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Author
Publisher
Harper Brothers
Pub. Date
n.d
Language
English
Description
Past and Present is a book by Thomas Carlyle.[1] It was published in April 1843 in England and the following month in the United States. It combines medieval history with criticism of 19th-century British society. Carlyle wrote it in seven weeks as a respite from the harassing labor of writing Cromwell. He was, inspired by the recently published Chronicles of the Abbey of Saint Edmund's Bury, which had been written by Jocelin of Brakelond at the close...
Author
Publisher
Harper & Brothers
Pub. Date
c1948
Edition
1st. ed.
Physical Desc
xx, 311 p. 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A major work about man's relation to society, Chase discusses whether the scientific method can be applied to human relations. He summarizes knowledge accumulated by anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists, economists, political scientists, and other social scientists in this volume.
Author
Series
The Unwanteds volume 4
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Aladdin hardcover edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Divided by their society into Wanted and Unwanted at thirteen, estranged twin brothers Aaron and Alex have both run into trouble--as mage of Artime, Alex must defend the island from attack, while Aaron continues to scheme to take over the islands and get rid of the Unwanteds altogether.
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
First Aladdin paperback edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
406 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
As the Wanteds, Unwanteds, and Necessaries struggle to adjust to changes in their society, Mr. Today begins training fourteen-year-old Alex to replace him as Artime's leader one day while Alex's disgraced twin, Aaron, connives to take over Quill.
Author
Series
Publisher
WaterBrook Press
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
When Caroline Lang goes undercover at the Dinsmore Chocolate Factory, driven to reveal the horrors of child labor within, she crosses paths with the factory's owner, who has his own, altruistic point of view about employing children.
Author
Series
The Unwanteds volume 5
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Alex and his friends from Artime are stranded on a newly-discovered island, and they are not alone, while in Quill, his twin Aaron's power base grows as he joins with an unlikely ally in a risky plan to finally conquer Artime.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"[The author] takes us into the poorest neighborhoods of Milwaukee to tell the story of eight families on the edge. Arleen is a single mother trying to raise her two sons on the 20 dollars a month she has left after paying for their rundown apartment. Scott is a gentle nurse consumed by a heroin addiction. Lamar, a man with no legs and a neighborhood full of boys to look after, tries to work his way out of debt. Vanetta participates in a botched...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xv, 315 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mitchell S. Jackson candidly explores his tumultuous youth in the other America. Survival Math takes its name from the calculations Mitchell and his family made to keep safe and to stay alive in their community, a small black neighborhood in Portland, Oregon. His was a neighborhood blighted by drugs, violence, poverty, and governmental neglect. Survival Math is both a personal reckoning and a vital addition to the national conversation about race....
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
"In Tales of Two Americas, some of the literary world's most exciting writers look beyond numbers and wages to convey what it feels like to live in this divided nation. Their extraordinarily powerful stories, essays, and poems demonstrate how boundaries break down when experiences are shared, and that in sharing our stories we can help to alleviate a suffering that touches so many people."--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
272 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Something is wrong. We all know it. American life expectancy is declining for a third straight year. Birth rates are dropping. Nearly half of us think the other political party isn't just wrong, they're evil. We're the richest country in history, but we've never been more pessimistic. In Them, Ben Sasse argues that, contrary to conventional wisdom, our crisis isn't really about politics. It's that we're so lonely we can't see straight--and it bubbles...