We Have Never Been Middle Class: How Social Mobility Misleads Us, Hardcover - Hadas Weiss

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...

With the rise of science, we moderns believe, the world changed irrevocably, separating us forever from our primitive, premodern ancestors. But if ...

Reducere. The United States may be headed toward a disastrous conflict with China unless Washington updates its understanding of contemporary Chinese society...

Reducere. This psychological sci-fi thriller from a debut author follows one doctor who must discover the source of her crew's madness... or risk succumbing ...

We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For - Peter Levine

We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: The Promise of Civic Renewal in America - Peter Levine

A powerful, uplifting queer Muslim memoir by a young Pakistani-Canadian activist and photographer

DescriptionDuring the 1970s and early 1980s, Egypt experienced swift economic growth resulting from a regional oil boom. Oddly, this economic growt...

Named a Notable Work of Nonfiction of 2020 by the Washington PostAs heard on NPR's Fresh Air, We Have Been Harmonized, by award-winning corresponde...

The pervasive state vigilance of Chinese citizens is revealed in full detail in this journey into the dark potential of state surveillance technolo...

Reducere. So, How Long Have You Been Native? is Alexis C. Bunten's firsthand account of what it is like to work in the Alaska cultural tourism industry. An A...

Reducere. The definitive history of the pervasiveness of racial inequality in American higher educationAmerica's colleges and universities have a shameful se...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. New York Times Bestselling author Corinne Michaels returns to the Willow Creek Valley Series in this stunning small town, brother's best friend rom...

The second novel from the author of haunting debut I Stop Somewhere.

Reducere. Campaigning for president in 1980, Ronald Reagan told stories of Cadillac-driving "welfare queens" and "strapping young bucks" buying T-bone steaks...

Reducere. The New York Times bestselling book that both galvanizes progressives for action and is a balm--from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author "A light in ...

How middle-class economic dependence on the state impedes democratization and contributes to authoritarian resilience Conventional wisdom holds tha...

Reducere. Spanning three hundred years and the colonial regimes of Spain, Mexico, and the United States, Maurice S. Crandall's sweeping history of Native Ame...

Contributor(s): Author: David BenatarMost people believe that they were either benefited or at least not harmed by being brought into existence. Th...

This book explores higher education, social class and social mobility from the point of view of those most intimately involved: the undergraduate s...

I did not set out to write a travel book. Instead I started, many years ago, to blog daily idiocentric observations to a small dedicated group of o...

A case study of the biggest natural disasters humanity has survived, andhow they have shaped our history.

History has tended to measure war's winners and losers in terms of its major engagements, battles in which the result was so clear-cut that they co...

A short, innovative book that outlines what we know about the declining state of social mobility in the UK and proposes what we should do to revers...

A short, innovative book that outlines what we know about the declining state of social mobility in the UK and proposes what we should do to revers...

How games are being harnessed as instruments of exploitation ? and what we can do about it.Publisher: Swift PressAuthor(s): Adrian HonNumber of pag...

Reducere. Men I've Never Been recounts Michael Sadowski's odyssey as a boy who shuns his own identity--and, ultimately, his sexual orientation--in order to b...

A subtle psychological portrait of the author's relationship with his father during the twentieth-century battle for Palestinian human rights.Publi...

Physician and former FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb asks: Has America's COVID-19 catastrophe taught us anything?In Uncontrolled Spread, he shows h...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical--and accessible--plan for how the w...

Reducere. 'You Could Have Been...' is a children's picture book for bereaved parents to read to their child who died, or didn't survive a pregnancy. It's fil...

A new novel from award-winning crime writer, A.L. Gaylin. If you liked Serial and S-Town, you'll LOVE this.

A new novel from award-winning crime writer, A.L. Gaylin. If you liked Serial and S-Town, you'll LOVE this.

Reducere. Discover a fun collection of stories about the wonders of natural, curly afro hair Are you searching for the perfect way to teach your daughter abo...

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...