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Book Madlands

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anna Rose
  • Publisher : Melbourne Univ. Publishing
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 0522861695
  • Pages : 370 pages

Download or read book Madlands written by Anna Rose and published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The co-founder of the Australian Youth Climate Coalition, recounts her journey around the world with arch climate skeptic Nick Minchin, as they challenged each other's views and provoked each other to confront closely held assumptions.

Book Alice in Madland

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  • Author : Grace H. Park
  • Publisher : Hunters House
  • Release : 2018-05-07
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 82 pages

Download or read book Alice in Madland written by Grace H. Park and published by Hunters House. This book was released on 2018-05-07 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Re Union

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  • Author : David Madland
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2021-05-15
  • ISBN : 1501755382
  • Pages : 263 pages

Download or read book Re Union written by David Madland and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-15 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Re-Union, David Madland explores how labor unions are essential to all workers. Yet, union systems are badly flawed and in need of rapid changes for reform. Madland's multilayered analysis presents a solution—a model to replace the existing firm-based collective bargaining with a larger, industry-scale bargaining method coupled with powerful incentives for union membership. These changes would represent a remarkable shift from the norm, but would be based on lessons from other countries, US history and current policy in several cities and states. In outlining the shift, Madland details how these proposals might mend the broken economic and political systems in the United States. He also uses three examples from Britain, Canada, and Australia to explore what there is yet to learn about this new system in other developed nations. Madland's practical advice in Re-Union extends to a proposal for how to implement the changes necessary to shift the current paradigm. This powerful call to action speaks directly to the workers affected by these policies—the very people seeking to have their voices recognized in a system that attempts to silence them.

Book Katy s Kid

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  • Author : Rosemund J Handler
  • Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
  • Release : 2012-10-03
  • ISBN : 0143527037
  • Pages : 326 pages

Download or read book Katy s Kid written by Rosemund J Handler and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2012-10-03 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This vividly textured tale of risk and betrayal juxtaposes an unlikely trio of two women and the child who both connects and divides them. An intimate portrayal of the bare-bones struggle for survival in the world's oldest profession, it is also a luminous page-turner about love in its limitless guises; about motherhood, sisterhood and friendship. From a tiny apartment in Cape Town, Katy works as a prostitute while raising her daughter Jody. Out of the blue, Katy's most trusted regular commits an appalling crime against the little girl, forcing Katy to make a devastating choice. Maggie is a hooker with a secret. She forges an unbreakable bond with young Jody while Katy, strident and embattled, is compelled to retrace the destructive decisions that threaten to separate her from her daughter forever. Together Katy, Jody, Maggie and the web of intriguing characters they encounter take the reader on a moving journey into unchartered regions of the human heart.

Book Children of Water

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  • Author : Triece Bartlett
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release : 2012-07-10
  • ISBN : 1105943526
  • Pages : 598 pages

Download or read book Children of Water written by Triece Bartlett and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-07-10 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book 2 continues the saga of the humans struggle to survive, but this time, Earth is the main backdrop for the quest for survival. The Children's Children take up the torch to bring peace and harmony to a planet out of balance. Will Alexis complete her mission, will Drake find his father, and will any of them survive the journey to save the world and themselves? Yes, they stop and eat a lot, but when you are running for your life on horseback, and the food is scarce, you tend to think about food a lot. In the end, what is the truth? Will any of us understand it when we see it? The quest may never end for truth, beauty, and love.

Book Hollowed Out

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  • Author : David Madland
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2015-06-24
  • ISBN : 0520961706
  • Pages : 270 pages

Download or read book Hollowed Out written by David Madland and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2015-06-24 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the past several decades, politicians and economists thought that high levels of inequality were good for the economy. But because America’s middle class is now so weak, the US economy suffers from the kinds of problems that plague less-developed countries. As Hollowed Out explains, to have strong, sustainable growth, the economy needs to work for everyone and expand from the middle out. This new thinking has the potential to supplant trickle-down economics—the theory that was so wrong about inequality and our economy—and shape economic policymaking for generations.

