Our Laundry Our Town
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Our Laundry Our Town
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Author : Alvin Eng
language : en
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Release Date : 2022-05-17
Our Laundry Our Town written by Alvin Eng and has been published by Fordham Univ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-17 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
With humor and grace, the memoir of a first-generation Chinese American in New York City. Our Laundry, Our Town is a memoir that decodes and processes the fractured urban oracle bones of Alvin Eng’s upbringing in Flushing, Queens, in the 1970s. Back then, his family was one of the few immigrant Chinese families in a far-flung neighborhood in New York City. His parents had an arranged marriage and ran a Chinese hand laundry. From behind the counter of his parents’ laundry and within the confines of a household that was rooted in a different century and culture, he sought to reconcile this insular home life with the turbulent yet inspiring street life that was all around them––from the faux martial arts of TV’s Kung Fu to the burgeoning underworld of the punk rock scene. In the 1970s, NYC, like most of the world, was in the throes of regenerating itself in the wake of major social and cultural changes resulting from the counterculture and civil rights movements. And by the 1980s, Flushing had become NYC’s second Chinatown. But Eng remained one of the neighborhood’s few Chinese citizens who did not speak fluent Chinese. Finding his way in the downtown theater and performance world of Manhattan, he discovered the under-chronicled Chinese influence on Thornton Wilder’s foundational Americana drama, Our Town. This discovery became the unlikely catalyst for a psyche-healing pilgrimage to Hong Kong and Guangzhou, China—his ancestral home in southern China—that led to writing and performing his successful autobiographical monologue, The Last Emperor of Flushing. Learning to tell his own story on stages around the world was what proudly made him whole. As cities, classrooms, cultures, and communities the world over continue to re-examine the parameters of diversity, equity, and inclusion, Our Laundry, Our Town will reverberate with a broad readership.
The Story Of Our Laundry
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Author : Galland Mercantile Laundry (San Francisco, Calif.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 191?
The Story Of Our Laundry written by Galland Mercantile Laundry (San Francisco, Calif.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 191? with Laundry industry categories.
168 Hours
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Author : Laura Vanderkam
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2010-05-27
168 Hours written by Laura Vanderkam and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-27 with Self-Help categories.
There are 168 hours in a week. This book is about where the time really goes, and how we can all use it better. It's an unquestioned truth of modern life: we are starved for time. With the rise of two-income families, extreme jobs, and 24/7 connectivity, life is so frenzied we can barely find time to breathe. We tell ourselves we'd like to read more, get to the gym regularly, try new hobbies, and accomplish all kinds of goals. But then we give up because there just aren't enough hours to do it all. Or else, if we don't make excuses, we make sacrifices. To get ahead at work we spend less time with our spouses. To carve out more family time, we put off getting in shape. To train for a marathon, we cut back on sleep. There has to be a better way-and Laura Vanderkam has found one. After interviewing dozens of successful, happy people, she realized that they allocate their time differently than most of us. Instead of letting the daily grind crowd out the important stuff, they start by making sure there's time for the important stuff. They focus on what they do best and what only they can do. When plans go wrong and they run out of time, only their lesser priorities suffer. It's not always easy, but the payoff is enormous. Vanderkam shows that it really is possible to sleep eight hours a night, exercise five days a week, take piano lessons, and write a novel without giving up quality time for work, family, and other things that really matter. The key is to start with a blank slate and to fill up your 168 hours only with things that deserve your time. Of course, you probably won't read to your children at 2:00 am, or skip a Wednesday morning meeting to go hiking, but you can cut back on how much you watch TV, do laundry, or spend time on other less fulfilling activities. Vanderkam shares creative ways to rearrange your schedule to make room for the things that matter most. 168 Hours is a fun, inspiring, practical guide that will help men and women of any age, lifestyle, or career get the most out of their time and their lives.
The Sound Of Our Town
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Author : Brett Milano
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
The Sound Of Our Town written by Brett Milano and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Rock groups categories.
