[PDF] Down The Up Escalator eBook

Author : Barbara Garson
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 12,42 MB
Release : 2014-01-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0307475980

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One of our most incisive and committed journalists—author of the classic All the Livelong Day—shows us the real human cost of our economic follies. The Great Recession has thrown huge economic challenges at almost all Americans save the super-affluent few, and we are only now beginning to reckon up the human toll it is taking. Down the Up Escalator is an urgent dispatch from the front lines of our vast collective struggle to keep our heads above water and maybe even—someday—get ahead. Garson has interviewed an economically and geographically wide variety of Americans to show the painful waste in all this loss and insecurity, and describe how individuals are coping. Her broader historical focus, though, is on the causes and consequences of the long stagnation of wages and how it has resulted in an increasingly desperate reliance on credit and a series of ever-larger bubbles—stocks, technology, real estate. This is no way to run an economy, or a democracy.

Author : Sally R. Keyes
Publisher : Precise Communications
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 26,58 MB
Release : 2015-04-24
Category :
ISBN : 9780692394427

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Sally Ray Keyes shares the stories of her life through this heartfelt narrative. Her treasure trove of family letters and photographs are enhanced by a delightful array of backgrounds and images that reveal the times and places in which she grew - from daughter, wife and mother to artist, writer, performer, quilter and jeweler. In Part 1, she tells the story of her mother's family, and in Part 2, she shares her own tales of raising 6 boys, moving the family many times to follow her husband's work, and returning to college to study theater after her sons were grown. Sally's strength, sense of humor and love of family shine through all of her stories, as she writes of her trials and triumphs, adventures and creative pursuits. She has lived a rich and full life. Her desire to share her memories with her family and friends resulted in her producing this book, which is sure to be enjoyed and appreciated by any reader.

Author : Alisa Goetz
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 19,61 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Architecture
ISBN :

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Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the National Building Museum, September 12, 2003 - April 18, 2004.

Author : Nicholson Baker
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 24,89 MB
Release : 2010-07-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0802198228

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A National Book Critics Circle Award–winner elevates the ordinary events that occur to a man on his lunch hour into “a constant delight” of a novel (The Boston Globe). In this startling, witty, and inexhaustibly inventive novel, New York Times–bestselling author Nicholson Baker uses a one-story escalator ride as the occasion for a dazzling reappraisal of everyday objects and rituals. From the humble milk carton to the act of tying one’s shoes, The Mezzanine at once defamiliarizes the familiar world and endows it with loopy and euphoric poetry. Baker’s accounts of the ordinary become extraordinary through his sharp storytelling and his unconventional, conversational style. At first glance, The Mezzanine appears to be a book about nothing. In reality, it is a brilliant celebration of things, simultaneously demonstrating the value of reflection and the importance of everyday human experiences. “A very funny book . . . Its 135 pages probably contain more insight into life as we live it today than anything currently on the best-seller list.” —The New York Times “Captures the spirit of American corporate life and invests it with a passion and sympathy that is entirely unexpected.” —The Seattle Times “Among the year’s best.” —The Boston Globe “Baker writes with appealing charm . . . [He] clowns and shows off . . . rambles and pounces hard; he says acute things, extravagant things, terribly funny things.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review “Wonderfully readable, in fact gripping, with surprising bursts of recognition, humor and wonder.” —The Washington Post Book World

Author : Beatrice Bruno
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 33,96 MB
Release : 2018-01-11
Category :
ISBN : 9781983816833

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One day while walking through an airport, coming from my flight and going to baggage claim, God gave me a vision concerning the escalator I was approaching. The vision was of someone running up the down escalator, attempting to get away from the flames of hell licking at his feet. God said to me, "Think about people who run up the down escalator. They are trying to get to the top but the escalator is bringing them back down to where they started." He then explained that it is somewhat the same with many so-called Christians. Their actions, thoughts, and deeds are running them up the down escalator and they are not even close to going up. They believe they are headed to Heaven because of their works, when, in fact, they are headed down to hell in their works and deeds. Up the Down Escalator will cause Christians to really look at how they are living and point them in the direction of lining up with the Word of God.

Author : Karl Maton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 33,82 MB
Release : 2015-10-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 1317372883

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Education and knowledge have never been more important to society, yet research is segmented by approach, methodology or topic. Legitimation Code Theory or ‘LCT’ extends and integrates insights from Pierre Bourdieu and Basil Bernstein to offer a framework for research and practice that overcomes segmentalism. This book shows how LCT can be used to build knowledge about education and society. Comprising original papers by an international and multidisciplinary group of scholars, Knowledge-building offers the first primer in this fast-growing approach. Through case studies of major research projects, Part I provides practical insights into how LCT can be used to build knowledge by: - enabling dialogue between theory and data in qualitative research - bringing together quantitative and qualitative methodologies in mixed-methods research - relating theory and practice in praxis - conducting interdisciplinary studies with systemic functional linguistics Part II offers a series of studies of pressing issues facing knowledge-building in education and beyond, encompassing: - diverse subject areas, including physics, English, cultural studies, music, and design - educational sites: schooling, vocational education, and higher education - practices of research, curriculum, pedagogy and assessment - both education and informal learning contexts, such as museums and masonic lodges Carefully sequenced and interrelated, these chapters form a coherent collection that gives a unique insight into one of the most thought-provoking and innovative ways of building knowledge about knowledge-building in education and society to have emerged this century. This book is essential reading for all serious students and scholars of education, sociology and linguistics.

Author : Rory Vaden
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 30,12 MB
Release : 2012-02-07
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1101575417

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Do you ride the escalator-or take the stairs? No matter how you define success, it always requires one thing: self-discipline. But as popular speaker and strategist Rory Vaden explains, we live in an "escalator world"-one that's filled with shortcuts, quick fixes, and distractions that make it all too easy to slide into procrastination, compromise, and mediocrity. What seems like an easier path is really much harder in the end-and, most important, it won't take you where you want to go. How do successful people stay focused and achieve results? This lively and insightful guide presents a simple program for taking the stairs-that is, for overcoming the temptations of quick fixes and procrastination, conquering creative avoidance, and transcending personal setbacks in order to tackle the work that leads to real success. Whatever your goals are, Rory Vaden's proven approach will get you there-one stair at a time.

Author : Charles Leadbeater
Publisher : Viking Books
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 29,38 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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The 1990s were uptiopian. The cold War ended; democracy spread across the world. At home with a new economy, New Labour and new Britain declared a decisive break with the past. The roaring nineties came to an end on September 11. But then, with the collapse of the high-tech stock boom and increasing fears about globalization, the shadows had been gathering for some time.