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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Could ten days at a health resort really change you forever? These nine perfect strangers are about to find out. Nine people gather at a remote health resort. Some are here to lose weight, some are here to get a reboot on life, some are here for reasons they can't even admit to themselves. Amidst all of the luxury and pampering, the mindfulness and meditation, they know these ten days might involve some real work. But none of them could imagine just...
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"The immigration of the last three decades has profoundly changed just about every aspect of life in the United States. What do those changes mean for the most established Americans, whose families have been in the country for multiple generations? Tomás R. Jiménez shows how a race and class spectrum of established Americans make sense of living, working, and playing in a region that has been transformed by immigration. Drawing on rich interviews,...
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books, a division of Dark Horse Comics, Incorporated
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Finally available as a deluxe hardcover, this special edition of Flood! A Novel in Pictures features an After the Flood section that includes thirty-two pages of bonus artwork and an in-depth interview with the author. An American Book Award winner and an Editor's Choice pick by The New York Times, Flood! is the powerful first graphic novel by Eric Drooker, frequent cover artist for The New Yorker and creator of Blood Song. Flood! is a modern novel...
Publisher
Distributed by Phase 4 Films
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
In the streets of North Philadelphia, the lives of strangers intersect. Tells four stories about people who overcome the obstacles in their daily lives while they face such concerns as poverty, drugs, and the human connection.
5) The war
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment [distributor]
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of ordinary people in four quintessentially American towns - Waterbury, Connecticut; Mobile, Alabama; Sacramento, California; and Luverne, Minnesota - and examines the ways in which the Second World War touched the lives of every family on every street in every town in America.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Rich with new insights from psychology, neuroscience, and Montgomery's own urban experiments, Happy City reveals how cities can shape our thoughts as well as our behavior. The message is ultimately as surprising as it is hopeful: by retrofitting cities and our own lives for happiness, we can tackle the urgent challenges of our age. The happy city can save the world - and we can all help build it.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Once an example of American industrial might, Detroit has gone bankrupt, its streets dark, its storefronts vacant. Miles of city blocks lie empty, saplings growing through the cracked foundations of abandoned buildings. In razor-sharp, beguiling prose, Angels of Detroit draws us into the lives of multiple characters struggling to define their futures in this desolate landscape: a scrappy group of activists trying to save the city with placards and...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"2020 will go down alongside 1914, 1929, and 1968 as one of the most consequential years in history. This riveting and affecting book is the first attempt to capture the full human experience of that fateful time. At the heart of 2020 are seven vivid profiles of ordinary New Yorkers—including an elementary school principal, a bar manager, a subway custodian, and a local political aide—whose experiences illuminate how Americans, and people across...
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