Economics of Technological Change I: Harwood Fundamentals of Applied Economics

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Paul Clemens grew up in the northeast corner of Detroit, just south of the city’s famed 8 Mile border. In this moving and affectionate memoir, Clemens, born the year Detroit’s first black mayor (the legendary Coleman Young) was elected, tracks his own growth to maturity against the background of the city’s long decline during Young’s twenty years at the helm.

Made in Detroit describes what it was like to grow up white and working class in a city that had become emblematic of white flight and urban decay. Clemens writes with passion and unflinching honesty about the crime and the prejudices, both black and white, that marked his days in Detroit, and about the linguistic confusions that attend being a minority in a city where minorities are the majority. His neighborhood’s common denominator, Catholicism, helped keep Detroit’s disorder at a distance. Likewise, Clemens’s father, a car enthusiast and weekend drag racer of the kind only Detroit can produce, helped keep at arm’s length the racism that infected much of white Detroit. Though he may have grumbled about the corruption and inefficiency of the Young administration, he would not tolerate expressions of racial hostility.

Made in Detroit is the story of a young man’s education in social and racial realities most writers would rather avoid. But it is also the story of a literary apprenticeship in the classic American mold. In addition to his youthful Catholicism, Clemens acquired another belief–in reading and writing–and he embraced the writer’s vocation with the enthusiasm that only those raised in a household devoid of books can. Yet, in coming to grips with Detroit, and race relations in America in general, he discovered that there are places–geographic, mental, emotional–where even literature cannot help.

This is a story about being caught in the middle: about being white in a black city, urban in suburban America, blue collar in an increasingly obsolete Rust Belt, and Catholic in a place where churches close at an unprecedented pace. Sparing no one–including himself–Clemens depicts with raw authenticity and redemptive grace the realities of one city’s, and one family’s, recent history.

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White and private schooled in Detroit.......2007-07-09

Also being a white kid in a black city, I can relate to this book, as I too was sent to private schools to avoid the "dreaded" public schools in the Motor City.
CONFESSIONS OF A CATHOLIC SCHOOLGIRL by Michelle Kane is another good book set in the city of Detroit, although the main character is from a broken home and not as lucky as Clemens to have both parents to turn to in confusing times.Confessions of a Catholic Schoolgirl

A wonderful personal history, set in a decaying town.......2006-11-03

When I ordered this book, I thought that it might be about someone closer to my age (64) who grew up in the City of Detroit. It turns out to be a much younger man: one who grew up during the years just after I moved away from Michigan in 1972.
Although this book is somewhat different than what I expected, it turned out to be a thoughtful read. Yes, there is a lot of Detroit history and visits to places I recall, but you do not have had to live in Michigan to enjoy this book. It covers family life, religion, schooling, racial issues and much more. I think that the book does bog down a bit near the end. This is where the author is trying to resolve much of his upbringing and beliefs. Nevertheless, MADE IN DETROIT is very worthwhile. Particularly wonderful is the description of the author's dad and his continuing episodes throughout the book. Reminded me a lot of my old man and many other Detroit relatives and acquaintances of my parents. The occasional glimpses into the personality of Coleman Young (Mayor of Detroit for many years) are quite humorous. Mr. Young was a real genuine character.

TOO MUCH SELF AGGRANDIZEMENT.......2006-03-17

If the author had spent more time telling us about Detroit and less time telling us how literate he is then it would have been a lot better book.

Capitalizing on the 8 mile mythos.......2006-02-20

Were it not for Eminem's diatribes of the hood and a handful of curious Detroiter's (former and current), I can't imagine what interest this book would hold for anyone. I know the area Clemens speaks of and it is nothing short of amazing that he has so little to write about that is interesting. I suspect that the author was an "academic-in-waiting" from his earliest years and that the sounds and heat of the street were a little too dangerous for his sensitive soul. I will give him credit for being a decent writer, though. Furthermore, claims by a number of reviewers that Mr. Clemens is racist are pure politically correct nonsense. It is more likely the case that the author is guilty of being white and a bit naive.

The Decline of the Auto Industrial Beginnings........2006-02-05

In the early 1930s, Detroit was the fourth-largest city in America due mainly to Southern migration to find jobs in the auto manufacturing plants. "Its population lured in part by Henry Ford's promise of a five-dollar workday, had doubled between 1910 and 1920 and increased another sixty percent in the next decade, by which time it exceeded a million and a half residents." At its peak, the Great Migration to Michigan's southeastern corner seemed poised to go higher. In 1950, the city's population peaked at just below two million residents; in the 60s, it continued to dip to 1.67 million and, in 1970, that number slipped to 1.5 million.

This memoir of Paul Clemens, whose family lived in the northeast corner of Detroit in a bungalow, covers the decline during the twenty-year-reign of Mayor Coleman Young. Elected the year Paul was born (1973), one year after Motown Records was moved from Detroit to Hollywood. "In 1980, after Young had served a term and a half in office, the population fell to 1.2 million and, in 1990, the total number of residents stood at just over a million. The population is now well under that figure, and will never again come within whispering distance of it."

The city had been settled in 1701 by Frenchmen who had come down from Montreal in the company of Algonquin Indians to set up a trading post. Detroit can now be reached from Windsor, Canada, through an underwater mile tunnel; it was the most Canadian of American cities with Young as Detroit's uncontested king. Like our former mayor who was in control and power for fourteen years, Young allowed the inner city to decline while he played politics. "The distinguishing feature of Young's tenure was that, as the years went on, he found himself in firmer control of less and less."

