Off Ramp

Off Ramp PDF

Author: Hank Stuever

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2005-07

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780312424886

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"We visit discount funeral homes ("Let's say you're dead..."), campgrounds where international bonds are formed ("We are from Netherlands, and we are for two days wonderink, who it is you are"), and storage facilities where America keeps its strangest secrets. We meet the men who drew the comic-book characters (including Wonder Woman) Stuever loved as a child, professional bowlers, waterbed aficionados, and some Texans on "debris drives" in search of pieces of the fallen Columbia shuttle. Finally, we travel to Stuever's hometown of Oklahoma City where the bombing of the Alfred P.Murrah federal building has created a kind of Elsewhere he has never seen before."--BOOK JACKET.

Exit Ramp

Exit Ramp PDF

Author: David P. Spears II

Publisher:

Published: 2013-07

Total Pages: 102

ISBN-13: 9780983671947

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Have you ever wondered how much that guy with the cardboard sign makes? One economics student did and he decided to find out. During the summer of his senior year at college, while earning a B.A. in Economics and Political Science, David P. Spears spent eighty hours undercover as a panhandler. Systematically recording every transaction at the exit ramp, Spears captured a rarely seen picture of how modern urban charity works. This book is the record of his adventures, part economic research, part investigative journalism. Both the numbers and the stories behind the numbers provide answers to the questions we've all been wondering: Who gives more to panhandlers-men or women? What percentage of drivers roll down their windows to donate? And most important of all, how much can a panhandler earn per hour? Get out your bi-weekly pay stub-by the end of this book you'll know if you make more or less than the guy with the cardboard sign.

Off-ramps and On-ramps

Off-ramps and On-ramps PDF

Author: Sylvia Ann Hewlett

Publisher: Harvard Business Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1422101029

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Examines the impact that a leave to care for children or elderly parents has on the career of professional women and proposes strategies that companies can undertake to retain and reintegrate talented female employees.

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