The People S Hotel

Author : Katherine Sobering
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478022862

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The People's Hotel by Katherine Sobering Pdf

In 2001 Argentina experienced a massive economic crisis: businesses went bankrupt, unemployment spiked, and nearly half the population fell below the poverty line. In the midst of the crisis, Buenos Aires’s iconic twenty-story Hotel Bauen quietly closed its doors, forcing longtime hospitality workers out of their jobs. Rather than leaving the luxury hotel vacant, a group of former employees occupied the property and kept it open. In The People’s Hotel, Katherine Sobering recounts the history of the Hotel Bauen, detailing its transformation from a privately owned business into a worker cooperative—one where decisions were made democratically, jobs were rotated, and all members were paid equally. Combining ethnographic and archival research with her own experiences as a volunteer worker at the hotel, Sobering examines how the Bauen Cooperative grew and, against all odds, successfully kept the hotel open for nearly two decades. Highlighting successes and innovations alongside the many challenges that these workers faced, Sobering presents a vivid portrait of efforts to address inequality and reorganize work in a capitalist economy.

Author : H. J. Fleure
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4066339522794

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The peoples of Europe by H. J. Fleure Pdf

"The peoples of Europe" by H. J. Fleure. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : Amor Towles
Publisher : Random House
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780091944247

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The Songs of St Petersburg by Amor Towles Pdf

From the New York Times bestselling author of Rules of Civility. 'A comic masterpiece.' The Times 'Winning . . . gorgeous . . . satisfying . . . Towles is a craftsman.' New York Times Book Review 'A work of great charm, intelligence and insight.' Sunday Times 'Everything a novel should be: charming, witty, poetic and generous. An absolute delight.' Mail on Sunday 'If we do a better book than this one on the book club this year we will be very very lucky.' Matt Williams, Radio 2 Book Club 'Abundant in humour, history and humanity' Sunday Telegraph 'Wistful, whimsical and wry.' Sunday Express On 21 June 1922 Count Alexander Rostov - recipient of the Order of Saint Andrew, member of the Jockey Club, Master of the Hunt - is escorted out of the Kremlin, across Red Square and through the elegant revolving doors of the Hotel Metropol. But instead of being taken to his usual suite, he is led to an attic room with a window the size of a chessboard. Deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the Count has been sentenced to house arrest indefinitely. While Russia undergoes decades of tumultuous upheaval, the Count, stripped of the trappings that defined his life, is forced to question what makes us who we are. And with the assistance of a glamorous actress, a cantankerous chef and a very serious child, Rostov unexpectedly discovers a new understanding of both pleasure and purpose.

Author : Adam O'Fallon Price
Publisher : Tin House Books
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781947793354

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The Hotel Neversink by Adam O'Fallon Price Pdf

A 2020 Edgar Award Winner! "A gripping, atmospheric, heart-breaking, almost-ghost story. Not since Stephen King's Overlook has a hotel hiding a secret been brought to such vivid life." —Lydia Kiesling, author of The Golden State Thirty-one years after workers first broke ground, the magnificent Hotel Neversink in the Catskills finally opens to the public. Then a young boy disappears. This mysterious vanishing—and the ones that follow—will brand the lives of three generations. At the root of it all is Asher Sikorsky, the ambitious and ruthless patriarch whose purchase of the hotel in 1931 set a haunting legacy into motion. His daughter Jeanie sees the Hotel Neversink into its most lucrative era, but also its darkest. Decades later, Asher's grandchildren grapple with the family’s heritage in their own ways: Len fights to keep the failing, dilapidated hotel alive, and Alice sets out to finally uncover the murderer’s identity. Told by an unforgettable chorus of Sikorsky family members—a matriarch, a hotel maid, a traveling comedian, the hotel detective, and many others—The Hotel Neversink is the gripping portrait of a Jewish family in the Catskills over the course of a century. With an unerring eye and with prose both comic and tragic, Adam O’Fallon-Price details one man’s struggle for greatness, no matter the cost, and a long-held family secret that threatens to undo it all.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Public lands
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045570137

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Puerto Rico Constitution. Hearings ... on H.R. 7674 and S 3336 by United States. Congress. House. Public lands Pdf

Author : Emily St. John Mandel
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443455749

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The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel Pdf

SHORTLISTED FOR THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE A Time Magazine Must Read Book of 2020 A Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of the Year #1 national bestseller New York Times bestseller From the award-winning author of Station Eleven, a captivating novel of money, beauty, white-collar crime, ghosts and moral compromise in which a woman disappears from a container ship off the coast of Mauritania and a massive Ponzi scheme implodes in New York, dragging countless fortunes with it. Vincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star glass-and-cedar palace on the northernmost tip of Vancouver Island. New York financier Jonathan Alkaitis owns the hotel. When he passes Vincent his card with a tip, it’s the beginning of their life together. That same day, a hooded figure scrawls a note on the windowed wall of the hotel: “Why don’t you swallow broken glass.” Leon Prevant, a shipping executive for a company called Neptune-Avramidis, sees the note from the hotel bar and is shaken to his core. Thirteen years later, Vincent mysteriously disappears from the deck of a Neptune-Avramidis ship. Weaving together the lives of these characters, The Glass Hotel moves between the ship, the skyscrapers of Manhattan and the wilderness of remote British Columbia, painting a breathtaking picture of greed and guilt, fantasy and delusion, art and the ghosts of our pasts.

