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"Rupert's 30th birthday party is a black-tie dinner at the Kentish Town McDonald's-catered with cocaine and Veuve Clicquot. The morning after, his girlfriend Clemmie is found murdered on Hampstead Heath, a single stiletto heel jutting from under a bush. All the party-goers have alibis. Naturally. This investigation is going to be about aristocrats and Classics degrees, Instagram influencers and whose father knows who. Or is it 'whom'? Detective Caius...
2) Sky's end
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"Exiled to live as a Low, sixteen-year-old Conrad refuses to become heir to his murderous uncle. But Meritocracy is a harsh and unforgiving rule on the floating island of Holmstead, and when his ailing mother is killed by monstrous gorgantauns, Conrad cuts a deal to save the only family he has left. To rescue his sister from his uncle's clutches, Conrad must enter the Selection of the Twelve Trades"--
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"A new novel that gives voice to the diverse residents of a Palestinian American community in Baltimore--from young activists in conflict with their traditional parents to the poor who clean for the rich--shows lives which intersect across divides of class, generation and religion"--
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Class, Race, and Gender: Challenging the Injuries and Divisions of Capitalism is for those who want to understand the underlying connections among today's social justice movements.
Bringing forth the basic operations of capitalist economies, it reveals what is driving many of today's most urgent and vexing problems: the common origins of the inequalities of income, wealth, and power; environmental devastation; militarism; racism and white supremacy;...
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"Pacific Hills, California: Gated communities, ocean views, well-tended lawns, serene pools, and now the new home of the Shah family. For the Shah parents, who came to America twenty years earlier with little more than an education and their new marriage, this move represents the culmination of years of hard work and dreaming. For their children, born and raised in America, success is not so simple. For the most part, these differences among the five...
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Searching for truth can sometimes feel like finding a needle in a haystack in a world filled with information overload. But fear not, as we embark on this noble quest together!When analyzing critical issues, it is crucial to approach the task with an open mind and a discerning eye. We must be willing to dive deep into the facts and evidence, seeking clarity amidst the noise. It's like being detectives of truth, piecing together the puzzle of knowledge.By...
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«Juin 2018. J'effectue une entrevue sur les ondes de Radio-Canada avec l'écrivain Édouard Louis. On discute ensemble de son parcours de transfuge de classe. Mes parents sont à l'écoute. L'histoire de pauvreté économique, culturelle et politique des parents d'Édouard Louis les renverse tant elle ressemble à la leur. C'est un choc.
Plus tard, ma mère m'écrit ce message : "Ce que ton père pis moi on a vécu, y'a plein de gens d'ici qui...
10) Covid, Capitalism, and Class War, Volume 1 2020: A Social and Political Chronology of the Pandemic
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COVID, Capitalism, and Class War is the definitive scientific, social and political account of the COVID-19 pandemic, drawing on investigative reports, economic data, and extensive interviews with scientists, doctors, healthcare professionals, and workers.A unique element are the rich accounts by workers around the world – from factories, meatpacking plants, transport and logistic centers, hospitals, and schools – of the devastating toll the uncontrolled...
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Pairs vers un monde meilleur plonge profondément dans les complexités de la souffrance psycho-sociale, en explorant à la fois ceux qui l'endurent et la perpétuent. Cet ouvrage cherche à informer, sensibiliser et encourager une compréhension plus intense de cette souffrance, tout en remettant en question une société qui tolère les injustices et les inégalités ; ceci en opposant autorité et résignation. Dans cette démarche, la parole se...
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The feminist movement in Japan has impacted every aspect of contemporary life there. Now more than ever, the myth of a homogenous population living within traditional gender roles is being challenged. LGBT people are coming out of the closet; ethnic minorities are mobilizing for change; single mothers are an expanding population; women are becoming political leaders and professional wrestlers as men are becoming house husbands. Transforming Japan...
13) The familiar
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"In a shabby house, on a shabby street, in the new capital of Madrid, Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her days of endless toil as a scullion. But when her scheming mistress discovers the lump of a servant cowering in the kitchen is actually hiding a talent for little miracles, she demands Luzia use those gifts to better the family's social position. What begins as simple amusement for the bored nobility takes a perilous turn when...
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This Book Identifies an Enormous, World-Wide Travesty & Injustice That Has Been Allowed to Persist & Metastasize Throughout Hospital Systems & Medical Personnel Training Institutions for Centuries & Lays Out A Detailed Plan For Implementation of Urgent & Crucial Societal Changes That Are Now Urgently Necessary.
There Is Dire Need For Independent Physicians (a.k.a. "The Slaves") To Stand United & Unionize To Wage Battle Against Tyrant And Unethical...
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Research–driven and clearly written, bestselling economist Richard Florida addresses the growing alarm about the exodus of high–value jobs from the USA.
Today's most valued workers are what economist Richard Florida calls the Creative Class. In his bestselling The Rise of the Creative Class, Florida identified these variously skilled individuals as the source of economic revitalisation in US cities. In that book, he shows that investment in...
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Social class remains a fundamental presence in British life in the twenty-first century. It is woven into the very fabric of social and political discourse, undiminished by the end of mass industry; unaugmented despite the ascendancy of 'ordinary working people' and other substitute phrases. Absent from this landscape, however, is any compelling Marxist expression or analysis of class.
In Class Matters, Charles Umney brings Marxist analysis out...
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With musical language and vivid imagery, Irregular Heartbeats at the Park West attunes us to the sheer wonder of being alive. Intimate reflections on family histories, hardship, and everyday life reveal the ways art and nature can lift us from grief and serve as lodestars in an increasingly uncertain world. Russell Brakefield's poems span American landscapes and personal experience, dropping down in music venues and dark barrooms, back alleys and...
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A woman reflects on her working-class roots, her unsuitable exes, and her accidental road to happiness in a memoir of "many delights" (Atlanta Journal Constitution).
A misfit in Spooner, Wisconsin, with its farms, bars, and strip joints, Debra Monroe leaves to earn a degree, then another, and another, and builds a career-if only because her plans to be a midwestern housewife continually get scuttled. Fearless but naive, she vaults over class barriers...
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Diego saute d'un cinquième étage, et à partir de ce moment, l'image est gravée dans l'esprit de sa sœur : six secondes et un corps qui s'écrase contre le sol. Elle raconte l'histoire de sa relation à son frère : leur venue au monde dans un foyer o la vie n'était jamais belle, les années passées au Mexique avec leurs grands-parents pendant que leur mère cherchait une nouvelle vie en Espagne et qu'elle s'occupait de Diego alors qu'elle était...
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Extraordinary true stories of the Irish in America, their remarkable rise from urban poverty, and the powerful dynasties they engendered Author Stephen Birmingham, who chronicled the rise of Jewish immigrants to extraordinary wealth and success in "Our Crowd", now turns his attention to the Irish. Real Lace tells the colorful and fascinating true stories of America's most renowned Irish-Catholic families. Scions of courageous, driven, and resilient...
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