The Great Depression: A DiaryWhen the stock market crashed in 1929, Benjamin Roth was a young lawyer in Youngstown, Ohio. After he began to grasp the magnitude of what had happened to American economic life, he decided to set down his impressions in his diary. This collection of those entries reveals another side of the Great Depression,one lived through by ordinary, middle class Americans, who on a daily basis grappled with a swiftly changing economy coupled with anxiety about

Edward Loveday always believed that loyalty would see his family through any crisis

Alison Pressley has collected personal reminiscences from all over the country and from widely different backgrounds

reveal the stars above us and offer a home to birds

or training to work

'The hugely inventive 99% Invisible treats the design of everyday things like a forensic science

who loves to observe the world around him

Determined to combat what she had come to consider the "Jell-O curse" and her looming mortality

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including three children who were poisoned by the hydra’s toxic breath

This book explores how everyone can be good global citizens through case studies and practical suggestions

and in this must-have book we look back to see just how he has done it