Download or read book The American Nightmare written by Thomas A. Hockin and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text offers an insight into the political challenges to free trade and US trade policy and explores the fragile ecosystem of multinational trade alliances in the face of insurgent political protests from both the left and the right. It also takes a close look at WTO obstacles such as the failure of member countries to follow dispute settlement arrangements; conflict surrounding the imminent membership of China; and the mercurial administration of trade law in the US. The author presents a case for the incoherence of American trade policy but also analyzes the systematic problems involved in free trade and suggests solutions.

Download or read book Waking from the American Nightmare written by DeNise Kendrick and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2004-07 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How would you best describe your book? It is a personal finance resource manual, a course in self-sufficiency. Who is it for? Basically, anyone who is not on the Forbes list can probably benefit from this book. It helps those who are struggling to survive as well as those who are somewhat comfortable but would like to save for the future. Is this another get rich scheme? Absolutely not! I don't promise that if you buy and read this book, you'll be able to move into a mansion in the most exclusive neighborhood in town or that you'll jet off to Paris next week. The principles set forth in this book require planning, hard work, and most all, discipline. But other than the initial book purchase they will cost you nothing and if you are consistent, they will work for every family, every single time. How is what you teach different from every other book on personal finances out there? All books on finances tell you that you need to save money, but nobody tells you how. We'd all like to put a thousand dollars a month into a savings account, but where are you suppose to get it? All of the other financial programs and books I've seen are for people with money. Perhaps the subjects are grossly mishandling their funds, but the funds are available. They talk about putting money in the stock market, IRAs, 401Ks, and mutual funds. Those are not bad ideas, but they say nothing to people who are in financial crisis. When a mother doesn't know what she's going to feed her babies for supper she's not thinking about 401ks. Papa walks in the door from work and before he can take off his hat and coat, three collection agencies have called, the landlord is banging on the front door and the repo man is at the back door. Guess what? Papa couldn't care less about mutual funds at that point. What is the biggest misconception about the book? I think the biggest misunderstanding is that it's a book for "poor people." Sure, low income people will be helped greatly, but the middle class will also find that their money goes farther when they use the principles taught in Waking From the American Nightmare. How will it help them? Let me ask the question - What would you do with an extra 5, 10, or 15 thousand dollars a year? Maybe you're not worried about being evicted from your home, putting food on the table or the lights being turned off. We can still help you. Do you have credit card debt or a mortgage? Maybe you'd like to have mom stay home while the children are young. Perhaps you'd like to take a family vacation, save for college, purchase a second car or send the kids to a private school. Whatever your financial destination, Waking From the American Nightmare is the first step of that journey. How do you expect people with money problems to pay $25.00 for a book? People who want to change their financial situation can't afford not to have this book. In effect, it costs them nothing because it will more than pay for itself on the first trip to the grocery store. After that, the savings just keep adding up. it's really an investment.

Download or read book The American Nightmare written by C Nathaniel Brown and published by Expected End Entertainment. This book was released on 2020-07-20 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American Dream: the ideal by which equality of opportunity is available to any American, allowing the highest aspirations and goals to be achieved.The American Nightmare: when the American dream does not apply to all Americans.In this book, a group of black men remove their masks and become vulnerable to reveal the pain, frustration, and scars of being a black man in America. These transparent accounts, which include police brutality, racial profiling, corporate discrimination, and a biased judicial system, provide a glimpse into some of the sins of a country that has yet to provide liberty and justice for all its citizens. As much as this book exposes injustice, it also educates on history and attempts to heal deep wounds of a group of people. The voices of black men will not be silenced. Contributing Authors: Tristan De'GeonBrian WalkerChris PreyorAndre' L. McDowellAnthony AllenMalcolm EvansAlfoster Garrett Jr.Charles D. ClarkJeffery DickersonCalvin J. WalkerTobias ArmandAnthony Velvet HallReggie B. ThomasLarry Person Jr

Download or read book WHY written by Raymond Head and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2023-11-09 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you think America is the land of the free or a valuable gem, then you should be Black and experience it like them. Black Americans possess an inner strength and sensitivity that is unmatched. If this power is aggressively and productively utilized, Black Americans and the Entire World will have a new experience. WHY?- Is an insightful and conviction-inspiring narrative, that exposes and confronts the crimes of our nation and the complacency of a people that have contributed to the betrayal and broken promises to our children. WHY?- Shares reflections of greatness and highlights models for the development of human potentiality in our Black youth of yesterday and today. WHY?- Answers one of the most controversial questions of our times regarding "Critical Race Theory." WHY?- Addresses our children's mental and physical health and explains how the body and mind are unequaled in complexity and unlimited in potential. WHY- Exposes the complex interactions of large-scale societal systems, practices, ideologies, and programs that produce and perpetuate inequities for racial minorities. WHY?- Highlights several reasons Black families are now facing multiple challenges and why preparing our children for a changing world is crucial. WHY?- Explains the ideology and terminology of "Black Lives Matter" and the word "Woke." What they were, what they have become, and why. Ultimately, the question of why is answered in living color, confirming that its incumbent upon us to prepare our children today for what's to come tomorrow. That makes the crucial content and directed purpose of WHY? "Unapologetically Necessary." Ase (It is so)

