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The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives
Sasha Abramsky · Nation Books; First Trade Paper Edition edition
Format: Kindle Edition
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The New York Times Book Review
- David K. Shipler
[Abramsky] travels the United States meeting the poor, whose wrenching tales he inserts in tight vignettes among data-driven analyses and acute dissections of government programs…Abramsky... |
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The Strangers We Became: Lessons in Exile from One of Iraq's Last Jews
Cynthia Kaplan Shamash · Brandeis University Press
Pages: 240
Format: eBook
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This riveting and utterly unique memoir chronicles the coming of age of Cynthia Shamash, an Iraqi Jew born in Baghdad in 1963. When she was eight, her family tried to escape Iraq over the Iranian border, but they were captured and jailed for five weeks. Upon release, they were returned... |
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Permission to Screw Up: How I Learned to Lead by Doing
KRISTEN HADEED · Portfolio
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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The inspiring, unlikely, laugh-out-loud story of how one woman learned to lead-and how she ultimately succeeded, not despite her many mistakes, but because of them.
This is the story of how Kristen Hadeed built Student Maid, a cleaning company where people are happy, loyal, productive,... |
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Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City
Russell Shorto · Doubleday; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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An endlessly entertaining portrait of the city of Amsterdam and the ideas that make it unique, by the author of the acclaimed Island at the Center of the World Tourists know Amsterdam as a picturesque city of low-slung brick houses lining tidy canals; student travelers know it for its legal... |
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Give Me a Fast Ship: The Continental Navy and America's Revolution at Sea
Tim McGrath · NAL; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Five ships against hundreds - the fledgling American Navy versus the greatest naval force the world had ever seen ... America in 1775 was on the verge of revolution - or, more likely, disastrous defeat. After the bloodshed at Lexington and Concord, England's King George sent hundreds... |
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Writing on the Wall: Social Media - The First 2,000 Years
Tom Standage · Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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Papyrus rolls and Twitter have much in common, as each was their generation’s signature means of “instant” communication. Indeed, as Tom Standage reveals in his scintillating new book, social media is anything but a new phenomenon. From the papyrus letters that Roman statesmen... |
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Long Island Italian Americans:: History, Heritage and Tradition
Salvatore J. LaGumina · The History Press; First Edition edition
Format: Paperback
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For Italian immigrants and their descendants, moving from "the city" out to Long Island was more than a change of address. It signaled that the family had achieved the American dream, and in turn, elements of Italian values and culture are visible all over the island. Italians... |
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