expert on health care. With insights from his medical experience and reliable internet resources, Presant gives you the information to survive, reduce the risk of illness, and cure or control diseases. Relying on his forty years of experience as a physician, professor, administrator, and researcher, Presant empowers you to work with your team of doctors, nurses, hospitals, and even insurance companies to maintain your health and prolong your life. He helps you learn to make choices about your health are so you feel confident youre getting the best treatment possible.

Author : Max Howard
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781978595507

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Surviving American History by Max Howard Pdf

Gabi is furious about her parents divorcing and moving her away from her hometown, her friends, and her school. But on the day she moves away, a shooter opens fire on Gabi's old school, killing her American History classmates. She knows she should have been in that classroom. Now Gabi has to navigate a new school and new social circles, while dealing with a looming dark cloud of grief, survivor's guilt, and fear. She meets impulsive troublemaker Lennon, who might just understand her dark side, or may pull her deeper into it.

Author : Bruce E. Levine
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Culture
ISBN : 1933392711

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Surviving America's Depression Epidemic by Bruce E. Levine Pdf

Millions of us have experienced periods of low morale, struggled to find cheer in the day-to-day world, and then found ourselves pacified into believing the smooth-talking spokesperson in yet another medication ad. We’ve all heard them, there’s no denying the fact that these ads have made each of us wonder: Do I suffer from depression? Would I be happier and healthier if I simply consulted my physician and requested (insert drug name here)? The rate of clinical depression in the U.S. has increased more than tenfold in the last fifty years. Is this epidemic properly being addressed by the insurance, pharmaceutical, and governmental powers-that-be or exacerbated by a failing system focused on instant results and high profit margins? Dr. Bruce E. Levine, a highly respected clinical psychologist, argues the latter and provides a compelling alternative approach to treating depression that makes lasting change more likely than with symptom-based treatment through medication. Surviving America’s Depression Epidemic delves into the roots of depression and links our increasingly consumer-based culture and standard-practice psychiatric treatments to worsening depression, instead of solving it. In an easy-to-understand narrative style, Dr. Levine prescribes antidotes to depression including the keys to building morale and selfhealing. Unlike short-term, drug-based solutions, these antidotes foster a long-term cycle where people rediscover passion and purpose, and find meaning in acting on their societal concerns. A groundbreaking work, atypical of the shelf-loads of “pep-talk” based self help books on the market, Surviving America’s Depression Epidemic provides the knowledge and counsel of a practicing psychologist in a digestible format that will improve your future. A must read for guidance and pastoral counselors; non-dogmatic psychologists, psychiatrists, and social workers; and those tired of the TV ads shilling for better living through chemistry.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : McSweeney's
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781940450919

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Surviving Justice by Anonim Pdf

On September 30, 2003, Calvin was declared innocent and set free from Angola State Prison, after serving 22 years for a crime he did not commit. Like many other exonerees, Calvin experienced a new world that was not open to him. Hitting the streets without housing, money, or a change of clothes, exonerees across America are released only to fend for themselves. In the tradition of Studs Terkel's oral histories, this book collects the voices and stories of the exonerees for whom life — inside and out — is forever framed by extraordinary injustice

Author : Roy C. Carriker Ph.D. MBA
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781684712427

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Surviving AmericaÕs Financial Abyss: Be the Entrepreneur of Your Own Life by Roy C. Carriker Ph.D. MBA Pdf

Author : Robert L. Hilliard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015040664925

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Surviving the Americans by Robert L. Hilliard Pdf

An autobiography centering around the American treatment of concentration camp survivors after World War II and the efforts by Hilliard and Edward Herman to change US policy. The author details the neglect and anti-semitism he found in German as a GI, encounters with survivors, and the letter campaign he initiated which resulted in Truman's change of policy as well as spurring relief organizations to extend help to the starving, sick, and dying. The account dispels the myth of the liberating Americans as "saviors," yet also inspires by its proof of how individuals may change the course of political events. Includes photographs. Lacks an index and bibliography. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Vanessa M. Holden
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780252052767

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Surviving Southampton by Vanessa M. Holden Pdf

The local community around the Nat Turner rebellion The 1831 Southampton Rebellion led by Nat Turner involved an entire community. Vanessa M. Holden rediscovers the women and children, free and enslaved, who lived in Southampton County before, during, and after the revolt. Mapping the region's multilayered human geography, Holden draws a fuller picture of the inhabitants, revealing not only their interactions with physical locations but also their social relationships in space and time. Her analysis recasts the Southampton Rebellion as one event that reveals the continuum of practices that sustained resistance and survival among local Black people. Holden follows how African Americans continued those practices through the rebellion’s immediate aftermath and into the future, showing how Black women and communities raised children who remembered and heeded the lessons absorbed during the calamitous events of 1831. A bold challenge to traditional accounts, Surviving Southampton sheds new light on the places and people surrounding Americas most famous rebellion against slavery.

