Down And Out In California
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Down And Out In California
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Author : Zoe Bloom
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-11-16
Down And Out In California written by Zoe Bloom and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-16 with categories.
Loosely based on George Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London, Down and Out in California is a story of how labor shapes identity in the modern American West. Follow Lucy through the gritty and glitzy tropes of Los Angeles and San Francisco as she loses her privilege, her faith, and her Hollywood dreams, creating her own profession as she works over a dozen jobs in over a dozen fields in 21st century California.
Down And Out In Saigon
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Author : Haydon Cherry
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2019-05-28
Down And Out In Saigon written by Haydon Cherry and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-28 with Poor categories.
A moving portrait of the lives of six poor city-dwellers, set in early twentieth century colonial Saigon Historian Haydon Cherry offers the first comprehensive social history of the urban poor of colonial French Saigon by following the lives of six individuals--a prostitute, a Chinese laborer, a rickshaw puller, an orphan, an incurable invalid, and a destitute Frenchman--and how they navigated the ups and downs of the regional rice trade and the institutions of French colonial rule in the first half of the twentieth century. "Down and Out in Saigon is marked by three qualities that endow it with unusual value: the originality of its subject matter, as the first and only history of colonial Saigon's poor population, the excellence of its research, and Cherry's elegant prose."--Peter B. Zinoman, University of California, Berkeley "This is more than a corrective of revolutionary historiography--it is a tour de force that brings marginal and forgotten lives into the story of modern Vietnamese history."--Charles Keith, author of Catholic Vietnam: A Church from Empire to Nation
Down And Out In America
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Author : Peter H. Rossi
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2013-11-22
Down And Out In America written by Peter H. Rossi and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-22 with Social Science categories.
The most accurate and comprehensive picture of homelessness to date, this study offers a powerful explanation of its causes, proposes short- and long-term solutions, and documents the striking contrasts between the homeless of the 1950s and 1960s and the contemporary homeless population, which is younger and contains more women, children, and blacks.
Down And Out On The Road
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Author : Kenneth L. Kusmer
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2001-11-29
Down And Out On The Road written by Kenneth L. Kusmer and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-11-29 with History categories.
Covering the entire period from the colonial era to the late twentieth century, this book is the first scholarly history of the homeless in America. Drawing on sources that include records of charitable organizations, sociological studies, and numerous memoirs of formerly homeless persons, Kusmer demonstrates that the homeless have been a significant presence on the American scene for over two hundred years. He probes the history of homelessness from a variety of angles, showing why people become homeless; how charities and public authorities dealt with this social problem; and the diverse ways in which different class, ethnic, and racial groups perceived and responded to homelessness. Kusmer demonstrates that, despite the common perception of the homeless as a deviant group, they have always had much in common with the average American. Focusing on the millions who suffered downward mobility, Down and Out, On the Road provides a unique view of the evolution of American society and raises disturbing questions about the repeated failure to face and solve the problem of homelessness.
Down And Out In Purgatory
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Author : Tim Powers
language : en
Publisher: Baen Books
Release Date : 2017-11-07
Down And Out In Purgatory written by Tim Powers and has been published by Baen Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-07 with Fiction categories.
Twenty pulse-pounding, mind-bending tales of science fiction, twisted metaphysics, and supernatural wonder from the two-time World Fantasy and Philip K. Dick Award winning author of The Anubis Gatesand On Stranger Tides. A complete palette of story-telling colors from Powers, including acclaimed tale “The Bible Repairman,” where a psychic handyman who supernaturally eliminates troublesome passages of the Bible for paying clients finds the remains of his own broken soul on the line when tasked with rescuing the kidnapped ghost of a rich man’s daughter. Time travel takes a savage twist in “Salvage and Demolition,” where the chance discovery of a long-lost manuscript throws a down-and-out book collector back in time to 1950s San Francisco where he must prevent an ancient Sumeric inscription from dooming millions in the future. Humor and horror mix in “Sufficient unto the Day,” when a raucous Thanksgiving feast takes a dark turn as the invited ghosts of relatives past accidentally draw soul-stealing demons into the family television set. And obsession and vengeance survive on the other side of death in “Down and Out in Purgatory,” where the soul of a man lusting for revenge attempts to eternally eliminate the killer who murdered the love of his life. Wide-ranging, wonder-inducing, mind-bending—these and other tales make up the complete shorter works of a modern-day master of science fiction and fantasy. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). About Tim Powers: "Powers writes in a clean, elegant style that illuminates without slowing down the tale. . . . [He] promises marvels and horrors, and delivers them all."