Résultats pour "The Streets" dans Amériques

With a new introduction from New York Times best-selling author Tayari Jones, The Street was Ann Petry's first novel, originally published in 1946 and hailed by critics as a masterwork. The Street tells the poignant, often heartbreaking story of Lutie Johnson, a young black woman, and her...

From best-selling social commentator and cultural historian Barbara Ehrenreich comes this fascinating exploration of one of humanity's oldest traditions: the celebration of communal joy, historically expressed in ecstatic revels of feasting, costuming, and dancing. Ehrenreich uncovers the origins of communal celebration in human biology and culture, showing that such mass festivities have been indigenous to the West since the ancient Greeks.

Revivez ce krach boursier historique où l'euphorie financière des Années folles bascule vers une panique absolue. Idéal pour accompagner vos trajets quotidiens, ce récit immersif dissèque la mécanique implacable de la spéculation qui a précipité la chute d'une nation se croyant...

From two leading economists comes a groundbreaking new portrait of the hidden fortunes of Main Street business owners—ordinary Americans who built extraordinary wealth and are quietly rewriting the rules of money and power. Most people think the path to great wealth runs through Wall Street or...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Thursday, August 4, 1892. It is already warm in Fall River, Massachusetts, when a maid resting in her attic room hears the City Hall bell strike eleven. A few minutes later a voice calls up the stairwell: "Maggie, come down!" Downstairs in the sitting...

Andrew Ross Sorkin's website Andrew Ross Sorkin's interview on Charlie Rose Watch a Video Andrew Ross Sorkin delivers the first true behind-the-scenes, moment-by-moment account of how the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression developed into a global tsunami. From inside the corner...

How can one story of a Black family, a community and their relationship to home develop our understanding of lived experience in segregated North Omaha? In 1952, author and scholar Valandras grandparents bought a two-story white house on the corner of Pratt Street and 28th Street in North Omaha...

The first major biography of the irrepressible woman who changed the way we view and live in cities, and whose influence can still be felt in any discussion of urban planning to this day. Eyes on the Street is a revelation of the phenomenal woman who raised three children, wrote seven...

The New York Times best seller that tells the story of an overheated stock market and the financial disaster that led to the Great Depression of the 1930s. A riveting living history about Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929. Captures the era, the intoxicating expectancy, the hope that ruled men's heart and minds before the bubble burst and the black despair of the decade that followed.

A foundational classic in the historiography of the American Civil War. In July 1863 New York City experienced widespread rioting unparalleled in the history of the nation. Here for the first time is a scholarly analysis of the Civil War Draft Riots, dealing with motives and with the reasons for...

Here's what we now know: John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas by Mafia contract killers hired by Louisiana mob boss Carlos Marcello. Kennedy was killed in that city because it was the only place in the country where a crime of that magnitude could be committed without fear of punishment. Long-time local district attorney Henry Wade, an LBJ crony who would have sole jurisdiction over the prosecution of those responsible, had been corrupted by the local Civello crime family. Lyndon B. Johnson, while a U.S. senator during the 1950s, had accepted bribes from the same mobsters so that they could avoid deportation.

Wall Street is an unending source of legend - and nightmares. It is a universal symbol of both the highest aspirations of economic prosperity and the basest impulses of greed and deception. Charles R. Geisst's Wall Street is at once a chronicle of the street itself - from the days when the wall was merely a defensive barricade built by Peter Stuyvesant - and an engaging economic history of the United States, a tale of profits and losses, enterprising spirits, and key figures that transformed America into the most powerful economy in the world.

Een meeslepende historische reconstructie toont hoe blinde hebzucht een ongekende financiële crisis veroorzaakte. Maak van je dagelijkse woon-werkverkeer een spannende tijdreis naar het Amerika van de jaren twintig, waar onder een glanzende façade de fatale scheuren van een economisch drama al...

Ten krach giełdowy i pęknięta bańka spekulacyjna brutalnie zakończyły erę prosperity, wywołując wielki kryzys. Zanurz się w pełnej napięcia historii rynkowej euforii, która z dnia na dzień przerodziła się w masową panikę. To wciągająca lekcja historii gospodarczej i ludzkiej...

A bolha especulativa dos anos vinte ruiu, transformando uma economia eufórica no maior colapso financeiro da história. Durante o seu trajeto diário ou em momentos de aprendizado focado, mergulhe nesta narrativa histórica tensa e altamente imersiva. Sinta a pulsação de um mercado sustentado...

Rivivi il crollo finanziario storico che trasformò l'euforia dei ruggenti anni Venti in un tragico panico di massa. Questo intenso saggio narrativo ti trasporta direttamente sul parterre della borsa, tenendoti lontano da complessi tecnicismi economici. È un'immersione profonda nella psicologia...

El crack bursátil de 1929 convirtió una histórica euforia financiera en un pánico que paralizó al mundo. Si buscas entender cómo el exceso de confianza destruye economías enteras, este dramático relato te sumerge en el corazón de la especulación desenfrenada. Es la narración ideal...

Erlebe packende Wirtschaftsgeschichte: Wie ein beispielloser Kreditboom in die fatalste Finanzkrise der Moderne umschlug. Perfekt für den Arbeitsweg zieht dich dieser fesselnde Bericht direkt in das brodelnde New York der 1920er Jahre. Hier zerplatzt das Gefühl völliger Unverwundbarkeit...

In Liberty Street: A Savannah Family, Its Golden Boy, and the Civil War Friedman takes the listener on a personal journey to understand the history of the Cohens. At the center of the story is a sensitive young man pulled between love and duty, a close-knit family straining under moral and political conflicts, and a city coming into its own.

Maggie: A Girl of the Streets is a ground breaking novel relating to the precarious state of women in the new industrial world at the end of the 19th century. One blemish on a reputation and a woman would often be banned from her house, subject to earning her living on the streets, and often dying young as Maggie does.