The American Dream

Reducere. In The American Dream for Students of Color, the tenets of the American Dream as a merit narrative enacted in schools are examined to better unders...

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DescriptionFirst seen by the wider world at the 1961 Geneva Motor Show, the Jaguar E-type redefined perceptions of how a sports car could - and per...

Reducere. As Southern California was reimagining leisure and positioning it at the center of the American Dream, African American Californians were working t...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Karen (University of Southern California, USA) SternheimerIllustration(s): Last edn with tweaks; 65 Halft...

Reducere. The steady immigration of black populations from Africa and the Caribbean over the past few decades has fundamentally changed the racial, ethnic, a...

The book uses film theory and insights from object relations theory to examine how recent films address and reflect the state of the 'American Drea...

Reducere. Discusses the role of the theme American dream in great works of literature such as "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", "Death of a Salesman", "T...

Retaining well-loved features, this book covers in depth the challenges faced by the USA at home and abroad as it emerged from the Second World War...

Reducere. In this book, you will find the foundations of a hard and true story of a humble emigrant family in search of their destiny. Around the backbone of...

Ultimately, Rindge considers how these parabolic films operate as sacred texts in their own right.--Sofia Sjoe "Journal of Religion, Media, and Dig...

A powerful, compelling monograph that reveals the reality of the unseen and forgotten contemporary America.Publisher: Thames & Hudson LtdAuthor(s):...

Reducere. As Southern California was reimagining leisure and positioning it at the center of the American Dream, African American Californians were working t...

Reducere. The real Hugh Hefner-the extraordinary inside story of an American icon""Riveting... Watts packs in plenty of gasp-inducing passages.""-Newark Star...

An engaging, wide-ranging, and groundbreaking reexamination of the relationship between African American writers and the communist movement in the US.

Reducere. The Great Recession threatened the well-being of tens of millions of Americans, dramatically weakened the working class, hollowed out the middle cl...

Reducere. From Liberty to Magnolia: In Search of the American Dream vividly recounts the journey of an African-American woman from rural, segregated Mississi...

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DescriptionSmall businesses are the backbone of the U.S. economy. They are the biggest job creators and offer a path to the American Dream. But for...

Reducere. The aspiration to relate the past "as it really happened" has been the central goal of American professional historians since the late nineteenth c...

Reducere. Florida has long been a beacon for retirees, but for many, the American dream of owning a home there was a fantasy. That changed in the 1950s, when...

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

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

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

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

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

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. 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 ...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. "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...

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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...