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What Next, Chicago?

Author : Matt Rosenberg
Publisher : Bombardier Books
ISBN 13 : 1642939099
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (429 download)

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Download or read book What Next, Chicago? written by Matt Rosenberg and published by Bombardier Books. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our nation’s big cities are broken. Urban progressive government badly undermines those it claims to lift up. Matt Rosenberg lived in Chicago for thirty years, and came back to live there again amidst the turmoil of 2020. What Next, Chicago? Notes of a Pissed-Off Native Son exposes the roots of Chicago’s violent crime, failing courts and schools, rotten finances, and ongoing Black exodus, and proposes a rescue plan for this emblematic American city. “What has happened to Chicago? That’s Matt Rosenberg’s question, and mine as well. His loving tribute to our hometown is a moving, sensitive, humane, and trenchant critical assessment. Read it and weep.” —Glenn C. Loury, Professor of the Social Sciences at Brown University, and author of One By One from the Inside Out: Essays and Reviews on Race and Responsibility in America “Matt Rosenberg writes about the Chicago Way in the Chicago Style of a Mike Royko…. It’s a coherent, honest, and balanced tour of the city’s perpetual corruption, unsafe streets, gawd-awful schools, ghost neighborhoods, financial legerdemain, and the false Unified Theory of Systemic Racism that cloaks it all. Yet, What Next, Chicago? is no helpless, hopeless wail, but a powerful and useful roadmap for a rebirth of a once-great city, based on the voices of Black families and others who don’t need academia to know what to do. Must reading for Chicago lovers.” —Dennis Byrne, former Chicago Sun-Times editorial board member

Taxi Driver Wisdom

Author : Risa Mickenberg
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1452158207
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (521 download)

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Download or read book Taxi Driver Wisdom written by Risa Mickenberg and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2016-07-19 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Insights on love, pleasure, fate, and other topics” collected from conversations with New York City cabbies (AM New York). The worse a town’s economy is, the better looking the guys who work at the local gas station are. I see more of what is going on around me because I am not concerned with finding a parking place. There is no chivalry. For that you have to go upstate. Real taxi drivers know more than how to get you there without a GPS—often, they know how to get you there in life. This twentieth anniversary edition of the wise and hilarious classic, as true now as ever, is a celebration of the witty, philosophical perspective on human nature culled from real quotations from real cab drivers who’ve been around the block.

Confessions of a New York Taxi Driver (The Confessions Series)

Author : Eugene Salomon
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007500963
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Confessions of a New York Taxi Driver (The Confessions Series) written by Eugene Salomon and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Driving a cab for more than 30 years Gene Salomon has collected a remarkable selection of stories. He shares the very best in this unforgettable memoir.

Is Every Cab Driver Called Roger?

Author : Mounira Chaieb
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9956551813
Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (565 download)

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Download or read book Is Every Cab Driver Called Roger? written by Mounira Chaieb and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2021-04-02 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book of anecdotes - a product of my reflections on both my personal and professional life as a young Tunisian female journalist, coming to work for the 'largest broadcaster in the world' and live in the big city, that is London all by myself. The book traces the Tunisia I grew up in in the sixties - few years after it gained its independence from France, where my parents and I belonged to very different worlds. I come from a traditional family and society where a girl - no matter how educated - only leaves her parents' house to her husband's. So, for my family to allow me that, was something totally unheard of. The book highlights some of the most impressionable experiences I had while working in the Bush House offices in my home department; on secondment to other departments or on work trips abroad for the BBC and other places. At some point and for many years, I was the only Tunisian in the whole organisation. This book also traces what I make of the changes that Tunisia has been through over the years, especially since 2011 and the beginning of what's referred to as 'The Arab Spring' that started there and spread like wildfire to other countries in the region. London is also the place where I met my late husband, the Pan-Africanist Dr Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem. We met by chance three times in three different places before we could speak and the rest as they say is history! I was probably the first Tunisian girl to marry a Nigerian. This book tackles the many challenges our union faced, the issue of identity for our two mixed-race daughters - something very rare back home - and for myself as a Tunisian - British or British-Tunisian, having spent longer in the UK than I did in Tunisia.

