Author: Jan Zita Grover
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Overwhelmed after her intense years as an AIDS worker in San Francisco, Jan Zita Grover prescribes a "geographic cure" for herself. When moving to Minnesota, what she didn't expect was the devastated landscape of the north woods--massive cut-overs, and land that has been used beyond loveliness.
North Enough
Author: Jan Zita Grover
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Overwhelmed after her intense years as an AIDS worker in San Francisco, Jan Zita Grover prescribes a "geographic cure" for herself. When moving to Minnesota, what she didn't expect was the devastated landscape of the north woods--massive cut-overs, and land that has been used beyond loveliness.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Overwhelmed after her intense years as an AIDS worker in San Francisco, Jan Zita Grover prescribes a "geographic cure" for herself. When moving to Minnesota, what she didn't expect was the devastated landscape of the north woods--massive cut-overs, and land that has been used beyond loveliness.
Noctes Ambrosianæ
Author: John Wilson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Gulfstream
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gulf Stream
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gulf Stream
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Season-ticket
Author: Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Publisher: London : R. Bentley, 1860 (London : W. Clowes)
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Publisher: London : R. Bentley, 1860 (London : W. Clowes)
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Hard Work Is Not Enough
Author: Katrinell M. Davis
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469630494
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
The Great Recession punished American workers, leaving many underemployed or trapped in jobs that did not provide the income or opportunities they needed. Moreover, the gap between the wealthy and the poor had widened in past decades as mobility remained stubbornly unchanged. Against this deepening economic divide, a dominant cultural narrative took root: immobility, especially for the working class, is driven by shifts in demand for labor. In this context, and with right-to-work policies proliferating nationwide, workers are encouraged to avoid government dependency by arming themselves with education and training. Drawing on archival material and interviews with African American women transit workers in the San Francisco Bay Area, Katrinell Davis grapples with our understanding of mobility as it intersects with race and gender in the postindustrial and post–civil rights United States. Considering the consequences of declining working conditions within the public transit workplace of Alameda County, Davis illustrates how worker experience--on and off the job--has been undermined by workplace norms and administrative practices designed to address flagging worker commitment and morale. Providing a comprehensive account of how political, social, and economic factors work together to shape the culture of opportunity in a postindustrial workplace, she shows how government manpower policies, administrative policies, and drastic shifts in unionization have influenced the prospects of low-skilled workers.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469630494
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
The Great Recession punished American workers, leaving many underemployed or trapped in jobs that did not provide the income or opportunities they needed. Moreover, the gap between the wealthy and the poor had widened in past decades as mobility remained stubbornly unchanged. Against this deepening economic divide, a dominant cultural narrative took root: immobility, especially for the working class, is driven by shifts in demand for labor. In this context, and with right-to-work policies proliferating nationwide, workers are encouraged to avoid government dependency by arming themselves with education and training. Drawing on archival material and interviews with African American women transit workers in the San Francisco Bay Area, Katrinell Davis grapples with our understanding of mobility as it intersects with race and gender in the postindustrial and post–civil rights United States. Considering the consequences of declining working conditions within the public transit workplace of Alameda County, Davis illustrates how worker experience--on and off the job--has been undermined by workplace norms and administrative practices designed to address flagging worker commitment and morale. Providing a comprehensive account of how political, social, and economic factors work together to shape the culture of opportunity in a postindustrial workplace, she shows how government manpower policies, administrative policies, and drastic shifts in unionization have influenced the prospects of low-skilled workers.
Olivia
Author: Jasper Trey
Publisher: Jennifer Base
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Beautiful and brilliant businesswoman Olivia had been widowed a year earlier - and ever since, she’s thrown herself into mending everybody’s broken heart except her own. However, on a lonely, sun-drenched vacation to Tahiti, that changes. After delivering a cold beer to a handsome stranger, Olivia finds herself confronted not just by feelings she’d thought had died along with her husband; but also the overwhelming temptation to act on them. For wealthy, aristocratic Dante, love had similarly been the last thing he’d been looking for at this remote resort - at least until the tanned beauty in the red bikini had showed up to offer him a beer. Olivia is bold, blatant, and a world away from the fawning women he’d grown so tired of as a prince of Madiera. The chemistry between them is undeniable. But Olivia and Dante come from two very different worlds - her from small-town Oklahoma, and Dante from a glittering European kingdom. They’ll have just a week together before duty and destiny separate them once again. Having gone through so much already, are either willing to gamble on something that might never be? Then again - can either of them walk away from what might be their only chance of happiness? Olivia: A Summer of Second Chances is the first installment of the Harris Legacy series - richly emotional, beautifully written, and true-to-life tales of love triumphant despite overwhelming odds.
