epub |eng | 2011-04-25 | Author:Richard Wilkinson & Kate Pickett [Wilkinson, Richard & Pickett, Kate]

So social mobility is lower and geographical segregation greater in more unequal societies. It is as if greater inequality makes the social structure of society more rigid and movement up ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-12-26 | Author:The Countess of Carnarvon [Carnarvon, The Countess of]

12 War Heroes After six months of listening to horror stories from the Western Front and tending desperate patients, the familiarity of the winter trip to Egypt must have felt ...

epub |eng | | Author:Henry James

* * * CHAPTER III. * * * It was for the elucidation of a mystery in one of these works that I first tried Mrs. Monarch. Her husband came ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2010-11-25 | Author:Eric Hobsbawm [Hobsbawm, Eric]

II The economic forces moving agriculture in those areas where it was accessible to change were those of expansion. Yet over most of the world it inevitably came up against ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-04 | Author:Joseph E. Stiglitz [Stiglitz, Joseph E.]

The Right’s alternative Europe’s crisis is not an accident, but it’s not caused by excessive long-term debts and deficits or by the “welfare” state. It’s caused by excessive austerity—cutbacks in ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2008-06-23 | Author:Bageant, Joe [Bageant, Joe]

Recalling Ed and Charlie in their funky old guys’ lair by the creek, it occurs to me that not once did we mention the Second Amendment. But then not many ...

mobi |eng | 2010-04-01 | Author:Jeremy Musson

Next, the valet assists with shaving his master and combing his hair. Then when the master has gone down to breakfast, he will ‘set the room in order’, look over ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-10-11 | Author:Chrystia Freeland

Bringing this dream to life required the robber barons: “To be made real, it required use of the talents of men of tremendous will, and tremendous ambition, since by no ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-07-15 | Author:Donald L. Barlett & James B. Steele

Even better for Arison and his family was yet another provision in the SEC public offering document that said: “The company intends to distribute dividends to all shareholders in at ...

mobi |eng | 2012-06-03 | Author:Stiglitz, Joseph E. [Stiglitz, Joseph E.]

UNMASKING THE DEFICIT AGENDA: PRESERVING AND EXTENDING INEQUALITIES It might seem strange, in a country where tax rates at the top are already lower than they are in most of ...

epub, mobi |eng | 1989-11-04 | Author:gail maccoll [maccoll, gail]

* * * When he finally inherited Kedleston in 1916, George Curzon embarked on a renovation program that included installing bathrooms. With characteristic attention to detail, he lay down in ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-02-21 | Author:Marcus Rediker

In 1718, in his opening remarks in the trial of Stede Bonnet and crew in Charleston, Richard Allen, attorney general of South Carolina, explained that piracy “is a Crime so ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2012-05-07 | Author:Kent Flannery & Joyce Marcus [Flannery, Kent & Marcus, Joyce]

Land and Power in Tonga At the heart of the Tongan invasions of other islands was an important difference between the aspirations of Samoan and Tongan chiefs. Samoan ali’i, as ...