Nickel and Dimed reveals low-wage America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and surprising generosity-a land of Big Boxes, fast food, and a thousand desperate stratagems for survival. And one job is not enough you need at least two if you intend to live indoors. She soon discovered that even the "lowliest" occupations require exhausting mental and physical efforts. But how can anyone survive, let alone prosper, on $6-$7 an hour? To find out, Ehrenreich moved from Florida to Maine to Minnesota, taking the cheapest lodgings available and accepting work as a waitress, hotel maid, house cleaner, nursing home aide, and Wal-Mart salesperson. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that any job equals a better life. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. Millions of Americans work full-time, year-round, for poverty-level wages.
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Show More possibilities for many characters in the Sandman universe and what a great collection of stories it is. Then again: this is a comic book mixing Marco Polo, Augustus, Hades, Emperor Norton I of America (I love that fact that he was real!), werewolves and Goldie the baby gargoyle witout it feeling the least bit strained. Stopping me from naming this voulme one of my real favorites, however, is that at times Gaiman seems to be more about flaunting knowledge than telling tales here (as in Thermidor, for instance, much more a brief portrait of Robespierre than anything else), and quite a few of the chapters are predictable, if well told (I like the banter in ”The Hunt” a lot, but come on, who doesn’t see the final twist a mile away?). All of these stories are good – the enigmatic ”Ramadan” and the very ambitious ”August” (offering a new possible explanation for the downfall of Rome, even!) being my favorites, and the artwork is quite nice and diverse this time. In one we find out about Desire’s plan to make Dream spill his own blood, in another we learn about Dream as a parent, in a third hints are made of a new love story, and in a fourth baby Daniel (still just any kid) visits the Dreaming. Show More last century, and often featuring Dream only as a bit player, these shorts are not just intermission pieces. Its discussion of magical types, the sacrificial killing of kings, the dying god, and the scapegoat is given fresh pertinence in this new edition.ĪBOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. For the first time this one-volume edition restores Frazer's bolder theories and sets them within the framework of a valuable introduction and notes.Ī seminal work of modern anthropolgy, The Golden Bough also influenced many twentieth-century writers, including D H Lawrence, T S Eliot, and Wyndham Lewis. In it some of the more controversial passages were dropped, including Frazer's daring speculations on the Crucifixion of Christ. That abridgement has never been reconsidered for a modern audience.
5/27/2023 0 Comments Resisting Injustice and the Feminist Ethics of Care in the Ag... by David A.J. RichardsThanks to his in-depth archival research, Mason is able to pull back the curtain and reveal the calculations made and strategies developed by Nixon and his team to expand the president's 1968 plurality, cut into traditional Democratic constituencies, and build a new electoral coalition for his reelection bid in 1972. This book is a well-executed study of a pivotal presidency at an important crossroads in modern American political development. In his own quest to narrate the Nixon story in an innovative way, Mason unquestionably succeeds. Where other studies of Nixon's presidency may discount Nixon's attempts to build a lasting electoral coalition (presumably because his majority-building project collapsed utterly in the face of Watergate), Mason insists on bringing the question of what Nixon did and how he did it front and center. In this welcome contribution to the history of Richard Nixon's complex presidency, Robert Mason directs our attention to Nixon's multifaceted efforts to activate the "silent majority" and create an enduring partisan electoral realignment. 5/27/2023 0 Comments The circus shipSo brightly colored they veer toward gaudy, the best illustrations invite kids to explore the ways the circus animals have become part of village life. 5.2K views 4 years ago Do you remember The Circus Ship book for kids By Chris Van Dusen Author Illustrator - When a circus ship runs aground off the coast of Maine, the poor animals are. Paine scratches his head in frustration, but kids will delight in finding each animal. 127 books based on 11 votes: Olivia Saves the Circus by Ian Falconer, Circus by Lois Ehlert, The Circus Ship by Chris Van Dusen, Sidewalk Circus by Paul. One of the best moments is a simple hidden pictures-style two-page spread in which the 15 circus animals are disguised around the town: a camel as a haystack, an ostrich as a tree, and so on. The idea of these strange animals stumbling ashore in 19th-century Maine is intrinsically fun, and Van Dusen offers some delightful scenes. The rhyming text moves along easily enough, but the big twists in the plot - the heroic tiger, and the sudden return of Mr. So well do the critters blend in that when the greedy circus owner returns to claim them, villagers of all. Staggering onto a nearby island, they soon win over the wary townspeople with their kind, courageous ways. He hurls himself about the story, red-faced and corpulent, overwhelming the lighthearted touches. Synopsis: When a circus ship runs aground off the coast of Maine, the poor animals are left on their own to swim the chilly waters. Young kids - for whom, typically, a circus is a source of delight rather than disgust - may very well be taken aback by the sheer awfulness of this frightening grown-up bully. Paine is a little over the top in a story that feels contrived. There’s no shortage of bad guys in children’s stories, of course, but Mr. 5/27/2023 0 Comments Crank palace lib e james dashnerHe will try to fulfill a new-found destiny before his path leads to its inevitable conclusion-and one last meeting with his best friend. Taking place during the latter events of The Death Cure, Crank Palace tells the story of Newt like never before, from inside his own mind, as he searches for meaning in a life gone horribly wrong. Crank Palace by James Dashner - 9781626015678 Categories: Sci Fi Books for Kids Share Crank Palace : A Maze Runner Novella 4.12 (8,413 ratings by Goodreads) Paperback English By (author) James Dashner List price: US9. Although Newt thought he was running away from his friends to save them from himself, along the way he meets a young mother named Keisha and her son, Dante, who end up saving Newt in a way he could never have imagined. From there, he experiences the gritty nightmare of life on the streets, running from the infected and those hunting them, until he ends up in the Crank Palace, the last dumping ground of those without hope. Leaving only a note, Newt departs the Berg before the Gladers return from their mission into Denver, Colorado. And Newt can’t bear the thought of his friends watching him descend into madness as he succumbs to the virus. But now he has a burden that can’t be shared with Thomas and the others-the Flare. The story opens as Newt, suffering from flare, worries that, if he stays with his friends, he might hurt them. Newt has been to hell and back with his friends. I quite enjoyed the Maze Runner series by James Dashner and looked forward to reading the novella, Crank Palace. 5/27/2023 0 Comments The Rock by Monica McCartyHeartbroken and humiliated, Joanna is left alone with a secret that may destroy them both. His marriage-like everything else-will be a means of bettering his clan. But when James returns to Douglas to force the English garrison from his castle, Joanna learns that their love is nothing against his ambition. Yet even as James’s ruthless reputation grows, and despite the warnings of others to guard her heart-and her virtue-against him, Joanna never dreams he will turn on her. That she is “only” the daughter of the marshal of Douglas Castle has never concerned her. Joanna Dicson has loved James Douglas for as long as she can remember. Not even the lass who captured his heart in childhood and still holds it in her delicate hands. The ambitious young knight, whose dark visage, powerful stature, and ferocity in battle has earned him the epitaph “the Black,” knows he must use fear, force, and intimidation to defeat the English, put Robert the Bruce on Scotland’s throne, and restore the honor of the Douglas name. Stripped of his lands by the English king who killed his father, James Douglas will do whatever it takes to see his clan’s honor and fortune restored. 5/27/2023 0 Comments The kill artist by daniel silvaSince then Silva has written 23 more spy novels, all best-sellers on The New York Times list. In 1997 Silva left CNN to pursue writing full-time. The novel debuted on The New York Times best-seller list on Januit remained on the list for five weeks, rising to number 13. In 1994 he began work on his first novel, The Unlikely Spy (1996). He worked as a producer and executive producer for several of CNN's television programs, including Crossfire and Capital Gang. Silva returned to Washington, D.C., for a position with Cable News Network's Washington bureau. After two more years, he was appointed as UPI's Middle East correspondent and moved to Cairo. UPI made Silva's position permanent and, a year later transferred him to the Washington, D.C. His assignment was to cover the Democratic National Convention. Silva began his writing career as a journalist with a temporary position at UPI in 1984. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from California State University, Fresno and began a graduate program in international relations at San Francisco State University, but left when offered employment as a journalist at United Press International (UPI). When Silva was seven years old, his family moved to Merced, California. California State University, Fresno ( BA)ĭaniel Silva (born 1960) is an American journalist and author of thriller and spy novels. 5/27/2023 0 Comments Bloodchild octavia butler audioThere are issues of what one wishes to exchange in order to make it through, issues of violent connections along with private sacrifice, all promoting subjects swirling within the limits of a narrative.Īward- winner that it is, nevertheless, straight I choose another story in the collection, The Night along with the Early morning along with the Night. Bloodchild and Other Stories Audiobook Free. Bloodchild is a complex story of synergistic collaborations, with individuals being utilized as hosts to signed up nurse the infants of an uncommon types, yet at a cost. There are 7 tales and likewise 2 essays in this collection, beginning with the well-known title tale. She easily confesses in her intro to this narrative collection that books are where her heart definitely belongs, nevertheless this is an exceptional method to look into her writing, a moderate starter with the main course ready and waiting to follow, if you will. Yet Butler has actually been a glaring opening in my reading – formerly. I recommend, particular, everyone has their spaces in their analysis background, where there’s an author right here or there that you have actually constantly suggested to get round to checking out nevertheless simply have not. I feel it is a terrible sin of noninclusion on my element that formerly I have never ever evaluate any kind of tasks byOctavia Butler 5/26/2023 0 Comments The remarkable rocketIn a pragmatic move the group opted for a middle ground between a showcase performance and a fully staged opera, compiling a new work out of various numbers from opera classics (chosen to suit the available voices) drawn together within the plot of a short story by Oscar Wilde – “The Remarkable Rocket” – with newly written English lyrics by Jen McGregor and Grace Moran for the sung items to match. In these circumstances it is commendable that a student opera ensemble should try to put on a public performance at all, let alone a full production with a runtime of over an hour (I dread to think of the blood, sweat, toil and tears that went into the music editing for what must have been hundreds of separately recorded audio tracks and videos!). Thankfully, groups like Edinburgh Studio Opera (ESO) are taking the initiative and making the best of technology to move productions online, despite being at a huge disadvantage compared to professional ensembles with access to far greater resources. The pandemic has been a trying time for music ensembles in general and student music groups – subject to not one but two or even three sets of restrictions – have been some of the hardest hit. An online performance The Remarkable Rocket was presented by local student opera group, Edinburgh Studio Opera. |