The American Dream

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Reducere. Join Thea Stilton and the Thea Sisters on an adventure packed with mystery and friendship!The Thea Sisters are taking a road trip across America al...

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The author has the rare knack of being out of his depth wherever he goes - even (perhaps especially) in the land of his birth. Whether discussing t...

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Reducere. WHAT IS JESUS WORTH TO YOU?It's easy for American Christians to forget how Jesus said his followers would actually live, what their new lifestyle w...

Reducere. Finalist for the J. Anthony Lukas Book PrizeFour undocumented Mexican American students, two great teachers, one robot-building contest . . . and a...

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

`Thompson's best work of the past three decades' New York Times Book Review

Reducere. Winner of the 2020 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction Brave, clear-eyed, and passionate, Stakes Is High is the book we need to guide us past crisis mode a...

Reducere. America was the place Smith had dreamed of his whole life.There, his character, determination, and ambition had propelled him to the top of society...

Reducere. Dream Hoarders sparked a national conversation on the dangerous separation between the upper middle class and everyone else. Now in paperback and n...

Reducere. DescriptionAdvance Praise for Dream-Singers ""You will find a great storehouse of folk and literary treasures in this ambitious book that speaks to...

Reducere. The New York Times bestselling investigation into white-collar unemployment from ``our premier reporter of the underside of capitalism``--The New Y...

Publisher: Steerforth PressAuthor(s): Robert KerbeckNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 153 x 226 x 28Cover type: Paperback / sof...

Reducere. From Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben to the Jolly Green Giant and Ronald McDonald, corporate icons sell billions of dollars' worth of products. But only ...

★ Publishers Weekly starred review. Affluence, autonomy, safety, and power. These are the central values of the American dream. But are they compat...

DescriptionA powerful illustrated history of the Great Migration and its sweeping impact on Black and American culture, from Reconstruction to the ...

A brilliant and comprehensive study of class struggle in the United StatesPrisoners of the American Dream is Mike Davis's brilliant exegesis of a p...

Reducere. Few artists have captured the emotional, sexual, and political chaos of modern urban life as perceptively as David Wojnarowicz, whom Out magazine h...

Reducere. In this thrilling panorama of real-life events, Patrick Radden Keefe investigates a secret world run by a surprising criminal: a charismatic middle...

Reducere. A Vietnamese Refugee, a Viral Video, and the United Airlines Scandal That Started It All"His refusal to give up his seat on a United Airlines fligh...

Reducere. A LESSON IN FAITH AND COURAGE - In 1904 a young Italian man sails to America to become an indentured worker for a cotton farmer in the Mississippi ...

Reducere. DescriptionOn the eve of the financial crisis, Jacob S. Hacker wrote "the policy book of the year" (E.J. Dionne, Jr., Washington Post), demonstrati...

Reducere. DescriptionTenacity chronicles the evolution of entrepreneur Ron Coury, a major business figure in Las Vegas, Nevada and the surrounding western st...

Reducere. DescriptionA brilliant blend of Shop Class as Soulcraft and The Orchid Thief, Earl Swift's wise, funny, and captivating Auto Biography follows an o...

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Reducere. "DON'T believe the naysayers. The American Dream--the fable that says if you work hard and follow the rules, you'll make it--is alive and well."--N...

Reducere. Drawing on rare sources and archival material, Helen Barolini has here collected 56 works by Italian American women writers. The volume features: p...

Reducere. DescriptionConventional financial mindsets are failing too many people. We save, invest, and borrow the way Wall Street, banks, and the financial m...

Reducere. From Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Paul Ingrassia comes a narrative of America like no other: a cultural history that explores how cars have bo...

Reducere. First published in 1990, Songs of the Doomed is back in print -- by popular demand In this third and most extraordinary volume of the Gonzo Papers,...

Reducere. At fifteen, Linda Darnell left her Texas home and normal adolescence to live the Hollywood dream promoted by fan magazine and studio publicity offi...

America is becoming a class-based society.It is now conventional wisdom to focus on the wealth of the top 1 percent--especially the top 0.01 percen...

Reducere. Description From a Nickel to an Empire Before the gut-busting eating contests and franchise stores across the country, there was a single man, Nath...

