White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
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In her groundbreaking bestselling history of the class system in America, Nancy Isenberg upends...
History politics social issues
Flood Risk: The Holistic Perspective
Zoran Vojinovic and Jingmin Huang
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According to the International Disaster Database (EM-DAT), over the last seventy years, floods have...
Suswatibasu (1701 KP) rated Sing, Unburied, Sing in Books
Oct 3, 2017
The story follows a family on their way to a prison, in which the children's white father is due to be released. The teenage boy and his three year old sister are mostly dependent on one another as well as their grandparents Pop and Mam. The mother Leonie is absent, and rather aloof in their upbringing, forcing her son, Jojo to bring up his kid sister. In between are disturbing stories featured in flashbacks and ghostly apparitions, The novel explores interracial relationships, police brutality and even post traumatic stress disorder to a degree.
While it can seem haphazard, going back and forth in time, and random narratives appearing throughout, it leaves the reader with a sense of unease and despair at the violent nature of society. A truly intriguing read.
Sarah (7798 KP) rated The Passengers in Books
Apr 16, 2019
The 400+ pages flew past in record speed, I just couldn't put this book down. What seemed a fairly similar plot was filled with intriguing and well developed character, as well as some fantastic twists and reveals that I never saw coming. It also features quite a serious commentary on social media and bias and even racism, and despite being set in a society slightly more technologically advanced than our own, you can see the truth in the issues highlighted here. You can also imagine our societies becoming similar to this one in the very near future, which is a very sobering thought. This really is a highly entertaining read, and it's not often I get so enthralled in a story to not see the twists coming!
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The Notebooks of Edward Bond: v. 2
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This second volume of Edward Bond's notebooks covers the period from Restoration, his historic drama...
The Argonauts
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An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family ...
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Media Smackdown: Deconstructing the News and the Future of Journalism
Abe Aamidor, Jim A. Kuypers and Susan Wiesinger
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Journalism is in crisis. The rise of the internet through social media and citizen journalism and...