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By Jeannette Walls. 2006
Reporter for MSNBC.com looks back on her unsettled life. Describes growing up in a dysfunctional family, which was always on…
the move. She recalls her father's dream of building a "glass castle," and relates how she and her siblings escaped to make lives of their own. Bestseller. 2006.In the 1960s, Lynn Povich was one of the lucky women, like Nora Ephron, Jane Bryant Quinn, Ellen Goodman, and…
Susan Brownmiller, to land a job at Newsweek, but it was a dead end - women researchers sometimes became reporters, rarely writers, and never editors. On March 16, 1970, the day Newsweek published a cover story on the fledgling feminist movement, forty-six Newsweek women charged the magazine with discrimination. It was the first female class action lawsuit - the first by women journalists - and it inspired other women in the media to quickly follow suit. Includes strong language. 2012.By Catherine Whitney, Donny Deutsch. 2008
In this companion to his nightly CNBC television series, The Big Idea, former ad man Deutsch profiles entrepreneurs who have…
visited his show and the lessons he's learned from them. The author relishes stories of little people, mothers, students, retirees and former screw ups, who had only a good idea and built multimillion-dollar businesses without MBAs. Entrepreneurial success stories are complemented by practical advice and resources for building a business. c2008. Uniform title: Big idea with Donny Deutsch (Television program)By Osha Davidson. 2017
C. P. Ellis joined the KKK as a youth. Ann Atwater quit her job as a maid to fight for…
civil rights. They met on opposite sides of the school segregation issue, yet forged a friendship. 2017.By Robert B Reich. 2015
Reich outlines how the American economic system is failing, with increasing income inequality and a shrinking middle class, and reveals…
how a market designed for broad prosperity can reverse the trend toward diminished opportunity. Bestseller. 2015.By Noam Chomsky, Kelly Nyks, Jared P Scott, Peter Peter D. Hutchison, Dennis Collins. 2017
Le rêve américain est mort. Ce qui était possible autrefois aux États-Unis - partir de rien et gravir l'échelle sociale…
grâce à son travail, son mérite, ses efforts, quel que soit son milieu d'origine - ne l'est plus aujourd'hui. Pourquoi ? Parce que les inégalités n'ont jamais été aussi fortes, et la mobilité sociale jamais aussi réduite. Un cercle infernal voit la richesse et le pouvoir se concentrer dans les mains d'une infime minorité, qui applique la vile maxime d'Adam Smith : Tout pour nous, rien pour les autres. Noam Chomsky appelle au réveil de la majorité, aux innombrables petits actes de personnes anonymes. Ce sont ces derniers qui pourront faire basculer notre avenir. 2017. Titre uniforme: Requiem for the American dream (Film)By Noam Chomsky, Kelly Nyks, Peter Hutchison, Jared P Scott. 2017
In his first major book on the subject of income inequality, Noam Chomsky skewers the fundamental tenets of neoliberalism and…
casts a clear, cold, patient eye on the economic facts of life. What are the ten principles of concentration of wealth and power at work in America today? They're simple enough: reduce democracy, shape ideology, redesign the economy, shift the burden onto the poor and middle classes, attack the solidarity of the people, let special interests run the regulators, engineer election results, use fear and the power of the state to keep the rabble in line, manufacture consent, marginalize the population. Chomsky devotes a chapter to each of these ten principles, and adds readings from some of the core texts that have influenced his thinking to bolster his argument. 2017.By Martin Sixsmith. 2013
Journalist chronicles the life of Philomena Lee, an Irish unwed mother who was forced to give her young son up…
for adoption in 1955, then spent fifty years trying to find him. 2013. Uniform title: Lost child of Philomena LeeBy Steven D Levitt, Stephen J Dubner, Anatole Muchnik. 2006
Quel lien entre la législation de l'avortement et la baisse de la criminalité aux États-Unis ? Quelles sont les vraies…
