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336. ISBN. 9780008283322. Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness is an autobiographical work by American writer Edward Abbey, originally published in 1968. It is his fourth book and his first book-length non-fiction work. The book follows three fiction books: Jonathan Troy (1954), The Brave Cowboy (1956), and Fire on the Mountain (1962).
A thesis similar to the military–industrial complex was originally expressed by Daniel Guérin, in his 1936 book Fascism and Big Business, about the fascist government ties to heavy industry. It can be defined as, "an informal and changing coalition of groups with vested psychological, moral, and material interests in the continuous ...
ISBN. 0-8050-7896-7. Dewey Decimal. 338.4/735500973 22. LC Class. HC110.D4 T873 2008. The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives is a book about the United States military, written by journalist Nick Turse. It was published in 2008 in hardcover format by Metropolitan Books. The book describes the vast changes in the industrial ...
Industrial park. An industrial park, also known as industrial estate or trading estate, is an area zoned and planned for the purpose of industrial development. An industrial park can be thought of as a more heavyweight version of a business park or office park, which has offices and light industry, rather than heavy industry.
The Power Elite is a 1956 book by sociologist C. Wright Mills, in which Mills calls attention to the interwoven interests of the leaders of the military, corporate, and political elements of the American society and suggests that the ordinary citizen in modern times is a relatively powerless subject of manipulation by those three entities.
Industry City (also Bush Terminal) [ a] is a historic intermodal shipping, warehousing, and manufacturing complex on the Upper New York Bay waterfront in the Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City. The northern portion, commonly called "Industry City" on its own, hosts commercial light manufacturing tenants across 6,000,000 square ...
The Hawassa Industrial Park, inaugurated on 13 July 2016, [3] is a government-funded project in Ethiopia, specializing in the textile and garment industry. [4] [5] During the opening ceremony, Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn described the industrial park as an important step towards Ethiopia's goal of becoming a leading manufacturing hub in Africa. [6]
368 pp (first edition, paperback) ISBN. 978-1573225311. OCLC. 38863471. Native Speaker (1995) is the first novel by Korean American author Chang-Rae Lee. It explores the life of a man named Henry Park who tries to assimilate into American society.