—Orson Scott Card ". . . immensely clever stuff.... Powers' prose is often vivid and arresting . . . All in all, Powers' unique voice in science fiction continues to grow stronger.”—Washington Post Book World “Powers is at heart a storyteller, and ruthlessly shapes his material into narrative form.”—The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction “On Stranger Tides . . . immediately hooks you and drags you along in sympathy with one central character's appalling misfortunes on the Spanish Main, [and] escalates from there to closing mega-thrills so determinedly spiced that your palate is left almost jaded."—David Langford "On Stranger Tides . . . was the inspiration for Monkey Island. If you read this book you can really see where Guybrush and LeChuck were -plagiarized- derived from, plus the heavy influence of voodoo in the game. . . . [the book] had a lot of what made fantasy interesting . . .”—legendary game designer Ron Gilbert “Powers's strengths [are] his originality, his action-crammed plots, and his ventures into the mysterious, dark, and supernatural.” Los Angeles Times Book Review "[Powers’ work delivers] an intense and intimate sense of period or realization of milieu; taut plotting, with human development and destiny . . . and, looming above all, an awareness of history itself as a merciless turning of supernatural wheels. . . . Powers' descriptions . . . are breathtaking, sublimely precise . . . his status as one of fantasy's major stylists can no longer be in doubt.”—SF Site
Down And Out In Manhattan
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Author : Irene Magers
language : en
Publisher: Irene Magers
Release Date : 2011-11-07
Down And Out In Manhattan written by Irene Magers and has been published by Irene Magers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-07 with Fiction categories.
When Margaret Maghpye, single and living in Manhattan, is fired from her job, she decides to take an uncharacteristic chance. With the thought of facing another painful holiday season, she exhausts her savings on a Mexican cruise. As she struggles to survive shipboard intrigue and entrapment, she befriends a fellow passenger with plenty of reasons to keep to himself. Maggie wonders if their friendship will endure the distance between them after the cruise.
Down And Out In Paradise
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Author : Charles Leerhsen
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2022-10-11
Down And Out In Paradise written by Charles Leerhsen and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-11 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A groundbreaking, candid, well-sourced--but definitely unauthorized--biography of the celebrity chef and TV star Anthony Bourdain, based on extensive interviews with those who knew him intimately. Anthony Bourdain's death by suicide in June, 2018 shocked people around the world. Bourdain seemed to have it all: an irresistible personality, a dream job, a beautiful family, and international fame. The reality, though, was more complicated than it seemed. Bourdain became a celebrity with his bestselling book Kitchen Confidential. He parlayed it into a series of hit television shows, including the Food Channel's Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations and CNN's Parts Unknown. But his charisma belied a troubled spirit. Addiction and an obsession with perfection and personal integrity ruined two marriages and turned him into a boss from hell, even as millions became intrigued by the ever-curious and genuinely empathetic traveler they saw on TV. Bourdain was already running out of steam, physically and emotionally, when he fell hard for an Italian actress who could be even colder to him than he sometimes was to others, and who effectively drove a wedge between him and his young daughter. Down and Out in Paradise is the first book to tell the true and full Bourdain story, relating the highs and lows of an extraordinary life. Leerhsen shows how Bourdain's never-before-reported childhood traumas fueled both his creativity and the insecurities that would lead him to a place of despair.
Up And Down California In 1860 1864
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Author : William Henry Brewer
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1974
Up And Down California In 1860 1864 written by William Henry Brewer and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The journal seems to contain information for everyone regardless of one's interest...Each page of this almost six hundred page journal is crammed with facts and descriptions. So much of interest is contained in every entry that each re-reading will reveal many interesting incidents or observations not quite grasped on the first perusal....This book will be a valuable source to all students of California or United States history and to the casual readers as well.
Down Out In The Great Depression
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Author : Robert S. McElvaine
language : en
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Release Date : 2008
Down Out In The Great Depression written by Robert S. McElvaine and has been published by Univ of North Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with History categories.
Down and Out in the Great Depression is a moving, revealing collection of letters by the forgotten men, women, and children who suffered through one of the greatest periods of hardship in American history. Sifting through some 15,000 letters from g
Down And Out Today
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Author : Matthew Small
language : en
Publisher: Legend Press Ltd
Release Date : 2018-11-01
Down And Out Today written by Matthew Small and has been published by Legend Press Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-01 with Social Science categories.
'Enlightening and startling... The world needs more writers like Matthew Small.' Charlie Carroll 'Brings into sharp relief the realities of poverty... inspiring and uplifting.' Tracy Shildrick What does poverty mean today? Matthew Small seeks to answer this question and witness the similarities and differences between poverty in UK and India.