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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
"In Endangered Dreams, Starr paints a portrait that is both detailed and panoramic, offering a vivid look at the personalities and events that shaped a decade of explosive tension. He begins with the rise of radicalism on the Pacific Coast, which erupted when the Great Depression swept over California in the 1930s. Starr captures the triumphs and tumult of the great agricultural strikes in the Imperial Valley, the San Joaquin Valley, Stockton, and...
Author
Publisher
Portfolio Hardcover
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Since the financial crisis, amid outrage at the likes of Citigroup and JPMorganChase and Washington's rejiggering of the financial system, the banking industry has had one major defender: Richard X. Bove. Now he explains why big banks are the nation's lifeline to success, and why financial disaster will ensue if we make it impossible for them to fill their role in the economy. Bove argues that big banks are necessary to ensure America's position...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
The U.S. senator and former presidential candidate offers a progressive takedown of the uber-capitalist status quo that has enriched millionaires and billionaires at the expense of the working class, and presents a blueprint for what transformational change would actually look like.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Ada Calhoun found herself in the throes of a midlife crisis, she thought that she had no right to complain. She was married with children and a good career. So why did she feel miserable? And why did it seem that other Generation X women were miserable, too? Calhoun decided to find some answers. She looked into housing costs, HR trends, credit card debt averages, and divorce data. At every turn, she saw a pattern: sandwiched between the Boomers...
50) Nosotros
Author
Publisher
BayView Entertainment
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
It follows a group of five friends during the weekend of the Spanish presidential election in December 2015, probably the most important election in Spain's recent history due to the crisis of old institutions and the phenomenal rise of new political parties to transform the political system. Maria, Suko, Sarah, Seda, and Felipe are in their 30's. They are part of a fragile generation, the first one in many decades to live in worse conditions than...
51) Tulipomania: the story of the world's most coveted flower and the extraordinary passions it aroused
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"An accessible, compelling introduction to today's major policy issues from columnist, best-selling author, and Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman. There is no better guide than Paul Krugman to basic economics, the ideas that animate much of our public policy. Likewise, there is no better foe of zombie economics, the misunderstandings that just won't die. This delightful new book finds Krugman at his best, turning readers into intelligent...
Author
Publisher
Editorial Planeta
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"Este libro es un testimonio de lo alcanzado hasta ahora, de los desafios pendientes y de como imagino que estara el pais en 2024. [...] Desde antes de asumir por mandato popular la Presidencia de la Republica, fuimos elaborando un plan de desarrollo que surgio de muchos anos de brega, recorriendo a ras de tierra el territorio nacional, valorando las potencialidades y los vastos recursos naturales, reflexionando sobre los obstaculos para el desarrollo...
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Language
English
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Prohibition. Al Capone. The President Harding scandals. The revolution of manners and morals. Black Tuesday. These are only an inkling of the events and figures characterizing the wild, tumultuous era that was the Roaring Twenties. Originally published in 1931, Only Yesterday traces the rise of post–World War I prosperity up to the Wall Street crash of 1929 against a colorful backdrop of flappers, speakeasies, the first radio, and the scandalous...
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