[PDF] Times Divide eBook

Author : Wendy S. Walters
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,95 MB
Release : 2015
Category : LITERARY COLLECTIONS
ISBN : 9781941411049

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"Essays that explore the psyches of cities such as Chicago, Manhattan, Portsmouth, and Washington D.C" --

Author : Jerry A. Jacobs
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 11,48 MB
Release : 2005-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0674264797

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In a panoramic study that draws on diverse sources, Jerry A. Jacobs and Kathleen Gerson explain why and how time pressures have emerged and what we can do to alleviate them. In contrast to the conventional wisdom that all Americans are overworked, they show that time itself has become a form of social inequality that is dividing Americans in new ways—between the overworked and the underemployed, women and men, parents and non-parents. They piece together a compelling story of the increasing mismatch between our economic system and the needs of American families, sorting out important trends such as the rise of demanding jobs and the emergence of new pressures on dual earner families and single parents.Comparing American workers with their European peers, Jacobs and Gerson also find that policies that are simultaneously family-friendly and gender equitable are not fully realized in any of the countries they examine. As a consequence, they argue that the United States needs to forge a new set of solutions that offer American workers new ways to integrate work and family life.

Author : Mike Askew
Publisher : 'The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc'
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 29,42 MB
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1725331705

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Multiplying and dividing might sound difficult—but this fun book aims to teach kids otherwise! In this colorful volume, students will learn about the basics of these mathematical operations through simple games and activities. Tips and questions will help them consider different aspects of math principles, while bright pictures make it easy to follow along through each fun activity.

Author : Edward H. Julius
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 28,93 MB
Release : 1995-06-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780613829694

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Provides instructions for shortcuts of varying degrees of difficulty for doing arithmetical calculations and estimates, and for checking answers.

Author : Lara Vapnyar
Publisher : Tin House Books
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 21,83 MB
Release : 2020-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1947793519

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A New York Times Editor’s Choice As a young girl, Katya Geller learned from her mother that math was the answer to everything. Now, approaching forty, she finds this wisdom tested: she has lost the love of her life, she is in the middle of a divorce, and has just found out that her mother is dying. Nothing is adding up. With humor, intelligence, and unfailing honesty, Katya traces back her life’s journey: her childhood in Soviet Russia, her parents’ great love, the death of her father, her mother’s career as a renowned mathematician, and their immigration to the United States. She is, by turns, an adrift newlywed, an ESL teacher in an office occupied by witches and mediums, a restless wife, an accomplished writer, a flailing mother of two, a grieving daughter, and, all the while, a woman caught up in the most common misfortune of all—falling in love. Award-winning author Lara Vapnyar delivers an unabashedly frank and darkly comic tale of coming of age in middle age. Divide Me by Zerois almost unclassifiable—a stylistically original, genre-defying mix of classic Russian novel, American self-help book, Soviet math textbook, sly writing manual, and, at its center, a universal story with unforgettable lessons for us all.

Author : Carla Lonzi
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 48,23 MB
Release : 2020-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 1739843193

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Recorded and transcribed throughout the 1960s, Carla Lonzi's Self-portrait ruptures the linear tradition of art-historical writing. Lonzi first abolishes the role of the critic, her own, seeking change over self-preservation by theorising against the act of theorising. This is the voice of feminist experimentalism in Italian art and literature, and here Lonzi speaks for herself in English. Self-portrait montages her verbatim conversations with fourteen prominent artists working at the time, all men except one. Lonzi's vital feeling that it was impossible to respond professionally to the political and existential problems embedded in the production and distribution of artworks drives the book's contingent structure. Artmaking struck Lonzi as the invitation to be together in a humanly satisfying way. This first English translation brings Lonzi's final work of criticism before her break with 'art' to an international audience. Her uncompromising enactment and pragmatic drop-out discontinues the narration of postwar modern art in Italy and beyond.