The Left Behind: Decline and Rage in Rural America, Hardcover - Robert Wuthnow

What is fueling rural America's outrage toward the federal government? Why did rural Americans vote overwhelmingly for Donald Trump? And, beyond ec...

Left-behind children in rural China - Ye Jingzhong, James Murray, Wang Yihuan

Editie in limba engleza Content: PART I. Left-Behind Children in Mid-West China Chapter 1.Impact Study of Rural Labor Migration PART II. Left-Behin...

Reducere. DescriptionMore than thirty million Americans live in small, out-of-the-way places. Many of them could have joined the vast majority of Americans w...

On January 29, 2001, President George W. Bush signed an executive order creating the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. T...

Reducere. This is the story of a General Surgeon in the American south, who grew up in a time when there was little or no air conditioning, accept for the su...

Reducere. What the Boys in Blue Left Behind is a long overdue pictorial encyclopedia. This book reveals memorabilia which the Civil War veterans left to us. ...

Reducere. Since she was a curious four-year-old child, Natasha Rawls has had an intense interest (and equally intense fear) of shut-down department stores an...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Examines the ways in which the 'Left Behind' have been used to symbolise and foment social divisions in contemporary BritainPublisher: Pluto PressA...

Why some straight men have sex with other men Why do some straight men in rural America have sex with other men? In Still Straight, Tony Silva conv...

The story of how America turned its back on the world... In the heady days after 1945, the authority of the United States was unrivalled and, with ...

Reducere. Because of the importance of Robert Frank's The Americans; because he turned to filmmaking in 1959, the same year the book appeared in the United S...

Reducere. What Kansas really tells us about red state America No state has voted Republican more consistently or widely or for longer than Kansas. To underst...

Reducere. Popular perceptions of American writers as either godless radicals or God-fearing reactionaries overlook a vital tradition of Christian leftist tho...

In Downeast, Gigi Georges follows five girls as they come of age in one of the most challenging and geographically isolated regions on the Eastern ...

Poverty in Rural America: The Story of Yates County Home and Farm from 1830 to 1950 describes the development of poorhouses in New York State, prov...

A superior exploration of the consequences of the hollowing out of our agricultural heartlands.--Kirkus Reviews In the tradition of Wendell Berry, ...

Part childhood memoir, part biopic of rural life, the journey take place during the first two decades of the 21st century, through the referenda on...

Reducere. Haunted Histories takes readers on a state-by-state journey across the United States, exploring the nation's most feared places. Along the way, the...

Reducere. Poverty in America too often goes unnoticed, and disregarded. This perhaps results from America's general level of prosperity along with a fairly w...

A brilliant analysis of the foundations of racist policing in America: the day-to-day brutalities, largely hidden from public view, endured by Blac...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

A Canadian playwright's rise to fame amid the terrors of the AIDS era. Brad Fraser suffered an impoverished and abusive childhood, living with his ...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Robert WuthnowNumber of pages: 328Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 162 x 242 x 33Cover type: Hardb...

Reducere. WHITE CROW is the story of Claire LaRue who moves to a small north Alabama town with her thirteen year old daughter. Claire is an evidential medium...

Reducere. "Here is a work that emphasizes the full view of the lives of those young people that Gacy took. . . . It is essentially the Gacy story in reverse....

At the height of the Vietnam War protests, twenty-eight-year-old Judith Nies and her husband lived a seemingly idyllic life. Both were building the...

When Titanic foundered in April 1912, the world's focus was on the tragedy of the passengers who lost their lives. Ever since, in films, dramatisat...

Reducere. "I love you. Of course I do. But we haven't any choice in the matter, do we? If our little boy's health, even his survival, is at stake, we have to...

Reducere. Writing during the Great Depression, William Z. Foster describes burning injustices in the economic orthodoxy, and predicts the gradual emergence o...

In the early twenty-first century, the citizens of many Latin American countries, such as Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, and Venezuela, elect...

Reducere. Master paper engineer Robert Sabuda has interpreted the classic American anthem "America the Beautiful" in dazzling dimension. From the Golden Gate...

Reducere. America is haunted. Ghosts from its violent history--the genocide of Indigenous peoples, slavery, the threat of nuclear annihilation, and traumatic...

Reducere. DescriptionJina Modell works in Communications for a paramilitary organization, and she really likes it. She likes the money, she likes the coolnes...

DescriptionToday, concerns about the financial stability of Social Security, trends in disability, health care costs, and the supply of caregivers ...

Reducere. Robert (Bobby) Charles grew up among "eagles and evergreens" in rural Maine. His enchanting, sometimes arresting, tales convey inspiration from pla...

The Marquess has returned To claim his Marchioness!Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersAuthor(s): Ann LethbridgeNumber of pages: 368Publication date...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. The Quilt Left Behind is the 5th and final novel in the Wine Country Quilts Series. Shop owner and quilt collector Lily Rosenthal has learned the h...

Reducere. When 45-year-old Detective Linda Kane is called to investigate the disappearance of a local teenager, Cassie Caldwell, she is instantly triggered-t...

Reducere. When a night-time call to 911 from a secluded Wisconsin vacation house is cut short, offduty deputy Brynn McKenzie leaves her husband and son at th...

The epic story of the world's last subsistence whalers

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Martin SandbuIllustration(s): 18 b/w illus.Number of pages: 304Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 13...