The Last Man's Reward

The Last Man's Reward
Title The Last Man's Reward PDF eBook
Author David Patneaude
Publisher Albert Whitman & Company
Pages 145
Release 1996-01-01
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 0807543721

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1997 Books for the Teen Age, New York Public Library 1999-2000 Volunteer State Book Award Master List (Tennessee) 1999-2000 Iowa Children's Choice Awards Master List 1999 Sasquatch Reading Award Master List (Washington) 1999 Utah Children's Book Award Master List 2001 Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award Master List (Illinois) When a chance yard-sale purchase nets five boys a Willie Mays rookie card worth $4,000, their lives seem to narrow and intensify. The boys devise a "last man" contest—the winner gets the Mays card, and the losers get zip. Twelve-year-old Albert has a life-and-death reason for winning the card—and his own very special terrors aobut the abandoned mine where the boys have hidden it for safekeeping. Just how far is Albert willing to go to be the last man?

The Working Man's Reward

The Working Man's Reward
Title The Working Man's Reward PDF eBook
Author Elaine Lewinnek
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 250
Release 2014
Genre History
ISBN 0199769222

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"Between the 1860s and 1920s, Chicago's working-class immigrants designed the American dream of home-ownership. They imagined homes as small businesses, homes that were simultaneously a consumer-oriented respite from work and a productive space that workers hoped to control. Leapfrogging out of town along with Chicago's assembly-line factories, Chicago's early suburbs were remarkably diverse. These suburbs were marketed with the elusive promise that homeownership might offer some bulwark against the vicissitudes of industrial capitalism, that homes might be "better than a bank for a poor man, " in the words of one evocative advertisement, and "the working man's reward." This promise evolved into what Lewinnek terms "the mortgages of whiteness:" the hope that property values might increase if that property could be kept white. Suburbs also developed through nineteenth-century notions of the gendered respectability of domesticity, early ideas about city planning and land economics, as well as an evolving twentieth-century discourse about the racial attributes of property values. Because Chicago presented itself as a paradigmatic American city and because numerous Chicago-based experts eventually instituted national real-estate programs, Chicago's early growth affected the growth of twentieth-century America. Framed by two working-class riots against suburbanization in 1872 and 1919, spurred from both above and below, this work shows how Chicagoans helped form America's urban sprawl and examines the roots of America's suburbanization, synthesizing the new suburban history into the diversity of America's suburbs"--

The Last Lecture

The Last Lecture
Title The Last Lecture PDF eBook
Author Randy Pausch
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2010
Genre Cancer
ISBN 9780340978504

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The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.

Punished by Rewards

Punished by Rewards
Title Punished by Rewards PDF eBook
Author Alfie Kohn
Publisher Mariner Books
Pages 452
Release 1999
Genre Behaviorism (Psychology).
ISBN

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Criticizes the system of motivating through reward, offering arguments for motivating people by working with them instead of doing things to them.

The Principles of Nature, Her Divine Revelations, and a Voice to Mankind

The Principles of Nature, Her Divine Revelations, and a Voice to Mankind
Title The Principles of Nature, Her Divine Revelations, and a Voice to Mankind PDF eBook
Author Andrew Jackson Davis
Publisher
Pages 900
Release 1855
Genre Life
ISBN

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Practical reflections on every verse of the holy Gospels, by a clergyman [H.T. Morgan].

Practical reflections on every verse of the holy Gospels, by a clergyman [H.T. Morgan].
Title Practical reflections on every verse of the holy Gospels, by a clergyman [H.T. Morgan]. PDF eBook
Author Henry Thornhill Morgan
Publisher
Pages 692
Release 1881
Genre Bible
ISBN

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A New Departure

A New Departure
Title A New Departure PDF eBook
Author W. K. M.
Publisher
Pages 258
Release 1895
Genre
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