Download or read book Nickel and Dimed written by Barbara Ehrenreich and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestselling work of undercover reportage from our sharpest and most original social critic, with a new foreword by Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted Millions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that a job—any job—can be the ticket to a better life. But how does anyone survive, let alone prosper, on $6 an hour? To find out, Ehrenreich left her home, took the cheapest lodgings she could find, and accepted whatever jobs she was offered. Moving from Florida to Maine to Minnesota, she worked as a waitress, a hotel maid, a cleaning woman, a nursing-home aide, and a Wal-Mart sales clerk. She lived in trailer parks and crumbling residential motels. Very quickly, she discovered that no job is truly "unskilled," that even the lowliest occupations require exhausting mental and muscular effort. She also learned that one job is not enough; you need at least two if you int to live indoors. Nickel and Dimed reveals low-rent America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and surprising generosity—a land of Big Boxes, fast food, and a thousand desperate stratagems for survival. Read it for the smoldering clarity of Ehrenreich's perspective and for a rare view of how "prosperity" looks from the bottom. And now, in a new foreword, Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, explains why, twenty years on in America, Nickel and Dimed is more relevant than ever.
Download or read book The Nickels Dimes and Dollars Book written by Ellen Sabin and published by Watering Can Press. This book was released on 2010-08-23 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn to make smart decisions about how to spend, share, save, earn, and grow your money.
Download or read book Quarters Dimes Nickels Pennies written by Baila Olidort and published by Merkos Linyonei Chinuch. This book was released on 1993 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David cannot understand how filling his charity box with coins will help poor people until his mother takes him downtown to deliver the money to a soup kitchen.
Download or read book The Coin Counting Book written by Rozanne Lanczak Williams and published by Charlesbridge. This book was released on 2010-07-23 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-five pennies, four dimes, two nickels, and one quarter… hmm… A pocketful of coins! Who can make heads or tails of it? YOU can with THE COIN COUNTING BOOK. Change just adds up with this bankable book illustrated with real money. Counting, adding, and identifying American currency from one penny to one dollar is exciting and easy. When you have counted all your money, you can decide to save it or spend it.
Download or read book Loose Change written by Claudia Plett and published by Martingale. This book was released on 2008-10-14 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finally, a book to use with all those great precut fabric collections! Have fun using 5" and 10" squares and fat quarters or quarter-yard cuts in 12 creative projects. Try a table runner, crib or lap blanket, or even a bed cover Get up to speed on rotary cutting, traditional and foundation piecing, and easy optional applique and embroidery Great for fabric swaps or using up your stash
Download or read book Nickels and Dimes written by Nina Brown Baker and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Three Quarters Two Dimes and a Nickel written by Steve Fiffer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1999-09-24 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would you do if you were seventeen years old and broke your neck? It's tough enough to stand on the verge of adulthood without the extra burden of not being able to stand at all. Steve Fiffer had his whole life ahead of him in December 1967 when he fractured his fifth cervical vertebra in a wrestling accident at school, shattering his dreams. The diagnosis was quadriplegia, and his parents were told that he would never walk again. Steve, however, was not content to accept such a fate. He had always been taught that he was a leader, not a follower, and he was not going to take this news lying down. Within five months he was out of the hospital, within seven he was on crutches, and within nine he was beginning his freshman year at Yale University. And most remarkable of all, he never lost his wisecracking sense of humor or his hunger for all that life has to offer. Three Quarters, Two Dimes, and a Nickel is Steve Fiffer's story of his coming of age, and of how he created a normal life for himself despite his injury. Steve refused to be consumed or defined by his physical condition; he may not be a dollar bill, he explains, but he's still "three quarters, two dimes, and a nickel." His battle to come back from his injury casts into sharp relief the drama of becoming an adult and wrestling with issues of identity, relationships, and ambition. We join him around the dinner table as he rebuilds his once-distant relationship with his father and gains a new appreciation of their bond; we agonize with him as he tries to find true love (or at least lose his virginity) despite his self-consciousness about his physical awkwardness, and we join him at the Lawson YMCA in downtown Chicago, where he rebuilds his body under the watchful eye of the manic physical-fitness coach Dick Woit, a retired football star who puts Steve through a sort of boot camp to raise his sights even higher and propel him off his crutches for good. Part guru, part drill instructor, Woit helps Steve to develop the mental toughness to put the injury behind him and to embrace adulthood and all its responsibilities. By turns poignant, darkly comic, and ultimately triumphant, Three Quarters, Two Dimes, and a Nickel is an affirmation of how the ordinary joys of life can win out even in extraordinary circumstances.
