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Book Behind Those Swinging Doors

Download or read book Behind Those Swinging Doors written by Fleming Allan and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Running Through the Swinging Doors

Download or read book Running Through the Swinging Doors written by and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating expose of the restaurant industry told as a memoir from someone who's spent 50 years in the business.

Book Behind the Kitchen Door

Download or read book Behind the Kitchen Door written by Saru Jayaraman and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-12 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sustainability is about contributing to a society that everybody benefits from, not just going organic because you don't want to die from cancer or have a difficult pregnancy. What is a sustainable restaurant? It's one in which as the restaurant grows, the people grow with it."-from Behind the Kitchen Door How do restaurant workers live on some of the lowest wages in America? And how do poor working conditions-discriminatory labor practices, exploitation, and unsanitary kitchens-affect the meals that arrive at our restaurant tables? Saru Jayaraman, who launched the national restaurant workers' organization Restaurant Opportunities Centers United, sets out to answer these questions by following the lives of restaurant workers in New York City, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Miami, Detroit, and New Orleans. Blending personal narrative and investigative journalism, Jayaraman shows us that the quality of the food that arrives at our restaurant tables depends not only on the sourcing of the ingredients. Our meals benefit from the attention and skill of the people who chop, grill, sauté, and serve. Behind the Kitchen Door is a groundbreaking exploration of the political, economic, and moral implications of dining out. Jayaraman focuses on the stories of individuals, like Daniel, who grew up on a farm in Ecuador and sought to improve the conditions for employees at Del Posto; the treatment of workers behind the scenes belied the high-toned Slow Food ethic on display in the front of the house. Increasingly, Americans are choosing to dine at restaurants that offer organic, fair-trade, and free-range ingredients for reasons of both health and ethics. Yet few of these diners are aware of the working conditions at the restaurants themselves. But whether you eat haute cuisine or fast food, the well-being of restaurant workers is a pressing concern, affecting our health and safety, local economies, and the life of our communities. Highlighting the roles of the 10 million people, many immigrants, many people of color, who bring their passion, tenacity, and vision to the American dining experience, Jayaraman sets out a bold agenda to raise the living standards of the nation's second-largest private sector workforce-and ensure that dining out is a positive experience on both sides of the kitchen door.

Book Going Down Swinging

    Book Details:
  • Author : Billie Livingston
  • Publisher : Vintage Canada
  • Release : 2010-05-14
  • ISBN : 0307369870
  • Pages : 337 pages

Download or read book Going Down Swinging written by Billie Livingston and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2010-05-14 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A remarkable debut novel and bittersweet tale of the unflinching love and devotion between a mother and daughter.Razor sharp and darkly funny Going Down Swinging chronicles two years in the life of the Hoffmans. Eilleen Hoffman has just told Danny, her con-artist lover and father of her youngest daughter Grace, to get out — for good. Once a teacher, Eilleen lived a middle-class life, but her taste in men coupled with a predilection for pills and booze has brought her down. Desperate to prevent her family from sinking deeper into poverty, Eilleen reluctantly goes on welfare. Eventually she turns to the only friends she has left, hustlers and hookers, to learn how a woman makes fast money, no investment necessary.With Eilleen on welfare and her older daughter Charlotte a teenaged runaway, child welfare authorities descend on the Hoffmans. As Eilleen trails through several attempts at drying out, the well-intentioned Children's Protection Society finally intervenes to apprehend Grace. With the threat of prolonged separation now a stark reality, Eilleen and Grace must rally to confront their demons with grit, determination and humour. Unblinkingly observed and brilliantly written, Going Down Swinging is about the powerful bond between mother and child. And with her skilful narrative interplay, Billie Livingston illustrates poignantly how the truth of our stories lies not so much in the black and white, as it does in the grey.

Book BEHIND OPEN DOORS

Download or read book BEHIND OPEN DOORS written by INGRID MACLEAN and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-01-20 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon, the Acid Messiah of 101 Cromwell Road: His life and times. 101 has become legendary over the decades, being regarded as the hub of Swinging London, where the Beautiful People went to turn on and tune in. But NOT drop out! With a cast of thousands, including Beatles, Stones, aristocrats and secret agents, this colourful account of a brief moment that changed the world will entertain and enthral. Not only do we learn who took the acid, we also discover how - and why - it came to London in the first place. Conspiracy and control, liberation and love. All human life is here!