Publisher: Jennifer Base
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Beautiful and brilliant businesswoman Olivia had been widowed a year earlier - and ever since, she’s thrown herself into mending everybody’s broken heart except her own. However, on a lonely, sun-drenched vacation to Tahiti, that changes. After delivering a cold beer to a handsome stranger, Olivia finds herself confronted not just by feelings she’d thought had died along with her husband; but also the overwhelming temptation to act on them. For wealthy, aristocratic Dante, love had similarly been the last thing he’d been looking for at this remote resort - at least until the tanned beauty in the red bikini had showed up to offer him a beer. Olivia is bold, blatant, and a world away from the fawning women he’d grown so tired of as a prince of Madiera. The chemistry between them is undeniable. But Olivia and Dante come from two very different worlds - her from small-town Oklahoma, and Dante from a glittering European kingdom. They’ll have just a week together before duty and destiny separate them once again. Having gone through so much already, are either willing to gamble on something that might never be? Then again - can either of them walk away from what might be their only chance of happiness? Olivia: A Summer of Second Chances is the first installment of the Harris Legacy series - richly emotional, beautifully written, and true-to-life tales of love triumphant despite overwhelming odds.
Women Travel
Author: Natania Jansz
Publisher: Rough Guides
ISBN: 9781858284590
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
In this latest, completely revised Women Travel anthology, Rough Guides present a whole new crew of writers, journalists, travellers, dreamers and escapists, each with a journey to share and a tale to inspire. Featuring more than 80 adventures around the world, Women Travel tells you what it's like to: backpack around India with your mother in tow; hitch up with a shepherd in Spain; set up the ultimate writers' retreat on the icefields of Antarctica; hang out with hippies in the Australian rainforest; be crowned Queen Mother of an African village; have a girls' night out in the Kalahari Desert; and sweat behind the scenes at a Caribbean carnival.
Publisher: Rough Guides
ISBN: 9781858284590
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
In this latest, completely revised Women Travel anthology, Rough Guides present a whole new crew of writers, journalists, travellers, dreamers and escapists, each with a journey to share and a tale to inspire. Featuring more than 80 adventures around the world, Women Travel tells you what it's like to: backpack around India with your mother in tow; hitch up with a shepherd in Spain; set up the ultimate writers' retreat on the icefields of Antarctica; hang out with hippies in the Australian rainforest; be crowned Queen Mother of an African village; have a girls' night out in the Kalahari Desert; and sweat behind the scenes at a Caribbean carnival.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 792
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Tin Men
Author: Christopher Golden
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0345548868
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Brad Thor meets Avatar in this timely thriller for the drone age as award-winning author Christopher Golden spins the troubles of today into the apocalypse of tomorrow. After political upheaval, economic collapse, and environmental disaster, the world has become a hotspot, boiling over into chaos of near apocalyptic proportions. In this perpetual state of emergency, all that separates order from anarchy is the military might of a United States determined to keep peace among nations waging a free-for-all battle for survival and supremacy. But a conflict unlike any before demands an equally unprecedented fighting force on its front lines. Enter the Remote Infantry Corps: robot soldiers deployed in war zones around the world, controlled by human operators thousands of miles from the action. PFC Danny Kelso is one of these “Tin Men,” stationed with his fellow platoon members at a subterranean base in Germany, steering their cybernetic avatars through combat in the civil-war-ravaged streets of Syria. Immune to injury and death, this brave new breed of American warrior has a battlefield edge that’s all but unstoppable—until a flesh-and-blood enemy targets the Tin Men’s high-tech advantage in a dangerously game-changing counter strike. When anarchists unleash a massive electromagnetic pulse, short-circuiting the world’s technology, Kelso and his comrades-in-arms find themselves trapped—their minds tethered within their robot bodies and, for the first time, their lives at risk. Now, with rocket-wielding “Bot Killers” gunning for them, and desperate members of the unit threatening to go rogue, it’s the worst possible time for the Tin Men to face their most crucial mission. But an economic summit is under terrorist attack, the U.S. president is running for his life, and the men and women of the 1st Remote Infantry Division must take the fight to the next level—if they want to be the last combatants standing, not the first of their kind to fall forever. Praise for Tin Men “Tin Men is the literary equivalent of a muscle car: stylish and fast-paced, with a hopped-up engine of a plot. Christopher Golden starts things off at tire-burning speed and never lets up. It’s a great ride—definitely as much fun as we can ever hope to have while the world falls to ruin around us.”