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1402) G-dog
Publisher
Docurama Films
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
From Oscar-winning filmmaker Freida Lee Mock. Father Greg Boyle, a white Jesuit priest, has spent some 25 years in the toughest part of East LA, offering jobs not jail, to tough, street-smart, and amazingly sweet young people, all former gang members. Father Boyle is a charismatic visionary, but he's made the dream real: his Homeboy Industries has become the largest, most successful gang intervention and rehab program in the U.S. and an inspiration...
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Series
Berghahn monographs in French studies volume 11
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The coronavirus pandemic threw life into a tumult for American workers, igniting new class struggles and further stoking those already under way. Across the country, essential workers lashed out against low wages, long hours, and safety risks, both with labor union backing and without it. Nurses, teachers, grocery clerks, farmers, food processing workers, and many more fought for higher wages, paid sick leave, better healthcare, and, above all else,...
Series
Arts and Archaeology of the Islamic World volume Volume 1
Publisher
Brill
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Series
Drafthouse Films volume no. 27
Publisher
Mill End Films West Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
An intimate portrait of job-seekers desperately chasing the broken American Dream to the tiny oil boom town of Williston, North Dakota. With the town lacking the infrastructure to house the overflow of migrants, a local pastor starts the controversial 'overnighters' program, allowing down-and-out workers a place to sleep at the church. His well-meaning project immediately runs into resistance with his community, forcing the clergyman to make a decision...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Investigates the development and demise of the fuel-efficient, environment-friendly electric car. Examines the Bush administration's role in the car's being peremptory pulled from production, the influence of the automobile industry and oil interests, and implications for the future of sustainable energy in the United States.
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Series
Monographs in German history volume Volume 37
Publisher
berghahn
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"Global Appetites explores how industrial agriculture and countercultural food movements underpin U.S. conceptions of global power in the century since the First World War. Allison Carruth's study centers on what she terms the "literature of food" - a body of work that comprises literary realism, late modernism, and magical realism along with culinary writing, food memoir, and advertising" --
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Series
UA Ruhr studies on development and global governance volume Band 66
Publisher
Logos Verlag
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Deutsch