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Español
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Una ciudad altravesada por historias violentas. Un cartonero involucrado en una cruzada por los bajos fondos. Ninos hamopones con armas sofisticadas planean un golpe por dinera y venganza. Prostitutas discolas. Drogas impensadas. Un buscavidas, mitad periodista mitad detective, encargado de aclarar tres misterios. Un jefe mafioso que mueve los hilos desde las sombras--Cover.
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Media Education Foundation
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English
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The Divide takes a deeply personal look at wealth inequality, telling the story of seven individuals striving for a better life in the modern day U.S. and U.K. -- where the top 0.1% owns as much wealth as the bottom 90%. There's Wall Street psychologist Alden, who wants to make it to the top 1%; KFC worker Leah from Virginia, who just wants to make it through the day; and Jen in Sacramento, California, who doesn't talk to her neighbors in her upscale...
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Delacorte Press
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English
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In this young adult adaptation of the Oprah Book Club selection and New York Times bestselling nonfiction work, Pulitzer Prize winning author Isabel Wilkerson explores the unspoken hierarchies that divide us across lines of race and class. Revealing and timely, this work will speak to young people who are engaged more than ever with the world around them, or to anyone who believes in a more just existence for all.
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""As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in the aisles, guiding us to our assigned seats for a performance. The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power--which groups have it and which do not." In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched...
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The Video Project
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English
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Two worlds collide when Dartmouth College students meet with incarcerated women at a local jail in this transformational documentary about privilege, poverty, and injustice. IT'S CRIMINAL highlights the wide economic and social inequality that divides the United States and offers a unique window into how two groups of women break down barriers and learn to speak to each other.
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Distributed in the United States and Canada by Warner Home Video
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English
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The story of lively and rebellious Elizabeth, one of five unmarried daughters living in the countryside of 18th century England, in a world where an advantageous marriage is a woman's sole occupation.
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Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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First edition.
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English
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"In the great kingdom of Quandis, everyone is a slave. Some are slaves to the gods. Most are slaves to everyone else. Blessed by the gods with lives of comfort and splendor, the royal elite routinely perform their duties, yet some chafe at their role. A young woman of stunning ambition, Princess Phela refuses to allow a few obstacles--including her mother the queen and her brother, the heir apparent--stand in the way of claiming ultimate power and...
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HarperCollins Publishers
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First edition.
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English
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The old-fashioned struggle for fairness has finally been abandoned. It was a misguided endeavor. The world is divided into two groups, pats and quads. The pats may kill the quads as they like, and do. The quads have no recourse but to continue with their lives. The Divers' Game is a thinly veiled description of our society, an extreme case that demonstrates a truth: we must change or our world will collapse. What is the effect of constant fear on...
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Simon & Schuster
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English
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"A senior editor at Mother Jones dives into the lives of the extremely rich, showing the fascinating, otherworldly realm they inhabit--and the insidious ways this realm harms us all"--
Striking it rich is among the most resilient of American fantasies; we dream of the jackpot, the life-altering payday, in whatever form that takes. But rarely do we follow the fantasy to its conclusion: to ponder the social, psychological, and societal downsides of...
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Widowland volume 1
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Sourcebooks Landmark
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English
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"The year is 1953. Edward VIII and Wallis are preparing for their coronation, and the country is tense with expectation. In honor of the event, Adolf Hitler will be making his first visit to the UK since its surrender to the Germans in 1940. One oppressive change conforming with Nazi ideology is the strict classification of women into hierarchical groups, ranging from the beautiful and privileged Gelis (named after Hitler's adored niece) down to the...
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Simon & Schuster
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English
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A scorching, trenchant, analysis of how the wealthiest group in American society is making life miserable for everyone-including themselves.
In 21st century America, the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution have walked away with the big prizes even while the bottom 90% have lost ground. What's left of the American Dream has taken refuge in the 9.9% that lies just below the tip of extreme wealth. Collectively, the members of this group control more...
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Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA)
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English
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"From the beloved award-winning author of Native Speaker and The Surrendered, a highly provocative, deeply affecting story of one woman's legendary quest in a shocking, future America. On Such a Full Sea takes Chang-rae Lee's elegance of prose, his masterly storytelling, and his long-standing interests in identity, culture, work, and love, and lifts them to a new plane. Stepping from the realistic and historical territories of his previous work, Lee...
14) La otra orilla
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Suma De Letras
Edition
Primera edición.
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Español
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"Isla de Buda, Delta del Ebro, 1961, Asun es una niña de once años llena de aspiraciones y de sueños a la que le encanta aprender en la escuela del maestro Isidre. Sus padres, Mariano y Remedios, trabajan en los arrozales de la familia Pons, los propietarios de la isla. Asun es consciente de que la relación de su madre con los señores, en especial con el señorito Max, está teñida de silencio y de forma casual descubre que su madre fue dueña...
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