The Sum Of Us
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The Sum Of Us
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Author : Heather McGhee
language : en
Publisher: Profile Books
Release Date : 2021-03-26
The Sum Of Us written by Heather McGhee and has been published by Profile Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-26 with History categories.
LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 'With intelligence and care (as well as with a trove of sometimes heartbreaking and sometimes heart-opening true stories) Heather McGhee shows us what racism has cost all of us' - Elizabeth Gilbert Picked for the Financial Times Summer Books by Gillian Tett What would make a society drain its public swimming baths and fill them with concrete rather than opening them to everyone? Economics researcher Heather McGhee sets out across America to learn why white voters so often act against their own interests. Why do they block changes that would help them, and even destroy their own advantages, whenever people of colour also stand to benefit? Their tragedy is that they believe they can't win unless somebody else loses. But this is a lie. McGhee marshals overwhelming economic evidence, and a profound well of empathy, to reveal the surprising truth: even racists lose out under white supremacy. And US racism is everybody's problem. As McGhee shows, it was bigoted lending policies that laid the ground for the 2008 financial crisis. There can be little prospect of tackling global climate change until America's zero-sum delusions are defeated. The Sum of Us offers a priceless insight into the workings of prejudice, and a timely invitation to solidarity among all humans, 'to piece together a new story of who we could be to one another'.
The Sum Of Us
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Author : David Stevens
language : en
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Release Date : 1990
The Sum Of Us written by David Stevens and has been published by Samuel French, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Drama categories.
About a widower and his gay son. Jeff is in love with a young gardener he met in the local pub, but Greg is wary particularly when he meets dear old Dad. Meanwhile, Dad is developing a relationship with a woman he met through a dating service, but she is put off by Jeff's homosexuality and she pulls away just before he suffers a stroke.
The Sum Of Trifles
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Author : Julia Ridley Smith
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2021-11-01
The Sum Of Trifles written by Julia Ridley Smith and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
When Julia Ridley Smith’s parents died, they left behind a virtual museum of furniture, books, art, and artifacts. Between the contents of their home, the stock from their North Carolina antiques shop, and the ephemera of two lives lived, Smith faced a monumental task. What would she do with her parents’ possessions? Smith’s wise and moving memoir in essays, The Sum of Trifles, peels back the layers of meaning surrounding specific objects her parents owned, from an eighteenth-century miniature to her father’s prosthetics. A vintage hi-fi provides a view of her often tense relationship with her father, whose love of jazz kindled her own artistic impulse. A Japanese screen embodies her mother’s principles of good taste and good manners, while an antebellum quilt prompts Smith to grapple with her family’s slaveholding legacy. Along the way, she turns to literature that illuminates how her inheritance shaped her notions of identity and purpose. The Sum of Trifles offers up dark humor and raw feeling, mixed with an erudite streak. It’s a curious, thoughtful look at how we live in and with our material culture and how we face our losses as we decide what to keep and what to let go.
Sum
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Author : David Eagleman
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2009-02-10
Sum written by David Eagleman and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-02-10 with Fiction categories.
At once funny, wistful and unsettling, Sum is a dazzling exploration of unexpected afterlives—each presented as a vignette that offers a stunning lens through which to see ourselves in the here and now. In one afterlife, you may find that God is the size of a microbe and unaware of your existence. In another version, you work as a background character in other people’s dreams. Or you may find that God is a married couple, or that the universe is running backward, or that you are forced to live out your afterlife with annoying versions of who you could have been. With a probing imagination and deep understanding of the human condition, acclaimed neuroscientist David Eagleman offers wonderfully imagined tales that shine a brilliant light on the here and now.
Running Out
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Author : Lucas Bessire
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2022-10-04
Running Out written by Lucas Bessire and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-04 with Social Science categories.
Finalist for the National Book Award An intimate reckoning with aquifer depletion in America's heartland The Ogallala aquifer has nourished life on the American Great Plains for millennia. But less than a century of unsustainable irrigation farming has taxed much of the aquifer beyond repair. The imminent depletion of the Ogallala and other aquifers around the world is a defining planetary crisis of our times. Running Out offers a uniquely personal account of aquifer depletion and the deeper layers through which it gains meaning and force. Anthropologist Lucas Bessire journeyed back to western Kansas, where five generations of his family lived as irrigation farmers and ranchers, to try to make sense of this vital resource and its loss. His search for water across the drying High Plains brings the reader face to face with the stark realities of industrial agriculture, eroding democratic norms, and surreal interpretations of a looming disaster. Yet the destination is far from predictable, as the book seeks to move beyond the words and genres through which destruction is often known. Instead, this journey into the morass of eradication offers a series of unexpected discoveries about what it means to inherit the troubled legacies of the past and how we can take responsibility for a more inclusive, sustainable future. An urgent and unsettling meditation on environmental change, Running Out is a revelatory account of family, complicity, loss, and what it means to find your way back home.
The Sum Of Small Things
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Author : Elizabeth Currid-Halkett
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2018-10-23
The Sum Of Small Things written by Elizabeth Currid-Halkett and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-23 with Self-Help categories.
In today’s world, the leisure class has been replaced by a new elite. Highly educated and defined by cultural capital rather than income bracket, these individuals earnestly buy organic, carry canvas tote bags, and breast-feed their babies. They care about discreet, inconspicuous consumption—like eating free-range chicken and heirloom tomatoes, wearing organic cotton shirts and TOMS shoes, and listening to the latest podcast. They use their purchasing power to hire nannies and housekeepers, to cultivate their children’s growth, and to practice yoga and Pilates. In The Sum of Small Things, Elizabeth Currid-Halkett dubs this new elite “the aspirational class” and discusses how, through deft decisions about education, health, parenting, and retirement, they reproduce wealth and upward mobility, deepening the ever-wider class divide. With a rich narrative and extensive interviews and research, The Sum of Small Things illustrates how cultural capital leads to lifestyle shifts and examines what these changes will mean for everyone.
The Sum Of My Parts
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Author : Olga R. Trujillo
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
The Sum Of My Parts written by Olga R. Trujillo and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY categories.
The memoir of Olga R. Trujillo who, as a result of years of abuse and rape by her father, develops dissociative identity disorder with two parallel identities and eventually recovers to become an advocate for abuse victims.
Journal Of The Senate Of The United States Of America
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1958
Journal Of The Senate Of The United States Of America written by United States. Congress. Senate and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1958 with Legislation categories.
Hearings
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Author : United States. Congress Senate
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1965
Hearings written by United States. Congress Senate and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1965 with categories.
Digest Of Appropriations For The Support Of The Government Of The United States For The Service Of The Fiscal Year Ending And On Account Of Deficiencies For Prior Years Made By The Session Of The Congress
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Author : United States. Department of the Treasury. Division of Bookkeeping and Warrants
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1925
Digest Of Appropriations For The Support Of The Government Of The United States For The Service Of The Fiscal Year Ending And On Account Of Deficiencies For Prior Years Made By The Session Of The Congress written by United States. Department of the Treasury. Division of Bookkeeping and Warrants and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1925 with United States categories.