¿Cómo es vivir en los márgenes? ¿Qué hacen quienes menos tienen para asegurarse una vivienda, alimentos, ropa? ¿Cómo lidian con la violencia –una amenaza literal a su sobrevivencia– que se vuelve probable en cuanto salen a la calle? ¿Cómo conviven con la política, que puede ser tanto fuente de soluciones como instrumento de abuso? ¿A qué se aferran para sostener incluso la esperanza de un futuro mejor? Chela coordina un comedor comunitario...

«Juin 2018. J'effectue une entrevue sur les ondes de Radio-Canada avec l'écrivain Édouard Louis. On discute ensemble de son parcours de transfuge de classe. Mes parents sont à l'écoute. L'histoire de pauvreté économique, culturelle et politique des parents d'Édouard Louis les renverse tant elle ressemble à la leur. C'est un choc. Plus tard, ma mère m'écrit ce message : "Ce que ton père pis moi on a vécu, y'a plein de gens d'ici qui...

Eighteen-year-olds Rory McShane and Isabel Rule are back for another summer in East Hampton, but their friendship is put to the test as each girl deals with boyfriends, summer jobs, and family issues.

Tris must escape with Four and go beyond the wall enclosing Chicago. For the first time ever, they will leave the only city and family they have ever known. Once outside, old discoveries are quickly rendered meaningless with the revelation of shocking new truths. Tris and Four must quickly decide who they can trust as a ruthless battle ignites beyond the walls of Chicago which threatens all of humanity. In order to survive, Tris will be forced to...

Why doesn't the world work? Simon Anholt, TED Talk sensation and advisor to world leaders, provides a startlingly straightforward solution to our greatest challenges. How is it that, despite all the experience, power, technology, money and knowledge that humanity has accumulated, we are still unable to defeat the global challenges facing us today: climate change, migration, pandemics, extremism, slavery, war, drug trafficking, poverty and inequality?...

Originally published in 1911, "Woman and Labour" is a landmark work of feminist literature that deals with historical and societal issues of the role of women and the differences between the sexes. Olive Schreiner (1855—1920) was a South African anti-war campaigner, intellectual, and author most famous for her highly-acclaimed novel "The Story of an African Farm" (1883), which deals with such issues as existential independence, agnosticism, individualism,...

Darwin's Moving introduces readers to the colorful characters who populate the furniture moving trade, a male-dominated world of labor with relatively high pay and no need for education of any sort. Movers have a unique window into the private spaces of the city as they perform their difficult and delicate job inside all manner of homes, from government-subsidized housing developments to multi-million dollar McMansions. Taylor Lambert intriguingly...

Los Sisternes fueron una extensa familia de juristas valencianos. A lo largo de diversas generaciones algunos de sus miembros desempeñaron cargos al servicio de la monarquía en las Reales Audiencias de Valencia, Cerdeña, Palma de Mallorca y en el propio Consejo Supremo de Aragón. Otros representantes de esta familia no llegaron a ocupar ningún puesto de relevancia, pero mantuvieron la tradición de estudiar derecho y ejercer como juristas. Este...

Capitalized Education is not a biography of Kate Middleton, but, rather, understands her wedding on April 29th 2011 as a 'plateau', wherein a complex knot of social, political and economic forces collided. The chapters of the book make up a non-linear history of the royal wedding, a history that is, underpinned by the ways in which power has been, handled by the British royal family through time.

In Privilege and Anxiety, Hagen Koo examines what has happened to the Korean middle class in the era of rapid globalization and demonstrates that the middle class has experienced significant changes in its social character. The middle classes in most advanced economies today are frequently described as being "squeezed" and "shrinking." Globalization has inserted an "axis of polarization" into the middle class, separating a small minority that benefits...