Book Musical Licensing in Restaurants and Retail and Other Establishments

Download or read book Musical Licensing in Restaurants and Retail and Other Establishments written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Madlands

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  • Author : Rosemund Handler
  • Publisher : Penguin Group
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 378 pages

Download or read book Madlands written by Rosemund Handler and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2006 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of Carla Jensen, daughter of Anna Jensen. Carla has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Undermined by Carla's dangerous behaviour and Anna's addiction, mother and daughter struggle to cope.

Book A Madland Story

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  • Author : Karen M. Morrison
  • Publisher : Olds, Alta. : Karen M. Morrison
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 138 pages

Download or read book A Madland Story written by Karen M. Morrison and published by Olds, Alta. : Karen M. Morrison. This book was released on 2000 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Descendants of Bjørulf Endress. Madland (1810-1882), son of Anna Kristine Larsdtr. Madland (1773-1817) and Endre Larss. Flottorp-Madland (1754-1830). He was born in Åseral. He took over the Madland farm in 1844. He married Anna Katrine Olsdtr. Torsland (1826-1915) in 1848. After his death in 1882 Anna left Norway for America in 1888 with three of her sons, Andreas, Søren and Ole (Olav). Two more sons immigrated. They settled first in North Dakota. Anna K. died in Edinburg, Walsh Co., N. Dakota. Some family members later migrated to Saskatchewan, Canada and Montana. Descendants live in Norway, Canada and the United States.

Book Flying the Coop

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  • Author : Lucinda Roy
  • Publisher : Tor Books
  • Release : 2022-07-05
  • ISBN : 125025891X
  • Pages : 648 pages

Download or read book Flying the Coop written by Lucinda Roy and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2022-07-05 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lucinda Roy continues the Dreambird Chronicles, her explosive first foray into speculative fiction, with Flying the Coop, the thought-provoking sequel to The Freedom Race Dreams are promises your imagination makes to itself. In the disunited states, no person of color—especially not a girl whose body reimagines flight—is safe. A quest for Freedom has brought former Muleseed Jellybean “Ji-ji” Silapu to D.C., aka Dream City, the site of monuments and memorials—where, long ago, the most famous Dreamer of all time marched for the same cause. As Ji-ji struggles to come to terms with her shocking metamorphosis and her friends, Tiro and Afarra, battle formidable ghosts of their own, the former U.S. capital decides whose dreams it wants to invest in and whose dreams it will defer. The journeys the three friends take to liberate themselves and others will not simply defy the status quo, they will challenge the nature of reality itself. Book Two of the Dreambird Chronicles The Dreambird Chronicles The Freedom Race Flying the Coop At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Book The Freedom Race

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  • Author : Lucinda Roy
  • Publisher : Tor Books
  • Release : 2021-07-13
  • ISBN : 1250258898
  • Pages : 414 pages

Download or read book The Freedom Race written by Lucinda Roy and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Freedom Race, Lucinda Roy’s explosive first foray into speculative fiction, is a poignant blend of subjugation, resistance, and hope. In the aftermath of a cataclysmic civil war known as the Sequel, ideological divisions among the states have hardened. In the Homestead Territories, an alliance of plantation-inspired holdings, Black labor is imported from the Cradle, and Biracial “Muleseeds” are bred. Raised in captivity on Planting 437, kitchen-seed Jellybean “Ji-ji” Lottermule knows there is only one way to escape. She must enter the annual Freedom Race as a runner. Ji-ji and her friends must exhume a survival story rooted in the collective memory of a kidnapped people and conjure the voices of the dead to light their way home. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Book The common writer in modern history

Download or read book The common writer in modern history written by Martyn Lyons and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2023-12-05 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book underlines the importance of writing for the subordinate classes, and the variety of uses to which it was put. In eleven new studies by thirteen leading historians of scribal culture, it foregrounds the ‘common writer’ and contributes to a ‘New History from Below’. The book presents pauper letters, ego-documents, life-writing of various kinds, soldiers’ and emigrants’ correspondence, handwritten newspapers and graffiti in streets and prisons, analysing the major genres of ‘ordinary writings’. The studies draw on different disciplines, including cultural history, sociology and ethnography, folklore studies, palaeography and socio-historical linguistics. They range from the early modern Hispanic Empire to twentieth-century Australia, including studies of modern Britain, Iceland, Finland, Italy, Germany, South Africa and the USA. The book demonstrates the importance of studying manuscript culture to give a voice, a presence and dignity to the ordinary protagonists of history.