The Cab Driver's Daughter

Author : Lynda Randle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692620724
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book The Cab Driver's Daughter written by Lynda Randle and published by . This book was released on 2016-02-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Taxi!

Author : Graham Russell Gao Hodges
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421437805
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Taxi! written by Graham Russell Gao Hodges and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why the cabdriver is the real victim of the false promises of Uber and the gig economy. 2007 Noteworthy Book in Industrial Relations and Labor Economics, Princeton University Industrial Relations Section Hailed in its first edition as a classic study of New York City's history and people, Graham Russell Gao Hodges's Taxi! is a remarkable evocation of the forgotten history of the taxi driver. This deftly woven narrative captures the spirit of New York City cabdrivers and their hardscrabble struggle to capture a piece of the American dream. From labor unrest and racial strife to ruthless competition and political machinations, Hodges recounts this history through contemporary news accounts, Hollywood films, and the words of the cabbies themselves. A new preface recalls the author's five years of hacking in New York City in the early 1970s, and a new concluding chapter explores the rise of app-based ridesharing services with the arrival of companies like Uber and Lyft. Sharply criticizing the use of the independent contractor model that is the cornerstone of Uber and the gig economy, Hodges argues that the explosion of for-hire vehicles in Manhattan reversed decades of environmental anti-congestion efforts. He calls for a return to the careful regulations that governed taxicabs for decades and provided a modest yet secure living for cabbies. Whether or not you've ever hailed a cab on Broadway, Taxi! provides a fascinating perspective on New York's most colorful emissaries.

Driven

Author : Marcello Di Cintio
Publisher : Biblioasis
ISBN 13 : 1771963859
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (719 download)

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Download or read book Driven written by Marcello Di Cintio and published by Biblioasis. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the Bressani Literary Prize • A Globe and Mail Book of the Year • A CBC Books Best Canadian Nonfiction of 2021 In conversations with drivers ranging from veterans of foreign wars to Indigenous women protecting one another, Di Cintio explores the borderland of the North American taxi. “The taxi,” writes Marcello Di Cintio, “is a border.” Occupying the space between public and private, a cab brings together people who might otherwise never have met—yet most of us sit in the back and stare at our phones. Nowhere else do people occupy such intimate quarters and share so little. In a series of interviews with drivers, their backgrounds ranging from the Iraqi National Guard, to the Westboro Baptist Church, to an arranged marriage that left one woman stranded in a foreign country with nothing but a suitcase, Driven seeks out those missed conversations, revealing the unknown stories that surround us. Travelling across borders of all kinds, from battlefields and occupied lands to midnight fares and Tim Hortons parking lots, Di Cintio chronicles the many journeys each driver made merely for the privilege to turn on their rooflight. Yet these lives aren’t defined by tragedy or frustration but by ingenuity and generosity, hope and indomitable hard work. From night school and sixteen-hour shifts to schemes for athletic careers and the secret Shakespeare of Dylan’s lyrics, Di Cintio’s subjects share the passions and triumphs that drive them. Like the people encountered in its pages, Driven is an unexpected delight, and that most wondrous of all things: a book that will change the way you see the world around you. A paean to the power of personality and perseverance, it’s a compassionate and joyful tribute to the men and women who take us where we want to go.

Hack

Author : Dmitry Samarov
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226734749
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Hack written by Dmitry Samarov and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cabdrivers and their yellow taxis are as much a part of the cityscape as the high-rise buildings and the subway. We hail them without thought after a wearying day at the office or an exuberant night on the town. And, undoubtedly, taxi drivers have stories to tell—of farcical local politics, of colorful passengers, of changing neighborhoods and clandestine shortcuts. No one knows a city’s streets—and thus its heart—better than its cabdrivers. And from behind the wheel of his taxi, Dmitry Samarov has seen more of Chicago than most Chicagoans will hope to experience in a lifetime. An artist and painter trained at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Samarov began driving a cab in 1993 to make ends meet, and he’s been working as a taxi driver ever since. In Hack: Stories from a Chicago Cab, he recounts tales that will delight, surprise, and sometimes shock the most seasoned urbanite. We follow Samarov through the rhythms of a typical week, as he waits hours at the garage to pick up a shift, ferries comically drunken passengers between bars, delivers prostitutes to their johns, and inadvertently observes drug deals. There are long waits with other cabbies at O’Hare, vivid portraits of street corners and their regular denizens, amorous Cubs fans celebrating after a game at Wrigley Field, and customers who are pleasantly surprised that Samarov is white—and tell him so. Throughout, Samarov’s own drawings—of his fares, of the taxi garage, and of a variety of Chicago street scenes—accompany his stories. In the grand tradition of Nelson Algren, Saul Bellow, Mike Royko, and Studs Terkel, Dmitry Samarov has rendered an entertaining, poignant, and unforgettable vision of Chicago and its people.

