The Upside of Inequality: How Good Intentions Undermine the Middle Class, Hardcover

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Why do we cut off our noses to spite our faces? A leading expert in psychology shines a light on a universal emotion

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Reducere. Vivid character-driven narrative, fused with important new economic and political reporting and research, that busts the myths about middle class d...

-Dan Ariely is a genius at understanding human behavior: no economist does a better job of uncovering and explaining the hidden reasons for the wei...

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The Upside of Being Down shows the winding paths that are the thoughts that go through one's mind, and the debilitating symptoms that come alight w...

A compelling, outstandingly direct and genuine book about how a doctor is madePublisher: Little, Brown Book GroupAuthor(s): Sophie HarrisonNumber o...

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The culture of entitlement to protection from opposing ideas at US colleges is analysed in terms of its effects on the broader cultural climate, an...

Takes on received wisdom about gay identities and gay rights, arguing that we are not "almost there, " but on the contrary have settled for a water...

DescriptionA finalist for the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction A New York Times Notable Book Bloomberg Best Book of 2018 The N...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Shannon SullivanWinner of the 2016 Outstanding Book Award presented by the Society of Professors of Education Building on h...

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How did we come to imagine what ideal childhood requires? Beginning in the late eighteenth century, German child-rearing radically transformed, and...

In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, more than 14 million U.S. homeowners filed for foreclosure. Focusing on the hard-hit Sacramento Vall...

Reducere. DescriptionA brilliant and insightful exploration of the rise and fall of the American middle class by New York Times bestselling author, Barbara E...

In the 1970s, the city of Genoa in northern Italy was suffering the economic decline and the despondency common to industrial centers of the Wester...

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Our early ancestors lived in small groups and worked actively to preserve social equality. As they created larger societies, however, inequality ro...

Winner of the 2021 Lionel Gelber Prize: A provocative look at how today's trade conflicts are caused by governments promoting the interests of elit...

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DescriptionTaking apart the ideology of the "middle class" Tidings of a shrinking middle class in one part of the world and its expansion in anothe...

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Reducere. A vivid character-driven narrative, fused with important new economic and political reporting and research, that busts the myths about middle class...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Ruth ColkerIllustration(s): 1 tableNumber of pages: 280Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 162 x ...

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In a fascinating book that reads like a potent elixir, three parts memoir and one part inspirational self-improvement guide, readers are ushered th...

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America is becoming a class-based society.It is now conventional wisdom to focus on the wealth of the top 1 percent--especially the top 0.01 percen...

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