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Without a Net : The Female Experience of Growing up Working Class 9781580051033 Used / Pre-owned

While many recent books have thoughtfully examined the plight of the working poor in America none of the authors of these books is able to claim a working-class background and there are associated methodological and ethical concerns raised when most of... more

Upside-Down Magic #3: Showing Off (paperback) - by Emily Jenkins and Sarah Mlynowski and Lauren Myr

Some people in school are afraid of the kids in the Upside-Down Magic class. Others just call them flops. But Nory and her friends in Upside-down Magic won't let that stop them. Not with a school-wide talent show coming up! Except... Nory's afraid her... more

Coming Up Short: The Challenge of 401(k) Plans (Paperback) 0815758979 9780815758976

As the baby boom begins to withdraw from the labor force ensuring a secure retirement income becomes an increasingly important issue the number of people over age 65 is expected to double by 2030.Good Condition: Minimal damage to the cover dust jacket... more

Pre-Owned Coming up Short : The Challenge of 401(K) Plans 9780815758884

CONDITION – USED: Books sold are in GOOD or better condition. Good Condition: Minimal damage to the cover dust jacket may not be included minimal wear to binding most of the pages undamaged(e.g. minimal creases or tears) highlighting / underlining... more

Kicking Ass for the Working Class (LP)

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Working Class Represent (Paperback)

In her third collection of poetry Cristin O Keefe Aptowicz celebrates the ups and downs of being a poet with a day job. Whether exulting the mundaneness of office life ( Rules of Slack ) musing about hidden perks of college poetry gigs ( Ode to College... more

Pre-Owned Teaching Working Class (Paperback 9781558491885) by Sherry Lee Linkon

9781558491885. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 336. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 336 p. Since the 1970s working-class individuals have made up an increasing proportion of students enrolled in institutions... more

I Don t Remember Signing Up for This Class : A Life of Darkness Light and Surprising Grace

She didn t know what was coming. When Peggy Haymes began therapy she thought she d probably spend a few weeks propping up her irrationally low self esteem. She didn t know she was on the verge of facing a story she d kept in the shadows for too long.... more

Coming of Age in a Hardscrabble World: A Memoir Anthology (Hardcover)

Nonfiction storytelling is at its best in this anthology of excerpts from memoirs by thirty authors--some eminent some less well known--who grew up tough and talented in working-class America. Their stories selected from literary memoirs published... more

Pre-owned Southern Insurgency : The Coming of the Global Working Class Paperback by Ness Immanuel ISBN 0745335993 ISBN-13 9780745335995

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Essentials Essentials of Working Capital Book 55 (Paperback)

A comprehensive primer for executives and managers on working capital management With limited access to credit and short term funding it is increasingly important that companies focus on working capital management to free up funds and optimize... more

A Short History of the European Working Class (Paperback - Used) 085345289X 9780853452898

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A Short History Of The British Working-Class Movement 1789-1947 1922 [Leather Bound]

Select Your Preferred Color at No Additional Cost! Explore More Options by Clicking on More Images and Notify Us of Your Choice via Email. Presenting an Exquisite Leather-Bound Edition expertly crafted by the prestigious organization “Rare Biblio�... more

A short history of the british working class movement 1789-1947 1925 [Leather Bound]

Select Your Preferred Color at No Additional Cost! Explore More Options by Clicking on More Images and Notify Us of Your Choice via Email. Presenting an Exquisite Leather-Bound Edition expertly crafted by the prestigious organization “Rare Biblio�... more

A short history of the modern British working-class movement by W. W. Craik. (1919) [Leatherbound]

Leatherbound edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Reprinted from 1919 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr d reprint. Illustrations Index if any are... more

Pre-Owned Thinking Class : Sketches from a Cultural Worker 9780896085473

Thinking Class rejects the idea that working class people are not thinkers and affirms the culture that springs up from society s true base. CONDITION – USED: Books sold are in GOOD or better condition. Good Condition: Minimal damage to the cover... more

Pre-Owned Miss Fox s Class Goes Green 9780807551677

When Miss Fox shows up at school riding her bicycle Mouse asks Do you have a flat tire? No Miss Fox tells her students. I am going green! Soon everyone in the class is working to keep the earth healthy. CONDITION – USED: Books sold are in GOOD or... more

Marie Davidson - Working Class Woman - Electronica - CD

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Mixed-up kid (Paperback)

Being the uneventful and rather plain story of the childhood and youth of one Jethro Anson Nowsty an ordinary boy from an ordinary working class family in an ordinary town in Darlington north east England from his first tentative steps into the adult... more

Growing Up with Clemente (Paperback) by Richard Peterson

A post-World War II memoir of a childhood in working-class Pittsburgh Alongside August Wilson and John Edgar Wideman Richard Peterson is among the most evocative chroniclers of Pittsburgh their colorful hometown. I loved Growing Up With Clemente for... more