Download or read book Martin and Malcolm and America A Dream or a Nightmare written by James H. Cone and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 1991 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The American Nightmare written by Sidney J. Slomich and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An earnest rehearsal of cliches about the evils of the military, the techno-scientific intellect, the Bomb, the cities, and the warmakers. As a cri du coeur by an Ellsbergian type (Slomich used to participate in councils of state, think-tank machinations, etc.) it lacks weight -- its moral force is diminished by its analytic evasions and notions like "entropy" and "repetition compulsion" and "death wish" lack explanatory value. As a political tract it is vacuous: Slomich lists a number of good things to pursue (limiting space exploration to scientifically sound ventures, re-integrating cities and suburbs, constructing mass transit) but his idea of how to get there is waved across home plate with a vague reference to "taking full advantage of the one-man one-vote potentials," and his sociological sophistication may be gauged by the frequency of the telltale "we." Just when the book becomes most irritating for its lack of explicit reference to other thinkers, Slomich interpolates a sort of Western Thought C-107 summation: "But where are Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas. . .?" he asks in this connection. Where indeed?"--Kirkus

Download or read book Going Rouge written by Richard Kim and published by OR Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sarah Palin has many faces: hockey mom, fundamentalist Christian, sex symbol, Republican ideologue, fashion icon, "maverick" populist. But, above all, Palin has become one thing: an American obsession that just won't go away. Edited by two senior editors at 'The Nation' magazine, this sharp, smart, up-to-the-minute book examines Palin's quirky origins in Wasilla, Alaska, her spectacular rise to the effective leadership of the Republican Party, and the nightmarish prospect of her continuing to dominate the nation's political scene. With contributions by: Amy Alexander, Max Blumenthal, Juan Cole, Joe Conason, Jeanne Devon, Eve Ensler, Michelle Goldberg, Jane Hamsher, Christopher Hayes, Mark Hertsgaard, Jim Hightower, Linda Hirshman, Naomi Klein, Dahlia Lithwick, Amanda Marcotte, Shannyn Moore, John Nichols, Rick Perlstein, Tom Perrotta, Katha Pollitt, Robert Reich, Frank Rich, Hanna Rosin, Jeff Sharlet, Matt Taibbi, Michael Tomasky, Rebecca Traister, Katrina vanden Heuvel, Jessica Valenti, Patricia Williams, JoAnn Wypijewski and Gary Younge among others.

Download or read book The Unofficial Unbiased Guide to the 331 Most Interesting Colleges 2005 written by Kaplan, Inc and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2004-06-22 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engaging and informative, "The Unofficial, Unbiased Guide to the 331 Most Interesting Colleges 2005" is a must-read reference for every college-bound student.

Download or read book Studies in Language and Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Reclaiming History The Assassination of President John F Kennedy written by Vincent Bugliosi and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2007 with total page 1714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bugliosi, brilliant prosecutor and bestselling author, is perhaps the only man in America capable of "prosecuting" Lee Harvey Oswald for the murder of John F. Kennedy. His book is a narrative compendium of fact, ballistic evidence, and, above all, common sense.

Download or read book Beyond the Margin written by Paolo Giordano and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The editors' goal in this book is to give a critical overview of where Italian/American literary and cultural studies are today. To this end, Beyond the Margin includes three types of essays: the characteristics of Italian/American literature and culture in a general sense; specific writers; and film.

Download or read book Watching Pages Reading Pictures written by Daniela De Pau and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2008-12-18 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Italian cinema is internationally well-known for the ground-breaking experience of Neo-Realism, comedy "Italian-Style," Spaghetti Westerns, and the horror movies of the seventies. However, what is rather unfamiliar to wider audiences is Italian cinema's crucial and enduring affair with literature. In fact, since the very beginning, literature has deeply influenced how Italian cinema has defined itself and grown. This book provides an empirical approach to this complex and fruitful relationship. The aim is to present discussions dealing with significant Italian film adaptations from literary materials which greatly exemplify the variety of styles, view-points, and attitudes produced by such an alliance, throughout the different periods. Among the adaptations discussed, are those that have followed trends and critical debates, making them, at times, rather problematic.

