On the 14th June 2017, a fire engulfed a tower block in West London, seventy-two people lost their lives and hundreds of others were left displaced and traumatised.
Birthright citizenship has a deep and contentious history in the United States, one often hard to square in a country that prides itself on being "e;a nation of immigrants.
'A deeply intelligent and searching book, one that makes you re-consider the narrative of your own life and reframe the story you tell yourself' Hilary Mantel"e;There was a question that had come to trouble me a bit earlier, once I had taken the first steps on this return journey to Reims.
Birthright citizenship has a deep and contentious history in the United States, one often hard to square in a country that prides itself on being "e;a nation of immigrants.
Extrait : "La médiocre instruction que j'ai reçue (je ne suis allé à l'école que jusqu'à l'âge de treize ans) ne me permet pas de me mettre au niveau d'un écrivain ; je suis tout simplement un ancien commerçant qui, par suite de son amour pour la classe ouvrière, a essayé de lui désiller les yeux en lui montrant le danger qu'il y a pour elle à écouter certains journalistes qui ne vivent qu'en entretenant les grèves et fermentant les révolutions.
Storming Heaven is the only book which looks at Italian workerist theory and practice, from its origins in the anti-Stalinist left of the 1950s to its heyday twenty years later.
Extrait : "Je me suis proposé de constater par la double et parallèle étude des faits et des sentiments, des idées et des résultats acquis, la marche en avant des sociétés modernes et particulièrement la nôtre, dans les voies du travail et de la production, sur le terrain de la liberté et de l'esprit chrétien.
El llamado "despertar muisca" es un gran proyecto de las actuales comunidades y organizaciones para que su cultura y sus espacios de representación retornen al centro del campo etnopolítico de Colombia.
A hilarious collection of the most agonizing real-life inconveniences faced by the iPhone-losing, polenta-burning, Eurostar-missing middle classes, illustrated by Matt Blease My pug has hiccups I've given myself a croissant headache I just dropped batteries in my quinoa Think I ve forgotten how to ski Can't find your melon baller?
The alarming history of the British, and European, aristocracy - from Argyll to Wellington and from Byron to Tolstoy, stories of madness, murder, misery, greed and profligacy.
In this ground-breaking book on the children of affluence, a well-known clinical psychologist exposes the epidemic of emotional problems that are disabling Americas privileged youth, thanks, in large part, to normalized, intrusive parenting that stunts the crucial development of the self.
Based on three years of anthropological fieldwork in the Indian state of Rajasthan, Casting Kings explores the manner in which semi-nomadic performers known as Bhats understand, and also subvert, caste hierarchies.
A Times Literary Supplement's Book of the Year 2020A New Statesman's Best Book of 2020A Bloomberg's Best Book of 2020A Guardian Best Book About Ideas of 2020The world-renowned philosopher and author of the bestselling Justice explores the central question of our time: What has become of the common good?
The New York Times bestselling work of undercover reportage from our sharpest and most original social critic, with a new foreword by Matthew Desmond, author of EvictedMillions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages.
In this controversial and hotly discussed book, Sir Peregrine presents a reactionary and playful look at the origins, evolution and demise of the aristocracy.
A finales de los años ochenta, Duro Felguera es un gigante industrial centenario que vertebra la cuenca del Nalón con sus miles de puestos de trabajo y mantiene estrechos vínculos con el poder político.
In this fascinating and well researched work of the history of the heyday of Victorian British society, Harrison seamlessly weaves together the overlapping developments in politics, economy, social and culture.
Longlisted for The Bruntwood Prize, Phil Ormrod's searing play, Isaac Came Home from the Mountain is about searching for a future in the dying heart of England.
A collection of Danilou's writings that builds a bold and cogent defense of India's caste system*; Looks at the Hindu caste system not as racist inequality but as a natural ordering of diversity*; Reveals the stereotypes of Indian society invented to justify colonialism*; Includes never-before-published articles by the internationally recognized Hindu scholar and translator of The Complete Kama Sutra (200,000 copies sold)In classical India social ethics are based on each individual's functional role in society.