Pre-Owned Jamie s Class Has Something to Say: A Book about Sharing with Grown-Ups (Hardcover) 1631985531 9781631985539

Jamie and classmates learn self-advocacy skills and help adults understand them better. Jamie is excited for Family Day and all the visitors that will be coming to the classroom. As the class prepares they share how they feel when adults don t listen... more

WLR Short Stories Volume II : Science Fiction Stories 101-200 (Paperback)

If you love being human and if you are excited and scared about the future read these stories. If you are curious about the future and like to speculate about what is coming read these stories. If you like to think if your mind lights up from new ideas... more

Life s Too Short to Wear Dull Shirts (Paperback)

Graham Badrock was born in 1954 in the south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne Australia. That indeed made him a baby boomer. Growing up in the 1950s and 1960s life was uncomplicated and easy. He recalled asking his father Are we middle class Dad? The... more

Short Story Compilations of Horror and Mystery (Paperback)

Short Story Compilations of Horror and Mystery includes 40 stories to make you sit on the edge of your chair in suspense and anticipation from the living and the dead. They will stir up emotions of betrayal revenge temptation fear and coming-of-age... more

Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction: Something in My Eye: Stories (Paperback)

I was drawn to Michael Jeffrey Lee s line-up of loners and drifters imperiled children and haunted psychos neither because I want to hang out with these bad boys nor because I plan to cross the street when I see them coming but because the invitation... more

Nick Hern Books: Lucky Seven (Paperback)

A comedy about growing up class love disappointment and hope inspired by the Seven Up television series. Working-class Alan upper-class Catherine and middle-class Tom are part of a social litmus test reunited every seven years to expose themselves to... more

Babbitt (Paperback)

In this sardonic portrait of the up-and-coming middle class during America s most prosperous decade before the Great Depression Sinclair Lewis perfec more

Life s Journey: Love Live and Learn (Hardcover)

Born in 1946 in Murton a mining village in County Durham in the aftermath of WWII Thomas was to find himself growing up in interesting times. Coming from a working-class family where his parents had struggled to make a good home in which to raise their... more

Complete Idiot s Guides (Lifestyle Paperback): The Complete Idiot s Guide to Songwriting 2nd Edition (Edition 2) (Paperback)

Suitable for those who want to write their own songs this book offers advice on various things from coming up with ideas and titles to production working with agents and selling songs to artists. more

Pre-Owned Radical Curiosity: One Man s Search for Cosmic Magic and a Purposeful Life (Hardcover 9781951213312) by Ken Dychtwald

From his working class roots in New Jersey to the tune in turn on drop out cliffs of Big Sur and the pinnacles of the human potential movement; from launching his company Age Wave and coming to terms with his own aging process Ken Dychtwald s Radical... more

The Girls Club (Paperback)

The Girls Club is the coming-of-age story of a young white working-class woman. Set in the 1970s the story revolves around Cora Rose as she copes with her emerging sexuality an illness her sisters refer to as the dreaded bowel disease and the conflicts... more

Opposites and Everything In-Between (Hardcover)

Maygen McDougall is a wise young working-class woman who has done her best to navigate through twenty-one years of life despite her challenges obstacles and sorrows. In a frank sometimes humorous memoir that highlights her coming-of-age journey to date... more

Inside: A Public and Private Life (Paperback - Used) 1586483382 9781586483388

Joe Califano grew up in a tight-knit working class family in Depression-era Brooklyn. His parents instilled in their son a work ethic sense of self and devotion to Church that stayed with him as he rose through the ranks of America s ruling class. From... more

Pre-Owned The Rough Guide to London (Travel Guide) 9780241199107

Updated by local experts this guide will take you to both the headline sights and lesser-known gems from the world-class museums in South Kensington to the up-and-coming neighbourhoods of East London. It is packed with photographs of London s... more

The Steam Engine and Turbine - A Text Book for Engineering Colleges (Paperback)

The textbook idea and the purpose of class-room use have continually been kept in mind. Mechanical form and manner of working are illustrated by selected typical examples of construction rational theory is built up from fundamental concepts to the... more

Workers of the World & Oppress (Paperback)

The debate among delegates from 37 countries takes up key questions of working-class strategy and program and offers a vivid portrait of social struggles in the era of the Bolshevik-led October revolution.Volume one of a set. more

Pre-Owned My Name Is Child of God ... Not Those People (Paperback) 0806656247 9780806656243

Presents a personal and provocative look at poverty in America. This book tells the story of growing up in a large Irish Catholic working-class family in Minneapolis Minnesota and draws together the experiences of living in poverty the role of the... more

Day of Reckoning: How Hubris Ideology and Greed Are Tearing America Apart (Paperback)

America is coming apart at the seams. Forces foreign and domestic seek an end to U.S. sovereignty and independence. Before us looms the prospect of an America breaking up along the lines of race ethnicity class and culture. In Day of Reckoning Pat... more