1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910463323003321

Autore

Maharidge Dale

Titolo

Someplace like America [[electronic resource] ] : tales from the New Great Depression / / Dale Maharidge

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2013

ISBN

0-520-95650-8

Edizione

[Updated ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (349 p.)

Disciplina

305.5620973

Soggetti

Poverty - United States

Unemployed - United States

United States - Economic conditions - 21st century

United States - Social conditions - 21st century

Working class - United States

Working poor - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Photographs by Michael S. Williamson".

"With a foreword by Bruce Springsteen".

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Foreword By Bruce Springsteen -- Preface To The 2013 Edition -- Someplace Like America: An Introduction -- Snapshots From The Road, 2009 -- Part 1. America Begins A Thirty-Year Journey To Nowhere: The 1980's -- Part 2. The Journey Continues: The 1990's -- Part 3. A Nation Grows Hungrier: 2000 -- Part 4. Updating People And Places: The Late 2000's -- Part 5. America With The Lid Ripped Off: The Late 2000's -- Part 6. Rebuilding Ourselves, Then Taking America -- Acknowledgments And Credits -- Notes

Sommario/riassunto

In Someplace Like America, writer Dale Maharidge and photographer Michael S. Williamson take us to the working-class heart of America, bringing to life-through shoe leather reporting, memoir, vivid stories, stunning photographs, and thoughtful analysis-the deepening crises of poverty and homelessness. The story begins in 1980, when the authors joined forces to cover the America being ignored by the mainstream media-people living on the margins and losing their jobs as a result of deindustrialization. Since then, Maharidge and Williamson have traveled



more than half a million miles to investigate the state of the working class (winning a Pulitzer Prize in the process). In Someplace Like America, they follow the lives of several families over the thirty-year span to present an intimate and devastating portrait of workers going jobless. This brilliant and essential study-begun in the trickle-down Reagan years and culminating with the recent banking catastrophe-puts a human face on today's grim economic numbers. It also illuminates the courage and resolve with which the next generation faces the future.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910148927303321

Autore

Kerr Judith <1923-2019>

Titolo

Mog's ABC

Pubbl/distr/stampa

HarperCollins UK

ISBN

0-00-751057-8

Disciplina

823.9/14

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Musica

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Share in fifty years of a really remarkable cat...Mog is everyone's favourite family cat! Join her in this warm-hearted and funny alphabet adventure, when everything goes wrong at a birthday party... Read by the wonderful Andrew Sachs!Celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Mog the Forgetful Cat with special anniversary editions of her much-loved adventures.From the creator of The Tiger Who Came to Tea and Mog the Forgetful Cat comes a delightful family adventure about a really remarkable cat! Read by the wonderful Andrew Sachs.On the day of Debbie's birthday party, Mog sets off on an adventure through the alphabet, filled with dragons in the dark and the jaguar with a jug of jelly. M is for Mog, but also for the mad mouse monster! The perfect Mog adventure for learning the alphabet.Mog the Forgetful Cat was first



published fifty years ago, and Mog has been delighting children all over the world with her adventures ever since. These books are the perfect gifts for boys, girls and families everywhere!

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910160835503321

Autore

Wodehouse P. G

Titolo

Piccadilly jim / / P. G Wodehouse

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : Otbebookpublishing, 2014

ISBN

3-95676-455-2

Edizione

[Revised.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Classics to Go.

Classificazione

FIC000000

Disciplina

823.912

Soggetti

Fiction

Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from eBook information screen..

Sommario/riassunto

The novel features Ogden Ford and his mother Nesta (both previously encountered in "The Little Nugget". Nesta has remarried, to the hen-pecked, baseball-loving millionaire Mr. Peter Pett, and Ogden remains spoilt and obnoxious. The story takes its title from the charismatic character of Jimmy Crocker, Nesta's nephew and a reforming playboy. 'Jim' is called upon to assist in the kidnapping of Ogden, amongst much confusion involving impostors, crooks, detectives, butlers, aunts etc. - all in the name of romance of course. (Excerpt from Wikipedia)



4.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910367569703321

Autore

Nóbrega João Miguel

Titolo

Advances in Experimental and Computational Rheology / João Miguel Nóbrega, Maria Teresa Cidade

Pubbl/distr/stampa

MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2019

Basel, Switzerland : , : MDPI, , 2019

ISBN

9783039213344

3039213342

Descrizione fisica

1 electronic resource (224 p.)

Soggetti

Technology: general issues

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Rheology, defined as the science of deformation and flow of matter, is a multidisciplinary scientific field, covering both fundamental and applied approaches. The study of rheology includes both experimental and computational methods, which are not mutually exclusive. Its practical importance embraces many processes, from daily life, like preparing mayonnaise or spread an ointment or shampooing, to industrial processes like polymer processing and oil extraction, among several others. Practical applications include also formulations and product development.   This Special Issue aims to present the latest advances in the fields of experimental and computational rheology applied to the most diverse classes of materials (foods, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, polymers and biopolymers, multiphasic systems and composites) and processes.   This Special Issue will comprise, not only original research papers, but also review articles.