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| Author | : Brian Alexander |
| Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
| Total Pages | : 347 |
| Release | : 2017-02-14 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1250085810 |
For readers of Hillbilly Elegy and Strangers in Their Own Land WINNER OF THE OHIOANA BOOK AWARDS AND FINALIST FOR THE 87TH CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARDS |NAMED A BEST/MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2017 BY: New York Post • Newsweek • The Week • Bustle • Books by the Banks Book Festival • Bookauthority.com The Wall Street Journal: "A devastating portrait...For anyone wondering why swing-state America voted against the establishment in 2016, Mr. Alexander supplies plenty of answers." Laura Miller, Slate: "This book hunts bigger game.Reads like an odd?and oddly satisfying?fusion of George Packer’s The Unwinding and one of Michael Lewis’ real-life financial thrillers." The New Yorker : "Does a remarkable job." Beth Macy, author of Factory Man: "This book should be required reading for people trying to understand Trumpism, inequality, and the sad state of a needlessly wrecked rural America. I wish I had written it." In 1947, Forbes magazine declared Lancaster, Ohio the epitome of the all-American town. Today it is damaged, discouraged, and fighting for its future. In Glass House, journalist Brian Alexander uses the story of one town to show how seeds sown 35 years ago have sprouted to give us Trumpism, inequality, and an eroding national cohesion. The Anchor Hocking Glass Company, once the world’s largest maker of glass tableware, was the base on which Lancaster’s society was built. As Glass House unfolds, bankruptcy looms. With access to the company and its leaders, and Lancaster’s citizens, Alexander shows how financial engineering took hold in the 1980s, accelerated in the 21st Century, and wrecked the company. We follow CEO Sam Solomon, an African-American leading the nearly all-white town’s biggest private employer, as he tries to rescue the company from the New York private equity firm that hired him. Meanwhile, Alexander goes behind the scenes, entwined with the lives of residents as they wrestle with heroin, politics, high-interest lenders, low wage jobs, technology, and the new demands of American life: people like Brian Gossett, the fourth generation to work at Anchor Hocking; Joe Piccolo, first-time director of the annual music festival who discovers the town relies on him, and it, for salvation; Jason Roach, who police believed may have been Lancaster’s biggest drug dealer; and Eric Brown, a local football hero-turned-cop who comes to realize that he can never arrest Lancaster’s real problems.
| Author | : Martin Wood |
| Publisher | : Frances Lincoln |
| Total Pages | : 200 |
| Release | : 2005-09-16 |
| Genre | : Design |
| ISBN | : 0711224293 |
Nancy Lancaster, who was born in 1897 into a wealthy Virginian family, became one of the greatest influences on interior decoration and garden design in Great Britain and America in the second half of the 20th century. She created what is known today as the 'English Country House Style' – a mixture of faded colors, chintzes and painted and antique furniture. In the garden, she worked in a formal yet romantic neo-Georgian style, which is still a strong spirit in British garden design. This book examines Nancy's contribution to the arts of interior decoration and garden design by chronicling her own homes and gardens –and her extraordinary life. Mirador, her family's Virginian country house, was to remain her key inspiration throughout her life. Nancy herself, her houses, her gardens and her friends are shown in an intriguing collection of photographs by distinguished photographers of the era, including Horst and Cecil Beaton.
| Author | : James Yorke |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 200 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : |
Lancaster House stands comparison with the greatest of the Italian city palazzi and is one of the last surviving town houses on the grand scale left in London. It boasts a wealth of fine architectural detail and an important art collection.
| Author | : Jeffrey Sack |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2023 |
| Genre | : Grievance arbitration |
| ISBN | : 9780920450949 |
"Widely recognized as an essential resource for employers and unions, Winning Cases at Grievance Arbitration is a concise yet comprehensive guide to the techniques of effective advocacy in arbitrating disputes arising from a collective agreement. The authors set out in direct, non-technical language a wealth of practical advice, as well as the rules of evidence and procedure at arbitration. Step by step – from the initial investigation of the facts to closing argument – the book explains how to build and present the strongest case possible. This substantially revised and expanded Second Edition now includes a full-text Case Simulation based on facts from actual cases, providing concrete examples of a full range of advocacy techniques. Topics covered include: · processing the grievance and making a referral to arbitration · identifying the issues and conducting legal research · organizing the case and preparing witnesses · obtaining particulars and documents · crafting an opening statement · the rules of evidence · examination-in-chief and cross-examination · the ethics of advocacy The expert discussion and Case Simulation are accompanied by numerous supplementary materials, including sample forms, checklists of common objections, and excerpts from key caselaw and legislation."--
| Author | : R. L. Storey |
| Publisher | : Sutton Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : Great Britain |
| ISBN | : 9780750920070 |
The Wars of the Roses were central to 15th century English history. The House of Lancaster and its fortunes were pivotal to the course of events. This book offers a classic account of the end of the Lancastrian dynasty.
| Author | : Martin Teplitsky |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 162 |
| Release | : 1992 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780920450048 |
| Author | : James Stevens Curl |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 592 |
| Release | : 2018-08-23 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 0191068160 |
In Making Dystopia, distinguished architectural historian James Stevens Curl tells the story of the advent of architectural Modernism in the aftermath of the First World War, its protagonists, and its astonishing, almost global acceptance after 1945. He argues forcefully that the triumph of architectural Modernism in the second half of the twentieth century led to massive destruction, the creation of alien urban landscapes, and a huge waste of resources. Moreover, the coming of Modernism was not an inevitable, seamless evolution, as many have insisted, but a massive, unparalled disruption that demanded a clean slate and the elimination of all ornament, decoration, and choice. Tracing the effects of the Modernist revolution in architecture to the present, Stevens Curl argues that, with each passing year, so-called 'iconic' architecture by supposed 'star' architects has become more and more bizarre, unsettling, and expensive, ignoring established contexts and proving to be stratospherically remote from the aspirations and needs of humanity. In the elite world of contemporary architecture, form increasingly follows finance, and in a society in which the 'haves' have more and more, and the 'have-nots' are ever more marginalized, he warns that contemporary architecture continues to stack up huge potential problems for the future, as housing costs spiral out of control, resources are squandered on architectural bling, and society fractures. This courageous, passionate, deeply researched, and profoundly argued book should be read by everyone concerned with what is around us. Its combative critique of the entire Modernist architectural project and its apologists will be highly controversial to many. But it contains salutary warnings that we ignore at our peril. And it asks awkward questions to which answers are long overdue.
| Author | : Foreign Affairs Research Documentation Center |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 276 |
| Release | : 1973 |
| Genre | : Economic history |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Arrigo Pallotti |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 184 |
| Release | : 2016-03-03 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1317050312 |
Each country in southern Africa has a unique history but in all of them socio-economic inequalities and high poverty levels weaken the governments’ legitimacy and represent a challenge to models of economic development. One key issue appears to be the solution of the land question. This vital concern affects both citizenship and democracy in the political systems of the region, yet no government has shown the capacity or commitment to solve it. In this volume leading European, American and African scholars explore in detail the relationship between state, land and democracy. They examine the historical background of asset allocation and its impact on questions of nationality, the definition of citizenship, human rights and the current political and economic processes in southern Africa.
| Author | : Mary L. Dudziak |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 272 |
| Release | : 2008-07-02 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0195329015 |
Thurgood Marshall became a living icon of civil rights when he argued Brown v. Board of Education before the Supreme Court in 1954. Six years later, he was at a crossroads. A rising generation of activists were making sit-ins and demonstrations rather than lawsuits and legal maneuvering the hallmarks of the civil rights movement. What role, he wondered, could he now play? When in 1960 Kenyan independence leaders asked him to help write their constitution, Marshall seized the occasion and threw himself into their cause. Here was a new arena in which law might serve as the tool with which to forge a just society, an opportunity to prove that legal means offered the brightest hope for progress. In Exporting American Dreams, Mary Dudziak recounts with poignancy and power the untold story of Marshall's journey to Africa. His experience in Kenya was emotional as well as intellectual, and during it he developed ties of friendship with, among others, Tom Mboya and Jomo Kenyatta. Marshall served as advisor to the Kenyans, who needed to demonstrate to both Great Britain and to the world that they would treat minority races (whites and Asians) fairly once Africans took power. He crafted a bill of rights, aiding constitutional negotiations that enabled peaceful regime change, rather than violent resistance. Marshall's involvement with Kenya's foundation affirmed his belief in progress by legal means, while also forcing him to understand how the struggle for justice could be compromised by the imperatives of sovereignty. Marshall's beliefs were most sorely tested later in the decade when he became a Supreme Court Justice, even as American cities erupted in flames and civil rights progress stalled. But his journey to Africa remained a source of inspiration on which he continued to draw.
