In the fifty years since it was published, The Other America has been established as a seminal work of sociology. This anniversary edition includes Michael Harrington’s essays on poverty in the 1970s and ’80s as well as a new introduction by Harrington’s biographer, Maurice Isserman. This illuminating, profoundly moving classic is still all too relevant for today’s America.When Michael Harrington’s masterpiece, The Other America, was first publish...

Credit Secrets: Section 609 Credit Repair Solution is a practical guide to understanding consumer credit rights and the legal framework surrounding credit reporting. The book explains how credit repair works, how credit reports are structured, and how credit scores are calculated, including FICO and VantageScore models. It provides a detailed overview of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), with particular focus on Section 609, outlining how consumers can request verification of reported ...

Divorce, Simply Stated is a comprehensive guide to navigating divorce with clarity, efficiency, and informed decision-making. Written by an experienced divorce lawyer and mediator, the book explains how family law works in the United States, outlining the legal principles that govern child custody, child support, spousal support, property division, and court procedure. It examines common misconceptions about divorce, differences between community property and equitable distribution states,...

In this provocative biographical portrait, Robert A. Gorman examines the political and intellectual life of this engaging radical thinker while looking ahead to the ways in which the work and example he has left us can affect political life in the twenty-first century.Michael Harrington's major attempt to Americanize socialism plays a big part in Gorman's analysis. He tells readers how it is possible to be both radical and patriotic and how an unjust system can be transfor...

This book examines the simultaneous contribution of learner vocabulary size and speed to second language performance differences across learner levels and settings. Harrington considers vocabulary size and speed, as reflected in retrieval speed and consistency, as a three-dimensional measurement construct termed lexical facility. While size and retrieval speed are generally known, this is the first attempt to incorporate consistency, as measured by the coefficient of variation, as an index...

In Book I: The Inferno, Fra Savonarola damns the societal decay of Florence under the rule of the Medici, first Lorenzo the Magnificent and then his son Piero. With his prophecies and charismatic preaching, Savonarola helps drive out the Medici after Lorenzo's death and Piero's downfall and foretells the coming of the Scourge of God. Machiavelli enters the story as an ambitious political operator.

The Ultimate Killer App!The term "killer app" is so ubiquitous in technology circles as to become a cliché. It now represents the Holy Grail of tech entrepreneurs and venture capitalists. But a killer application broadly understood goes far beyond the narrow definitions of smart phone mobile apps. Ultimate killer apps (UKAs) are technologies that change our world and the ways we relate to it. In other words, they change our lives in profound ways. (In so doing, they may or may not g...

A Dantean trilogy of the last turbulent years of the 15th century in Renaissance Florence.Girolamo Savonarola and Niccolo Machiavelli are two fascinating and infamous characters who battle over competing visions for society. The story is driven by a dramatic sequence of events, from the fall of the Medici to the Bonfire of the Vanities, to the Trial by Fire and its dramatic conclusion.

A Part Synopsis of Pacific Odyssey Lane The book is something of a Travelogue with a deal of Adventure thrown in. It is also a multi-faceted Love Story. The setting is in the Far East Singapore, Borneo and New Guinea (or more properly today Irian Barat) and briefly in Papua. The period is around 1970 to 1980ish although this is a moveable feast according to the readers preference. The plot concerns Lane Martin, a pretty young English girl, and her husband Paul, an electronics wizard based ...

"Most Americans first heard of Michael Harrington with the publication of The Other America, his seminal book on American poverty. Isserman expertly tracks Harrington's beginnings in the Catholic Worke"

The fictional character from Between the Wars series Michael Harrington began writing poetry when he first met Mary Evans, a teenage girl he met in the 1930's at a joint school dance In Melbourne, Australia. Very quiet and unassuming, he used his poetry to profess his love of her and to reflect on his young life that was about to have a massive upheaval as the Second World War approached.

Google Earth Forensics is the first book to explain how to use Google Earth in digital forensic investigations. This book teaches you how to leverage Google's free tool to craft compelling location-based evidence for use in investigations and in the courtroom. It shows how to extract location-based data that can be used to display evidence in compelling audiovisual manners that explain and inform the data in contextual, meaningful, and easy-to-understand ways. As mobile computing devices b...