Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Throughout time, from ancient Rome to modern Britain, the great empires built and maintained their domination through force of arms and political power. But not the United States. America has dominated the world in a new, peaceful, and pervasive way -- through the continued creation of staggering wealth. In this authoritative, engrossing history, John Steele Gordon captures as never before the true source of our nation's global influence: wealth and...
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Explains the author's belief that an economic crash will inevitably occur between 2012 and 2014, offering critical analysis and historical examples, and argues that the road to recovery will require debt restructuring, plans for greater employment, changes in social welfare programs, budget cuts, and higher taxes.
Author
Publisher
Bui Jones Limited
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
How did China grow from an impoverished country to become the second largest economy in the world in just over four decades? And how did this economic miracle come to an end, as seems the case today?To understand the story of China's rapid rise and equally rapid fall, author Anne Stevenson-Yang takes us back to the beginning, when Deng Xiaoping took over and opened its moribund economy to Western money and know-how. Stevenson-Yang, who lived and worked...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Author Barbara Ehrenreich relates her experiences from 1998 to 2000, during which time joined the ranks of the working poor as a waitress, hotel housekeeper, cleaning woman, nursing home aide, and Wal-Mart clerk to see for herself how America's "unskilled" workers are able to survive on only $6 or $7 an hour.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this "richly imagined" dystopian vision, mankind must find a way to survive as modern civilization slowly comes apart ( O, The Oprah Magazine ). When Earth ran dry of oil, the age of the automobile came to an end; electricity flickered out. With deprivation came desperation -- and desperation drove humanity backward to a state of existence few could have imagined. In the tiny hamlet of Union Grove, New York, every day is a struggle. For Mayor Robert...
Author
Publisher
Crown Forum
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
A critique of white American class structure, arguing 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.
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
Multiple
Description
"Routinely voted one of the greatest films of all time, revered as one of the foundation stones of Italian neorealism, it is a simple, powerful film about a man who needs a job." - Cf. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times (March 19, 1999)
"The Bicycle Thief is in truth an elegantly structured film that took years of prepartion. Integral to its grace and mood are Carlo Montuori's superb, supple camera work and Alessandro Cicognini's mesmerizing score,...
Author
Publisher
Brown Books Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"A former Congressman and the author of We Can Overcome presents his case for a conservative Texas. Texas is booming. In recent years, the Lone Star State has experienced some of the most rapid growth in the country, both in its economy and in its population. This is thanks to an influx of businesses relocating to Texas to take advantage of all its benefits. But this increase in population has also brought about a shift in the political dialogue within...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request