Author : Pennsylvania. Courts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 924 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Criminal procedure
ISBN : HARVARD:32044078571429

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District Reports Containing Cases Decided in the Various Judicial Districts of the State of Pennsylvania by Pennsylvania. Courts Pdf

Author : Elspeth Young
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781134936359

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Third World in the First by Elspeth Young Pdf

European colonisation has marginalised the `first peoples' in industrialised countries such as Australia and Canada. In remote regions, still the homes of large Aboriginal, Indian and Inuit populations, this legacy remains strong. Modernisation - the `boom and bust' model of state and private development - and the partial and biased assistance provided by the state have eroded many communities through their disregard for socio-economic structures and the beliefs which underpin them. Third World in the First explores the past, present and future of these peoples, their treatment by the `West' and the alternative strategies of development which might be available to them.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 962 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PSU:000020213695

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Scribner's Monthly, an Illustrated Magazine for the People by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Public Works
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045561607

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Plaza Hotel Acquistion, Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Public Buildings and Grounds ... 91-2, on S. 3594, July 9, 1970 by United States. Congress. House. Public Works Pdf

Author : Polly Pattullo
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2005-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781583671177

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Last Resorts by Polly Pattullo Pdf

The Caribbean has the fortune—and the misfortune̬to be everyone's idea of a tropical paradise. Its sun, sand and scenery attract millions of visitors each year and make it a profitable destination for the world's fastest growing industry. Tourism is increasingly touted as its only hope of creating jobs and wealth—literally, the island's last resort. Last Resorts examines the real impact of tourism on the people and landscape of the Caribbean. It explores the structure of ownership of the industry and shows that the benefits it brings to the region do not live up to its claims. New developments in ecotourism, sex tourism, and the burgeoning cruise industry are not changing this pattern of short-term exploitation of the region's resources. The book shows how Caribbean societies are corrupted by tourism and its culture turned into floorshow parody. This new edition has been extensively revised and updated. It gives voice to people inside the tourism industry, its critics, and tourists themselves, and offers vital insights into a phenomenon that is central to the globalized world of today.

Author : Matt Kepnes
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-06
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780698404953

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How to Travel the World on $50 a Day by Matt Kepnes Pdf

*UPDATED 2017 EDITION* New York Times bestseller! No money? No problem. You can start packing your bags for that trip you’ve been dreaming a lifetime about. For more than half a decade, Matt Kepnes (aka Nomadic Matt) has been showing readers of his enormously popular travel blog that traveling isn’t expensive and that it’s affordable to all. He proves that as long as you think out of the box and travel like locals, your trip doesn’t have to break your bank, nor do you need to give up luxury. How to Travel the World on $50 a Day reveals Nomadic Matt’s tips, tricks, and secrets to comfortable budget travel based on his experience traveling the world without giving up the sushi meals and comfortable beds he enjoys. Offering a blend of advice ranging from travel hacking to smart banking, you’ll learn how to: * Avoid paying bank fees anywhere in the world * Earn thousands of free frequent flyer points * Find discount travel cards that can save on hostels, tours, and transportation * Get cheap (or free) plane tickets Whether it’s a two-week, two-month, or two-year trip, Nomadic Matt shows you how to stretch your money further so you can travel cheaper, smarter, and longer.

Author : Joseph Mitchell,David Remnick
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-15
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781101971307

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Up in the Old Hotel by Joseph Mitchell,David Remnick Pdf

Saloon-keepers and street preachers, gypsies and steel-walking Mohawks, a bearded lady and a 93-year-old “seafoodetarian” who believes his specialized diet will keep him alive for another two decades. These are among the people that Joseph Mitchell immortalized in his reportage for The New Yorker and in four books—McSorley's Wonderful Saloon, Old Mr. Flood, The Bottom of the Harbor, and Joe Gould's Secret—that are still renowned for their precise, respectful observation, their graveyard humor, and their offhand perfection of style. These masterpieces (along with several previously uncollected stories) are available in one volume, which presents an indelible collective portrait of an unsuspected New York and its odder citizens—as depicted by one of the great writers of this or any other time.

Author : Victoria. Parliament
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1010 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HWBZDD

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Parliamentary Debates by Victoria. Parliament Pdf

Author : New York (State). Legislature. Senate
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1172 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : New York (State)
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU08234582

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Documents of the Senate of the State of New York by New York (State). Legislature. Senate Pdf