Book Body Law and the Body of Law

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  • Author : Christine M. Hassenstab
  • Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
  • Release : 2015-01-01
  • ISBN : 3110412772
  • Pages : 362 pages

Download or read book Body Law and the Body of Law written by Christine M. Hassenstab and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For some legal philosophers, if a law is procedurally correct, enacted in ways constitutionally recognised and agreed upon, then the content is of no significance. It is a “good” law, no matter what it does or justifies. The question of one's consent or opposition to any particular law is extraneous to the legality and is regarded merely as a political matter. The assumption is that a certain procedure and logic in law creation has taken place, and the law can be altered by a change in political leaders in a subsequent political election. However, this view and assumption obscure an uncomfortable fact. Some laws can be “bad” or “immoral.” Critical legal theory suggests that there are often two (or more) sets of laws, and it makes no difference if Lady Justice is blindfolded or not. Laws change in the process of history, in part, because societal norms change. As common understandings of morality evolve, law adapts itself to the new moral environment. Norms can change slowly or rapidly, even within a lifetime. This book examines both social and legal norms and theories of how they are both created. Christine M. Hassenstab investigates how laws on sterilization, birth control and abortion were created, by focusing on the act of legislation; how the law was driven by scientific and social norms during the first and closing decades of the 20th century in the USA (especially in the state of Indiana) and Norway. The primary focus of Body Law and the Body of Law is the sociology of law and how and why the law changes. The author develops the notion “body law” for reproductive policies and uses sociological theories to untie the various strands of social history and legal history and looks at two cases of legislation. The book is divided in to two main sections. The first examines eugenic laws in the USA state of Indiana and Norway during the first decades of 20th century. The second part is about the birth control and abortion debate in both countries throughout the late 1960s and 1970s. Christine M. Hassenstab is a lawyer and sociologist. She served as a criminal defense attorney for 15 years (1987—2001) in Seattle, Washington. Currently, she is an adviser in the EU Grants Office at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway.

Book Reservoir Quality of Clastic and Carbonate Rocks

Download or read book Reservoir Quality of Clastic and Carbonate Rocks written by P.J. Armitage and published by Geological Society of London. This book was released on 2018-06-18 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reservoir quality is studied using a wide range of similar techniques in both sandstones and carbonates. Sandstone and carbonate reservoir quality both benefit from the study of modern analogues and experiments, but modelling approaches are currently quite different for these two types of reservoirs. There are many common controls on sandstone and carbonate reservoir quality, but also distinct differences due primarily to mineralogy. Numerous controversies remain including the question of oil inhibition, the key control on pressure solution and geochemical flux of material to or from reservoirs. This collection of papers contains case-study-based examples of sandstone and carbonate reservoir quality prediction as well as modern analogue, outcrop analogue, modelling and advanced analytical approaches.

Book The First Chapter of Norwegian Immigration  1821 1840

Download or read book The First Chapter of Norwegian Immigration 1821 1840 written by Rasmus Bjørn Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Norwegian Migration to America

Download or read book Norwegian Migration to America written by Theodore Christian Blegen and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on 1931 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hollowed Out

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Madland
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2015-06-24
  • ISBN : 0520281640
  • Pages : 270 pages

Download or read book Hollowed Out written by David Madland and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2015-06-24 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For the past several decades, politicians and economists have thought that high levels of inequality were good for the economy. But an economy that works only for the rich simply doesn't work. Because the middle class is so weak, America's economy now suffers from the kinds of problems that plague less-developed countries. Privileged elites more frequently secure special treatment from a government that wastes money and stifles competition. Children's opportunities are excessively determined by the wealth of their parents. Societal distrust has increased, making business transactions needlessly difficult. Consumer demand has weakened and become unstable, which has helped fuel the Great Recession and has made the recovery painfully slow. As Hollowed Out explains, to have strong and sustainable growth, the economy needs to work for everyone and grow from the middle out. This new middle-out theory aims to supplant trickle-down economics--the theory that was so wrong about inequality and our economy and did so much damage to our nation. This new thinking has the potential to shape economic policymaking for generations."--Provided by publisher.