Reducere. "On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court unanimously declared that separate educational facilities for blacks and whites are inherently ""unequal"" and,...

Entrepreneurs, business owners, investors: here is the rare, no-nonsense advice you haven't heard---straight from Paychex founder and billionaire p...

Reducere. It's a time of transition for the American Right. The old ideas are failing. The conservative movement is disintegrating. And the European American...

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.Author(s): Aida SalazarNumber of pages: 48Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 212 x 287 x 16Cover type: HardbackIllustrator...

Publisher: Triumph BooksAuthor(s): Dan GrunfeldNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 230 x 21Cover type: Paperback / softback...

Reducere. Born into a poor immigrant family, Charles works diligently to rise out of poverty. Because of this determination, he graduates from a university. ...

How the optimism gap between rich and poor is creating an increasingly divided societyThe Declaration of Independence states that all people are en...

Reducere. This book lays out a new paradigm for developing minority businesses so that they can fully contribute to our national competitive advantage and pr...

Reducere. There is no better way to understand America than by understanding the cultural history of the American Dream. Rather than just a powerful philosop...

Reducere. DescriptionA leading conservative intellectual argues that to renew America we must recommit to our institutionsAmericans are living through a soci...

Reducere. As a distinguished historian of political thought at the University of Milan, Italy, Professor Marco Bassani brings a cosmopolitan perspective to t...

DescriptionThe shopping mall is both the most visible and the most contentious symbol of American prosperity. Despite their convenience, malls are ...

Reducere. The first edition of There Was a Fire is a National Jewish Book Award FinalistThis book is about the power of memory, the human need for narrative,...

Reducere. Doron Taussig invites us to question the American Dream. Did you earn what you have? Did everyone else?The American Dream is built on the idea that...

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

Reducere. As America struggles to point its way out of the COVID-19 pandemic, we can't lose sight of the economic problems that existed before the crisis. Ev...

The story of the notorious Jewish gangster who ascended from impoverished beginnings to the glittering Las Vegas strip "Fast-paced and absorbing. ....

Reducere. The #1 New York Times bestsellerThe phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA at the leading edge of the feminist and civil ...

DescriptionThe runners from Eisenhower High School have every justification to fail. They're from low income families, many of whom are migrant wor...

Reducere. On the Border of a Dream is an eye­-opening and uplifting autobiography that tells the true story of a boy from rural Mexico, who at a young age se...

Why does a disease that killed only a handful of Americans like ebola provoke panic, but the flu-which kills tens of thousands each year-is dismiss...

The capstone book in a trilogy from the New York Times bestselling author of How to Lead and The American Story and host of Bloomberg TV's The Davi...

Reducere. In Third Wave Capitalism, John Ehrenreich documents the emergence of a new stage in the history of American capitalism. Just as the industrial capi...

Michael Edelstein was headstrong and independent, a self-described mamzer. He was 10 years old when he rolled under barbed wire and escaped the rou...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Natasha WarikooIllustration(s): 4 tablesNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2022Dimensions: ...

The pioneering anthropologist Sherry B. Ortner explores the culture and practices of independent filmmaking in the U.S., arguing that during the pa...

Reducere. Most CEOs, HR leaders, and others have been led to believe that controlling health benefits costs isn't possible. The CEO's Guide to Restoring the ...

Reducere. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice The fascinating, forgotten story of the 1970s attempt to build a city dedicated to racial equality in ...

Reducere. In July 2004, Barack Obama electrified the Democratic National Convention with an address that spoke to Americans across the political spectrum. On...

Reducere. For millions of Americans, Solomon D. Butcher's photographs epitomize the sod-house frontier. His images from western Nebraska constitute the most ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Richard W. Paradise"Living Life Riverside" is a tragicomedy about your vanilla-average Midwestern couple who, when they rea...

Reducere. A Smithsonian Magazine Best History Book of 2018The unknown history of two ideas crucial to the struggle over what America stands forIn Behold, Ame...

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. Contributor(s): Author: Mitch AlbomRecounts the remarkable story of University of Michigan basketball players Chris Webber, Jalen Rose, Juan Howard...