![]() ![]() But just because it is a comforting tale doesn't make it true. * Though global real GDP has nearly tripled since 1980, 1.1 billion more people are now living in poverty.įor decades we have been told a story: that development is working, that poverty is a natural phenomenon and will be eradicated through aid by 2030. * Today, 60 per cent of the world's population lives on less than $5 a day. ![]() * The richest eight people control more wealth than the poorest half of the world combined. ![]() In The Divide, Jason Hickel brilliantly lays it out, layer upon layer, until you are left reeling with the outrage of it all.' - Kate Raworth, author of Doughnut Economics 'There's no understanding global inequality without understanding its history. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The conditions he experienced at Winnfield were horrendous, from dangerous understaffing that left prisoners with no classes and few activities, to subminimal medical care, unbridled sexual harassment and pervasive violence. His on-the-ground reporting in American Prison: A Reporter’s Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment is powerful and disturbing. In 2014, to investigate life inside a corporately run penitentiary, Bauer took a low-paying job as a guard at a facility in Winnfield, Louisiana, owned by the Corrections Corporation of America (now rebranded as CoreCivic). Less than a decade ago, Shane Bauer, a senior reporter for Mother Jones, unknowingly crossed into Iran while hiking and was held for 26 months in an Iranian jail. ![]() The United States imprisons a higher portion of its population than any other country in the world, and roughly 130,000 inmates are in privately owned, for-profit prisons. ![]() ![]() |a A descendant of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings chronicles the relationship between Jefferson and his slave and the life of their son, Thomas Woodson, and discusses the Woodson family's efforts to uncover the truth about the different branches of their family tree. A President in the Family: Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings, and Thomas Woodson. Jefferson's Will - Reminiscences of Madison Hemings. See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Woodson Sr., Byron W. Woodson Strikes Genealogical Gold - Search for Truth? - Stop and Look Both Ways - Calling All Cousins! - Mr. A Students Guide to African American Genealogy. Callender with the Hammer of Truth - Tom Is Banished - Freedom Secured - The Rights of All - The Color Line - Harvesting Strands of the Past - The Third Heart: The Brilliance of Dr. A President in the Family: Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings, and Thomas Woodson. ![]() |a The Fate of Sally Hemings - Monticello - James T. |a Includes bibliographical references and index. |b Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings, and Thomas Woodson ![]() ![]() ![]() James wrote widely on many topics, including epistemology, education, metaphysics, psychology, religion, and mysticism. Du Bois, Edmund Husserl, Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Hilary Putnam, and Richard Rorty.īorn into a wealthy family, James was the son of the Swedenborgian theologian Henry James Sr and the brother of both the prominent novelist Henry James, and the diarist Alice James. James' work has influenced intellectuals such as Émile Durkheim, W. He also developed the philosophical perspective known as radical empiricism. ![]() ![]() Along with Charles Sanders Peirce and John Dewey, he is considered to be one of the greatest figures associated with the philosophical school known as pragmatism, and is also cited as one of the founders of the functional psychology. The first educator to offer a psychology course in the United States, James was one of the leading thinkers of the late nineteenth century and is believed by many to be one of the most influential philosophers the United States has ever produced, while others have labelled him the "Father of American psychology". William James (Janu– August 26, 1910) was an American philosopher and psychologist who was also trained as a physician. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. ![]() |