Author: Alfred Lubrano
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: collar, dreams, roots, limbo, blue
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2005-02-22
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0471714399
ISBN-13: 9780471714392
In Limbo, award-winning journalist Alfred Lubrano identifies and describes an overlooked cultural phenomenon: the internal conflict within individuals raised in blue-collar homes, now living white-collar lives. These people often find that the values of the working class are not sufficient guidance to navigate the white-collar world, where unspoken rules reflect primarily upper-class values. Torn between the world they were raised in and the life they aspire too, they hover between worlds, not quite accepted in either. Himself the son of a Brooklyn bricklayer, Lubrano informs his account with
Author: Alfred Lubrano
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: collar, dreams, roots, limbo, blue
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2003-10-17
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0471263761
ISBN-13: 9780471263760
In Limbo, award-winning journalist Alfred Lubrano identifies and describes an overlooked cultural phenomenon: the internal conflict within individuals raised in blue-collar homes, now living white-collar lives. These people often find that the values of the working class are not sufficient guidance to navigate the white-collar world, where unspoken rules reflect primarily upper-class values. Torn between the world they were raised in and the life they aspire too, they hover between worlds, not quite accepted in either. Himself the son of a Brooklyn bricklayer, Lubrano informs his account with
Author: Jonathan Englert
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Keywords: collar
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2006-04-07
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0618251464
ISBN-13: 9780618251469
The journalist Jonathan Englert goes inside a seminary to follow five men who have left their careers and lives behind in pursuit of the priesthood.There are now a record sixty-four million Catholics in the United States, yet the number of priests is plummeting so fast that hundreds of parishes nationwide are closing down. Against this turbulent backdrop, Englert charts the journey of five men toward the priesthood at a seminary that specializes in "second-career" priests -- men who come to their vocation later than their college years. We meet a divorced father and avid hunter from Wyoming, a
Author: David Comegys
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Keywords: collar
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2005-09-29
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1420867083
ISBN-13: 9781420867084
Collar is a novel, the story of an Episcopal priest, the Rev. Kit Whitney, Jr. told with humor, intense drama, great joy and bitter pain, Kit tells his story from the early 1930s to 1981. Kit forms and directs the University band. Joins a fraternity. At seminary someone asks, "Is that your sporty red Chrysler?" Loads bags for a major airline. Kit ministers to victims of devastating Hurricane Audrey in Louisiana. Becomes a pilot. Stars in a play. Falls in love with Scarlet, marries and has three children. Is nominated for bishop. Travels. Celebrates the first Jazz Mass, Mariachi Mass, Polo Mass
Author: Van Jone
Publisher: HarperOne
Keywords: biggest, problems, fix, solution, economy, one, collar
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2008-10-01
List price: $25.99
ISBN-10: 0061650757
ISBN-13: 9780061650758
Provocative, personal, and inspirational, The Green Collar Economy is not a dire warning but rather a substantive and viable plan for solving the biggest issues facing the countrythe failing economy and our devastated environment. From a distance, it appears that these two problems are separate, but when we look closer, the connection becomes unmistakable. In The Green Collar Economy, acclaimed activist and political advisor Van Jones delivers a real solution that both rescues our economy and saves the environment. The economy is built on and powered almost exclusively by oil, natural gas, an
Author: Van Jone
Publisher: HarperOne
Keywords: biggest, problems, fix, solution, economy, one, collar
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2009-10-01
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 0061650765
ISBN-13: 9780061650765
Now revised and updated, Van Jones’s provocative and cutting edge New York Times bestseller The Green Collar Economy delivers a viable plan for solving the two biggest issues facing the country todaythe economy and the environment.
Author: Terry L. Lea
Publisher: ILR Pre
Keywords: crime, collar, dynamics, dollars, dishonest
Number of Pages: 243
Published: 2007-03-01
List price: $31.50
ISBN-10: 0801445205
ISBN-13: 9780801445200
In an environment where corporate scandals fill the headlines and ethics courses have suddenly become standard fare in business schools, Terry Leap offers welcome insights into and useful ways of thinking about a critical problem that permeates our society. His main contribution is an integrative model of white-collar crime, which smoothly incorporates influences from sociology, psychology, public policy, and business. As he explains the process that occurs across the many different categories of crimes within organizations, he finds that there are more similarities than differences between "c
