Barrio America: How Latino Immigrants Saved the American City, Hardcover - A. K. Sandoval-Strausz

DescriptionThe compelling history of how Latino immigrants revitalized the nation's cities after decades of disinvestment and white flight Thirty y...

An inspiring and deeply personal coming of age memoir from one of Silicon Valley's youngest entrepreneurs--a second-generation Latino immigrant who...

Reducere. In the late 1960s, the American city found itself in steep decline. An urban crisis fueled by federal policy wreaked destruction and displacement o...

Iconic urbanist Lewis Mumford stressed the role of a well-constructed city in the development of the good life, championing pedestrian-scaled, sust...

Publisher: Random House USA IncAuthor(s): Michael SaymanNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 131 x 202 x 21Cover type: Paperback /...

Herrin, Illinois, has seen many dramatic events unfold in the nearly two hundred years since it was a bell-shaped prairie on the frontier. Now, Her...

Reducere. The riveting, unforgettable story of a girl whose indomitable spirit is tested by homelessness, poverty, and racism in an unequal America--from Pul...

Reducere. Power couples aren't a modern phenomenon. The greatest American couple ever to have served America in a public capacity was the country's fourth pr...

On the west bank of the Mississippi lies the New Orleans neighborhood of Algiers. Short on hope but big on dreams, its mostly poor and marginalized...

Reducere. "A gutsy success story" (The New York Times Book Review) about one tenacious woman's journey to escape rural poverty and create a billion-dollar fa...

Reducere. Sometime in April 2014, somewhere in a hospital in California, a Latino child tipped the demographic scales as Latinos displaced non-Hispanic white...

DescriptionUnauthorized: Portraits of Latino Immigrants takes readers inside the diverse contemporary worlds of undocumented Latino immigrants in t...

Reducere. The Revolutionary War encampments of George Washington's Continental Army at Middlebrook and nearby Pluckemin, New Jersey, have been neglected in h...

Home to over 730, 000 people, with close to four million people living in the metropolitan area, Seattle has the third-highest homeless population ...

Reducere. The most incredible story for children since there were dragonsabout a knight who met his dogin a peculiar wayand came up with courage, and how a f...

Reducere. Society is rife with inspirational teachers who have taken on seemingly insurmountable challenges and wrestled victory from the jaws of defeat. Suc...

Reducere. On September 9, 1921, a tropical depression stalled just north of San Antonio and within hours overwhelmed its winding network of creeks and rivers...

Reducere. DescriptionThe untold story of how America once created the most successful economy the world has ever seen and how we can do it again.The American...

Reducere. In August, 2017, the death knell sounded for yet another troubled American manufacturer: Appleton Coated, a historic paper mill in Wisconsin's Fox ...

Reducere. In August, 2017, the death knell sounded for yet another troubled American manufacturer: Appleton Coated, a historic mill in Wisconsin's historic p...

When three kids discover a book of magic spells that can only be cast during a few short minutes a day, they'll need all the time they can get to s...

DescriptionThe true story of how a scientist saved the planet from environmental disaster. Mexican American Mario Molina is a modern-day hero who h...

The 1921 flood that put a spotlight on environmental and social inequality in a southwestern cityPublisher: Trinity University Press, U.S.Author(s)...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Dr Roberta K. RayOne dog being mistreated is one too many-so when a group of volunteers encounters a hoarder who is driving...

DescriptionAn award-winning historian reveals the harrowing, little-known story of an American effort to save the newly formed Soviet Union from di...

The David and Goliath story of ordinary people in El Salvador who rallied together with international allies to prevent a global mining corporation...

Reducere. Since the September 11th, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, traditional American foreign policy has proven inadequate to 21st Ce...

At one of the most chaotic periods in American history, in a time of national distrust and despair, one tanned TV host holds the key to the future....

A narrative history of the craft cocktail renaissance, written by a New York Times cocktail writer and one of the foremost experts on the subject. ...

America, the land of opportunity, the powerhouse of all countries, the one place where dreams could become true has fallen from grace. Now the land...

Utilizing an innovative framework as an international, interdisciplinary dialogue, the volume provides an inventory of contemporary thought about t...

Reducere. The book offers an insider's critical look at the impact of globalization on the American furniture business, an industry that went from making 'wo...

Douglas Smith's The Russian Job tells the captivating story of how American volunteers saved millions of people from starvation in Bolshevik Russia.

Douglas Smith's The Russian Job tells the captivating story of how American volunteers saved millions of people from starvation in Bolshevik Russia.

Reducere. DescriptionThe second "wave" of U.S. immigration, from 1870 to 1920, brought more than 26 million men, women, and children onto American shores. Ju...