Get the Summary of Thomas Piketty's A Brief History of Equality in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: t is easy to be pessimistic about inequality. We know it has increased dramatically in many parts of the world over the past two generations. No one has done more to reveal the problem than Thomas Piketty. Now, in this surprising and powerful new work, Piketty reminds us that the grand sweep...

En este libro se recopila una serie de textos sobre diversos aspectos de las sociedades prehispánicas colombianas. Algunos presentan información general sobre el poblamiento del territorio, o las grandes tendencias de cambio en estrategias de subsistencia a lo largo de la historia. Otros evalúan aspectos como la alimentación y su relación con el cambio social, la producción alfarera, orfebre o textil, o los aspectos relacionados con la diferenciación...

Published in 1901, this guidebook was intended to place "before teachers and others who have to do with children some facts concerning the bodily and mental lives of children." In the form of notes, Thorndike discusses topics such as "The Physical Growth of Children," "Learned Reactions," "The Emotional Life of Children," and "Adolescence."

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. #1 There are many faces of London, depending on whom it is speaking to. For tourists, there is the pageantry and ceremony of the Changing of the Guards, which is for the tourists. For locals, there are the suburbs with their semi-detached houses, hedges, no-through-roads, and parks. #2 The second place to go with this story is to look back at 2 Woodberry Grove and ask why Pompolo,...

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 The first step in any training is to identify the mission you will train for. Be sure it is something you can actually accomplish. Otherwise, you will get into trouble. Your chances of failure increase exponentially. #2 Law enforcement must put the public first, since that is their job. They must train and equip themselves toward this objective. #3 The sheepdog mentality...

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 I was a tennis bum in the summer before I entered the seventh grade. I was so passionate about the sport that I would idly hold a tennis ball and just sniff it. I became good enough that I was second man on the varsity tennis team of my 3,000-student California high school as a freshman. #2 The author went on to say that great writers are often obsessed with...

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 Weyrich was a behind-the-scenes man who had helped build the conservative movement. But in 1990, he gave a speech at an Ethics and Public Policy Conference where he explained to the conservative foot soldiers that they had spent so much time repeating the myth that they originated from backlash to the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, that they had come to believe it themselves. #2...

El libro trata sobre la apropiación ilegal de veredas, calles y parques por sus residentes y autoridades. A partir del análisis de los resultados de una encuesta, observaciones en sitio, grupos focales y entrevistas, se plantea que esta privatización adquiere tres formas: feudo, comarca y feria, y que se fragmenta aún más a una sociedad al restringir y desaparecer sus espacios de encuentro.

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 The Georgia Guidestones is a monument in Elbert County, Georgia, composed of four sixteen-foot-tall stones that have been called the American Stonehenge. It was commissioned in 1979 by a man using the pseudonym R. C. Christian, and it was completed in 1980. #2 The stones' first admonition is the most disconcerting to many, as the world population in mid-2014...

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 I was a child of passion. I was born of sin: a mistake in human form, a bomb aimed perfectly to blow up both my parents' lives. My parents met at divinity school, which was a pretty funny way to start an affair. #2 I grew up with my mother and father at the Catholic Worker, a socialist Catholic charity that housed the homeless and fed the hungry. They were a...