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"During Sarah Smarsh's turbulent childhood in Kansas in the 1980s and 1990s, the country's changing economic policies solidified her family's place among the working poor. By telling the story of her life and the lives of the people she loves, Smarsh challenges us to examine the class divide in our country and the myths about people thought to be less because they earn less. Her personal history affirms the corrosive impact intergenerational poverty...
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First, legal secretary Teri Maness is found murdered in her Witchita town house in the summer of 1989. Two weeks later, Joan Butler disappears from her Overland Park apartment. Days later, roommates Christine Rusch and Theresa Brown of Lenexa are reported missing. Without a trace, they were suddenly gone. Panic and fear gripped Witchita and Kansas CIty as the realization slow sank in . . . a serial killer was on the loose. What finally linked the...
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""Hogs are Up" is a collection of musings and memories by Wes Jackson, founder and president emeritus of The Land Institute, a science-based research organization working to develop an alternative to current destructive agricultural practices. In this volume, Jackson takes full advantage of his natural storytelling gifts, recollecting memories from his childhood Kansas farm, his graduate education and teaching career, and his work on and at "The Land."...
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