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  • Chained Eagle

    by Anthony S. Pitch; Everett Alvarez, Jr. ...
    On August 5, 1964, while Lt. (jg) Everett Alvarez was flying a retaliatory air strike against naval targets in North Vietnam, antiaircraft fire crippled his A-4 fighter-bomber, forcing him to eject over water at low altitude. Alvarez relates the engrossing tale of his capture by fishermen, brutal treatment by the North Vietnamese, physical and mental endurance, and triumphant repatriation nearly ... Read more

    $28.13 CAD

  • Credit Where It's Due

    Rethinking Financial Citizenship

    by Frederick F. Wherry, Kristin S. Seefeldt, Anthony S. Alvarez ...
    An estimated 45 million adults in the U.S. lack a credit score at time when credit invisibility can reduce one’s ability to rent a home, find employment, or secure a mortgage or loan. As a result, individuals without credit—who are disproportionately African American and Latino—often lead separate and unequal financial lives. Yet, as sociologists and public policy experts Frederick Wherry, Kristin ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • The Street

    A Photographic Field Guide to American Inequality

    by Janice Johnson Dias, Craig B Futterman, Chaclyn Hunt, Jamie Kalven, Norman W Garrick, Alecia J McGregor, Mindy Fullilove, Jay Allen Pearson, Jacqueline Olvera, Jacob Sterling Rugh, Kellee White, Anthony S Alvarez, Stacey Sutton, LeConté J Dill, Zaire Z Dinzey-Flores ...
    Vacant lots. Historic buildings overgrown with weeds. Walls and alleyways covered with graffiti. These are sights associated with countless inner-city neighborhoods in America, and yet many viewers have trouble getting beyond the surface of such images, whether they are denigrating them as signs of a dangerous ghetto or romanticizing them as traits of a beautiful ruined landscape. The Street: A ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Heaven and Philosophy

    by Michaël Bauwens, Helen L. Daly, Cruz Davis, Jean-Baptiste Guillon, Blake Hereth, Anthony G. Holdier, Bertha Alvarez Manninen, Eric T. Olson, Joshua Rasmussen, Eric Yang ...
    This volume is a collection of essays analyzing different issues concerning the nature, possibility, and desirability of heaven as understood by the Abrahamic faiths of Judaism, Christianity. and Islam. Topics include whether or not it is possible that a mortal could, upon bodily death, become an inhabitant of heaven without loss of identity, where exactly heaven might be located, whether or not ... Read more

    $136.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    The Survivor Wants to Die at the End

    by Adam Silvera ...
    Narrated by Frankie J. Alvarez, Kyla Garcia, Anthony Rey Perez ...
    Series Audiobook 3 - They Both Die at the End Series

    Unabridged

    17 hours 49 min

    In this third book of the USA Today and #1 New York Times mega-bestselling They Both Die at the End series, two strangers—each with their own complicated relationship to Death-Cast—help each other learn to live.Paz Dario stays up every night, waiting for the Death-Cast call that would mean he doesn’t have to keep faking his way through this lonely life. After a devastating day, Paz decides he’s ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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