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Meyer, Michael J.Meyer, Michael J.
Summary: "Benjamin Franklin was not a gambling man. But at the end of his illustrious life, the Founder allowed himself a final wager on the survival of the United States: a gift of two thousand pounds to Boston and Philadelphia, to be lent out to tradesmen over the next two centuries to jump-start their careers. Each loan would be repaid with interest over ten years. If all went according to Franklin's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3092 MEYMeyer, Michael J.
Summary: A fascinating, intimate portrait of Beijing through the lens of its oldest neighborhood, Dazhalan. Meyer examines how the bonds that hold the neighborhood together are being torn by forced evictions as century-old houses and ways of life are increasingly destroyed to make way for shopping malls, the capital's first Wal-Mart, high-rise buildings, and widened streets for cars replacing bicycles....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker & Co. 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 951.156 MEYMeyer, Michael J.
Summary: In 1995, at the age of twenty-three, Michael Meyer joined the Peace Corps and, after rejecting offers to go to seven other countries, was sent to a tiny town in Sichuan, China. Unequipped but eager, Meyer wrote Chinese words up and down his arms so he could hold conversations, and per a Communist dean's orders jumped into explaining to his students the Enlightenment, the stock market, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA 2017