Main Street America And The Third World

Author : John Maxwell Hamilton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Main Street America and the Third World written by John Maxwell Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes readers through the fascinating, complex Third World connections that shape our lives in profound but subtle ways.

Author : Sinclair Lewis
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Main Street written by Sinclair Lewis and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-06-01 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carol Milford grows up in a mid-sized town in Minnesota before moving to Chicago for college. After her education, during which she’s exposed to big-city life and culture, she moves to Minneapolis to work as a librarian. She soon meets Will Kennicott, a small-town doctor, and the two get married and move to Gopher Prairie, Kennicott’s home town. Carol, inspired by big-city ideas, soon begins chafing at the seeming quaintness and even backwardness of the townsfolk, and their conservative, self-satisfied way of life. She struggles to try to reform the town in her image, while finding meaning in the seeming cultural desert she’s found herself in and in her increasingly cold marriage. Gopher Prairie is a detailed, satirical take on small-town American life, modeled after Sauk Centre, the town in which Lewis himself grew up. The town is fully realized, with generations of inhabitants interacting in a complex web of village society. Its bitingly satirical portrayal made Main Street highly acclaimed by its contemporaries, though many thought the satirical take was perhaps a bit too dark and hopeless. The book’s celebration and condemnation of small town life make it a candidate for the title of the Great American Novel. Main Street was awarded the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, but the decision was overturned by the prize’s Board of Trustees and awarded instead to Edith Wharton for The Age of Innocence. When Lewis went on to win the 1926 Pulitzer for Arrowsmith, he declined it—with the New York Times reporting that he did so because he was still angry at the Pulitzers for being denied the prize for Main Street. Despite the book’s snub at the Pulitzers, Lewis went on to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1930, with Main Street being cited as one of the reasons for his win.

Author : Jonathan Tilove
Publisher : Random House (NY)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Along Martin Luther King written by Jonathan Tilove and published by Random House (NY). This book was released on 2003 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through text and photos, this is the story of the people, places, and events along the more than 500 Martin Luther King streets found in communities across the country. Full color.

Author : Daniel T. Griswold
Publisher : Cato Institute
ISBN 13 : 193530819X
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mad about Trade written by Daniel T. Griswold and published by Cato Institute. This book was released on 2009 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Politicians and pundits can rage against free trade and globalization, but much of what they convey is myth says the author. He argues that free trade is good for the American family. Among the benefits he discusses are import competition that provides lower prices, greater variety, and better quality, especially for poor and middle class families. Driven in part by trade, most new jobs are well-paying service jobs. Foreign investment here has created well-paying jobs, and investment abroad has given United States companies access to millions of new customers. Trade helped expand the global middle class, reducing poverty and child labor while fueling demand for U.S. products. The author also looks at how the past three decades of an open global economy have created a more prosperous, democratic, and peaceful world.

Author : Vijay Prashad
Publisher : The New Press
ISBN 13 : 1620977656
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Darker Nations written by Vijay Prashad and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2022-08-30 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The landmark alternative history of the Cold War from the perspective of the Global South, reissued in paperback with a new introduction by the author In this award-winning investigation into the overlooked history of the Third World—with a new preface by the author for its fifteenth anniversary—internationally renowned historian Vijay Prashad conjures what Publishers Weekly calls “a vital assertion of an alternative future.” The Darker Nations, praised by critics as a welcome antidote to apologists for empire, has defined for a generation of scholars, activists, and dreamers what it is to imagine a more just international order and continues to offer lessons for the radical political projects of today. With the disastrous U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and the rise of India and China on the global scene, this paradigm-shifting book of groundbreaking scholarship helps us envision the future of the Global South by restoring to memory the vibrant though flawed idea of the Third World whose demise, Prashad ultimately argues, has produced an impoverished and asymmetrical international political arena. No other book on the Third World—as a utopian idea and a global movement—can speak so effectively and engagingly to our troubled times.

Author : Michael Eastman
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vanishing America written by Michael Eastman and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 2008 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As suburban sprawl conquer the country, the vestiges of a lost way of life are falling under the wrecking ball. Photographer Eastman has captured these quirky buildings on film before they vanish, in this book that delights in the idiosyncrasies of America's vernacular styles.

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grassroots Development written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Park Dixon Goist
Publisher : Port Washington, N.Y. : Kennikat Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Main Street to State Street written by Park Dixon Goist and published by Port Washington, N.Y. : Kennikat Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Geneive Abdo
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195332377
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mecca and Main Street written by Geneive Abdo and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Islam is Americas fastest growing religion, with more than six million Muslims in the United States, all living in the shadow of 9/11. Who are our Muslim neighbors? What are their beliefs and desires? How are they coping with life under the War on Terror? In Mecca and Main Street, noted author and journalist Geneive Abdo offers illuminating answers to these questions. Gaining unprecedented access to Muslim communities in America, she traveled across the country, visiting schools, mosques, Islamic centers, radio stations, and homes. She reveals a community tired of being judged by American perceptions of Muslims overseas and eager to tell their own stories. Abdo brings these stories vividly to life, allowing us to hear their own voices and inviting us to understand their hopes and their fears. Inspiring, insightful, tough-minded, and even-handed, this book will appeal to those curious (or fearful) about the Muslim presence in America. It will also be warmly welcomed by the Muslim community.

Author : Gerald L. Gordon
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9781420093926
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Formula for Economic Growth on Main Street America written by Gerald L. Gordon and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2009-07-29 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The community that establishes and maintains a solid economic framework greatly improves its chances of sustaining itself through fluctuations in the economy. The question is, of course, how can city officials and administrators make this happen? The Formula for Economic Growth on Main Street America examines why economic growth during the late twe