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Bait and Switch: The Futile Pursuit of the Corporate Dream by Barbara Ehrenreich
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Intrigued by reports of increasing poverty and despair within America's white-collar corporate workforce, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to infiltrate their world as an undercover reporter and learn about the problems facing middle-class executives at first hand. Thinking she had set herself a pretty easy c ...Show more
Blood Rites by Barbara Ehrenreich
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
What lies behind the human attraction to violence? Why do we glorify war, seeing it as an almost sacred undertaking? Barbara Ehrenreich is known for the originality and clarity of her thinking, and in Blood Rites she proposes a radical new theory about our attitudes to bloodshed. From the trenches of Ve ...Show more
Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy by Barbara Ehrenreich
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Ehrenreich uncovers the origins of communal celebration in human biology and culture. She discovers that the same elements come up in every human culture throughout history: a love of masking, carnival, music-making and dance. Although sixteenth-century Europeans began to view mass festivities as foreig ...Show more
Dancing in the Streets : A History of Collective Joy by Barbara Ehrenreich
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Category: New Hardbacks
Ehrenreich uncovers the origins of communal celebration in human biology and culture. She discovers that the same elements come up in every human culture throughout history: a love of masking, carnival, music-making and dance. Although sixteenth-century Europeans began to view mass festivities as foreig ...Show more
Going to Extremes by Barbara Ehrenreich
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
America is a grotesquely polarized society and becoming more so all the time. In this razor-sharp, funny and terrifying collection of pieces, Barbara Ehrenreich shows how the widening gap between rich and poor over the past eight years has left the country increasingly divided between the gated communit ...Show more
Had I Known: Collected Essays by Barbara Ehrenreich
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
A selection of the most provocative, incendiary, and brilliant pieces from one of America's most significant left-leaning journalists and activists. A self-proclaimed 'myth buster by trade', over her long-ranging career as a journalist and political activist Barbara Ehrenreich has delved with devastatin ...Show more
Living with a Wild God: A Non-Believer's Search for the Truth About Everything by Barbara Ehrenreich
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
From the New York Times bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed comes a brave, frank, and exquisitely written memoir that will change the way you see the world. Barbara Ehrenreich is one of the most important thinkers of our time. Educated as a scientist, she is an author, journalist, activist, and a ...Show more
Living with a Wild God - A Non-believer's Search for the Truth About Everything by Barbara Ehrenreich
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Reading Level: good
As a teenager Barbara Ehrenreich was an atheist and a rationalist, determined to understand the meaning of life. During this time she would regularly have minor experiences of dissociation, of seeing the world in a strange light. Then when she was 17, while on a skiing trip, she had an overwhelming, cat ...Show more
Natural Causes:Life Death.. by Barbara Ehrenreich
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
The bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich explores how we are killing ourselves to live longer, not better.
Natural Causes: Life, Death and the Illusion of Control by Barbara Ehrenreich
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
The seminal thinker offers a new understanding of our bodies, our selves and our powerlessness in controlling either. We tend to believe we have agency over our bodies, our minds and even our deaths. Yet emerging science challenges our assumptions of mastery: at the microscopic level, the cells in our b ...Show more
Nickel and Dimed: Undercover in Low-Wage America by Barbara Ehrenreich
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
A contemporary classic that has changed the way we see America.
Nickel and Dimed: Undercover in Low-wage America by Barbara Ehrenreich
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Millions of Americans work full-time, year-round, for poverty level wages. Journalist Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them in order to find out how anyone survives on six dollars an hour. So began a gruelling, hair-raising and darkly funny odyssey though the underworld of working America.