Mike Davis
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No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, "Los Angeles brings it all together." To detractors, LA is a sunlit mortuary where "you can rot without feeling it." To Mike Davis, the author of this fiercely elegant and wide-ranging work of social history, Los Angeles is both utopia and dystopia, a place where the last Joshua trees are being plowed under to make room for model communities in the desert, where the rich have...
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The MacArthur Fellow and author of Dead Cities presents a terrifying forecast of a new global threat—and “its argument is irrefutable” (The Independent).
Hailed by The Nation as a “master of disaster prose,” author and activist Mike Davis addresses the imminent catastrophe of Avian influenza. In 1918, a pandemic strain of influenza killed at least forty million people...
Hailed by The Nation as a “master of disaster prose,” author and activist Mike Davis addresses the imminent catastrophe of Avian influenza. In 1918, a pandemic strain of influenza killed at least forty million people...
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"A rare combination of an author, [Mike Davis is] Rachel Carson and Upton Sinclair all in one."—Susan Faludi
"[Davis' writing is] perceptive and rigorous."—David Montgomery, The Nation
"[Davis' work is] brilliant, provocative, and exhaustively researched."—The Village Voice
"[Davis' work is] eloquent and passionate."—Tariq Ali
No One Is Illegal debunks the leading ideas behind
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As the Friends enjoy Heartlake Amusement Park, Emma types a text to Mia, but sends it to Matthew by mistake; a text that could be mega-embarrassing for Emma! As her BFF's, the Friends race to find Matthew's phone and erase the text before he reads it. But first, they must brave space rides, dunking booths and worse: the boys locker room!
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At the Country Club where she teaches horseback riding after school, Mia's heroic rescue of a puppy and horse earns the overwhelming gratitude of their owner, a teen bulldozer named Fiona. But when Fiona's pushy, over-the-top appreciation makes Mia's life a living nightmare, the Friends must Ride To The Rescue!
