West Side Rising: How San Antonio's 1921 Flood Devastated a City and Sparked a Latino Environmental Justice Movement - Char Miller

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...

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

"No writer better articulates ourinterest in the confluence of hope, eccentricity, and the timelessness of the bold and strange than Paul Collins."...

Reducere. Randy Lewis bet his career that he could create an inclusive workplace at one of America's biggest corporations--a place where people with disabili...

A senior executive, and father of an autistic child, transforms how a top US retailer employs people with disabilities.

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 ...

David K. Johnson tells the story of the physique magazine produced by and for gay men to show how gay commerce was not a byproduct of the gay-right...

Reducere. DescriptionGlimmer of Hope is the official, definitive book from The March for Our Lives founders. In keeping up with their ongoing fight to end gu...

An urgent and timely story of the contentious politics of incorporating environmental justice into global climate change policy Although the scienc...

Reducere. First published in 2003, City on Fire is a gripping, intimate account of the explosions of two ships loaded with ammonium nitrate fertilizer that d...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Tracy E. PerkinsIllustration(s): 24 b-w photographs 1 map 1 tableNumber of pages: 302Publicatio...

Legendary economist Dr. Henry Kaufman shares a classic Wall Street story that has never been fully told: a firsthand account of the day in August 1...

A behind-the-scenes tour of the high-stakes world of IPOs and how a visionary band of startup executives, venture capitalists, and maverick bankers...

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Reducere. A Wild Idea shares the complete story of the difficult birth of the Adirondack Park Agency (APA). The Adirondack region of New York's rural North C...

Reducere. This exploration begins by tracing the concentration of IT in Greater Silicon Valley and the resulting growth in start-ups, jobs, and wealth. This ...

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

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Charis E. KubrinEditor: Thomas D. StuckyIntroduction to Criminal Justice is the first textbook to approach theories and pra...

Reducere. "Henry Schlesinger is playful and intelligent and obscenely well read." -- Richard Zacks, author of The Pirate Hunter "Henry Schlesinger's fascinat...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Luke W. ColeAuthor: Sheila R. FosterWhen Bill Clinton signed an Executive Order on Environmental Justice in 1994, the pheno...

Reducere. DescriptionOn December 16, 1773, an estimated seven dozen men dumped roughly 10, 000 worth of tea in Boston Harbor. This symbolic act unleashed a s...

This optimistic and accessible book contributes to our understanding of the factors that shape environmental justice outcomes by assessing the exte...

The definitive, never-before-told story of the prep-to-pro generation, those basketball prodigies who from 1995 to 2005 made the jump directly from...

Reducere. In the last three decades of the twentieth century, government cutbacks, stagnating wages, AIDS, and gentrification pushed ever more people into po...

Publisher: Crossway BooksAuthor(s): Carl R. TruemanNumber of pages: 208Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 139 x 216 x 16Cover type: Paperback / soft...

Reducere. When Thomas Jefferson moved his victorious Republican administration into the new capital city in 1801, one of his first acts was to abolish any fo...

Publisher: Anthem PressAuthor(s): Edmund O. LawlerNumber of pages: 124Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 146 x 224 x 16Cover type: HardbackRedescope...

Reducere. From Strike to ShowThe newsies' strike of 1899 was the last successful child labor riot of the 19th century, but by the time the history books were...

Reducere. DescriptionDescription: Why did Jesus have to die? Was it to appease a wrathful God's demand for punishment? Does that mean Jesus died to save us f...

Description"Let this book immerse you in the many worlds of environmental justice."--Naomi Klein We are living in a precarious environmental and po...

Reducere. DescriptionA Standing Miracle provides an overview of the incredible story of how the American colonists took the crucial actions - in spite of sev...

This book offers a critical and practical guide for journalists reporting on issues affecting the Latinx community.Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdN...

Post-truth politics have threatened science itself. Drawing on case studies from around the world, Toxic Truths examines enduring issues and new ch...

Miraflores reveals the story of an internationally significant cultural landscape in TexasPublisher: Trinity University Press, U.S.Author(s): Anne ...

Reducere. What makes a place? Infinite City, Rebecca Solnit's brilliant reinvention of the traditional atlas, searches out the answer by examining the many l...

Reducere. From the beginning of California's statehood, adventurers, scientists, and writers reveled in its majestic landscape. Some were women, though few g...

Reducere. Tucked away in the northeastern corner of Alaska is one of the most contested landscapes in all of North America: the Arctic National Wildlife Refu...