—Scott Smith, author of A Simple Plan and The Ruins “A chilling tale of a world that could be, Tin Men is a vicious beast—Starship Troopers meets Generation Kill—that left my nerves fried and my brain craving another fix.”—Pierce Brown, author of Golden Son “When the human soul thrums inside machines of war, the ultimate weapon is born. Golden crafts a unique combination of Terminator and Saving Private Ryan.”—Scott Sigler, author of Alive “As military robots proliferate, we have all wondered whether the wealthy will use them to dominate those with fewer resources. Fascinating and thrilling, Tin Men imagines a future in which the playing field is suddenly and violently leveled. When the stakes are life or death, will the soldiers behind the robots still have what it takes to survive?”—Daniel H. Wilson, author of Robopocalypse “This evocative tale of the possible and the probable takes a wild walk on the perilous side. Along the way, we get a top-of-the-line lesson in what may actually be in store for us one day. You’re going to love this thrilling, taut drama.”—Steve Berry, author of The Lincoln Myth From the Hardcover edition.
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0345548868
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Brad Thor meets Avatar in this timely thriller for the drone age as award-winning author Christopher Golden spins the troubles of today into the apocalypse of tomorrow. After political upheaval, economic collapse, and environmental disaster, the world has become a hotspot, boiling over into chaos of near apocalyptic proportions. In this perpetual state of emergency, all that separates order from anarchy is the military might of a United States determined to keep peace among nations waging a free-for-all battle for survival and supremacy. But a conflict unlike any before demands an equally unprecedented fighting force on its front lines. Enter the Remote Infantry Corps: robot soldiers deployed in war zones around the world, controlled by human operators thousands of miles from the action. PFC Danny Kelso is one of these “Tin Men,” stationed with his fellow platoon members at a subterranean base in Germany, steering their cybernetic avatars through combat in the civil-war-ravaged streets of Syria. Immune to injury and death, this brave new breed of American warrior has a battlefield edge that’s all but unstoppable—until a flesh-and-blood enemy targets the Tin Men’s high-tech advantage in a dangerously game-changing counter strike. When anarchists unleash a massive electromagnetic pulse, short-circuiting the world’s technology, Kelso and his comrades-in-arms find themselves trapped—their minds tethered within their robot bodies and, for the first time, their lives at risk. Now, with rocket-wielding “Bot Killers” gunning for them, and desperate members of the unit threatening to go rogue, it’s the worst possible time for the Tin Men to face their most crucial mission. But an economic summit is under terrorist attack, the U.S. president is running for his life, and the men and women of the 1st Remote Infantry Division must take the fight to the next level—if they want to be the last combatants standing, not the first of their kind to fall forever. Praise for Tin Men “Tin Men is the literary equivalent of a muscle car: stylish and fast-paced, with a hopped-up engine of a plot. Christopher Golden starts things off at tire-burning speed and never lets up. It’s a great ride—definitely as much fun as we can ever hope to have while the world falls to ruin around us.”—Scott Smith, author of A Simple Plan and The Ruins “A chilling tale of a world that could be, Tin Men is a vicious beast—Starship Troopers meets Generation Kill—that left my nerves fried and my brain craving another fix.”—Pierce Brown, author of Golden Son “When the human soul thrums inside machines of war, the ultimate weapon is born. Golden crafts a unique combination of Terminator and Saving Private Ryan.”—Scott Sigler, author of Alive “As military robots proliferate, we have all wondered whether the wealthy will use them to dominate those with fewer resources. Fascinating and thrilling, Tin Men imagines a future in which the playing field is suddenly and violently leveled. When the stakes are life or death, will the soldiers behind the robots still have what it takes to survive?”—Daniel H. Wilson, author of Robopocalypse “This evocative tale of the possible and the probable takes a wild walk on the perilous side. Along the way, we get a top-of-the-line lesson in what may actually be in store for us one day. You’re going to love this thrilling, taut drama.”—Steve Berry, author of The Lincoln Myth From the Hardcover edition.
Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 894
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 894
Book Description