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14 produkter
Squeezed
Why Our Families Can''t Afford America
Av Alissa Quart
E-bok, 2018
102 kr
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"An eye-opening look at the forces that make it harder than ever for the middle class to survive" (People).One of TIME''s Best New Books to Read This Summer"Brilliant—a keen, elegantly written, and scorching account of the American family today. Through vivid stories, sharp analysis and wit, Quart …
Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream
Av Alissa Quart
Häftad, 2024
257 kr
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Bootstrapped
Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream
Av Alissa Quart
E-bok, 2023
283 kr
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An unsparing, incisive, yet ultimately hopeful look at how we can shed the American obsession with self-reliance that has made us less healthy, less secure, and less fulfilled The promise that you can pull yourself up by your bootstraps is central to the story of the American Dream. Its the belief …
Bootstrapped
Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream
Av Alissa Quart
Ljudbok, 2023
314 kr
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An unsparing, incisive, yet ultimately hopeful look at how we can shed the American obsession with self-reliance that has made us less healthy, less secure, and less fulfilled The promise that you can “pull yourself up by your bootstraps†is central to the story of the American Dream. It’s …
Branded
The Buying And Selling Of Teenagers
Av Alissa Quart
Häftad, 2004
267 kr
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Generation Y has grown up in an age of the brand, bombarded by name products. In Branded, Alissa Quart illuminates the unsettling new reality of marketing to teenagers, as well as the quieter but no less worrisome forms of teen branding: the teen consultants who work for corporations in exchange …
Republic of Outsiders
The Power of Amateurs, Dreamers, and Rebels
Av Alissa Quart
E-bok, 2011
204 kr
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"Vivid portraits" of individuals and subcultures by a writer who "unmasks the assumptions we make about what counts as normal" (The New York Times). They are outsiders who seek to redefine fields from mental health to diplomacy to music. They push boundaries and transform ideas. They include …
Going for Broke
Living on the Edge in the World’s Richest Country
Häftad, 2023
278 kr
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A collection of compelling, hard-hitting first-person essays, poems, and photos that expose what our punitive social systems do to so many Americans.Going for Broke, edited by Alissa Quart, Executive Director of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, and David Wallis, former Managing Director of …
Thoughts and Prayers
Av Alissa Quart
Häftad, 2019
161 kr
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“You walk into Thoughts and Prayers like it’s a familiar pop cultural fun house—then you get drawn into one of the mirrors and find you’re actually deep in someplace very real: fleshy, frightening, full of anguished intelligence and bitter fun.” —Mary GaitskillThoughts and Prayers is a beautiful …
Going for Broke
Living on the Edge in the World’s Richest Country
E-bok, 2023
292 kr
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A collection of compelling, hard-hitting first-person essays, poems, and photos that expose what our punitive social systems do to so many Americans. Going for Broke , edited by Alissa Quart, Executive Director of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, and David Wallis, former Managing Director …
Going for Broke
Living on the Edge in the World’s Richest Country
Inbunden, 2023
637 kr
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A collection of compelling, hard-hitting first-person essays, poems, and photos that expose what our punitive social systems do to so many Americans.Going for Broke, edited by Alissa Quart, Executive Director of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, and David Wallis, former Managing Director of …
Republic Of Outsiders
The Power of Amateurs, Dreamers and Rebels
Av Alissa Quart
Inbunden, 2014
228 kr
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Republic of Outsiders is a look at the growing number of American outsiders who disrupt the status quo: the outcasts who seek to redefine a wide variety of fields, from film and mental health to music and gender. These people range from professional and amateur filmmakers crowd-sourcing their work, …
Republic Of Outsiders
The Power of Amateurs, Dreamers and Rebels
Av Alissa Quart
Häftad, 2014
160 kr
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Republic of Outsiders is a look at the growing number of American outsiders who disrupt the status quo: the outcasts who seek to redefine a wide variety of fields, from film and mental health to music and gender. These people range from professional and amateur filmmakers crowd-sourcing their work, …
Monetized
Av Alissa Quart
Häftad, 2015
247 kr
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Poetry. Alissa Quart's first book of poetry sifts brilliantly through our landscape of damaged Americana. From spam ads to tech speak, from self-help to real estate to the lingo of gossip or "mom" sites, these poems insistently limn a country where nearly everything has taken on the character of …
