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62) Munmun
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In a society where a person's size is directly proportional to his or her wealth, little poor Warner, thirteen, and Prayer, fifteen, struggle to improve their lot in a world built against them.
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Readers first encountered Tobias as "Four" in Divergent. His voice is an integral part of Allegiant. Readers will find more of this charismatic character's backstory told from his own perspective in Four: A Divergent Collection. When read together, these long narrative pieces illuminate the defining moments in Tobias's life. The first three pieces in this volume-"The Transfer," "The Initiate," and "The Son"-follow Tobias's transfer from Abnegation...
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Madeline Whittington finds herself attracted to Devlin Greyson, the Earl of Ravensmoore, the man she thinks is responsible for her father's death, but after she rescues an inmate from the local asylum, she discover secrets about the asylum that may explain mysteries concerning her family.
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The Sisters of Reckoning is the blockbuster sequel to Charlotte Nicole Davis's alternate Old West-set fantasy adventure.
The Good Luck Girls are free. Aster's sister and friends have new lives across the border in Ferron, while Aster remains in Arketta, helping more girls escape. But, news of a new welcome house opening fills Aster with a need to do more than just help individual girls. And, an unexpected reunion gives her an idea of how to do it....
68) Frostbite
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While on a school skiing trip, guardian-in-training Rose faces everything from misunderstandings between friends to fights among factions of Moroi as reports of horrific Strigoi attacks raise tensions, ultimately leading Rose and some of those closest to her into a battle that teaches her much about life, death, and love.
69) Historia del Movimiento Evita: La organización social que entró al Estado sin abandonar la calle
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Sus banderas están en las movilizaciones callejeras, sus militantes trabajan en los barrios, sus dirigentes obtienen cargos en intendencias, bancas en las legislaturas y en el Congreso. Adhirió al kirchnerismo e integró sus gobiernos, pero en los mismos años demostró en la calle el rechazo a algunas de sus políticas. Denunció activamente el ajuste neoliberal del macrismo, pero negoció con sus funcionarios y logró más poder en el manejo de...
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In this age of globalization, many countries and U.S. states are worried about the tax flight of the rich. As income inequality grows and U.S. states consider raising taxes on their wealthiest residents, there is a very real concern that these high rollers will board their private jets and fly away, taking their wealth with them. Many assume that the importance of location to a person's success is at an all-time low. Cristobal Young, however, makes...
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Most people think of class as a ranking systemthe more you have, the higher your class status. In contrast to this view, in this new study author Gus Bagakis demonstrates that class is a tool that explains how the capitalist system works and why the class struggle is invisible. Capitalism was and is a developing system in which the working class is turned into a commodity, selling its labor power to the capitalist class that owns the factories, businesses,...
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Class, Race, and Gender: Challenging the Injuries and Divisions of Capitalism is for those who want to understand the underlying connections among today's social justice movements.
Bringing forth the basic operations of capitalist economies, it reveals what is driving many of today's most urgent and vexing problems: the common origins of the inequalities of income, wealth, and power; environmental devastation; militarism; racism and white supremacy;...
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El proyecto liberal argentino dotó a la escuela de un papel igualador e integrador, y el siglo XX la hizo garante de un ideal de comunidad y de movilidad social. Esa convicción democrática y plebeya puso a las clases altas ante un desafío: cómo preservar su espacio de distinción. Este libro despliega un relato atrapante acerca de las trayectorias educativas de tres generaciones pertenecientes a "familias tradicionales" y sus estrategias para...
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A partir de octubre de 2019, los dos años que siguieron en Chile fueron una montaña rusa, un movimiento de tierra importante incluso en este país acostumbrado a que se nos mueva el piso. Estallido social, pandemia, un acuerdo político histórico, la peor crisis económica y social en una generación, un gobierno ausente, decenas de miles de muertes por Covid, la rearticulación de un tejido social dormido y una ciudadanía que, "contra todo, votó...
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This book presents a true picture of rural Assam where people are logged down deep in indebtedness, rural poverty, illiteracy and ignorance. Where the money lenders are taking the heart of the credulous people. The practice is usually responsible for large scale alienation of mortgaged lands to the chain of moneylenders were so strong that they could even influence the local administration in their favour.
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The Divide by Matt Taibbi approaches the complicated topic of the unequal treatment of defendants in the United States criminal justice system based on wealth, through individual stories and rarely heard cases revealed in court proceedings.
In the US, bankers and financial officials whose unethical and illegal behavior contributed to the 2008 financial crisis and subsequent economic scandals rarely faced prosecution for their activities. Instead either...
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Evolving the Human Race Game: A Spiritual and Soul-Centered Perspective provides a spiritual framework for evolving one's consciousness as it relates to what author Carroy Ferguson calls the "human race game." Beyond family members, most of us wonder why different and/or specific people from our own and other racial and ethnic groups enter into our lives. Ferguson explains how and why this happens through what he calls the mirror effect. He also introduces...
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The truth about one of Britain's most infamous race murders has never been, revealed. At around midnight on May 17 1959, a white gang ambushed 32-year-old Antiguan carpenter Kelso Cochrane on a Notting Hill slum street. After a brief scuffle, one of them plunged a knife into his heart. The impact was as profound as the aftershock of Stephen Lawrence's murder more than forty years later. The previous summer Notting Hill had been, convulsed by race...
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El modelo-ciudad, que todavía hoy atrae a las zonas urbanas del planeta a un número creciente de personas, sigue prometiendo integración y emancipación pese a haber agotado de hecho su propia capacidad de inclusión. En realidad, con la globalización neoliberal, que tiende a hacer del mundo entero un único mercado competitivo, la exclusión de quienes no resultan funcionales para la maximización del beneficio se convierte en la forma privilegiada...
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Chile es un país con niveles inaceptables de desigualdad, donde las brechas entre los territorios son un componente muy importante del problema general. Preocupados especialmente por esta situación, este libro y el proyecto de investigación que lo origina, abordan tres proposiciones fundamentales: primero, que en el escenario político actual están dadas las condiciones para avanzar en superar la dimensión territorial de la desigualdad. Segundo,...
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