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Split
  • Language: en

Split

In 1990, John Major hailed 'the classless society'; in 1997, New Labour announced that 'we're all middle class now', yet we live in an age where food banks, pay day lenders and zero-hour contracts proliferate: it's clear that class matters. Foregrounding the economic nature of class, Split challenges the idea that class can be reduced to the cultural. From precarious labour to rising debt; from the housing crisis to environmental catastrophe; from an inflated prison population to the welfare state; Ben Tippet traces the class divide at the heart of all exploitation. Myth-busting meritocracy, he exposes the role that tax havens, colonialism and inheritance play in the wealth of the elite. Split highlights the potential for a diverse and eclectic working-class bloc to fight back in an age of austerity and uncertainty.

Fishing Tandem Flies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 172

Fishing Tandem Flies

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A Portrait of the Arsonist as a Young Man
  • Language: en

A Portrait of the Arsonist as a Young Man

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013
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  • Publisher: Unknown

When a publishing house is razed to the ground and an immigrant dies in the blaze, no one suspects charming young bookseller, Ben Tippet. He's just a harmless wannabe ... isn't he? But beneath his charismatic façade there lurks a compulsive liar with a borderline personality disorder. Betrayed by his novelist lover (Alex Fortune), but confident in an alibi from his ex-girlfriend (Imogen Wood), Ben begins his outrageous memoirs: tales of a religious childhood, domineering mother and disabled father, family secrets and lies; not least a life-changing, family-shattering revelation by his transsexual uncle on Ben's sixteenth birthday. Life behind bars grows precarious and despite protection from prison warden, Red Buchanan, Ben is vulnerable to the violence of psycho inmate, Manston. With the jury still out, Ben delves deeper into his psyche, exploring his innermost desires, dreams and fears, inviting you to be his thirteenth juror: What exactly is he guilty of?

Economics and the Left
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 433

Economics and the Left

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2022-03-08
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  • Publisher: Verso Books

Twenty-four economists discuss how they promote egalitarianism, democracy and ecological sanity through research, activism, and policy engagement Economics and the Left presents interviews with twenty-four leading progressive economists. All of these practitioners of the “dismal science” are dedicated to both interpreting the world and changing it for the better. The result is a combustible brew of ideas and reflections on major historical events, including the Covid-19 pandemic and its impact on the global economy. Interviewed are: Michael Ash, Nelson Henrique Barbosa Filho, James K. Boyce, Ha-Joon Chang, Jane D’Arista, Diane Elson, Gerald Epstein, Nancy Folbre, James K. Galbraith, Teresa Ghilarducci, Jayati Ghosh, Ilene Grabel, Costas Lapavitsas, Zhongjin Li, William Milberg, Léonce Ndikumana, Ozlem Onaran, Robert Pollin, Malcolm Sawyer, Juliet Schor, Anwar Shaikh, William Spriggs, Fiona Tregenna and Thomas Weisskopf.

Varieties of Capitalism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 169

Varieties of Capitalism

Over the past twenty years there has emerged a compelling new discourse on varieties of capitalism. That discourse has an appealing common sense which challenges the view there is no alternative to free market capitalism. The initial view had a microeconomic focus that made firms the fulcrum of analysis. It distinguished between liberal market and coordinated market economies. Subsequently, there has emerged a second-generation literature which adopts a macroeconomic perspective that emphasizes differences in drivers of growth. This book provides a collection of essays that engage those second-generation concerns and questions.

Fly-Fishing the Flats
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 196

Fly-Fishing the Flats

This lavishly illustrated book is both a practical guide and a visual celebration of the sport from an eminently qualified team. Barry and Cathy Beck have fished and hosted trips to the best saltwater flats in the hemisphere. Here, you'll fine expert advice on fishing for thirteen species, from strippers in Martha's Vineyard, to flats Super Grand Slam. You'll find detailed instruction on long cast techniques, including a seven page photo sequence on the double haul alone. A guide to flies, gear, and tackle, as well as veteran travellers' advice about where and when to go for the best fishing.

LAWS OF WAR.
  • Language: en

LAWS OF WAR.

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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What is the Economy?
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 269

What is the Economy?

Why are houses so expensive? Is our banking system going to collapse again? Should we be worried that robots are going to take all our jobs? And just what exactly is the economy anyway? Economists and politicians would have you believe it is a rarified topic best left to 'the experts'. The experts are wrong. This book uncovers what people really mean when they talk about 'the economy', taking the word off its pedestal and showing that it's just a lens for seeing the world around us. That, at its heart, economics is about you, and the society you're a part of. Explaining key concepts in economics in relation to how they directly affect your life – from your money to your home, your workplace to your future – What is the Economy? drags the obscure world of economics kicking and screaming towards the everyday and equips you with clarity and understanding.

Something Wicked
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 256

Something Wicked

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-06-16
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  • Publisher: Bantam

Everyone--including mystery bookstore owner Annie Laurance--loves Arsenic and Old Lace. But something wicked is poisoned a local summer stock production as cast members stab each other in the back and props are sabotaged. Worst of all, the star, aging Hollywood beach-blanket hunk Shane Petree, butchers his lines--while getting top billing in bed with wives and teenage daughters around town. No wonder somebody wants to draw his final curtain. With a little help from Miss Marple, Poirot, and Agatha the Bookstore Cat, a pompous prosecutor tries to pin a murder on Max, Annie's own leading man. Unless Annie can prove her darling's innocence, their wedding date's off! Invoking the tried-and-true methods of her favorite literary sleuths, Annie snoops around the greasepaint and glitter of the show-stopper scene if she doesn't watch it, because theatrical murderers never play fair.

Know Your Place
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 166

Know Your Place

The chance of Cameron and Johnson going to Oxford and becoming MPs was one in 10,000, whereas it was close to one in 10 million for me - 10 times more unlikely than getting struck by lightning. Why should anyone have to work 1,000 times harder to do the same thing as anyone else? And why would we set society up to work this way? Dr Faiza Shaheen is a self-confessed stats geek and social mobility success story: from a working class background, she got into Oxford and is now a leading statistician, ceo of CLASS thinktank, and a visiting professor at NYU. But when her mother died after her benefits were cut by austerity measures, she decided to embark on a career in politics. When she lost in t...