Memoirs of a Winnipeg Cab Driver

Author : E Eddy Proulx
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780228836032
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of a Winnipeg Cab Driver written by E Eddy Proulx and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-04 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cab drivers! What a strange lot! Why would anyone want to drive a hack for a living? Other than being capable enough to safely operate a vehicle, you don't need any special skills or training. You don't need a university degree in the humanities, though you may become a qualified human affairs expert after driving a cab for several years. Cabbies must be the most misunderstood creatures in the world! Why else would they do what they do? Without it being said, a cab driver works twelve hour shifts on a routine daily basis. They often get assaulted, and even more often than not, they get ripped off. Society as a whole views cabbies as individuals with the same I.Q. as a lava lamp, who only drive a taxi because they can't get a job anywhere else, and, they probably have a criminal record too! They get screamed at, threatened, spat on, slapped, punched, kicked, stabbed, and tragically, some get murdered. What person in their right mind would want to take on this kind of a life when they could earn a lot more money with a lot less aggravation and abuse by simply donning a pair of dark glasses and selling pencils on any street corner? I drove a taxi in the city of Winnipeg for about twenty years for Red Patch Taxi. These memories are my memories and I am gladly sharing them with you, the reader. My biggest thanks go out to the city of Winnipeg and to all of its citizens whom I found to be the friendliest people anywhere! I hope that these stories of mine will move you emotionally, either with a smile, a laugh or a tear. Winnipeg, thanks for the memories! Savour the stories!

Moments of Magic

Author : Shep Hyken
Publisher : Shepard Presentations, LLC
ISBN 13 : 0963782002
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (637 download)

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Download or read book Moments of Magic written by Shep Hyken and published by Shepard Presentations, LLC. This book was released on 1993 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Short Dog

Author : Dan Fante
Publisher : Black Sparrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9781574232493
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (324 download)

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Download or read book Short Dog written by Dan Fante and published by Black Sparrow Press. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the freewheeling, debaucherous tradition of Charles Bukowski, a taxi driver's stories from the streets of lowlife Los Angeles. Dan Fante lived the stories he wrote. His voice has the immediacy of a stranger of the next barstool, of a friend who lives on the edge. As he writes in Short Dog (the title comes from street slang for a half-pint of alcohol): I had been back working a cabbie gig as a result of my need for money. And insanity. Hack driver is the only occupation I know about with no boss, and because I have always performed poorly at supervised employment, I returned to the taxi business. The upside, now that I was working again, was that my own boozing was under control and I was on beer only, except for my days off.s"--

The Last Taxi Driver

Author : Lee Durkee
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1951142683
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book The Last Taxi Driver written by Lee Durkee and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Kirkus Best Book of 2020 “A wild, funny, poetic fever dream that will change the way you think about America.” —George Saunders Hailed by George Saunders as “a true original—a wise and wildly talented writer,” Lee Durkee takes readers on a high-stakes cab ride through an unforgettable shift. Meet Lou—a lapsed novelist, struggling Buddhist, and UFO fan—who drives for a ramshackle taxi company that operates on the outskirts of a north Mississippi college town. With Uber moving into town and his way of life vanishing, his girlfriend moving out, and his archenemy dispatcher suddenly returning to town on the lam, Lou must finish his bedlam shift by aiding and abetting the host of criminal misfits haunting the back seat of his disintegrating Town Car. Lou is forced to decide how much he can take as a driver, and whether keeping his job is worth madness and heartbreak. Shedding nuts and bolts, The Last Taxi Driver careens through highways and back roads, from Mississippi to Memphis, as Lou becomes increasingly somnambulant and his fares increasingly eccentric. Equal parts Bukowski and Portis, Durkee’s darkly comic novel is a feverish, hilarious, and gritty look at a forgotten America and a man at life’s crossroads.

