epub |eng | 2011-06-07 | Author:Neil Postman [Postman, Neil]

Etiquette This and the next piece need little advance comment, except to say that the second one is written in the only form (so it seems to me) in which ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2012-01-31 | Author:Charles Murray [Murray, Charles]

Apart from augmenting social capital in general, churches serve specifically as a resource for sustaining a democratic citizenry. Various studies have found that active involvement in church serves as a ...

epub |eng | 2012-09-04 | Author:Paul Tough [Tough, Paul]

The first day and a half was pretty bad. I was on a complete rampage, going over every game and being a huge bitch all the time: saying things like ...

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 |eng | 2011-10-31 | Author:Robert Frank [Frank, Robert]

Initially, Tim and Edra tried to keep the divorce civil and private. But like many divorces involving rich people, it quickly devolved into a spectacle of public attacks and money ...

epub |eng | | Author:Jagdish Bhagwati

Air Transport Regarding air transport, progress has been notable in the construction of modern airports in New Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Bangalore, and even some smaller towns, such as Jaipur. ...

epub |eng | | Author:Richard Wolff

* See the ample documentation of this point in Robert D. Putnam, Bowling Alone: the Collapse and Revival of American Community (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2000). The Major Problems ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-07 | Author:Arianna Huffington

“WHO COULD HAVE KNOWN?” Three weeks after the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, BP finally released underwater video showing a massive column of oil gushing out ...

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, pdf |eng | 2010-05-07 | Author:Murray, Charles & Herrnstein, Richard J. [Murray, Charles]

THE “EDGE” IN AFFIRMATIVE ACTION People may agree that they want affirmative action in higher education until they say more precisely what they mean by it. Then they may disagree. ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2013-01-29 | Author:Al Gore

THIS CHAPTER BEGAN with a discussion of how we are, for the first time, changing the “being” in human being. We are also changing the other beings to which we ...

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 | 2010-09-06 | Author:Arianna Huffington

“WHO COULD HAVE KNOWN?” Three weeks after the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, BP finally released underwater video showing a massive column of oil gushing out ...

mobi |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Richard Wilkinson; Kate Pickett

Bigger differences in material wealth make status differences more important, and in more unequal societies the weight of downward prejudice is bound to be heavier; there is more social distance ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-07-06 | Author:Wendy Burden

For the first time since bearing them, our mother actually had to take care of her children. Will was mostly away, either at school or camp, or at our grandparents’, ...