The Power of Productivity

by William W. Lewis

The God Delusion

by Richard Dawkins

Nickel and Dimed

by Barbara Ehrenreich

Mostly out of laziness, I decide to start my low-wage life in the town nearest to where I actually live, Key West, Flori...

Private Peaceful

by Michael Morpurgo, Diane Ménard

They’ve gone now, and I’m alone at last.

Dictionary of Daily Life in Biblical and Post-Biblical Antiq...

by Edwin M. Yamauchi, Wilson, Marvin R.

Poverty and development into the 21st century

by Tim Allen, Thomas, Alan

The Glass Castle

by Jeannette Walls

I WAS SITTING IN a taxi, wondering if I had overdressed for the evening, when I looked out the window and saw Mom rootin...

Utopia for Realists

by Rutger Bregman, Elizabeth Manton

Camino de perfección [por] Santa Teresa de Jesús

by Teresa of Avila, E. Allison Peers

Of the reason which moved me to found this convent in such strict observance.

How the other half lives

by Jacob A. Riis, K. D. Weeks

1. LONG ago it was said that "one half of the world does not know how the other half lives."

Sounder

by William H. Armstrong

THE TALL MAN stood at the edge of the porch.

Hillbilly Elegy

by J. D. Vance

Snow

by Orhan Pamuk

Esperanza Rising

by Pam Muñoz Ryan

Nuestra tierra esta viva, Esperanza -dijo Papa, mientras la llevaba de la pequena mano por las suaves colinas del vinedo...

Development as Freedom

by Amartya Sen

The inside of the cup

by Winston Churchill

WITH few exceptions, the incidents recorded in these pages take place in one of the largest cities of the United States ...

A Dog of Flanders

by Ouida

They were friends in a friendship closer than brotherhood.

Our Old Home

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

I have not asked your consent, my dear General, to the foregoing inscription, because it would have been no inconsiderab...

Quarto de Despejo

by Carolina Maria de Jesus

July 15, 1955 The birthday of my daughter Vera Eunice.

The coming plague

by Laurie Garrett