The Driver ́s Cab

Author : Michael Hilgers
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 366265136X
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (626 download)

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Download or read book The Driver ́s Cab written by Michael Hilgers and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-07-01 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this work, consisting of 9 individual, self-contained booklets, is to describe commercial vehicle technology in a way that is clear, concise and illustrative. Compact and easy to understand, it provides an overview of the technology that goes into modern commercial vehicles. Starting from the customer's fundamental requirements, the characteristics and systems that define the design of the vehicles are presented knowledgeably in a series of articles, each of which can be read and studied on their own. In this volume, The Driver's Cab, the vehicle cab is reviewed in simple terms for the layman. The three functions it must support, driving, living and sleeping and the features of the cab equipment provided therefor are presented. Important systems of the driver's cab are discussed in readily understandable terms.

Let's Ride

Author : Glaspar Irons
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1644169061
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (441 download)

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Download or read book Let's Ride written by Glaspar Irons and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-05-22 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let's Ride is a tell-all story by a female cab driver in the city of New Orleans, Louisiana. Men and women from any country or state within the United States can ask themselves, "Is that me she's talking about?" or "Is that my spouse or are those my parents in this chapter?" If they were ever in New Orleans, the odds are good that their escapades are in this book. Glaspar Irons will make you feel like you're right there with her while driving down some of the city's most famous streets and past historic landmarks. The book is a must before booking a trip to Louisiana because she tells you where the really good food is. This is an inside look on where to go for amazing meals, music, and local flavor on a cab driver/college student budget! Glaspar answers the questions people want to know about what really happens in a taxicab. Experience the danger, intrigue, and fun of how she deals with people under the influence of their own lives. The author acknowledges those who have been lost while in service to others through some original poetry. Woven throughout its chapters are actual prayers prayed in the cab, encounters of the famous kind, and economics that widen the eyes. Whether ride share or taxi industry loyal, Let's Ride will move you.

The Knowledge

Author : Tom Hutley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781797788654
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (886 download)

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Download or read book The Knowledge written by Tom Hutley and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-25 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To become a London black cab driver aspiring students have to undergo a unique and arduous exam process formally known as; The Knowledge.Join Tom Hutley as he describes his own personal journey, sharing unique insights and tips as to how he reached the required standard to become one of London's elite few.

Billionaire Cab Driver

Author : Joseph Tallal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781944229689
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book Billionaire Cab Driver written by Joseph Tallal and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Billionaire Cab Driver is an easy-to-read financial primer that reveals all of the secrets of personal financial planning that should have been taught to everyone in school. In this fantastic story ancient wisdom meets modern-day techniques. Billionaire cab driver Mr. Kane drives reporter Mr. Langston around the island for a full day as he explains the secrets to building personal financial independence using examples already present in nature. By the day's conclusion, the cab driver has revealed all of the major financial principles necessary for building a personal financial plan that ensures financial success Designed to create a paradigm shift in the way people think about and relate to money and the ability to use it in a way to achieve their financial dreams, Billionaire Cab Driver is organized in a captivating parable format that makes understanding how to become financially independent simple. Your knowledge of money will grow a layer at a time, so by the end of the book, everything will fit together into a strong, new foundation of knowledge of how to take charge of your financial future.

New York Cab Driver and His Fare

Author : Charles Vidich
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351503081
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book New York Cab Driver and His Fare written by Charles Vidich and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using information derived from research and interviews with cab drivers, Vidich has written a basic work on New York City cab drivers (hacks) that also provides passengers (fares) with a survival manual. Cab drivers are quoted by newspaper columnists, politicians, and at dinner parties; yet a hard look at the profession and its role in the transportation system of the city has been completely lacking. Vidich brings out in clear language the conflicts between the cab driver's position as a dispenser of a public service and his needs as a working person subjected to violence and pressure. It is difficult to imagine a more enjoyable introduction to an industry whose members are a folk tradition. At the same time, this book provides insight into the history and sociology of an important urban institution. It is a book about cab drivers everywhere; and cab drivers and fares in all cities have a new handbook in this volume.