From the G Clefs of the mid-1950s to the Dresden Dolls of today, from the down & dirty to the royalty of rock, here's what's been rockin' Boston for the past fifty years.
The Way We Wash Our Clothes
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Author : Eleanor Ahern
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1943
The Way We Wash Our Clothes written by Eleanor Ahern and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1943 with Laundry categories.
Our Town On The Plains
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Author : James R. Shortridge
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Our Town On The Plains written by James R. Shortridge and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with History categories.
"Our Town on the Plains reproduces more than one hundred of Pennell's best photographs to open up a window on the past.
Someone Comes To Town Someone Leaves Town
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Author : Cory Doctorow
language : en
Publisher: Tor Books
Release Date : 2006-05-30
Someone Comes To Town Someone Leaves Town written by Cory Doctorow and has been published by Tor Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-05-30 with Fiction categories.
Cory Doctorow's miraculous novel of family history, Internet connectivity, and magical secrets Alan is a middle-aged entrepeneur who moves to a bohemian neighborhood of Toronto. Living next door is a young woman who reveals to him that she has wings—which grow back after each attempt to cut them off. Alan understands. He himself has a secret or two. His father is a mountain, his mother is a washing machine, and among his brothers are sets of Russian nesting dolls. Now two of the three dolls are on his doorstep, starving, because their innermost member has vanished. It appears that Davey, another brother who Alan and his siblings killed years ago, may have returned, bent on revenge. Under the circumstances it seems only reasonable for Alan to join a scheme to blanket Toronto with free wireless Internet, spearheaded by a brilliant technopunk who builds miracles from scavenged parts. But Alan's past won't leave him alone—and Davey isn't the only one gunning for him and his friends. Whipsawing between the preposterous, the amazing, and the deeply felt, Cory Doctorow's Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town is unlike any novel you have ever read. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Three Trees
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Author : Alvin Eng
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-12-21
Three Trees written by Alvin Eng and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-21 with categories.
THREE TREES. by Alvin Eng. A Portrait Play about Alberto Giacometti and Isaku Yanaihara. "THREE TREES is an astonishingly moving play about Alberto Giacometti, his wife Annette, his brother, Diego, and his good friend, Isaku Yanaihara. Eng has perfectly captured the personalities of each as well as the steamy and stormy interactions that wove them into a tight triangle. Eng's deep appreciation for and comprehension of Giacometti's art sheds a brilliant light on the complex human drama that unfolds before our eyes." LAURIE WILSON, author of Alberto Giacometti: Myth Magic and the Man. This is a NoPassport Press publication.
Small Things Like These
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Author : Claire Keegan
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2021-10-19
Small Things Like These written by Claire Keegan and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-19 with Fiction categories.
** A Book of the Year in The Times - The New Statesman - Observer - Financial Times - Irish Times - Irish Independent - Times Literary Supplement ** WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE AND THE KERRY GROUP IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE AND THE IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR AT THE DALKEY LITERARY AWARDS 'Exquisite.' Damon Galgut 'Masterly.' The Times 'Miraculous.' Herald 'Astonishing.' Colm Tóibín 'Stunning.' Sunday Independent 'Absolutely beautiful.' Douglas Stuart It is 1985, in an Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant, faces into his busiest season. As he does the rounds, he feels the past rising up to meet him - and encounters the complicit silences of a people controlled by the Church.
Chinese Laundries
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Author : John Jung
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2007
Chinese Laundries written by John Jung and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
A social history of the role of the Chinese laundry on the survival of early Chinese immigrants in the U.S.during the Chinese Exclusion law period, 1882-1943, and in Canada during the years of the Head Tax, 1885-1923, and exclusion law, 1923-1947. Why and how Chinese got into the laundry business and how they had to fight discriminatory laws and competition from white-owned laundries to survive. Description of their lives, work demands, and living conditions. Reflections by a sample of children who grew up living in the backs of their laundries provide vivid first-person glimpses of the difficult lives of Chinese laundrymen and their families.