Author: Ziauddin Sardar
Publisher: Icon Books
ISBN: 9781840466041
Category : Americanization
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Propelled by its mythology, America pursues its dream relentlessly. Here, the authors expose the dark side of that fantasy: death, suffering, perpetual fear, an increasing divide between rich and poor, a squandering of the human future, and the relentless building of more and more pretexts for future wars.
American Dream, Global Nightmare
Author: Ziauddin Sardar
Publisher: Icon Books Company
ISBN:
Category : Americanization
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Propelled by its mythology, America pursues its dream relentlessly. Here, the authors expose the dark side of that fantasy: death, suffering, perpetual fear, an increasing divide between rich and poor, a squandering of the human future, and the relentless building of more and more pretexts for future wars.
Publisher: Icon Books Company
ISBN:
Category : Americanization
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Propelled by its mythology, America pursues its dream relentlessly. Here, the authors expose the dark side of that fantasy: death, suffering, perpetual fear, an increasing divide between rich and poor, a squandering of the human future, and the relentless building of more and more pretexts for future wars.
American Dream, Global Nightmare
Author: Ziauddin Sardar
Publisher: Icon Books
ISBN: 9781840466041
Category : Americanization
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Propelled by its mythology, America pursues its dream relentlessly. Here, the authors expose the dark side of that fantasy: death, suffering, perpetual fear, an increasing divide between rich and poor, a squandering of the human future, and the relentless building of more and more pretexts for future wars.
Publisher: Icon Books
ISBN: 9781840466041
Category : Americanization
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Propelled by its mythology, America pursues its dream relentlessly. Here, the authors expose the dark side of that fantasy: death, suffering, perpetual fear, an increasing divide between rich and poor, a squandering of the human future, and the relentless building of more and more pretexts for future wars.
American Dream Becomes the Global Nightmare
Author: Ken Koenen
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0983360723
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Ken Koenen is a California attorney with a Masters Degree in Tax Law, who has spent the last five years on cases involving people who either were victims of, or in some cases, followed the crowd who abused the loan programs that were partially to blame of today's economic crisis. Ken's background and practice is in real estate, mortgage and taxation and he has consulted with hundreds of people about the tax and legal ramifications of foreclosures, short sales and possible bankruptcy.He will provide some insight into the future of real estate and how to hopefully learn meaningful lessons from this disaster.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0983360723
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Ken Koenen is a California attorney with a Masters Degree in Tax Law, who has spent the last five years on cases involving people who either were victims of, or in some cases, followed the crowd who abused the loan programs that were partially to blame of today's economic crisis. Ken's background and practice is in real estate, mortgage and taxation and he has consulted with hundreds of people about the tax and legal ramifications of foreclosures, short sales and possible bankruptcy.He will provide some insight into the future of real estate and how to hopefully learn meaningful lessons from this disaster.
China's Nightmare, America's Dream
Author: William H. Avery
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789381506073
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
On India's history, economics, domestic politics, and international relations among other nations.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789381506073
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
On India's history, economics, domestic politics, and international relations among other nations.
Nightmare Alley
Author: Mark Osteen
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421408325
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Classic film noir offers more than pesky private eyes and beautiful bad girls—it explores the quest for the not-so-attainable American dream. Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Choice ACRL Desperate young lovers on the lam (They Live by Night), a cynical con man making a fortune as a mentalist (Nightmare Alley), a penniless pregnant girl mistaken for a wealthy heiress (No Man of Her Own), a wounded veteran who has forgotten his own name (Somewhere in the Night)—this gallery of film noir characters challenges the stereotypes of the wise-cracking detective and the alluring femme fatale. Despite their differences, they all have something in common: a belief in self-reinvention. Nightmare Alley is a thorough examination of how film noir disputes this notion at the heart of the American Dream. Central to many of these films, Mark Osteen argues, is the story of an individual trying, by dint of hard work or, more often, illicit enterprises, to overcome his or her origins and achieve material success. In the wake of World War II, the noir genre tested the dream of upward mobility and the ideas of individualism, liberty, equality, and free enterprise that accompany it. Employing an impressive array of theoretical perspectives (including psychoanalysis, art history, feminism, and music theory) and combining close reading with original primary source research, Nightmare Alley proves both the diversity of classic noir and its potency. This provocative and wide-ranging study revises and refreshes our understanding of noir's characters, themes, and cultural significance.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421408325
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Classic film noir offers more than pesky private eyes and beautiful bad girls—it explores the quest for the not-so-attainable American dream. Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Choice ACRL Desperate young lovers on the lam (They Live by Night), a cynical con man making a fortune as a mentalist (Nightmare Alley), a penniless pregnant girl mistaken for a wealthy heiress (No Man of Her Own), a wounded veteran who has forgotten his own name (Somewhere in the Night)—this gallery of film noir characters challenges the stereotypes of the wise-cracking detective and the alluring femme fatale. Despite their differences, they all have something in common: a belief in self-reinvention. Nightmare Alley is a thorough examination of how film noir disputes this notion at the heart of the American Dream. Central to many of these films, Mark Osteen argues, is the story of an individual trying, by dint of hard work or, more often, illicit enterprises, to overcome his or her origins and achieve material success. In the wake of World War II, the noir genre tested the dream of upward mobility and the ideas of individualism, liberty, equality, and free enterprise that accompany it. Employing an impressive array of theoretical perspectives (including psychoanalysis, art history, feminism, and music theory) and combining close reading with original primary source research, Nightmare Alley proves both the diversity of classic noir and its potency. This provocative and wide-ranging study revises and refreshes our understanding of noir's characters, themes, and cultural significance.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
Author: Oonagh McDonald
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1780935234
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
The book demonstrates how politicians and federal agencies dominated Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and took just thirteen years to wreck the American dream of home ownership.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1780935234
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
The book demonstrates how politicians and federal agencies dominated Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and took just thirteen years to wreck the American dream of home ownership.
Martin & Malcolm & America
Author: James H. Cone
Publisher: Orbis Books
ISBN: 0883448246
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Reexamines the ideology of the two most prominent leaders of the civil rights movement of the 1960s
Publisher: Orbis Books
ISBN: 0883448246
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Reexamines the ideology of the two most prominent leaders of the civil rights movement of the 1960s
Nightmare Nation
Author: Jessie C. Conners
Publisher: Protege Press
ISBN: 9780979325908
Category : Finance, Personal
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Here's the problem: Americans aren't saving money anymore. The national savings rate is the lowest it's been since the Depression and we continue to spend more than we earn. What that could mean for many of us is a terrifying future of abject poverty.
Publisher: Protege Press
ISBN: 9780979325908
Category : Finance, Personal
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Here's the problem: Americans aren't saving money anymore. The national savings rate is the lowest it's been since the Depression and we continue to spend more than we earn. What that could mean for many of us is a terrifying future of abject poverty.
American Dream, Global Nightmare
Author: Sandy Vogelgesang
Publisher: New York : Norton
ISBN: 9780393013634
Category : Civil rights.
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
Publisher: New York : Norton
ISBN: 9780393013634
Category : Civil rights.
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
the Secret American Dream
Author: Nicholas Hagger
Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
ISBN: 1780282125
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
This powerful sequel to The Secret Founding of America presents compelling evidence of a 'secret American Dream' - nothing less than the establishment of a benign World State which would establish a universal peace under which all the peoples of the Earth would flourish.
Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
ISBN: 1780282125
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
This powerful sequel to The Secret Founding of America presents compelling evidence of a 'secret American Dream' - nothing less than the establishment of a benign World State which would establish a universal peace under which all the peoples of the Earth would flourish.