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By Alton Pryor. 1997
This collection contains forty-one short stories. True tales of California history covering adventurous cowboys, pioneers, and railroad titans. Includes historical…
figures such as Ishi, the last known member of the Native American Yahi tribe, Wild West bandits like Joaquin Murrieta and Billy the Kid, and mountain man Pegleg Smith. AdultBy Ivan Illich. 1975
L'analyse critique de la société industrielle doit beaucoup à Ivan Illich. Il est l'un des premiers à avoir dénoncé le…
productivisme, le culte de la croissance, l'apologie de la consommation et toutes les formes d'aliénation nées du mode de production capitaliste. "La Convivialité" montre comment l'organisation de la société tend à produire des consommateurs passifs, qui ont délégué aux institutions le pouvoir de décider et renoncé à assumer la responsabilité des orientations de leur société. Cette analyse critique se transforme en un manifeste. Il s'agit de réveiller politiquement les citoyens endormis, afin qu'ils se réapproprient leur destin. Toutefois, cette reconquête suppose que les individus se détournent des seules possessions matérielles au profit de la redécouverte d'autrui et de la pratique du dialogue social. Seul l'apprentissage de la convivialité permettra, par la rencontre et l'échange, de renouer les fils de la communauté et de lui redonner la maîtrise de son avenir et de ses choix.By Philip Connors. 2011
The Gila landscape, rugged and roadless, - and the 1st region in the world to officially be off-limits to industrial…
machines - is typically hit by lightning more than 30,000 times per year. Written with startling beauty from a 10,000 foot firewatch perch, the book is filled with reflections on nature and historic events of the region, as well as musings on other writers who had served as lookouts before him. AdultBy George Hilliard. 1996
"A Hundred Years of Horse Tracks" is the history of the Diamond A Ranch, perhaps better known as the Gray…
Ranch, located in New Mexico's boot-heel. Hilliard has supplemented sparse and scattered old sources with interviews of old-timers to produce this history of the ranch from the 1880s when it was initially settled by Michael Gray through sale to the Nature Conservancy in the early 1990s and subsequent sale in 1994 to the Animas Foundation which runs it as a working ranch under agreements preserving wilderness areas, preventing overgrazing, and ensuring the property stay whole. AdultBy Jack Loeffler. 2019
Jack Loeffler reveals his compassion and concern for Southwestern traditional cultures in the wake of Manifest Destiny. Loeffler shares his…
humor and imagination, his adventures, observations, reflections, and meditations along the trail in his retelling of a life well lived. In this honest memoir, he advises each and every one of us to go skinny-dipping joyfully in the flow of Nature to better understand where we're headed. AdultBy R. Kermit Hill. 2011
This book is a simple, no nonsense telling of New Mexico history and geography for those who are new to…
the "Land of Enchantment" and for those who want a quick, uncluttered story based on the theory that history should be fun. AdultBy John Treadwell Nichols. 2000
By Gregor Stark. 1998
Amelia Elizabeth White (1878-1972) was born into an East Coast world of wealth and privilege. After serving as army nurses…
in Europe during World War I, she and her sister Martha chose to settle in the small town of Santa Fe, New Mexico. There Elizabeth became a passionate advocate for Pueblo Indian rights, an inspired patron and promoter of Indian art, and a dedicated community activist for the preservation of Santa Fe's history. White organized several traveling expositions of Indian art and was instrumental in founding the Indian Arts Fund, the Laboratory of Anthropology, the Old Santa Fe Association, and the Santa Fe Indian Market."-- GoodreadsBy Dee Harkey. 1989
Dee Harkey moved to Carlsbad, New Mexico, where he became a US Marshall and Cattle Inspector. During his peace officer…
career he encountered any number of cattle rustlers, train robbers, and a host of other outlaws, who animate the incidents recounted in this book. AdultBy Forrest Fenn. 2010
By Robert G Hagstrom. 1997
Pourquoi Warren Buffett est-il considéré comme le grand maître du monde de l'investissement ? Comment a-t-il réussi à transformer 100…
