![]() The first is that it was very Western centered. ![]() I also pointed to the disturbing ascent of inequalities since the 1980s. To summarize Capital briefly, it showed how, in the twentieth century, the two world wars led to a very strong reduction in the inequalities inherited from the nineteenth century. All these exchanges pushed me to renew my reflections. I was invited to countries about which I knew little, met new researchers, and participated in hundreds of debates. I’ve learned a lot since the release of Capital in the Twenty-First Century. What prompted you to write another major book so soon? We caught up with him to ask about his new book and to discuss the politics behind the long history of inequality.Ĭapital in the Twenty-First Century was an unusually ambitious book. In his audacious follow-up, Capital and Ideology, he exposes the ideas that have sustained inequality for the past millennium, reveals why the shallow politics of right and left are failing us today, and outlines the structure of a fairer economic system. ![]() ![]() Thomas Piketty’s bestselling Capital in the Twenty-First Century galvanized global debate about inequality. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() All readers are guaranteed to find something new. ![]() ![]() Many of the events and historical figures covered here will be familiar to historians of sexuality in the modern US, but Faderman also draws attention to lesser-known LGBT activists. The Gay Revolution focuses on the accomplishments, rather than the limitations or mistakes, of the LGBT movement, closing with words of Franklin Kameny, “We started with nothing, and look what we have wrought!” Lillian Faderman, The Gay Revolution (Simon & Schuster, 2015)įaderman’s book is aimed at a broad audience. Faderman conducted an astonishing number of oral history interviews for the project these humanize the book’s epic scope and eloquently convey the courage of those who have fought for gay rights from the grassroots level to the halls of Congress. Lillian Faderman’s The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle (Simon & Schuster, 2015) provides a moving and far-reaching account of the LGBT movement in the United States, from the founding of the homophile movement in the 1950s, to recent struggles for an Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) and the United States Supreme Court’s recognition of gay couples’ right to marry across the nation this past summer. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Throughout the years of love, marriage, children, pairings of friends, and struggles to save the ranch from storms and a sworn enemy, Joanna, coached by a half-Aborigine friend, learns something of the old ways, as well as the ``soul links'' of the ``dreamings'' and ``songlines.'' When six-year-old Beth is almost killed by a wild dog, her mother, Joanna, knows she must go beyond what she already understands from the satchel's contents. Joanna, who agreed to be ``nanny'' for Adam, has brought with her a satchel of odd artifacts, including a deed to a land unknown, pages of cryptic symbols, and (later found) a priceless opal. Joanna's dead mother, like Adam, had been transported alone back to England, a traumatized child, but it was not until Joanna was six that her mother became the prey of dreams-dogs, a terrible serpent, a curse-that eventually killed her. Joanne Drury meets sheep-rancher Hugh Westbrook on the dock upon her arrival from England Hugh is to take charge of five-year- old orphaned Adam, a frenzied, silent, terrified child. Wood (Vital Signs, 1985 Soul Flame, 1987, etc.) has tracked doctor/healer women bucketing on to survival against mighty odds here, a young Englishwoman, arrived in 1871 to pioneer Australia, embarks on a search for the nightmare core of a generational curse-both thwarted and aided by the rapidly disappearing secret ancient culture of the Aborigines. ![]() ![]() I told everyone I was your wife When Edward comes to, he's more than a little confused. He's unconscious and in desperate need of her care, and Cecilia vows that she will save this soldier's life, even if staying by his side means telling one little lie. ![]() But after a week of searching, she finds not her brother but his best friend, the handsome officer Edward Rokesby. Instead, she chooses option three and travels across the Atlantic, determined to nurse her brother back to health. ![]() With her brother Thomas injured on the battlefront in the Colonies, orphaned Cecilia Harcourt has two unbearable choices: move in with a maiden aunt or marry a scheming cousin. A generation before the Bridgertons, there were the Rokesbys. ![]() _ Go back to where it all began with the second book in Sunday Times bestselling author Julia Quinn's dazzlingly witty Bridgerton prequel series. ![]() ![]() ![]() I'm a Bond Enforcement Agent, working for my cousin Vincent Plum, and I run down bad guys. The Hungarian genes also carry a certain amount of luck and gypsy intuition, both of which I need in my present job. I'm told the good Hungarian metabolism only lasts until I'm forty, so I'm counting down. My mother's side is Hungarian and from this I get blue eyes and the ability to eat birthday cake and still button the top snap on my jeans. ![]() Not to mention, I inherited a lot of unmanageable brown hair and rude hand gestures from my father's Italian side of the family. A good example in Jersey isn't exactly the national ideal. Okay, so my mother was probably right, but I'm from Jersey and truth is, I have a hard time getting a grip on the good example thing. You have to exercise, eat good food and be nice to old people." "You're famous now," my mother said when the paper came out. I'd walk down the street and people would recognize me. ![]() I got my picture in the paper for that one. Like the time I accidentally burned down a funeral home. My name is Stephanie Plum, and I drop a lot of jelly globs, figuratively and literally. And then, just when you decide it's good, you drop a big glob of jelly on your best T-shirt. You don't really know what it's about until you bite into it. The way I see it, life is a jelly doughnut. ![]() |