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UNINA9910452694903321 |
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Autore |
Ferrell Jeff |
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Titolo |
Empire of Scrounge [[electronic resource] ] : Inside the Urban Underground of Dumpster Diving, Trash Picking, and Street Scavenging |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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New York, : NYU Press, 2005 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (233 p.) |
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Collana |
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Alternative Criminology Series |
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305.5/68/0973 |
305.5680973 |
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Soggetti |
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Marginality, Social -- United States |
Ragpickers -- United States |
Salvage (Waste, etc.) -- United States |
United States -- Social conditions -- 1980- |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Sordid Signs; 2 Street Life; 3 Street Knowledge; 4 Salvage Operations; 5 Scrapped Together; 6 Scrunge City; 7 Scrounging Zen; Coda: Improvisations on the Everyday; Notes; Index; About the Author |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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"Patrolling the neighborhoods of central Fort Worth, sorting through trash piles, exploring dumpsters, scanning the streets and the gutters for items lost or discarded, I gathered the city's degraded bounty, then returned home to sort and catalogue the take.". -From the Introduction. In December of 2001 Jeff Ferrell quit his job as tenured professor, moved back to his hometown of Fort Worth, Texas, and, with a place to live but no real income, began an eight-month odyssey of essentially living off of the street. Empire of Scrounge tells the story of this unusual journey into the often illicit |
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UNINA9910700509103321 |
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Titolo |
Blue Horizons II [[electronic resource] ] : future capabilities and technologies for the Air Force in 2030 : executive summary / / by John P. Geis, II ... [and others] |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala. : , : Center for Strategy and Technology, Air War College, , [2009] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xvi, 42 pages) : color illustrations |
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Collana |
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Occasional paper ; ; no. 65 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Strategic planning - United States |
Technological innovations - United States - Forecasting |
Weapons systems - United States - Planning - Forecasting |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from title screen (viewed on July 7, 2011). |
"July 2009." |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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