motivations des agents immobiliers ? Pourquoi les revendeurs de drogue vivent-ils plus longtemps chez leur mère ? L'économie, vue sous cet angle, incongru en apparence, mais qui est celui de la plus sérieuse rationalité des agents, des comportements, des causes et effets, traite de sujets peu conventionnels. Elle a reçu un nom : freakonomics, ou " économie saugrenue ". Elle jette une lumière de biais sur le désordre des événements ; elle met à nu des a priori à prétention de scientificité irréfutable ; elle transforme notre regard sur le monde globalisé, qui nous apparaît, pour finir, moins impénétrable et incompréhensible. 2006. Titre uniforme: Freakonomics.By Léa Marcou, Kai Hermann, Horst Rieck. 1981
Ce livre raconte l'histoire de Christiane, une jeune fille sensible et intelligente, qui, moins de deux ans après avoir fumé…
son premier "joint", se prostitue à la sortie de l'école afin de trouver l'argent nécessaire à l'achat de sa dose quotidienne d'héroïne. Quelques descriptions de violence. 1981.By Gerald Durrell. 1980
When the unconventional Durrell family can no longer endure the damp, gray English climate, they do what any sensible family…
would do: sell their house and relocate to the sunny Greek isle of Corfu. 1980.By Michael Lewis. 2003
Author of "The New New Thing" describes how Billy Beane, general manager of baseball's Oakland Athletics, came in first place…
in the American League West in 2002. Examines Beane's use of computers, statistics, and scouting to achieve success despite a minor league budget. Strong language. Bestseller. 2003.By John Grogan, Carole Delporte. 2007
Si le chien est le meilleur ami de l'homme, il peut parfois être le pire. C'est ce que vont découvrir…
John et Jenny Grogan, quand ils décident d'acheter un labrador peu de temps après leur mariage, afin de tester leurs capacités parentales. D'adorable petite boule de poils, Marley se transforme en un mastodonte de quarante-cinq kilos, qui détruit tout sur son passage, dévore quantité de nourriture et d'objets en tout genre, et témoigne d'une affection aussi débordante qu'envahissante envers ses maîtres. 2007. Titre uniforme: Marley & me.By Steven D Levitt, Stephen J Dubner. 2005
The author offers his view of how the economy really works; examining issues from cheating and crime, to sports and…
child-rearing. He offers a very different view on what drives the economy. 2005.By Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, Frank B Gilbreth. 1948
An amusing account of happy family life in the 1920's. The author's father, an efficiency expert, believes in living fully,…
and has some unconventional ideas about raising his many children. 1948.By Amos Oz, N. R. M De Lange. 2005
The author takes us on a journey through his childhood and adolescence, along Jerusalem's war-torn streets in the 1940s and…
'50s. Oz's story dives into 120 years of family history and paradox, the saga of a Jewish love-hate affair with Europe that sweeps from Vilna and Odessa, via Poland and Prague, to Israel. 2005. Uniform title: Sipour Al Ahava Vehoshekh.By Jeannette Walls. 2006
Reporter for MSNBC.com looks back on her unsettled life. Describes growing up in a dysfunctional family, which was always on…
the move. She recalls her father's dream of building a "glass castle," and relates how she and her siblings escaped to make lives of their own. Strong language. 2005.By Frank McCourt. 1996
Frank McCourt recollects his "miserable Irish Catholic childhood" in the squalor of Limerick. Absent any support from his glib, but…
shiftless, alcoholic father, the family suffered hunger, cruelty, disease, and the death of children. McCourt recounts his story without rancour. Strong language. Winner of the 1998 CNIB Talking Book of the Year Award. Pulitzer Prize Winner.The author of "Bringing Down the House" chronicles the invention of the Facebook social-networking computer web site by Harvard students…
Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin. Describes Zuckerberg's use of the university's database and legal problems with a rival site. Strong language and some descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2009.By J. D. Vance. 2016
Shares the story of the author's family and upbringing, describing how they moved from poverty to an upwardly mobile clan…
that included the author, a Yale Law School graduate, while navigating the demands of middle class life and the collective demons of the past. Bestseller. 2016.