Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine?
I want to tell the story of the moments - the ups and downs, the triumphs and traumas, the debacles and the dreams - that contributed to the person I am today.
Can a life without luxury be the richest of all?
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The New Jim Crow is such a book.
After, all, a racist is the worst thing a person can be, right? The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed. Alot of stats, too many to take it without having a visual copy infront of you.
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The Fellowship of the Ring, the first volume in the trilogy, tells of the fateful power of the One Ring.
In So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo offers a contemporary, accessible take on the racial landscape in America, addressing head-on such issues as privilege, police brutality, intersectionality, micro-aggressions, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the "N" word.
Beginning in the 17th century, institutions emerged in colonial America that contributed to the creation of a racial caste system. Soulful and uproarious, forceful and tender, Untamed is both a memoir and a galvanizing wake-up call.
Nina once bought into the idea that her fancy liberal arts degree would lead to a fulfilling career.
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Having done field work in New Guinea for more than 30 years, Jared Diamond presents the geographical and ecological factors that have shaped the modern world.
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As the child of refugees of World War II Europe and a renowned philosopher and scholar of propaganda, Jason Stanley has a deep understanding of how democratic societies can be vulnerable to fascism: Nations don’t have to be fascist to suffer from fascist politics.
Some of them oppose Bob’s plan; others have plans of their own.
Once Donald Trump’s fiercest surrogate, closest confidant, and staunchest defender, Michael Cohen knows where the skeletons are buried.
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I rated the book 4-5 stars and my only reason for the 4's is the repitition of facts at quite few stages throughout the book. Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption is a legal memoir by Bryan Stevenson.
As Trump’s lawyer and “fixer”, Cohen not only witnessed firsthand but was also an active participant in the inner workings of Trump’s business empire, political campaign, and presidential administration.
When a stranger named Annie calls claiming to know Paul's whereabouts, Gray reluctantly accepts her help. Really like the summary. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs. A searing call to action for everyone concerned with social justice, The New Jim Crow is one of the most important books about race in the 21st century. ... Free with Audible trial.
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Americans have built an empire on the idea of “race”, a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of Black women and men - bodies exploited through slavery and segregation and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion.
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The narrator is excellent, she has a very pleasant voice and reads at a good speed.
Vince Flynn, Dalinar Kholin's Alethi armies won a fleeting victory at a terrible cost. Ibram X. Kendi, Narrated by:
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In 2013, 29-year-old Edward Snowden shocked the world when he broke with the American intelligence establishment and revealed that the United States government was secretly pursuing the means to collect every single phone call, text message, and email.
There are no commitments and no cancellation fees. Private Detective Cormoran Strike is visiting his family in Cornwall when he is approached by a woman asking for help finding her mother, Margot Bamborough - who went missing in mysterious circumstances in 1974.
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And she’s bringing an army. Rather, it offers a deeply reasoned and evocative examination of the contests over the next chapter of capitalism that will decide the meaning of information civilization in the 21st century.
With clear-sighted rigour, Wilkerson unearths the eight pillars that connect caste systems across civilisations and demonstrates how our own era of intensifying conflict and upheaval has arisen as a consequence of caste.
Much of the inception of the war on drugs fell to the black community trying to preserve itself, not the white man trying to tear it down. Between the World and Me is Ta-Nehisi Coates’ attempt to answer these questions in a letter to his adolescent son. Check out this great listen on Audible.com.
if you want to understand black history start here , regardless where you live especially if you're in the UK, This is an incredible book on racism, institutional racism and mass incarceration in the US. Mary L. Trump PhD, By: But after growing up together in a small, Southern Black community and running away at age 16, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities.
When that dream crashed, she turned to stealing from rich kids in LA alongside her wily Irish boyfriend, Lachlan.
Celie has grown up poor in rural Georgia, despised by society and abused by her own family.
The book, published in 2018, has gained strong reviews because it explores race in-depth and attempts to break down those walls that white people have built in order to protect themselves from acknowledging their race and the benefits it gives them in life. Robin DiAngelo, George Orwell depicts a gray, totalitarian world dominated by Big Brother and its vast network of agents, including the Thought Police - a world in which news is manufactured according to the authorities' will and people live tepid lives by rote.
“The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line,” writes Du Bois, in one of the most prophetic works in all of American literature.
Once Donald Trump’s fiercest surrogate, closest confidant, and staunchest defender, Michael Cohen knows where the skeletons are buried. Kat Dennings, But Kya is not what they say.