Author : Ronald Berger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136948893

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Surviving the Holocaust by Ronald Berger Pdf

Surviving the Holocaust is a compelling sociological account of two brothers who survived the Holocaust in Nazi-occupied Poland. One brother, the author’s father, endured several concentration camps, including the infamous camp at Auschwitz, as well as a horrific winter death march; while the other brother, the author’s uncle, survived outside the camps by passing as a Catholic among anti-Semitic Poles, including a group of anti-Nazi Polish Partisans, eventually becoming an officer in the Soviet army. As an exemplary "theorized life history," Surviving the Holocaust applies concepts from life course theory to interpret the trajectories of the brothers’ lives, enhancing this approach with insights from agency-structure and collective memory theory. Challenging the conventional wisdom that survival was simply a matter of luck, it highlights the prewar experiences, agentive decision-making and risk-taking, and collective networks that helped the brothers elude the death grip of the Nazi regime. Surviving the Holocaust also shows how one family’s memory of the Holocaust is commingled with the memories of larger collectivities, including nations-states and their institutions, and how the memories of individual survivors are infused with collective symbolic meaning.

Author : King,John L. King
Publisher : Global Insights Publications
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2002-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1893157091

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Chaos in America by King,John L. King Pdf

This is the latest version of Dr King's 'How to Profit From the Coming Depression' which includes an update on the current economic situation. The media hype on how good the economy is not borne out by the statistics. The coming bloodbath and assault on the largest debtor nation (US) and its currency is beginning. Included are excerpts out of the New World Order's banking manual. You must get this book now to make proper assessments for your economic survival!

Author : Larry Charles Peterson
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1477142800

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Surviving America by Larry Charles Peterson Pdf

Surviving America is a true story, an autobiography, of Larry Charles Peterson. Through the years Larry has had the hard luck experiencing bad things right during a time when America was experiencing similar hard luck. A professional victim of sorts, Mr. Peterson tells how he dealt with each situation. It's a good entertaining, honest read.

Author : Jeffrey Ostler
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300218121

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Surviving Genocide by Jeffrey Ostler Pdf

"Intense and well-researched, . . . ambitious, . . . magisterial. . . . Surviving Genocide sets a bar from which subsequent scholarship and teaching cannot retreat."--Peter Nabokov, New York Review of Books In this book, the first part of a sweeping two-volume history, Jeffrey Ostler investigates how American democracy relied on Indian dispossession and the federally sanctioned use of force to remove or slaughter Indians in the way of U.S. expansion. He charts the losses that Indians suffered from relentless violence and upheaval and the attendant effects of disease, deprivation, and exposure. This volume centers on the eastern United States from the 1750s to the start of the Civil War. An authoritative contribution to the history of the United States' violent path toward building a continental empire, this ambitious and well-researched book deepens our understanding of the seizure of Indigenous lands, including the use of treaties to create the appearance of Native consent to dispossession. Ostler also documents the resilience of Native people, showing how they survived genocide by creating alliances, defending their towns, and rebuilding their communities.

Author : John W. Day,Charles Hall
Publisher : Springer
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781493932436

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America’s Most Sustainable Cities and Regions by John W. Day,Charles Hall Pdf

This book takes you on a unique journey through American history, taking time to consider the forces that shaped the development of various cities and regions, and arrives at an unexpected conclusion regarding sustainability. From the American Dream to globalization to the digital and information revolutions, we assume that humans have taken control of our collective destinies in spite of potholes in the road such as the Great Recession of 2007-2009. However, these attitudes were formed during a unique 100-year period of human history in which a large but finite supply of fossil fuels was tapped to feed our economic and innovation engine. Today, at the peak of the Oil Age, the horizon looks different. Cities such as Los Angeles, Phoenix and Las Vegas are situated where water and other vital ecological services are scarce, and the enormous flows of resources and energy that were needed to create the megalopolises of the 20th century will prove unsustainable. Climate change is a reality, and regional impacts will become increasingly severe. Economies such as Las Vegas, which are dependent on discretionary income and buffeted by climate change, are already suffering the fate of the proverbial canary in the coal mine. Finite resources will mean profound changes for society in general and the energy-intensive lifestyles of the US and Canada in particular. But not all regions are equally vulnerable to these 21st-century megatrends. Are you ready to look beyond “America’s Most Livable Cities” to the critical factors that will determine the sustainability of your municipality and region? Find out where your city or region ranks according to the forces that will impact our lives in the next years and decades. Find out how: ·resource availability and ecological services shaped the modern landscape ·emerging megatrends will make cities and regions more or less livable in the new century ·your city or region ranks on a “sustainability” map of the United States ·urban metabolism puts large cities at particular risk ·sustainability factors will favor economic solutions at a local, rather than global, level ·these principles apply to industrial economies and countries globally. This book should be cited as follows: J. Day, C. Hall, E. Roy, M. Moersbaecher, C. D'Elia, D. Pimentel, and A. Yanez. 2016. America's most sustainable cities and regions: Surviving the 21st century megatrends. Springer, New York. 348 p.