The Immense Journey

The Immense Journey

Author: Loren Eiseley

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2011-07-13

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 0307801934

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Anthropologist and naturalist Loren Eiseley blends scientific knowledge and imaginative vision in this story of man.


Financial Performance Representations

Financial Performance Representations

Author: Stuart Hershman

Publisher: American Bar Association

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9781604422795

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This book sheds light on all aspects of earnings claims, including defining what an earnings claim really is, the origins of its regulation under the franchise disclosure laws, how a franchisor should prepare an earnings claim, how a franchisee should use an earnings claim, how a franchisee may attack lawful and unlawful earnings claims, how a franchisor may defend against such attacks, and how the government franchise enforcement authorities, investigate unlawful earnings claim activity.


The Strike That Changed New York

The Strike That Changed New York

Author: Jerald E. Podair

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2004-12-01

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780300109405

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"This book revisits the Ocean Hill-Brownsville crisis - a watershed in modern New York City race relations. Jerald E. Podair connects the conflict with the sociocultural history of the city and explores its influence on city politics, economics, and culture. Podair shows how the crisis became a symbol of the vast perceptual chasm separating black and white New Yorkers. And the legacy of this critical moment, when blacks and whites spoke past each other like strangers, has ever since played a role in city issues ranging from mayoral elections to budget negotiations, disputes over police violence, and debates on welfare policy. The book is a powerful, sobering tale of racial misunderstanding and fear, a New York story with national implications."--Jacket.


How I Learned What I Learned

How I Learned What I Learned

Author: August Wilson

Publisher: Samuel French, Incorporated

Published: 2018-05

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13: 9780573705892

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From Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson comes a one-man show that chronicles his life as a Black artist in the Hill District in Pittsburgh. From stories about his first jobs to his first loves and his experiences with racism, Wilson recounts his life from his roots to the completion of The American Century Cycle. How I Learned What I Learned gives an inside look into one of the most celebrated playwriting voices of the twentieth century.


Staley

Staley

Author: Steven K. Ashby

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2009-03-13

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 0252076400

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This on-the-ground labor history focuses on the bitterly contested labor conflict in the early 1990s at the A. E. Staley corn processing plant in Decatur, Illinois, where workers waged one of the most hard-fought struggles in recent labor history. Originally family-owned, A. E. Staley was bought out by the multinational conglomerate Tate & Lyle, which immediately launched a full-scale assault on its union workforce. Allied Industrial Workers Local 837 responded by educating and mobilizing its members, organizing strong support from the religious and black communities, building a national and international solidarity movement, and engaging in nonviolent civil disobedience at the plant gates. Drawing on seventy-five interviews, videotapes of every union meeting, and their own active involvement organizing with the Staley workers, Steven K. Ashby and C. J. Hawking bring the workers' voices to the fore and reveal their innovative tactics, such as work-to-rule and solidarity committees, that inform and strengthen today's labor movement.