The State Youre In

Author : Craig Pittman
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813065968
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The State You're In written by Craig Pittman and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2021-08-09 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jump into the wacky, wild world of Florida For more than 30 years, investigative journalist and New York Times bestselling author Craig Pittman has chronicled the wildest stories Florida has to offer. Featuring a selection of columns that have appeared in the Tampa Bay Times and other outlets throughout Pittman’s career, this book highlights just how strange and wonderful Florida can be. With a folksy style, an eye for the absurd, and a passion for the history and environment of his home state, Pittman describes some of Florida’s oddest wildlife as well as its quirkiest people. The State You’re In includes a love story involving the most tattooed woman in the world, a deep dive into the state’s professional mermaid industry, and an investigation of a battle between residents of a nudist resort and the U.S. Postal Service. Pittman introduces readers to a who’s who of Florida crime fiction, a what’s what of exotic animals, and an array of beloved places he’s seen change rapidly in his lifetime. Many of these stories are funny, some are serious, and several offer rare insights into the heart of the Sunshine State. For Pittman, Florida is both inspiring and dangerous—an “evolutionary test” for those who live in it. Together these pieces paint a complex picture of a fascinating state longing for an identity beyond palm trees and punchlines.

Author : Aaron J. Rosenthal
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472903322
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The State You See written by Aaron J. Rosenthal and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2023-03-16 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The State You See uncovers a racial gap in the way the American government appears in people’s lives. It makes it clear that public policy changes over the last fifty years have driven all Americans to distrust the government that they see in their lives, even though Americans of different races are not seeing the same kind of government. For white people, these policy changes have involved a rising number of generous benefits submerged within America’s tax code, which taken together cost the government more than Social Security and Medicare combined. Political attention focused on this has helped make welfare and taxes more visible representations of government for white Americans. As a result, white people are left with the misperception that government does nothing for them, apart from take their tax money to spend on welfare. Distrust of government is the result. For people of color, distrust is also rampant but for different reasons. Over the last fifty years, America has witnessed increasingly overbearing policing and swelling incarceration numbers. These changes have disproportionately impacted communities of color, helping to make the criminal legal system a unique visible manifestation of government in these communities. While distrust of government emerges in both cases, these different roots lead to different consequences. White people are mobilized into politics by their distrust, feeling that they must speak up in order to reclaim their misspent tax dollars. In contrast, people of color are pushed away from government due to a belief that engaging in American elections will yield the same kind of unresponsiveness and violence that comes from interactions with the police. The result is a perpetuation of the same kind of racial inequality that has always been present in American democracy. The State You See is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding how the American government engages in subtle forms of discrimination and how it continues to uphold racial inequality in the present day.

Author : Theresa Emminizer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1538245485
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book You're Part of a State Community! written by Theresa Emminizer and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-15 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you're way up north in Alaska, in sunny southern Florida, or in the western Hawaiian Islands, you are part of a state community. With colorful photographs and accessible language, this engaging and educational book is designed to teach young readers about what it means to be part of a state community. Through real-life examples of active citizenship and cooperative efforts to achieve common goals, children will understand how they each have unique contributions to make as community members.

Author : Family Guardian Fellowship
Publisher : Sovereignty Education and Defense Ministry (SEDM)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 682 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why You are a "national", "state national", and Constitutional but not Statutory Citizen, Form #05.006 written by Family Guardian Fellowship and published by Sovereignty Education and Defense Ministry (SEDM). This book was released on 2020-02-06 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For use in obtaining a passport, for job applications, and to attach to court pleadings in which you are declaring yourself to be a "non-resident non-person" and Constitutional but not Statutory citizen.

Author : Jason Garden
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1460290852
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book You're Not Dead written by Jason Garden and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2016-07-04 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You're Not Dead chronicles its Hero's travels during his ten-month hospitalization, beginning with his viral meningoencephalitis, and ending with his struggle to regain his life and independence. Acerbic and illuminating, You're Not Dead pulls the reader into the Hero's lived experience, while peeling away the layers of politeness we often use when discussing disability. The Hero is brutally honest as he writes of his journey through the medical system. He speaks of overwhelming pessimism, of pronouncements from "on high" made with little knowledge of his condition or progress, and of being spoken at, rather than being spoken to. You're Not Dead is both devastating and inspiring, highlighting the importance of perseverance in the face of profound adversity....

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1448 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scope of Soviet Activity in the United States written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 1448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : RD Jerrod Libonati
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 143893503X
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What State Do You Live In? written by RD Jerrod Libonati and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008-12 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Consumer Finance News written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Your Federal Income Tax for Individuals written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James C. Scott
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300252986
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seeing Like a State written by James C. Scott and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “One of the most profound and illuminating studies of this century to have been published in recent decades.”—John Gray, New York Times Book Review Hailed as “a magisterial critique of top-down social planning” by the New York Times, this essential work analyzes disasters from Russia to Tanzania to uncover why states so often fail—sometimes catastrophically—in grand efforts to engineer their society or their environment, and uncovers the conditions common to all such planning disasters. “Beautifully written, this book calls into sharp relief the nature of the world we now inhabit.”—New Yorker “A tour de force.”— Charles Tilly, Columbia University