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"An eye-opening memoir of working-class poverty in the American Midwest. During Sarah Smarsh's turbulent childhood in Kansas in the 1980s and 1990s, the forces of cyclical poverty and the country's changing economic policies solidified her family's place among the working poor. By telling the story of her life and the lives of the people she loves, Smarsh challenges us to look more closely at the class divide in our country and examine the myths about...
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For the last twenty years, Melinda Gates has been on a mission to find solutions for people with the most urgent needs, wherever they live. Throughout this journey, one thing has become increasingly clear to her: If you want to lift a society up, you need to stop keeping women down. In this book, she shares lessons she’s learned from the inspiring people she’s met during her work and travels around the world. Her unforgettable narrative is backed...
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Annawadi is a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport, and as India starts to prosper, Annawadians are electric with hope. Abdul, a reflective and enterprising Muslim teenager, sees "a fortune beyond counting" in the recyclable garbage that richer people throw away. Asha, a woman of formidable wit and deep scars from a childhood in rural poverty, has identified an alternate route to the middle class: political corruption....
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Written in the candid, high-spirited voice that is Warren's trademark, This Fight Is Our Fight tells eye-opening stories about her battles in the Senate and vividly describes the experiences of hard-working Americans who have too often been given the short end of the stick. Elizabeth Warren has had enough of phony promises and a government that no longer serves its people--she won't sit down, she won't be silenced, and she will fight back.
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"We all sense it--something big is going on. You feel it in your workplace. You feel it when you talk to your kids. You can't miss it when you read the newspapers or watch the news. Our lives are being transformed in so many realms all at once--and it is dizzying. In Thank You for Being Late, a work unlike anything he has attempted before, Thomas L. Friedman exposes the tectonic movements that are reshaping the world today and explains how to get...
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"This book presents the sharp regional differences within the integrating European continent. Four regions-Northwestern Europe, Southern Europe, Central Europe, and Eastern-Southeastern Europe-represent high, medium, and relatively less-developed levels of economic advancement. These disparities have emerged as a result of historical differences that produced and reinforced cultural and behavioural differences. The author examines the distinctions...
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Technical report volume no. 25
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Colorado Water Resources Research Institute, Colorado State University
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[1981]
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English
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Research publication volume no. 541
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[Colorado Legislative Council]
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[2005]
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Technical report volume no. 36
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Colorado Water Resources Research Institute, Colorado State University
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1981.
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English
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Natural hazard research working paper volume 24
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Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado
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1973.
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Technical report volume no. 23
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Colorado Water Resources Research Institute
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1981.
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English
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Technical report volume no. 37
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Colorado Water Resources Research Institute, Colorado State University
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1982.
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English
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Technical report volume no. 43
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Colorado Water Resources Research Institute, Colorado State University
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1983.
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English
20) The economy of Lincoln, Sublette, Sweetwater and Uinta counties, Wyoming, Rock Springs BLM district
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Technical report volume no. 40
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Colorado Water Resources Research Institute, Colorado State University
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1983.
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English