Author | : Char Miller |
Publisher | : Maverick Books |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2022-05-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781595349736 |
The 1921 flood that put a spotlight on environmental and social inequality in a southwestern city
Author | : Char Miller |
Publisher | : Maverick Books |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2022-05-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781595349736 |
The 1921 flood that put a spotlight on environmental and social inequality in a southwestern city
Author | : William C. Davis |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Texas |
ISBN | : 0684865106 |
Originally published: New York: Free Press, 2004.
Author | : Irving Shulman |
Publisher | : Wheeler Publishing, Incorporated |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2021-12-22 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781432893194 |
The classic novelization of one of Broadway's most enduring and beloved musicals, West Side Story. Maria is young and innocent and has never known love--until Tony. And Tony, searching for life beyond the savagery of the streets, has discovered love for the first time with her, too. But Maria's brother is the leader of the Sharks and Tony had once led the rival Jets. Now, both gangs are claiming the same turf and with tensions rising to the point of explosion, it seems there is no way to stop a rumble. Tony promised Maria that he would stay out of it. But will he be able to keep his word or will their newfound love be destroyed by violence or even death? Evocative and unforgettable, this novelization brings out all of the depth, drama, and beauty of one of the most enduring stories in the history of American theater.
Author | : Leonard Bernstein |
Publisher | : Heinemann |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : American drama |
ISBN | : 9780435235284 |
This series of contemporary plays includes structured GCSE assignments for use by individuals or groups. These include questions which involve close reading, writing and discussion. This play places the "Romeo and Juliet" story in a New York gang-warfare context.
Author | : Char Miller |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : |
A lively primer on the region's most precious and scarce resource, drawn from the pages of the newspaper that sets the standard for coverage of environmental issues in the West.
Author | : Chris Marie Green |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2007-02-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1101208872 |
In this first book of an all-new trilogy, life proves stranger than the movies when a Hollywood underground coven of vampires comes to light-and gets targeted by the tough-as-nails daughter of a sexy screen siren. Stuntwoman Dawn Madison hasn't been on the best of terms with her father since her movie star mother died. Still, he is her dad, and when he vanishes while investigating the bizarre sighting-caught on film-of a supposedly long-dead child star, she comes home to Tinseltown to join the search for him. Working with his odd colleagues, she discovers an erotic and bloody underground society made up of creatures she thought existed only on the screen.
Author | : Rebecca Elliott |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2021-01-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0231548818 |
Communities around the United States face the threat of being underwater. This is not only a matter of rising waters reaching the doorstep. It is also the threat of being financially underwater, owning assets worth less than the money borrowed to obtain them. Many areas around the country may become economically uninhabitable before they become physically unlivable. In Underwater, Rebecca Elliott explores how families, communities, and governments confront problems of loss as the climate changes. She offers the first in-depth account of the politics and social effects of the U.S. National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), which provides flood insurance protection for virtually all homes and small businesses that require it. In doing so, the NFIP turns the risk of flooding into an immediate economic reality, shaping who lives on the waterfront, on what terms, and at what cost. Drawing on archival, interview, ethnographic, and other documentary data, Elliott follows controversies over the NFIP from its establishment in the 1960s to the present, from local backlash over flood maps to Congressional debates over insurance reform. Though flood insurance is often portrayed as a rational solution for managing risk, it has ignited recurring fights over what is fair and valuable, what needs protecting and what should be let go, who deserves assistance and on what terms, and whose expectations of future losses are used to govern the present. An incisive and comprehensive consideration of the fundamental dilemmas of moral economy underlying insurance, Underwater sheds new light on how Americans cope with loss as the water rises.
Author | : David Marquand |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2011-04-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1400838053 |
Has Europe's extraordinary postwar recovery limped to an end? It would seem so. The United Kingdom, Belgium, France, Italy, and former Soviet Bloc countries have experienced ethnic or religious disturbances, sometimes violent. Greece, Ireland, and Spain are menaced by financial crises. And the euro is in trouble. In The End of the West, David Marquand, a former member of the British Parliament, argues that Europe's problems stem from outdated perceptions of global power, and calls for a drastic change in European governance to halt the continent's slide into irrelevance. Taking a searching look at the continent's governing institutions, history, and current challenges, Marquand offers a disturbing diagnosis of Europe's ills to point the way toward a better future. Exploring the baffling contrast between postwar success and current failures, Marquand examines the rebirth of ethnic communities from Catalonia to Flanders, the rise of xenophobic populism, the democratic deficit that stymies EU governance, and the thorny questions of where Europe's borders end and what it means to be European. Marquand contends that as China, India, and other nations rise, Europe must abandon ancient notions of an enlightened West and a backward East. He calls for Europe's leaders and citizens to confront the painful issues of ethnicity, integration, and economic cohesion, and to build a democratic and federal structure. A wake-up call to those who cling to ideas of a triumphalist Europe, The End of the West shows that the continent must draw on all its reserves of intellectual and political creativity to thrive in an increasingly turbulent world, where the very language of "East" and "West" has been emptied of meaning.
Author | : Tracey West |
Publisher | : Scholastic Paperbacks |
Total Pages | : 82 |
Release | : 2010-02-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780545162883 |
Hiro, a young ninja-in-training, must help his family uncover an ancient amulet and defeat Fujita, the most evil ninja in the kingdom.