The Broken Village

The Broken Village
Author: Daniel Ross Reichman
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2011
Genre: History
ISBN: 0801450128

In The Broken Village, Daniel R. Reichman tells the story of a remote village in Honduras that transformed almost overnight from a sleepy coffee-growing community to a hotbed of undocumented migration to and from the United States. The small village--called here by the pseudonym La Quebrada--was once home to a thriving coffee economy. Recently, it has become dependent on migrants working in distant places like Long Island and South Dakota, who live in ways that most Honduran townspeople struggle to comprehend or explain. Reichman explores how the new "migration economy" has upended cultural ideas of success and failure, family dynamics, and local politics.During his time in La Quebrada, Reichman focused on three different strategies for social reform--a fledgling coffee cooperative that sought to raise farmer incomes and establish principles of fairness and justice through consumer activism; religious campaigns for personal morality that were intended to counter the corrosive effects of migration; and local discourses about migrant "greed" that labeled migrants as the cause of social crisis, rather than its victims. All three phenomena had one common trait: They were settings in which people presented moral visions of social welfare in response to a perceived moment of crisis. The Broken Village integrates sacred and secular ideas of morality, legal and cultural notions of justice, to explore how different groups define social progress.

Broken Town

Broken Town
Author: Charlie Burnette
Publisher:
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2011-10-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9780983933106

Saints in the Broken City

Saints in the Broken City
Author: Casey Schreiber
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2016-09-13
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1476662606

Telling the story of Saints football in New Orleans is a way to understand larger social, political and economic conditions during pivotal moments of the city's history. This book is the first to explore the team's role in rebuilding the city following Hurricane Katrina. The author documents New Orleans' initial efforts to attract professional football, the Katrina disaster and some successes and failures during 10 years of post-disaster recovery. The narrative of community recovery and cohesion crafted by Saints fans transcends racial divides and illustrates the relationship between professional sports and the American city. The voices of female fans--largely overlooked in the study of sports--compel a more inclusive definition of football fandom.

City of Broken Magic

City of Broken Magic
Author: Mirah Bolender
Publisher: Tor Books
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2018-11-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1250169275

Mirah Bolender's fast-paced, adventure fantasy debut, City of Broken Magic, features a bomb squad that defuses magic weapons. Five hundred years ago, magi created a weapon they couldn’t control. An infestation that ate magic—and anything else it came into contact with. Enemies and allies were equally filling. Only an elite team of non-magical humans, known as sweepers, can defuse and dispose of infestations before they spread. Most die before they finish training. Laura, a new team member, has stayed alive longer than most. Now, she’s the last—and only—sweeper standing between the city and a massive infestation. Chronicles of Amicae City of Broken Magic / The Monstrous Citadel / Fortress of Magi

Broken City

Broken City
Author: Patrick M. Condon
Publisher: UBC Press
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2024-05-15
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0774869577

How can urban housing, and the land underneath, now account for half of all global wealth? According to Patrick Condon, the simple answer is that land has become an asset rather than a utility. If the rich only indulged themselves with gold, jewels, and art, we wouldn’t have a global housing crisis. But once global capital markets realized land was a good speculative investment, runaway housing costs ensued. In just one city, Vancouver, land prices increased by 600 percent between 2008 and 2016. How much wealth have investors extracted from urban land? In this engaging, readable, and clearly reasoned treatise, Patrick Condon explains how we have let land, our most durable resource, shift away from the common good – and proposes bold strategies that cities in North America could use to shift it back.

The Broken Journey

The Broken Journey
Author: Eunice Wilkie
Publisher: Eunice Wilkie
Total Pages: 204
Release:
Genre: Bibles
ISBN: 1536560138

The third book in the Aletheia Adventure Series sees the return of Jack Merryweather and Timmy Trial from Book 1. Just before Christmas, Jack and Timmy find themselves in the land of Err, in the middle of a ferocious snowstorm. They are lost and alone, and courageously set out to find their friends who are part of the Christmas mission in the town of Broken. There are many dangers and troubles on their journey, and, at last, they are so fiercely attacked by the Meddlers of Err that they can go no further. But there is a purpose in their strange and broken journey: Jack and Timmy must take one more trek into danger to help someone who is badly broken. They really need rescuing themselves, so how can they rescue the lost? Do the two boys have the faith and courage to battle against the creatures of Err? And will they ever make it to safety in time for Christmas? Through the adventure, this book explores truth from the Bible. This book can be enjoyed on its own - without reading the rest of the series.

Healing Our Broken Village

Healing Our Broken Village
Author: Frederick D. Haynes
Publisher: St. Paul Press
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2008-11-13
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0981752012

Healing Our Broken Village raises a bitter truth that often the enemy we fight against, is within. Dr. Haynes encourages readers to address the issue of healing by confronting the internal struggles that incarcerate us emotionally, socially and ultimately keep us from developing into who God has divinely designed us to be. More than just an opinion, Healing Our Broken Village shares spiritual insight on the circumstances of life that break us and provides solutions as to how we overcome by tapping into what God has built within to sustain us.

The Boy and Girl Who Broke the World

The Boy and Girl Who Broke the World
Author: Amy Reed
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Total Pages: 480
Release: 2020-07-28
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1481481770

“Gritty, gutsy, and ferociously strange.” —Nova Ren Suma, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Walls Around Us The Astonishing Color of After meets Eleanor & Park in this breathtaking and beautifully surreal story about a friendship between two teens that just might shake the earth around them. Billy Sloat and Lydia Lemon don’t have much in common, unless you count growing up on the same (wrong) side of the tracks, the lack of a mother, and a persistent loneliness that has inspired creative coping mechanisms. When the lives of these two loners are thrust together, Lydia’s cynicism is met with Billy’s sincere optimism, and both begin to question their own outlook on life. On top of that, weird happenings including an impossible tornado and an all-consuming fog are cropping up around them—maybe even because of them. And as the two grow closer and confront bigger truths about their pasts, they must also deal with such inconveniences as a narcissistic rock star, a war between unicorns and dragons, and eventually, of course, the apocalypse. With a unique mix of raw emotion, humor, and heart, the surreal plotline pulls readers through an epic exploration of how caring for others makes us vulnerable—and how utterly pointless life would be if we didn’t.

Flat Broke in the Free Market: How Globalization Fleeced Working People

Flat Broke in the Free Market: How Globalization Fleeced Working People
Author: Jon Jeter
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2009-05-11
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0393065073

"Flat Broke" is a brilliant and much-needed assessment of how globalization . . . and the other tools of modern empire-building caused the current global economic crisis--John Perkins, author of "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man."