America’s opioid epidemic has hit the society’s elite, previously associated with the lower class living in trailer parks and other centres of deprivation. Ellene Zimmerman’s husband Peter was a lawyer who, as a partner at a top San Diego intellectual property firm, earned well in excess of $1m a year. He was also a drug…
Capital and Ideology by Thomas Piketty contains fascinating descriptions of unknown historical uprisings against inequality such as Haitian revolution and describes societal system through the ages – slavery, serfdom, feudalism, communism, hypercapitalism, colonialism and caste, class collectively as “Inequality regimes” shaping the lives of billions and uses historical sources to chart the distribution of incomes…
Facebook only evolved after there was six degrees, Friendster and MySpace, on college campuses like Stanford, people digitising their printed facebooks as early as 1999. Mark Zuckerberg was in high school at Exeter, a classmate of his name Kris Tillery built a database of student headshots and put it online along with their phone numbers,…
Travel journalist Sophy Roberts’s The Lost Pianos of Siberia is an idealistic quest, a mischievous travel adventure and a forgotten and one of best non-fiction story about one of the exiles, penal colonies, and unmarked graves It all starts with a commission to track down a suitable piano for a Mongolian virtuoso of Siberian descent that…
Underwater Photographer of the year celebrates photography under the ocean, lakes, and rivers, with over 5, 500 underwater pictures from 70 countries around the world. French Greg Lacoeur is this year’s champion and a multi-award-winning wildlife photographer who dedicates his life to the marine world, living a nomadic lifestyle expressing the emotion of the…
This is the story of feminism’s success down to complicated contradictory imperfect women, who fought each other as well as fighting for equal rights, who have been forgotten in our modern search for feel-good inspirational heroines. You will meet the working-class suffragettes who advocated bombings and arson, the princes who discovered why so many women…
Cambridge world’s second best university by The Times Higher Education World University Rankings , ranked 3rd worldwide by Academic Ranking of world universities, 6th by QS and 7th vt US News. Cambridge’s reputation as global centre for innovation is damaged by the battle for technological supremacy between China and US, Several universities in the UK…
When Slimani went to promote her best selling novel Adele, about a woman addicted to sex, in Morocco, she did not expect to receive a reaction, as he encountered young people keen to discuss the sexual themes her novel raised, women were eager to share personal stories about their struggles with social restrictions. Slimani ensemble…
More is an eloquent and detailed new history of the global economy from Philip Coggan, a senior economist journalist, and former Financial Times columnist – is very concerned that what compound economic growth has achieved is not even generally appreciated. More takes us through the development of the world economy starting with the first obsidian…
Richard Layard founder and former director of the centre for Economic performance at the London School of Economics, forget the GDP, we need to focus on trust, relationships and our mental health in nutshell it is about happiness, after looking across 3,096 USD counties that participated the 2016 US election, votes for Trump were better…