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A powerful and explosive memoir of poverty and politics, and the realities of life in Westminster. Tara Jane O’Reilly grew up on a council estate a mere bus ride away from Parliament, but a world away from the hallowed halls of power. Dropping out of school at sixteen after a childhood marred...

A groundbreaking investigation into the American decline in lifespan that impacts us all, by the award-winning founder of the University of Pennsylvania’s Opportunity for Health Lab—and a compassionate roadmap to better health, more connection, and stronger communities. The American Dream...

From the bestselling author of Palo Alto, a kaleidoscopic and thought-provoking history of how America came to pursue convenience—the feeling of getting what you want, when you want it—at all costs, to the detriment of our health, happiness, and even our efficiency. We are drowning in...

Were our young adults mis-sold a future? In 1980s Britain, the line was that anything was possible if you worked hard enough, whether that be owning a home or going to university. Now, house prices are exorbitant and both student loans and childcare costs have skyrocketed. Birth rates are...

Our cities are failing. While the super-rich sit on properties worth a fortune, the rest of us struggle to afford to live. We’re told it’s too much immigration, too much red tape and too little housing. Super Prime tells the real story. Since 2008, a warped economic normal has turbocharged...

Why Big Labor moved to the right— and the fight ahead for the left to win back America’s working class Unions helped construct the American middle class, defeat Jim Crow, and advance progressive rights, but in Trump’s America, the labor movement is changing. In Big Labor's Big Shift...

An illuminating history of Harvard College, one of the institutions that made America what it is today, from its precarious colonial origins to its conflicted role as a bastion of elites and a beacon of meritocracy in an age suspicious of both. When Harvard College was born into the colonial...

A former nanny to the world’s richest families shares an intimate and shocking look at how the global elite exploit others and raise their children to be the next ruling class. The global one percent operate in a different reality from the rest of us, one where they believe they can do no...

From two exciting young reporters at The Wall Street Journal comes the untold story of the rise of the American landlord, the government blunders that created a housing crisis, the next big rent surge that may be just around the corner, and our growing desperation to fight back. Every morning...

From bestselling authors Senator Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi, an essential guide to surviving and thriving in a rigged economy If you’ve ever worried about money—how much you have, need, or want—the problem isn’t you. It’s an economy that has shifted under your feet. A...

You thought you understood how the patriarchy runs our country. It's so much worse than you think. When the 'Garrick club, list of members' is leaked to Amelia Gentleman, it offers her a concise guide to Britain's male establishment: here high court judges dine with newspaper editors, senior...

A revelatory account of inequality in America offering a bold new solution grounded in local success It’s a refrain that we hear all the time: if only the United States could be more like the Nordics on welfare, the Japanese on high-speed rail, or the British on health care. But what if the...

From Stephanie Land, critically acclaimed author of bestselling memoirs Maid and Class, a series of autobiographical essays based on the bureaucratic forms that shaped her life. An exploration of the trauma of poverty and finding hope in the face of an American system increasingly devoid of...

A reported road trip across the American economic landscape, documenting the ties between workers’ financial struggles, big business, and broken markets, from The New York Times economics reporter Talmon Joseph Smith. Can America actually afford all that its people and workers deserve? The...

In her first nonfiction book, New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize finalist Xochitl Gonzalez traces her own history from working class Brooklyn to the corridors of power in order to illuminate and examine the class divide that defines America today Xochitl Gonzalez has changed...

Proust's In Search of Lost Time is many things. It is a staggering achievement, an evocation of an elite milieu, a literary reckoning with memory; it is also a massive reading challenge, a book more abandoned than read. For Laure Murat - who first read In Search... when she was twenty years old...

The perfect nanny is invisible. She is trusted with everything: the children, their routines, the family secrets. She is expected to notice everything and remember nothing. For more than a decade, the Unnamed Nanny worked for some of the richest families in the world. She travelled on private...

A laser-sharp examination of how elite universities, in their neglect of sociological reasoning, failed our society's biggest test: that of an airborne pandemic. Hobbled by conservative cuts to education beginning in the Reagan era, universities became increasingly consumer-focused, giving rise...

A bold, revelatory account of how the greatest conflicts, atrocities, and social advancements of our time have all hinged on the seizure of property, for readers of Capital in the Twenty-First Century and Why Nations Fail. Expropriation—the act of forcibly taking property—is usually...

A revelatory exploration of the ways in which wealth – and the lack of it – shapes our lives, told through the stories of ten people, from award-winning data journalist and artist Mona Chalabi. Anna has a comfortable life thanks to her husband – until he asks for a divorce. Kristina faces...