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""As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in the aisles, guiding us to our assigned seats for a performance. The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power--which groups have it and which do not." In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume ; 23 cm.
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English
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"A trenchant analysis of how the wealthiest 9.9 percent of Americans -- those just below the tip of the wealth pyramid -- have exacerbated the growing inequality in our country and distorted our social values"--
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Titan Comics
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
110 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
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Coursing through an eternal winter, on an icy track wrapped around the frozen planet Eart, there travels a train that never stops. This is Snowpiercer: one thousand and one carriages long.
"From fearsome engine to final car, all surviving human life is here: a complete hierarchy of the society we lost. The elite, as ever, travel in luxury at the front of the train - but for those in the rear coaches, life is squalid, miserable and short. Now the...
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Publisher
Titan Comics
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
230 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Language
English
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A brand new edition the stunning graphic novel which inspired theOscar-winning movie starring Chris Evans (Captain America, Fantastic Four) and Netflix/TNT series starring Jennifer Connelly and Hamilton's Daveed Diggs!
The inspiration for the highly-anticipated TNT TV series that airs Spring 2020, experience the original post-apocalyptic world of Snowpiercer from award-winning creators Olivier Bocquet and Jean-Marc Rochette!
On a future, frozen...