Eliza Lucas Pinckney: Colonial Plantation Manager and Mother of American Patriots, 1722-1793, Pickett Margaret F.

Автор: Richard Wilkinson, Kate Pickett
Название: The Spirit Level
ISBN: 0241954290 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241954294
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Why do we mistrust people more in the UK than in Japan? Why do Americans have higher rates of teenage pregnancy than the French? The answer: inequality. This book provides hard evidence to show: how almost everything - from life expectancy to mental illness, violence to illiteracy - is affected not by how wealthy a society is, but how equal it is.

Автор: Pagano David, Pickett David
Название: The Lego Animation Book: Make Your Own Lego Movies!
ISBN: 1593277415 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781593277413
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: The LEGO Animation Book is your step-by-step guide to making awesome stop-motion LEGO movies.

Автор: Box C. J.
Название: Shots Fired: Stories from Joe Pickett Country
ISBN: 042527540X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780425275405
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Автор: Pickett Kate, Wilkinson Richard
Название: The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger
ISBN: 1608193411 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781608193417
Издательство: Holtzbrink(MPS)/MPS
Цена: 1839.00 р.
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Groundbreaking analysis showing that greater economic equality-not greater wealth-is the mark of the most successful societies, and offering new ways to achieve it.

"Get your hands on this book."-Bill Moyers

This groundbreaking book, based on thirty years' research, demonstrates that more unequal societies are bad for almost everyone within them-the well-off and the poor. The remarkable data the book lays out and the measures it uses are like a spirit level which we can hold up to compare different societies. The differences revealed, even between rich market democracies, are striking. Almost every modern social and environmental problem-ill health, lack of community life, violence, drugs, obesity, mental illness, long working hours, big prison populations-is more likely to occur in a less equal society. The book goes to the heart of the apparent contrast between material success and social failure in many modern national societies.

The Spirit Level does not simply provide a diagnosis of our ills, but provides invaluable instruction in shifting the balance from self-interested consumerism to a friendlier, more collaborative society. It shows a way out of the social and environmental problems which beset us, and opens up a major new approach to improving the real quality of life, not just for the poor but for everyone. It is, in its conclusion, an optimistic book, which should revitalize politics and provide a new way of thinking about how we organize human communities.