A gripping new account of oligarchy from ‘the most astute social scientist studying the phenomenon today’ (Guardian)The wealthy and powerful few have dominated the masses throughout most of human history. This is starkly visible now more than ever – today, the gulf between oligarchs and the average citizen is vastly larger than any gap that existed during European serfdom or the slave society of Imperial Rome.The strange thing is: for the first tim...

Brought to you by Penguin.The wealthy and powerful few have dominated the masses throughout most of human history. This is starkly visible now more than ever—today, the gulf between oligarchs and the average citizen is larger than any gap that existed during European serfdom or the slave society of Imperial Rome. We have arrived at the most blatant version of oligarchy that most modern states have endured, with politicians bought and paid for across the political s...

In Walking through Walls we meet the central character Nina who has never recovered from her twin brother's death during Desert Storm. One day after work, she unintentionally kills a robber which lands her in prison. She must leave the comfy oblivion of her everyday life for the claustrophobic gray conformity of prison. There a second chance awaits her, but to take it, she must change.

Für die Cliftons und Barringtons kommt die Zeit, in der sich die verschlungenen Wege der beiden Familien und vielen Generationen zum letzten Mal kreuzen. Während für Giles Barrington und seine Frau Karin das Glück auf Messers Schneide steht, scheinen Harry und Emma Clifton am Gipfel ihrer Karrieren zu stehen. Doch dann melden sich alte Feinde zurück und das Spiel des Schicksals kommt zum tragischen Finale ...

This study of the 1927–1928 murder trial and appeal of John Winters is an intriguing look at one of the most celebrated cases in Vermont judicial history—the time Clarence Darrow, America’s greatest advocate, appeared for the defendant before the Vermont Supreme Court. It reveals tensions of class, gender, and family, and gives the reader a glimpse of justice in the 1920s. Winters’ Time combines legal history, true crime, a cast of Vermont characters, and America's famous “attorne...

La historia de dominación, poder y privilegio de las oligarquías desde la Antigüedad hasta hoy.Durante siglos, se consideró que los oligarcas estaban empoderados por las fortunas gigantescas que poseían, una idea eclipsada por el auge de la teoría de las élites a principios del siglo XIX. El rasgo común de todos los oligarcas es que la riqueza les define, les da poder y les expone intrínsecamente a diferentes amenazas. Lo que varía a lo largo de la historia es la n...

For centuries, oligarchs were viewed as empowered by wealth, an idea muddled by elite theory early in the twentieth century. The common thread for oligarchs across history is that wealth defines them, empowers them and inherently exposes them to threats. The existential motive of all oligarchs is wealth defense. How they respond varies with the threats they confront, including how directly involved they are in supplying the coercion underlying all property claims and whether they act separ...

From USA Today best-selling author, Willow Winters, comes a tempting tale of fated love, lust-filled secrets and the beginnings of an epic war.His chiseled jaw and silver gaze haunts both my nightmares and my dreams, though I’ve only ever gotten a glimpse of either.There’s a treaty between us and them; mere mortals and the ones who terrify but keep us safe. The contract demands that every year there’s an offering and this year I’ll walk across that stage presenting...

From USA Today best-selling author, Willow Winters, comes a tempting tale of fated love, lust-filled secrets and the beginnings of an epic war.There was never a question of whether or not I would be his. It’s simply what fate demanded.There’s a knowing when the werewolves find their mates. It’s an aching need, a desperation… one they would die for. But for their mates, it’s a trance, a pull, a submissive desire that’s at odds with the shadows of my past and...

**'These stories are waves of fury, desire and delicious cruelty, always kissed by beauty and death' Mariana EnríquezA new selection of lyrically haunting 1960s short stories, from a Japanese literary icon**A writer is seized by apocalyptic visions, a trio of beatniks dance to modern jazz in the ruins of an abandoned church, and a séance brings forth the reproachful spirits of the military dead.In Voices of the Fallen Heroes, stark autobiography contrasts w...

From USA Today best-selling author, Willow Winters, comes a tempting tale of fated love, lust-filled secrets and the beginnings of an epic war.Never in my life could I have prepared for what fate had in store for me. Or for any of us.Our tales are intertwined and destiny saw fit to give me to a beast of a man who would die for me. He longs for me and I for him, but my past is riddled with a darkness and our present with deception and the whispers of war.

Stranger Things and Philosophy is an important book, the first of its kind to examine the fantastical world of this award-winning, widely beloved, phenomenal show with a philosophical lens. This is important precisely because the show rests so heavily on a complex and thought-provoking mythos based around secretive government experiments and a parallel dimension that darkly reflects readers' own. The series as a whole has asked more questions than it has delivered answers, and the...