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A Room of His Own sheds light on the mysterious ways of male associational culture as it examines such topics as fraternity, sophistication, nostalgia, social capital, celebrity, gossip, and male professionalism. The story of clubland (and the literature it generated) begins with Britain's military heroes home from the Napoleonic campaign and quickly turns to Dickens's and Thackeray's acrimonious Garrick Club Affair.

In a Fifth Avenue apartment high above Central Park, a weathy art dealer and his wife are trying to interest a moneyed friend in a $2 million investment when an unexpected young guest arrives - and changes their lives forever. Performed by a full cast starring Alan Alda, Swoosie Kurtz, and Chuma Hunter-Gault.

A senior editor at Mother Jones dives into the lives of the extremely rich, showing the fascinating, otherworldly realm they inhabit—and the insidious ways this realm harms us all. Have you ever fantasized about being ridiculously wealthy? Probably. Striking it rich is among the most resilient...

Americans are in the midst of a world-historic drug binge. Opiates, amphetamines, benzodiazepines, marijuana, antidepressants, antipsychotics—across the board, consumption has shot up in the twenty-first century. At the same time, the United States is home to the largest prison system in the world, justified in part by a now zombified "war" on drugs. How did we get here?

Peasants dismantles enduring myths about this forgotten class as archaic or backward, revealing instead a fiercely adaptive and politically indispensable majority whose fate is inseparable from our own. Travelling from Indian sugar fields to the rice landscapes of Cambodia, the coca valleys of Peru to Ghana's cocoa belt, Maryam Aslany explores contemporary peasant worlds to uncover the exploitative systems that power global markets – and the human lives at their core.

The Box Of Secrets, he said weakly, was under his bed. It had a padlock. The padlock key was with some other items in the safe. We were under strict instructions not to open the box until after his death. He said I knew what the safe code was. I wasn't entirely sure that I did... To the outside...

In The Psychology of Victimhood, Kevin L. Whitworth delivers a bold cultural diagnosis of how grievance, resentment, and envy have been transformed into moral currency in the modern age. Drawing from psychology, economics, media dynamics, and real-world examples, this audiobook reveals how victimhood has evolved from a condition to overcome into an identity to protect—and even monetize.

Em sua estreia na dramaturgia, Dani Balbi traz ao público um texto marcado pela urgência e pela força. Mãe, preta, reincidente põe em cena a violência contra a população periférica brasileira a partir de um invejável manejo cênico. É dessa maneira que a obra se constrói através de camadas múltiplas: a violência dos fatos é construída a partir da violência presente nas palavras, nas marcações teatrais e nas rubricas.

American democracy depends on united support by the largest economic class in the nation—the middle class. But this class faces a crisis of internal division, threatening America’s future. If conflict continues to worsen, it could lead to violence, threatening democracy itself. Since the 1980s, the upper middle class—the affluent group just below the top one percent—has reaped far more benefit from economic growth than the rest of the class. This division has provoked anger among those without the opportunity to move up.

In Why Are Health Disparities Everyone's Problem? Dr. Lisa Cooper shows how we can work together to eliminate the injustices that plague our health care system and society. The book follows Cooper's journey from her childhood in Liberia, West Africa, to her thirty-year career working first as a clinician and then as a health equity researcher at Johns Hopkins University. Drawing on her experiences, it explores how differences in communication and the quality of relationships affect health outcomes.

Across America’s backroads, fields once plowed by calloused hands stand overgrown. Fence posts lean where generations once braced against the wind. Homesteads that echoed with cattle, hymns, and supper-time laughter now sit quiet beneath blinking red towers of green-energy deals, foreign investors, and promises that never came true.

To end homelessness, we don’t have to choose between faith and facts. For over a century, the primary Christian ministry model for the un­housed in North America has been gospel rescue missions that offer shelter and food but prioritize evangelism over proven solutions. This approach often perpetuates homelessness rather than ending it.

A visually striking exploration of money—and the lack of it—in America told through the lives of ten individuals, from a Pulitzer Prize–winning data journalist and artist “Astonishing . . . Chalabi’s taboo-busting transparency about peoples’ financial lives is revolutionary enough...

In the early 1970s, with the raging Vietnam War, oppression of civil and human rights, and the environment under relentless destruction, young people of America wanted major change—and they got to work. This is the true story of a group of independent, free-spirited youth who rebelled against the system and built a new way to live, creating community and celebrating life while supporting themselves in unique and unconventional ways.

A New York Times bestselling historian confronts the myth of American meritocracy and our enduring reverence for the über-rich—and how that feedback loop corrodes democracy Americans are taught to see aristocracy as everything we are not. Yet from the Revolution forward, the nation has...

Just six years after the Racial Reckoning that followed the murder of George Floyd, we are witnessing a full-scale assault on equality in America unparalleled since the overthrow of Reconstruction. Building on the urgency and clarity of his New York Times and Washington Post bestseller Brown Is the New White and his "spirited and persuasive" (Publishers Weekly) How We Win the Civil War, Steve Phillips now calls on the nation to go back on the offensive in the fight for racial justice.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Winner of the 2021 National Business Book Award Shortlisted for the 2021 Donner Prize A bold and urgent argument by the Prime Minister of Canada and former bank governor on the radical, foundational change that is required if we are to build an economy and society...

The pressures that separate us have a common root: our tendency to cast people and groups in irreconcilable terms – or the process of "othering." This book gives vital language to this universal problem, unveiling its machinery at work across time and around the world. To subvert it, john a. powell and Stephen Menendian make a powerful and sweeping case for adopting a paradigm of belonging that does not require the creation of an "other." This new paradigm hinges on transitioning from narrow to expansive identities.

Giulia Blasi parte da una serie di riflessioni personali da attivista in preda a un momento di sconforto per decostruire la narrazione dell'isolamento e mettersi alla ricerca di un'alternativa concreta al senso di impotenza che attraversa il nostro tempo. Il risultato è un libro che non fornisce soluzioni facili per problemi complessi ma prova a disegnare una mappa per orientarsi in un periodo di grande difficoltà collettiva, cercando una via d'uscita dal Tapinocene, l'era dell'infelicità.

Something has changed in the way we live. Not suddenly, not loudly — but everywhere. Our ambitions feel familiar, yet slightly rehearsed. Our pleasures are polished, but strangely thin. We keep moving upward without quite knowing who built the staircase. This book enters the rooms where status takes shape:
the gallery opening dressed as a social ritual, the office that feels like a stage set, the home improved until it resembles a photograph. It is a study of progress — and its quiet costs. A portrait of a civilisation that prizes momentum while forgetting to ask where it is headed.