Автор: Cathy A. Small Название: The Man in the Dog Park: Coming Up Close to Homelessness ISBN: 1501748785 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501748783 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 2878.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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The Man in the Dog Park offers the reader a rare window into homeless life. Spurred by a personal relationship with a homeless man who became her co-author, Cathy A. Small takes a compelling look at what it means and what it takes to be homeless. Interviews and encounters with dozens of homeless people lead us into a world that most have never seen. We travel as an intimate observer into the places that many homeless frequent, including a community shelter, a day labor agency, a panhandling corner, a pawn shop, and a HUD housing office.
Through these personal stories, we witness the obstacles that homeless people face, and the ingenuity it takes to negotiate life without a home. The Man in the Dog Park points to the ways that our own cultural assumptions and blind spots are complicit in US homelessness and contribute to the degree of suffering that homeless people face. At the same time, Small, Kordosky and Moore show us how our own sense of connection and compassion can bring us into touch with the actions that will lessen homelessness and bring greater humanity to the experience of those who remain homeless.
The raw emotion of The Man in the Dog Park will forever change your appreciation for, and understanding of, a life so many deal with outside of the limelight of contemporary society.
--Ella Howard, author of Homeless
Автор: Nancy C. Atwood, Roger Atwood Название: Coming of Age in a Hardscrabble World: A Memoir Anthology ISBN: 0820355321 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780820355320 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 4158.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Nonfiction storytelling is at its best in this anthology of excerpts from memoirs by thirty authors who grew up tough and talented in working-class America. Their stories, selected from literary memoirs published between 1982 and 2014, cover episodes from childhood to young adulthood within a spectrum of life-changing experiences.
Автор: Nancy C. Atwood, Roger Atwood Название: Coming of Age in a Hardscrabble World: A Memoir Anthology ISBN: 0820356654 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780820356655 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 13444.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Nonfiction storytelling is at its best in this anthology of excerpts from memoirs by thirty authors—some eminent, some less well known—who grew up tough and talented in working-class America. Their stories, selected from literary memoirs published between 1982 and 2014, cover episodes from childhood to young adulthood within a spectrum of life-changing experiences. Although diverse ethnically, racially, geographically, and in sexual orientation, these writers share a youthful precocity and determination to find opportunity where little appeared to exist. All of these perspectives are explored within the larger context of economic insecurity—a needed perspective in this time of growing inequality. These memoirists grew up in families that led "hardscrabble" lives in which struggle and strenuous effort were the norm. Their stories offer insight on the realities of class in America, as well as inspiration and hope.
Автор: Johnson Название: Regent Park Redux Johnson ISBN: 1138812102 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138812109 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22202.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Regent Park Redux evaluates one of the biggest experiments in public housing redevelopment from the tenant perspective. Built in the 1940s, Toronto's Regent Park has experienced common large-scale public housing problems. Instead of simply tearing down old buildings and scattering inhabitants, the city's housing authority came up with a plan for radical transformation.
In partnership with a private developer, the Toronto Community Housing Corporation organized a twenty-year, billion-dollar makeover. The reconstituted neighbourhood, one of the most diverse in the world, will offer a new mix of amenities and social services intended to "reknit the urban fabric."
Regent Park Redux, based on a ten-year study of 52 households as they moved through stages of displacement and resettlement, examines the dreams and hopes residents have for their community and their future. Urban planners and designers across the world, in cities facing some of the same challenges as Toronto, will want to pay attention to this story.
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Автор: Park, Nick; Baker, Bob Название: A Close Shave™: Student`s Book ISBN: 019459243X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780194592437 Издательство: Oxford University Press Рейтинг: Цена: 1014.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: We proudly present an English language teaching video adaptation of Nick Park's Oscar(TM)-winning animated film. The adaptation by Peter and Karen Viney from the original script by Nick Park and Bob Baker contains sections of the original film with new dialogue and narration specifically created for beginner/false beginner learners. This video has a broad appeal that will be a motivating force in any classroom. N.B."Oscar" and "Wallace and Gromit" are both registered trademarks.
Автор: Merritt, Christopher W. Название: Coming man from canton ISBN: 0803299788 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780803299788 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 8151.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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In The Coming Man from Canton Christopher W. Merritt mines the historical and archaeological record of the Chinese immigrant experience in Montana to explore new questions and perspectives. During the 1860s Chinese immigrants arrived by the thousands, moving into the Rocky Mountain West and tenaciously searching for prosperity in the face of resistance, restriction, racism, and armed hostility from virtually every ethnic group in American society. As second-class citizens, Chinese immigrants remained largely insular and formed their own internal governments as well as labor and trade networks, typically establishing communities apart from the main towns. Chinese miners, launderers, restaurant keepers, gardeners, railroad laborers, and other workers became a separate but integral part of the American experience in the Intermountain West.
Although Chinese immigrants constituted more than 10 percent of the Montana Territory’s total population by 1870, the historical records provide a biased and narrow perspective, as they were generally written by European American community members. Merritt uses the statewide Montana context to show the diversity of Chinese settlements that has often been neglected by archival studies. His research highlights how the legacy of the Chinese in Montana is, or is not, reflected in modern Montana identity and how scholars, educators, professionals, and the public can alter the existing perception of this population as the “other” and perceive it instead an integral part of Montana’s past.