dollars en 12 milliards de dollars en 40 ans de carrière à la bourse ? De quelle manière l'investisseur moyen peut-il tirer profit des méthodes de Warren Buffett ? Telles sont les questions auxquelles l'auteur tente de répondre dans cet ouvrage. Nous découvrons que Warren Buffett étudie les affaires avec sérieux et intérêt, qu'il est capable de déterminer rapidement l'élément clé d'une société ou la manière de régler un problème complexe avec une précision hors pair. Warren Buffett a fait fortune en choisissant d'investir dans des entreprises qui sont dans son champ de compétence , dirigées par des personnes honnêtes et orientées sur le rendement aux actionnaires. Coca-Cola, Capital Cities/ABC, Gillette, American Express en font partie. Les stratégies de Warren Buffett vous permettra de connaître l'approche de Warren Buffett, ses principes et sa philosophie de l'investissement. Essentiellement, Warren Buffett nous propose des conseils basés sur le bon sens et la sagesse. Des recommandations simples et efficaces dont peuvent bénéficier tous les investisseurs, débutants ou chevronnés.By Pierre Rosanvallon. 1981
Pendant presque un siècle, la construction de l'Etat-providence a constitué l'horizon naturel du progrès social dans les pays industriels. Cet…
Etat-providence est aujourd'hui mal en point. Il est d'abord devenu trop coûteux. Si elles continuaient à croître au rythme actuel, les dépenses de santé absorberaient dans trente ans la quasi-totalité des ressources des ménages ! Pour faire face à la hausse des dépenses sociales, les prélèvements obligatoires ont crû très rapidement, menaçant du même coup la compétitivité des entreprises et le dynamisme de l'économie. Mais l'Etat-providence est surtout devenu une machinerie de plus en plus opaque et bureaucratique. Les principes de solidarité et de redistribution qui le commandent, n'apparaissent plus clairement. La crise de l'Etat-providence est culturelle et morale plus encore qu'économique.By Alexandre Wickham. 2001
Laetitia Rossi, secrétaire du directeur financier de la CGP, conglomérat aux multiples activités, voit un jour son compte bancaire crédité…
de 600 millions de francs. D'où proviennent-ils ? Laetitia pourra-t-elle les garder ? A partir de cet instant, elle se retrouve plongée au coeur des intrigues d'un véritable empire. Elle découvre un univers qu'elle côtoyait tous les jours sans le connaître.By Dahlia Namian. 2023
Bernés par les prestidigitations des ultrariches, nous regardons ceux-ci, stupéfaits, dilapider les ressources de la planète. Dans son roman Chien…
blanc, Romain Gary appelle "société de provocation" cet ordre social où l'exhibitionnisme de la richesse érige en vertu la démesure et le luxe ostentatoire tout en privant une part de plus en plus large de la population des moyens de satisfaire ses besoins réels. Ce pamphlet cinglant énumère et analyse les mille façons qu'ont les ultrariches de nous nuire, et invite à rompre avec cette société de provocationBy Ernest Scheyder. 2024
An unprecedented look inside the global battle to power our lives from acclaimed Reuters reporter Ernest Scheyder. A new economic…
war for critical minerals has begun, and The War Below is an urgent dispatch from its front lines. To build electric vehicles, solar panels, cell phones, and millions of other devices means the world must dig more mines to extract lithium, copper, and other vital building blocks. But mines are deeply unpopular, even as they have a role to play in fighting climate change and powering crucial technologies. These tensions have sparked a worldwide reckoning over the sourcing of necessary materials, and no one understands the complexities of these issues better than Ernest Scheyder, whose exclusive access to sites around the globe has allowed him to gain unparalleled insights into a future without fossil fuels. The War Below reveals the explosive brawl among industry titans, conservationists, community groups, policymakers, and many others over whether some places are too special to mine or whether the habitats of rare plants, sensitive ecosystems, Indigenous holy sites, and other places should be dug up for their riches. With vivid and engaging writing, Scheyder shows the human toll of this war and explains why recycling and other newer technologies have struggled to gain widespread use. He also expertly chronicles Washington's attempts to wean itself off supplies from China, the global leader in mineral production and processing. The War Below paints a powerfully honest and nuanced picture of what is at stake in this new fight for energy independence, revealing how America and the rest of the world's hunt for the "new oil" directly affects us allBy Gregor Craigie. 2024
