Divide. American injustice in the age of the wealth gap, Paperback - Matt Taibbi

Driven by immersive reporting, this is a stunning, enraging revelation of the newest high-stakes divide in the US: between a lawless aristocracy of...

One of the most important voices in contemporary American journalism - Independent Matt Taibbi is one of the few journalists in America who speaks ...

A brilliantly illuminating and darkly comic tale of the ongoing financial and political crisis in America The financial crisis that exploded in 200...

Reducere. For every dollar owned by the average white family in the United States, the average family of color has less than a dime. Why do people of color h...

In real life, there is a person like "Anonymous", who, for the sake of this story, I'll call Huey Carmichael. I was friends with this person for a ...

Reducere. Description"A deep accounting of how America got to a point where a median white family has 13 times more wealth than the median black family."--Th...

Thinking about Animals in the Age of the Anthropocene makes connections between the Anthropocene discourse and human-animal studies, thus facilitat...

The twelve essays in this volume, each written by a leading specialist, present an accessible and comprehensive introduction to Italian Renaissance...

An exploration of the hitherto neglected architectural legacy of the boom in manufacturing in the Veneto in the Renaissance, exploiting natural mat...

Tourism Marketing: In the Age of the Consumer offers a fresh and contemporary approach as an introductory textbook on tourism marketing. Six major ...

For Grant Morrison, possibly the greatest of contemporary superhero storytellers, these heroes are not simply characters but powerful archetypes wh...

This book examines crucial aspects of the important cultural relationship between Turin and Britain in the period 1600-1800, when Savoy-Piedmont wa...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Michael (Dublin City University, Ireland) CroninNumber of pages: 178Collection: New Perspectives in Trans...

Publisher: Mortons Media GroupAuthor(s): Graham H.E. TwidaleIllustration(s): 135 b&w illustrationsNumber of pages: 96Collection: The nostalgia coll...

Reducere. In Liberty and Insanity in the Age of the American Revolution, Sarah L. Swedberg examines how conceptions of mental illness intersected with Americ...

Why do the UK and US disproportionately incarcerate the mentally ill? Via multiple re-framings of the question-theological, socioeconomic, and psyc...

A shocking and deeply reported account of the persistent plague of institutional racism and junk forensic science in our criminal justice system an...

Jaclyn Granick reveals the untold story of how American Jews reinvented modern humanitarianism during the Great War and rebuilt Jewish life in Jewi...

A remarkable intellectual history of the slave revolts that made the modern revolutionary era

Based on his work at companies like Ford, Christian Madsbjerg's Sensemaking is a provocative stand against the tyranny of big data and scientism, a...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Ryan BoehmIllustration(s): 6 mapsNumber of pages: 316Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 154 x 22...

Reducere. DescriptionFew topics have generated as much heat amongst evangelicals as the age of the earth and the doctrine of creation. Three camps have emerg...

How will automated vehicles change our lives? Where are the opportunities and challenges? Future streets require planning today. This timely book e...

DescriptionBased on unparalleled access to those involved, and told with compelling pace and drama, The Bank that Lived a Little describes three de...

This Element explores human travel encounters with the environment over the centuries and asks, what is the future for travel writing in the age of...

This book shows how self-improvement culture became so toxic-and why we need both a new concept of the self and a mission of social change in order...

Reducere. When the Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1863, the black community owned less than one percent of the United States' total wealth. More tha...

Looks at several sensational trials involving drugs, murder, adultery, miscegenation and sexual perversion in the period 1918-24 -- .

Publisher: Westholme Publishing, U.S.Author(s): Carl LaneIllustration(s): 10 b/wNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 238 x 162 x 2...

Publisher: Beacon PressAuthor(s): Marcus RedikerNumber of pages: 248Publication date: 2015Dimensions: 155 x 228 x 26Cover type: Paperback / softbac...

This book explores the fraught and widespread reliance by journalists on anonymous sources, whistleblowers and others to whom they owe an obligatio...

DescriptionLeonardo da Vinci was the epitome of the Renaissance humanist ideal, a logical polymath of epic proportions who excelled and had interes...

Reducere. From the theme resorts of Dubai to the jungles of Papua New Guinea, a disturbing but hilarious tour of the exotic east--and of the tour itselfSick ...

Reducere. - Foreword by Peter Steinke - Magnum opus of leading figure in application of family systems theory to congregations - Widely used in seminary and ...

Reducere. In Things That Make Us Smart, Donald A. Norman explores the complex interaction between human thought and the technology it creates, arguing for th...

DescriptionThe first global history of the middle class While the nineteenth century has been described as the golden age of the European bourgeois...

Kirwin R. Shaffer examines the Caribbean anarchist networks of the early 1900s and demonstrates how transnational networks of radicals linked the C...

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Publisher: Intellect BooksAuthor(s): Doctor Gjoko (University of Cincinnati) MuratovskiIllustration(s): 12 Halftones, black and whiteNumber of page...

Reducere. In the last century philosophy has undergone essential transfor-mations. Some spoke of the death of philosophy. Others argued about the absorption ...