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Frommer'sŪ San Antonio & Austin
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2007; US$ 16.99A complete guide to two of Texas's most diverse and exciting cities. Shows visitors how to have a great time in San Antonio, a multicultural city with a rich history (the Alamo) and lots of contemporary attractions (including over forty golf courses). more...
The Ultimate Secrets of Total Self-Confidence
Penguin Group US 1986; US$ 7.99Anthony reveals the step-by-step principles for building self-confidence that have changed thousands of lives. This classic features advice on tapping into creative imagination, clearing the mind of fear, worry, and guilt, communication skills, and goal setting. more...
Immigration
Shell Education 2009; US$ 7.99Follow the struggles, hardships, and tragedies of two immigrant familiesan Italian Catholic family and a Russian Jewish family from their arrival at Ellis Island in 1914 until they become United States citizens five years later. more...
Remaking Respectability
The University of North Carolina Press 2001; US$ 28.95In the early decades of the twentieth century, tens of thousands of African Americans arrived at Detroit's Michigan Central Station, part of the Great Migration of blacks who left the South seeking improved economic and political conditions in the urban North. The most visible of these migrants have been the male industrial workers who labored... more...
Island Folk
University of Minnesota Press 2008; US$ 16.95The history of a working fishing community comes alive in this collection of stories from the people who made a life on Isle Royale. In Island Folk, candid photographs illuminate the experiences of the unique individuals who chose to live in this beautiful and isolated setting. Recalled memories tell a familiar tale of the transformation of the island... more...
The Origins of the Urban Crisis
Princeton University Press 2010; US$ 30.95Once America's "arsenal of democracy," Detroit over the last fifty years has become the symbol of the American urban crisis. In this reappraisal of racial and economic inequality in modern America, Thomas Sugrue explains how Detroit and many other once prosperous industrial cities have become the sites of persistent racialized poverty. He challenges... more...
The Best Man for the Job
ECW Press 2001; US$ 13.95Exploring the why and the how of civic corruption in a Northern Ontario city, this compelling story begins in the late 1980s, when the official languages policies of Pierre Trudeau, Brian Mulroney, and David Peterson collided with the Sault’s deep-rooted resistance to bilingualism. The man at the center of the uproar over the city's infamous... more...
A Governor's Story
PublicAffairs 2011; US$ 15.99Jennifer Granholm was the two-term governor of Michigan, a state synonymous with manufacturing during a financial crisis that threatened to put all America?s major car companies into bankruptcy. The immediate and knock-on effects were catastrophic. Granholm?s grand plans for education reform, economic revitalization, clean energy, and infrastructure... more...
Detroit
Chicago Review Press 2012; US$ 19.99A valuable biography sure to appeal to readers seeking to come to grips with important problems facing not just a city, but a country.” Kirkus Detroit was established as a French settlement three-quarters of a century before the founding of this nation. A remote outpost built to protect trapping interests, its industry took... more...