Download or read book Kinds of Coins written by Carrie Stuart and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eBook for Developing Readers teaches students the values of pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters.
Download or read book Million Dollar Nickels written by Paul Montgomery and published by Zyrus Press. This book was released on 2005-08 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Framed in the backdrop of a nationwide media frenzy and a public mad with the hope of finding the multi-million dollar coin, this is the story of America's most eccentric and famous collectors, persistent reporters searching for the truth, shameless profiteers, and agents of the Smithsonian Institute desperate to stay above the fray. Enterprising collectors spared no expense over the decades advertising to purchase a 1913 Liberty Head nickel, prompting generations of collectors to search cans of coins and old collections they inherited, all for the hope of finding the prized 1913 Liberty Head nickel. In the end, it was an anonymous heiress with an old envelope, upon which was written the word fake, that held the truth. With that envelope and the coin inside, six of the world's most respected coin experts sat in a small room under the vigilant watch of armed guards. Few expected what they found. And what they found rewrote numismatic history...
Download or read book Nickels and Dimes written by Nina Brown Baker and published by Voyager Books/Libros Viajeros. This book was released on 1954 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American success story of F.W. Woolworth, who with his idea for a ten-cent store, built a merchandising empire in the late 1800s.
Download or read book Found A Penny written by Dr. Jean Feldman and published by Carson-Dellosa Publishing. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sing Along With Dr. Jean And Dr. Holly To Learn About Money.
Download or read book Nickels and Dimes written by Jerry Cesak and published by . This book was released on 200? with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nickels written by Elizabeth Morgan and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers see nickels often in their everyday lives. These coins can be used to teach basic math skills, such as skip-counting and addition. As they read, they also learn concepts that commonly appear in elementary social studies curricula, such as early American history. The close relationship between the text and detailed photographs help build strong reading comprehension skills, and a picture glossary helps build vocabularies. Exciting designs hold readers’ interests with each turn of the page. Whose house is on the back of the nickel? The answer to this question and many more are waiting for readers to discover!
Download or read book Pennies and Nickels and Dimes written by Florence W. Skinner and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nickels and Dimes written by Bryan Anderson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2000-06-16 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These tales are true stories about American missionaries and British colonists, who were able to inspire the people in northeastern India with Anglo-American educational ideals and ideas. This is not a history in the true sense of the term but is as authentic as an historical account. This is not a collection of biographies but is as revealing. The author has kept the historical and biographical events in tact without in any way twisting the events or the characters of the historic personalities. This is not a fiction but the author has injected some fictional elements to give a better understanding of the time, the people, and the strength of the souls that he is trying to reveal.
Download or read book Quarters Nickels and Dimes Oh My written by Corey Carolina and published by Rise & Develop, LLC. This book was released on 2022-02-13 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most important things a parent can do is teach their children and other children the importance of money. It is essential for success, for children to learn how to read, count, and understand money. Our goal is to do our small part to educate children about Quarters, Nickels, Dimes, and yes pennies. We hope you enjoy our little family book with our amazing children.
Download or read book Dimes written by Robert M. Hamilton and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dime may be the smallest coin, but there’s still a lot young readers can learn about it. Readers discover the meanings of the symbols on the back of the dime and the face on the font, which support basic social studies curriculum topics. They also work to solve math problems dealing with monetary equivalencies and addition. Detailed photographs are closely related to the clear text on each page to help readers strengthen comprehension skills. A picture glossary is also included to build the vocabularies of young readers. The dazzling layout is sure to engage reluctant readers.
