Grand Salute captures the kaleidoscope of World War II America and its surprising aftermath. A masterpiece of local history, Grand Salute ranges from the hometown roots of America's "first soldier" to the inspiring women volunteers of the Connellsville Canteen and the astonishing escape of a young girl from Nazi-occupied Europe and her new life in the United States. Presenting the men and women who won World War II in all their complexity and glory, Grand Salute pays tribute to a generation that changed the course of history as well as themselves.
Grand Salute captures the kaleidoscope of World War II America and its surprising aftermath. A masterpiece of local history, Grand Salute ranges from ...
Money: A Critical Introduction shows how our present monetary system was imposed by elites and how they benefit from it. The book poses the question: how, by looking at different forms of money, can we appreciate that they have different effects? The authors demonstrate how modern money requires perpetual growth, an increase in inequality, environmental devastation, increasing commoditization, and, consequently, the perpetual consumption of evermore stuff. But these are not intrinsic features of money, but, rather, of debt money. This text shows that, through studying money in other...
Money: A Critical Introduction shows how our present monetary system was imposed by elites and how they benefit from it. The book poses the questio...
Money: A Critical Introduction shows how our present monetary system was imposed by elites and how they benefit from it. The book poses the question: how, by looking at different forms of money, can we appreciate that they have different effects? The authors demonstrate how modern money requires perpetual growth, an increase in inequality, environmental devastation, increasing commoditization, and, consequently, the perpetual consumption of evermore stuff. But these are not intrinsic features of money, but, rather, of debt money. This text shows that, through studying money in other...
Money: A Critical Introduction shows how our present monetary system was imposed by elites and how they benefit from it. The book poses the questio...