Book Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office

Download or read book Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office written by USA Patent Office and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 1366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Screen in Surrealist Art and Thought

Download or read book The Screen in Surrealist Art and Thought written by Haim Finkelstein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interrogation of the notion of space in Surrealist theory and philosophy, this study analyzes the manifestations of space in the paintings and writings done in the framework of the Surrealist Movement. Haim Finkelstein introduces the 'screen' as an important spatial paradigm that clarifies and extends the understanding of Surrealism as it unfolds in the 1920s, exploring the screen and layered depth as fundamental structuring principles associated with the representation of the mental space and of the internal processes that eventually came to be linked with the Surrealist concept of psychic automatism. Extending the discussion of the concepts at stake for Surrealist visual art into the context of film, literature and criticism, this study sheds new light on the way 'film thinking' permeates Surrealist thought and aesthetics. In early chapters, Finkelstein looks at the concept of the screen as emblematic of a strand of spatial apprehension that informs the work of young writers in the 1920s, such as Robert Desnos and Louis Aragon. He goes on to explore the way the spatial character of the serial films of Louis Feuillade intimated to the Surrealists a related mode of vision, associated with perception of the mystery and the Marvelous lurking behind the surfaces of quotidian reality. The dialectics informing Surrealist thought with regard to the surfaces of the real (with walls, doors and windows as controlling images), are shown to be at the basis of Andr?reton's notion of the picture as a window. Contrary to the traditional sense of this metaphor, Breton's 'window' is informed by the screen paradigm, with its surface serving as a locus of a dialectics of transparency and opacity, permeability and reflectivity. The main aesthetic and conceptual issues that come up in the consideration of Breton's window metaphor lay the groundwork for an analysis of the work of Giorgio de Chirico, Ren?agritte, Max Ernst, Andr?asson, and Joan Mir?he concluding chapter consi

Book Aeronautics

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1914
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 194 pages

Download or read book Aeronautics written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The World Behind the Scenes

Download or read book The World Behind the Scenes written by Percy Fitzgerald and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Better Left Behind

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  • Author : Melinda Di Lorenzo
  • Publisher : Tule Publishing
  • Release : 2022-08-30
  • ISBN : 1957748443
  • Pages : 276 pages

Download or read book Better Left Behind written by Melinda Di Lorenzo and published by Tule Publishing. This book was released on 2022-08-30 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When no one is who they seem, the only person you can trust is yourself. Detective Trinity Calhoun's closest friend was due back weeks ago from his undercover operation, and the last thing she wants to do is take a trip. Not even to attend a high-profile conference at a swanky hotel on a beautiful island with all expenses paid. But with her boss counting on her, Trinity sets aside her misgivings and goes. Except from the moment she sets foot on the ferry, something feels…off. First comes a man who's far too interested in her. Then Trinity swears she's spotted her late-to-return friend. And someone—who could be an ally or a foe—is definitely planting breadcrumbs for her. Is a little girl missing or is that, too, a misdirect? Quickly, Trinity realizes the danger is closing in. And she's trapped. Hemmed in by a storm that's cut off both digital and physical access to the mainland. Her survival depends on her ability to differentiate between clue and bait. Because someone wants to help—and someone wants her dead.

Book New York Supreme Court

Download or read book New York Supreme Court written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 1082 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Swinging Doors

Download or read book The Swinging Doors written by Nancy E. Capps and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Behind the Scenes at the Opera

Download or read book Behind the Scenes at the Opera written by Mary Watkins Cushing and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hordes

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  • Author : Leon De Kock
  • Publisher : Leon De Kock
  • Release : 2012-05-11
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 356 pages

Download or read book Hordes written by Leon De Kock and published by Leon De Kock. This book was released on 2012-05-11 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story that could come true tomorrow When Ishmael Jacobson creates a virus that stops the ageing process in humans and animals alike, chaos could be the only result. Striving towards a dream of eternal life, everybody do what they can to get infected with the virus, even if it means breaking the law. It is up to detective Lindique to try to stop the spread of the virus, but is it too late? Soon the world is filled with people, and every day more and more are born. The ground turns barren, too tired to keep on giving life to billions upon billions of humans who are trying to scrape another morsel of food out of the dust. When there is no more food to eat, there is always the neighbour… In the end, there is only one person who can start the ageing process in humans again, and it is the person who started the whole problem to begin with, coming full circle.

Book Taken

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  • Author : Virginia Rose Richter
  • Publisher : Untreed Reads
  • Release : 2015-04-01
  • ISBN : 1611878136
  • Pages : 60 pages

Download or read book Taken written by Virginia Rose Richter and published by Untreed Reads. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Time is running out... When thirteen year old Jessie Hanson witnesses a kidnapping in broad daylight, she and her friends, Tina Adams and Bryce Peterson, use their combined deductive reasoning to help authorities find the culprit before the young victim is whisked out of Fairfield to be lost forever. Taken is the fourth book in ‘The Willow Lane Mysteries’ series set in rural small town Nebraska.

Book The Reason

Download or read book The Reason written by and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book California Decisions

Download or read book California Decisions written by California. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: