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Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
©2007
Language
English
Description
"It's Greenwich Village in the 1960s, where expatriates, artists, and colorful bums meet to exchange ideas and have a good time in New York." "A tiny stand selling empanadas near the corner of Bleecker and MacDougal Streets is the center of the world for the shy narrator, an aspiring writer who has just graduated from college. At the stand he falls ill with a crowd of kooky outcasts from Argentina who introduce him to their tragedies, friendships,...
Author
Publisher
Nation Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A line-up of the dirty dealers and defenders of the indefensible who are definitely not "making America great again." Donald Trump has assembled a rogue's gallery of alt-right hatemongers, crony capitalists, immigrant bashers, and climate-change deniers to run the American government. To survive the next four years, we the people need to know whose hands are on the levers of power. And we need to know how to challenge their abuses. John Nichols,...
Author
Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In 2020, hundreds of thousands of coronavirus deaths were caused not by the vicissitudes of nature but by the callous and opportunistic decisions of powerful people, as revealed here by John Nichols"--
During the COVID-19 epidemic, hundreds of thousands of deaths were caused not by the vicissitudes of nature but by the callous and opportunistic decisions of powerful people. Nichols shows how President Donald Trump, his inner circle and others downplayed...
Author
Series
New Mexico trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Description
Thirty-six-year-old Joe Mondragon, a feisty hustler with a talent for trouble, sets off what comes to be known as the Milagro beanfield war when he illegally taps into the small town's main irrigation channel.
Author
Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
This work is a short, sharp, irreverent rejoinder to right-wing red-baiting. A few months before the 2010 midterms, Newt Gingrich described the socialist infiltration of American government and media as "even more disturbing than the threats from foreign terrorists." The author offers an unapologetic retort to the return of red-baiting in American political life, arguing that socialism has a long, proud, American history. Tom Paine was enamored of...
Author
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"On the surface this book spins a fisherman's tall tale about a ribald angling contest between three middle-aged friends who love (and perhaps hate) each other: a preppy trilingual Machiavelli, an intellectual ghetto pool shark, and a brawny Texan who defies his own macho stereotype. All professional writers, the men have met every autumn for eighteen years at the Big Arsenic Springs on the Río Grande to fly-cast for trout and argue about life, literature,...
Author
Language
English
Description
"A progressive takedown of the uber-capitalist status quo that has enriched millionaires and billionaires at the expense of the working class, and a blueprint for what transformational change would actually look like. It's OK to be angry about capitalism. Reflecting on our turbulent times, Senator Bernie Sanders takes on the billionaire class and speaks blunt truths about our country's failure to address the destructive nature of a system that is...
Author
Publisher
Nation Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The consequences of the technological revolution are about to hit hard: unemployment will spike as new technologies replace labor in the manufacturing, service, and professional sectors of an economy that is already struggling. The end of work as we know it will hit at the worst moment imaginable: as capitalism fosters permanent stagnation, when the labor market is in decrepit shape, with declining wages, expanding poverty, and scorching inequality....
Publisher
Distributed by Sky Island Films
Pub. Date
2004]
Language
English
Description
Brings together an ex-"60-Minutes" producer, a United States congressman, as well as some of the country's leading intellectual voices on the media to examine the mix of business, politics and idealogy that is the modern mainstream media. From the very size of the media monopolies and how they got that way to who decides what gets on the air and what doesn't, this film moves through a troubling list of questions and news stories that go unanswered...
17) Closer
Series
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Dan, an aspiring novelist, cannot help but feel immensely attracted to Alice, a young American waitress and stripper who is in London after escaping from a failed relationship. The two meet after Alice is involved in a car accident. But nothing last forever, and after some time Dan meets Anna, a photographer, and he feels attracted to her. Nothing happens right away, but once it does, things go downhill for Alice and Dan. The two don't break up, but...