Resultados para "Families" en Ciencias políticas

Every day across America, consumers face issues with credit cards, mortgages, car loans, and student loans. When they are cheated or mistreated, all too often they hit a brick wall against the financial companies. People are fed up with being run over by big corporations, and few have the resources or expertise to fight back on their own. It is no wonder consumers feel powerless: they are outgunned every step of the way. Since 1970, the financial industry has doubled in size. It is the biggest source of campaign contributions....

Kosmopolitten Sven Burmester samler med lydbogen "En Verden Til Forskel" tråden op fra sin store succes Fred og fare fra 2007. De tre civilisationer, Mellemøsten, Kina og USA, vil mere end nogle andre komme til at praege verden i fremtiden. Vi kender alle til disse civilisationer i overskrifter: Mellemøsten er praeget af Islam, despoter og en økonomi baseret på olieindtaegter, det kommunistiske Kina stormer frem og oplever massiv økonomisk fremgang, men har problemer med menneskerettighederne, USA er stadig verdens eneste tilbagevaerende supermagt, men har de senere år mistet trovaerdighed pga.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, and the American Book Award, the best-selling Common Ground is much more than the story of the busing crisis in Boston as told through the experiences of three families. As Studs Terkel remarked, it's "gripping, indelible...a truth about all large American cities." 

Wenn die Familie nicht mehr miteinander redet – eine Geschichte der Entfremdung Leonie ist queer, politische Aktivistin, Historikerin – und Tochter eines AfD-Mitglieds. Tatsächlich wählen fast alle ihrer nahen Verwandten die Alternative für Deutschland. Bis sie die Reißleine zog und den...

America's leaders say the economy is strong and getting stronger. But the safety net that once protected us is fast unraveling. With retirement plans in growing jeopardy while health coverage erodes, more and more economic risk is shifting from government and business onto the fragile shoulders of the American family. In The Great Risk Shift, Jacob S. Hacker lays bare this unsettling new economic climate, showing how it has come about, what it is doing to our families, and how we can fight back.

An intimate look at the people ensnared by the US detention and deportation system, the largest in the world On a bright Phoenix morning, Elena Santiago opened her door to find her house surrounded by a platoon of federal immigration agents. Her children screamed as the officers handcuffed her...

"Simply brilliant, both in its granular storytelling and its enormous compassion" --The New York Times Book Review The story of two refugee families and their hope and resilience as they fight to survive and belong in America The welcoming and acceptance of immigrants and refugees have been...