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"Jacob Riis was familiar with poverty. He did his best to combat it in his hometown of Ribe, Denmark, and he experienced it when he immigrated to the United States in 1870. Jobs for immigrants were hard to get and keep, and Jacob often found himself penniless, sleeping on the streets or in filthy homeless shelters. When he became a journalist, Jacob couldn't stop seeing the poverty in the city around him. He began to photograph overcrowded tenement...
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Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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"When Alfredo Corchado moved to Philadelphia in 1987, he felt as if he was the only Mexican in the city. But in a restaurant called Tequilas, he connected with two other Mexican men and one Mexican American, all feeling similarly isolated. Over the next three decades, the four friends continued to meet, coming together over their shared Mexican roots and their love of tequila. One was a radical activist, another a restaurant/tequila entrepreneur,...
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2016.
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English
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"Politics is no longer about pointing to a shining city on the hill; it's about promising you a shiny new car for your driveway. The candidate who tells the people what they want to hear is usually the one who wins -- facts be damned. Politicians may be sleazy and spineless, but they're not stupid. They see that the way to win is by first telling people everything that is wrong with the world, and then painting a vision of the life they want -- a...
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Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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"No Longer Homeless is a powerful look at a group of people we rarely hear about-those who have formerly been on the streets-sharing the details of their lives to help individuals, organizations, and communities learn to better support the ongoing challenges of homelessness." --
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Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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"Traces the story of an American rowing team from the University of Washington that defeated elite rivals at Hitler's 1936 Berlin Olympics, sharing the experiences of their enigmatic coach, a visionary boat builder, and a homeless teen rower." --
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Health Communications
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"Psychologist to the Hollywood elite Dr. Carder Stout delivers a page-turning memoir about his fall from grace into the gritty underbelly of crack addiction, running drugs for the Shoreline Crips, surviving homelessness, escaping a murder plot, and finding redemption in the most unlikely of places. Dr. Carder Stouts clientele includes Oscar-, Golden Globe-, Emmy-, Tony- and Grammy-winners, bestselling authors, and billionaires. He may not be able...
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Greenwood Press
Pub. Date
1997.
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English
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Although works of fiction, John Steinbeck's novellas Of Mice and Men, The Red Pony, and The Pearl are a window on the history of the times and places they portray. Learning about the historical, social, economic, and regional background of each novella is essential to a full understanding of it. This interdisciplinary collection of rich collateral materials features a variety of primary documents that shed light on each of these novellas - the pioneer...
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Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"Bill Traylor was born into slavery in 1853 on a cotton plantation in rural Alabama, and continued to farm the land until the late 1920s when he moved to Montgomery and worked odd jobs in the thriving segregated black neighborhood. A decade later, in his late 80s, Traylor became homeless and started to draw and paint, devising his visual language to depict his memories of slavery and scenes of a radically changing urban culture, becoming one of America's...
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Springer Publishing Company
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English
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"Overview: With a focus on the interdisciplinary nature of social work, the book describes both traditional careers and those that are off the beaten path in such arenas as forensic social work, social entrepreneurship, working in political systems, international careers, and community practice. Well organized and written in a conversational tone, each chapter describes a particular social work domain, illustrating specific careers within that field...
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[1994]
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English
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Until recent times, the history of women has been relegated to a secondary status, the accomplishment of women either ignored or simply unknown. Now in The Timetables of Women's History, Karen Greenspan gathers the most important events and people in Women's History into one lively, accessible volume that celebrates the achievements of women through the ages. Thousands of chronological entries are organized into categories such as Statecraft/Military,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2011.
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English
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Throughout history, humans have raised and confined animals for food, clothing and research, trained animals for entertainment, fought animals for sport, bought and sold animals for profit, and lived with animals for companionship. The law under the umbrella of 'animal law' regulates these human uses and interactions with animals. Animal law is extremely diverse, cutting across every substantive area, jurisdictional boundary, and source of legal authority....
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R.R. Bowker
Pub. Date
[1997]
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English
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This superb selection guide helps you provide the best in recreational & curriculum-based reading material for your patrons in grades 7-12. Combining the popular Best Books for Junior High Readers & Best Books for Senior High Readers into one updated new resource, Best Books for Young Adult Readers features more than 6,500 titles sure to stimulate teen readers & link literature with learning. Each entry provides: Recommendations from leading journals....
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