An urgent and illuminating examination of the unrelenting housing crisis Canadians find ourselves facing, by Balsillie Prize finalist and CBC…
Radio host Gregor Craigie, Our Crumbling Foundation offers real-life solutions from around the world and hope for new housing innovation in the face of seemingly impossible obstacles.Canada is experiencing a housing shortage. Although house prices in major Canadian cities appear to have topped out in early 2023, new housing isn’t coming onto the market quickly enough. Rising interest rates have only tightened the pressure on buyers, and renters, too, as rising mortgage rates cost landlords more, which are passed along to tenants in rent increases. Even with the recent federal budget commitment to bring more housing online by 2030, there will still be a shortfall of 3.5 million homes by 2030.Gregor Craigie is a CBC journalist in Victoria, one of the highest-priced housing markets in the country. On his daily radio show On The Island he's been talking for over 15 years to local experts and to those across the country about housing. Craigie has travelled to many of the places he profiles in the book, and in his interviews with Canadians he presents the human face of the shortfall as he speaks with renters, owners and homeless people, exploring their varying predicaments and perspectives. He then shows, through comparable profiles of people across the globe, how other North American and international jurisdictions (Tokyo, Paris, Berlin, Helsinki, Singapore, Ireland, to name a few) are housing their citizens better, faster and with determination—solutions that could be put into practice here.With passion, knowledge and vigour, Craigie explains how Canada reached this critical impasse and will convince those who may not yet recognize how badly our entire country is in need of change. Our Crumbling Foundation provides hope for finding our way out of the crisis by recommending a number of approaches at all levels of government. The prescription for how we’re going to house ourselves and do so equitably, requires not just a business solution, nor simply a social solution.By Sébastien St-Onge. 2001
L'Eglise est de plus en plus concurrencée par de grandes multinationales dans la prise en charge de la mort. A…
l'ancien croque-mort, préposé au traitement du corps, a succédé le thanatologue-thanatopracteur, fournisseur de services intégrés de rituels sur mesure. L'auteur pose des questions brûlantes d'actualité et s'interroge sur les conditions sociohistoriques qui ont permis à la sphère marchande de cohabiter, sous le même toit, avec celle du sensBy Jessica Bruder. 2017
From the beet fields of North Dakota to the wilderness campgrounds of California to an Amazon warehouse in Texas, people…
who once might have kicked back to enjoy their sunset years are hard at work. Underwater on mortgages or finding that Social Security comes up short, they're hitting the road in astonishing numbers, forming a new community of nomads: RV and van-dwelling migrant laborers, or "workampers." Building on her groundbreaking Harper's cover story, "The End of Retirement," which brought attention to these formerly settled members of the middle class, Jessica Bruder follows one such RVer, Linda, between physically taxing seasonal jobs and reunions of her new van-dweller family, or "vanily." Bruder tells a compelling, eye-opening tale of both the economy's dark underbelly and the extraordinary resilience, creativity, and hope of these hardworking, quintessential Americans?many of them single women?who have traded rootedness for the dream of a better lifeBy Stéphane Lussier Johnson. 2023
Jamais un Premier Ministre québécois n'a suscité autant d'intérêt que Maurice Duplessis. Son règne a été étudié, analysé, raconté de…
long en large, immortalisé dans des publications écrites par des historiens, des journalistes, des collaborateurs, des opposants, des amis, des ennemis. Mais jusqu'à maintenant, personne ne s'était penché sur son rôle dans l'industrie du sucre au Québec, ni sur la manière dont il a délibérément réussi à la saboter. Alors que l'inflation fait un bond de 60% entre 1946 et 1962, cette industrie aurait pu à elle-seule assurer la prospérité de la province dans cette période où elle en avait tant besoin. Du moins, en théorie. Mais à cause de manigances et politicailleries de l'Union Nationale, nous ne le saurons jamais. Rencontrez Louis Pasquier. Ingénieur agronome français que l'on fait venir au Québec dans le but de sauver l'industrie du sucre de betteraves. Et que l'on détruisit ensuite pour avoir commis le crime d'y être parvenu