Download or read book The New Jim Crow written by Michelle Alexander and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named one of the most important nonfiction books of the 21st century by Entertainment Weekly‚ Slate‚ Chronicle of Higher Education‚ Literary Hub, Book Riot‚ and Zora A tenth-anniversary edition of the iconic bestseller—"one of the most influential books of the past 20 years," according to the Chronicle of Higher Education—with a new preface by the author "It is in no small part thanks to Alexander's account that civil rights organizations such as Black Lives Matter have focused so much of their energy on the criminal justice system." —Adam Shatz, London Review of Books Seldom does a book have the impact of Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow. Since it was first published in 2010, it has been cited in judicial decisions and has been adopted in campus-wide and community-wide reads; it helped inspire the creation of the Marshall Project and the new $100 million Art for Justice Fund; it has been the winner of numerous prizes, including the prestigious NAACP Image Award; and it has spent nearly 250 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Most important of all, it has spawned a whole generation of criminal justice reform activists and organizations motivated by Michelle Alexander's unforgettable argument that "we have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it." As the Birmingham News proclaimed, it is "undoubtedly the most important book published in this century about the U.S." Now, ten years after it was first published, The New Press is proud to issue a tenth-anniversary edition with a new preface by Michelle Alexander that discusses the impact the book has had and the state of the criminal justice reform movement today.

Download or read book What We ve Become Living and Dying in a Country of Arms written by Jonathan M. Metzl and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2024-01-30 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A searing reflection on the broken promise of safety in America. When a naked, mentally ill white man with an AR-15 killed four young adults of color at a Waffle House, Nashville-based physician and gun policy scholar Dr. Jonathan M. Metzl once again advocated for commonsense gun reform. But as he peeled back evidence surrounding the racially charged mass shooting, a shocking question emerged: Did the public health approach he had championed for years have it all wrong? Long at the forefront of a movement advocating for gun reform as a matter of public health, Metzl has been on constant media call in the aftermath of fatal shootings. But the 2018 Nashville killings led him on a path toward recognizing the limitations of biomedical frameworks for fully diagnosing or treating the impassioned complexities of American gun politics. As he came to understand it, public health is a harder sell in a nation that fundamentally disagrees about what it means to be safe, healthy, or free. In What We’ve Become, Metzl reckons both with the long history of distrust of public health and the larger forces—social, ideological, historical, racial, and political—that allow mass shootings to occur on a near daily basis in America. Looking closely at the cycle in which mass shootings lead to shock, horror, calls for action, and, ultimately, political gridlock, he explores what happens to the soul of a nation—and the meanings of safety and community—when we normalize violence as an acceptable trade-off for freedom. Mass shootings and our inability to stop them have become more than horrific crimes: they are an American national autobiography. This brilliant, piercing analysis points to mass shootings as a symptom of our most unresolved national conflicts. What We’ve Become ultimately sets us on the path of alliance forging, racial reckoning, and political power brokering we must take to put things right.

Download or read book The Testimonies of Russian and American Postmodern Poetry written by Albena Lutzkanova-Vassileva and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book challenges the belief in the purely linguistic nature of contemporary poetry and offers an interpretation of late twentieth-century Russian poetry as a testimony to the unforeseen annulment of communist reality and its overnight displacement by a completely unfathomable post-totalitarian order. Albena Lutzkanova-Vassileva argues that, because of the sudden invalidation of a reality that had been largely seen as unattained and everlasting, this shift remained secluded from the mind and totally resistant to cognition, thus causing a collectively traumatic psychological experience. The book proceeds by inquiring into a school of contemporary American poetry that has been likewise read as cut off from reality. Executing a comparative analysis, Vassileva advances a new understanding of this poetry as a testimony to the overwhelming and traumatic impact of contemporary media, which have assailed the mind with far more signals than it can register, digest and furnish with semantic weight.

Download or read book Foundations of Faith written by Robert O. Wahl and published by David C Cook. This book was released on 2006 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book builds a solid basis for understanding the heart of the Christian faith through 30 weekly sessions about establishing a foundation in Christ.

Download or read book Amplified Voices Intersecting Identities Volume 2 written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors in Amplified Voices, Intersecting Identities: First-Gen PhDs Navigating Institutional Power in Early Careers are among the few first-generation students to continue to graduate school and the professoriate. Their critical narratives address the deep structural inequalities within higher education.