One redeeming feature of the town was the Belle Island where they held the bicycle races, the elegantly laid out interior designed by Frederick Law Olmstead, the architect of Central Park. At the time of the Iranian hostage crisis, the gas shortages, and the Olympics boycotts, it seemed to be "a national political trendsetter, an area in which large numbers of ethnic Catholics and unionized blue-collar workers decided to vote against Jimmy Carter in the 1980 presidential election."

By the time Paul left his narrow world to go off to college, "Metropolitan Detroit was now four million people, with less than a quarter of that in the city itself. To most people, Detroit now meant everything but." He relates how life was as he lived it and charted the city's long decline during Young's twenty years at the helm. This year, the Motor City will recover somewhat for the one-day event when sports fans will converge for the 40th Super Bowl at the stadium there for the Pittsburgh Steelers/Seattle Seahawks game. Why Detroit?

Ten acres enough: a practical experience, showing how a very small farm may be made to keep a very large family. With extensive and profitable experience in the cultivation of the smaller fruits.

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Ten acres enough: a practical experience, showing how a very small farm may be made to keep a very large family. With extensive and profitable experience in the cultivation of the smaller fruits.
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Town "rush" versus country "paradise" - it is not a new subject!.......2007-07-27

1854: could you imagine on that time the town "rush" could be a bigger motivator to return to country? Yes, that was the situation of the author. It is a description of how an urban family "returned" to country through a systematic approach, something uncommon on that time worldwide. Their concept was explored in the last 150 years by most of "small rural property" text and recommendation from Government Agencies and private authors, but it was delicious to read first impressions from that time. Great reading.

Land titles in California. Report on the subject of land titles in California, made in pursuance of instructions from the secretary of state and the secretary of the interior,

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Blue-Tail Fly (Made in Michigan Writers Series)
Vievee Francis
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A poetic treatment of the period of American history between the beginning of the Mexican War and the end of the Civil War, by Michigan poet Vievee Francis.

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A Marvel..........2007-06-13

Now THIS is what poetry can do! It's a bold move, writing a book of poetry about historical events (e.g., the Civil war, the Mexican war) that most of us encounter only through the deadening lens of battered high school textbooks -- and yet Francis offers one of the most human and immediate collections of poetry I've encountered in quite a while. She manages, through her keen eye and her empathy for her characters and her understanding of their voices, to make these long-dead, remote people (mostly the folks who never appear in the textbooks) fully alive, urgent, now. Even the famous people -- Lincoln, Taylor -- become more human in her hands. I was shattered by "A singular dispersion," horrified by "Linsey-Woolsey," wounded by the Detroit riots poems, stirred by "Walt Whitman reads to the limbless," moved by "The White Immensities," and on and on. These are great poems individually, and such a strong, strong collection altogether!

The adolescent offender. : A study of the agelimit of the Children's Court / made by the Committee on Criminal Courts of the Charity Organization Society of the City of New York.

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The adolescent offender. : A study of the agelimit of the Children's Court / made by the Committee on Criminal Courts of the Charity Organization Society of the City of New York.
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Western Biographical Publishing
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American Biographical History Of Eminent And Self-Made Men: Michigan Volume
F. A. Barnard
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ASIN: 1430492678

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This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature.

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William Darby
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Argument in defence of the Rev. Eliphalet Nott, D. D., president of Union college, and in answer to the charges made against him by Levinus Vanderheyden ... the Senate, appointed to investigate certain

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The arithmetical primer. Underhill's new tablebook; or, Tables of arithmetic made easier. By D. C. Underhill ...

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Visible Thinking: Unlocking Causal Mapping for Practical Business Results
John M. Bryson , Fran Ackermann , Colin Eden , and Charles B. Finn
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"Causal mapping is a tool that enables you to make sense of challenging situations so that you can get more out of them. A causal map is a word and arrow diagram in which ideas and actions are causally linked with one another through the use of arrows. Typically, only specialists such as physical or social scientists and operations researchers know about causal mapping and the tool is therefore not widely known or its broad applicability understood. Until now there has been no guidance available on how to make use of the tool for more general purposes. This book lets managers understand the theory and practice of causal mapping in layman's terms for use in both individual and group settings. It shows managers how to develop and use action-oriented strategy maps and logic models in business decision making. The authors show how causal mapping can be used as a tool to make sense of challenging situations and develop effective business responses. "

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This book was written at the request of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, The Assistant Attorney General (Tax Division), and the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury (Tax Policy).

The purpose of this book was to develop an overview of tax havens and the use of tax havens by United States taxpayers. The study sought to determine the frequency and nature of tax haven transactions, identify specific types of tax haven transactions, obtain a description of the United States and foreign legal and regulatory environment in which tax haven transactions are conducted, describe Internal Revenue Service and Justice Department efforts to deal with tax haven related transactions, and to identify interagency coordination problems.

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How to Manage Conflict: Turn All Conflicts into Win-Win Outcomes (Handbook)
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To learn how to cure conflicts or head them off before they become major conflagrations, spend a little time with author Peg Pickering. Her brief but compelling guide to conflict resolution is a must read for every employee from the mailroom gang to the CEO. She offers practical, usable methods for understanding, diffusing and resolving conflicts ranging from minor annoyances to major blow-outs. Strongly and honestly written, the book is devoid of fluff and goes right to the point without pages and pages of psychobabble. We at getAbstract recommend this book to everyone who has to deal with anyone else.

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