Underwater: How Our American Dream of Homeownership Became a Nightmare 9781250241818, 9781250241801

Chasing the American Dream: New Perspectives on Affordable Homeownership 9781501731136

Providing decent, safe, and affordable housing to low- and moderate-income families has been an important public policy

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Temp: How American Work, American Business, and the American Dream Became Temporary 0735224072, 9780735224070, 9780735224094

The untold history of the surprising origins of the "gig economy" --how deliberate decisions made by consultan

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How Europe Became American 9781914208003

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Mafia Democracy: How Our Republic Became a Mob Racket 9781544530802

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Grasping for the American Dream: Racial Segregation, Social Mobility, and Homeownership 2020053751, 9780367075927, 9780367075941, 9780429021466

African American homebuyers continue to pay more for and get less from homeownership. This book explains the motivations

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Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac: Turning the American Dream into a Nightmare 9781780930022, 9781780930039, 9781780930053

This book examines the role of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and other key players in the American mortgage market, in precipi

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Gridiron Capital: How American Football Became a Samoan Game 9781478022701

Lisa Uperesa charts the cultural, historical, and social dynamics that have made American football so central to Samoan

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Eagles - Dark Desert Highway: How America’s Dream Band Turned into a Nightmare 9781409190721, 1409190722

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Plutonium: How Nuclear Power’s Dream Fuel Became a Nightmare [1st ed. 2019] 978-981-13-9900-8, 978-981-13-9901-5

This book provides a readable and thought-provoking analysis of the issues surrounding nuclear fuel reprocessing and fas

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The Fluid Envelope of our Planet: How the Study of Ocean Currents Became a Science 9781442697744

A detailed and beautifully written account of the history of oceanography, The Fluid Envelope of Our Planet is an engagi

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