Class Warfare

In a reporting tour de force, award-winning journalist Steven Brill takes an uncompromising look at the adults who are fighting over America’s failure to educate its children and points the way to reversing that failure. Brill not only takes us inside their roller-coaster battles, he also concludes with a surprising prescription for what it will take from both sides to put the American dream back in America’s schools.

The Merchant Guild wants a monopoly. The Dungeon Regulatory Commission wants paperwork. The feral monsters just want to eat the guests. Matthias Bauer’s cozy frontier inn has a new attraction: a domesticated, non-lethal training dungeon operating right under the floorboards. By turning a starving Dungeon Heart into a profitable agility course, Matthias has revolutionized the local adventuring economy. But success on the frontier attracts the worst kind of pests: bureaucrats and saboteurs. When Inspector Vane of the Dungeon Regulatory Commission arrives to condemn the property, Matthias ...

Bureaucracy meets fantasy in the ultimate battle of logistics versus corruption. Matthias Bauer thought running a frontier inn was just about baking good bread and keeping the floors clean. But when he installs a magical [Noticeboard] offering fair contracts and escrow payments to local workers, he accidentally starts an economic revolution. The corrupt Adventurer's Guild and Merchant Guild are not happy about losing their monopoly. They deploy their deadliest weapons to crush his business: road embargoes, health inspectors, and forged, lethal quests designed to murder novice heroes. Armed ...

Class, Power, and Society: Understanding Class Theory and Its Lasting Impact is a comprehensive exploration of one of sociology’s most important and enduring ideas: class. From its origins in early social thought to the revolutionary theories of Karl Marx and the multidimensional perspectives of Max Weber, this book examines how class has shaped human societies across history and why it remains essential to understanding the modern world. Across ten in-depth chapters, readers will discover how class consciousness develops, how education and culture reproduce inequality, and how race and ...

Trade disputes are usually understood as conflicts between countries with competing national interests, but as Matthew C. Klein and Michael Pettis show in this book, they are often the unexpected result of domestic political choices to serve the interests of the rich at the expense of workers and ordinary retirees. Klein and Pettis trace the origins of today's trade wars to decisions made by politicians and business leaders in China, Europe, and the United States over the past 30 years. 

Class Warfare in the 21st Century: Power, Wealth, and Resistance in the Age of Automation 🔥 Who controls the future—humans or machines? Corporations or workers? Wealth or justice? 🔥 In an era dominated by artificial intelligence, automation, and digital monopolies, the struggle between the rich and the working class has evolved into something more complex, urgent, and dangerous. Class warfare is no longer just about factories and wages—it’s about algorithms, data ownership, and who controls the infrastructure of the future. 📖 What This Book Explores: ✔️ How AI, automation...

An Instant New York Times Bestseller! Get in. Get out. Don't Fall in Love. Enter the brutal world of Endlock, a prison where the wealthy hunt the inmates for sport. In the city of Dividium, the law is simple: commit a crime, and your punishment is a life sentence in Endlock. Raven Thorne is...

If You’ve Ever Felt Controlled, Gaslit, or Powerless in a Conversation… This book is for you! Do you constantly find yourself on the losing side of influence? Ever walked away from a conversation feeling manipulated but couldn’t prove it? Do you feel like others are pulling the strings in your relationships, career, or social life… and you can’t figure out how to fight back? Most people are completely blind to the psychological tactics being used against them every single day—by narcissists, salespeople, partners, bosses, and even “friends”.

**They dropped fire on a camp of women and children. Then the System asked him if he wanted to level up.** Korgath Grey-Tusk is a hunter, not a hero. In a clan that measures worth in glory-scars, he commits the one unforgivable heresy: he would rather his people live than die beautifully. Then human airships carpet the Thornwald in flame. His chief burns. His clan burns. And in the ash, a thing older than either race opens across the world and offers him a choice no orc has ever been offered — a class, a level, and a number attached to every skull he breaks. He takes the Berserker path. ...

'FINANCIAL JOURNALISM AT ITS BEST . . . UTTERLY TERRIFYING' PETER OBORNE 'PART WAKE-UP CALL, PART FINANCIAL THRILLER' SHAMI CHAKRABARTI A thrilling, eye-opening investigation into private equity, a secretive wing of the finance industry that is so relentlessly destructive, it could have been...

The New York Times bestselling author of the celebrated A Land More Kind Than Home and This Dark Road to Mercy returns with this eagerly awaited new novel, set in the Appalachian foothills of North Carolina in 1929 and inspired by actual events. The chronicle of an ordinary woman’s struggle...

They told you Sparta was the birthplace of honor. They forgot to mention the bodies. Behind the myth of noble warriors and heroic last stands lies a darker truth. A truth buried beneath olive groves and laurel wreaths. A truth soaked in blood, silence, and state-sanctioned cruelty. The Spartan Protocol is not a history book. It is a classified reconstruction of a society that engineered its children into weapons and discarded the rest. Inside these pages, you will walk the dirt paths where infants were judged like livestock. You will witness the rituals that turned boys into killers and ...

With a postscript describing SEAL efforts in Afghanistan, The Warrior Elite takes you into the toughest, longest, and most relentless military training in the world. What does it take to become a Navy SEAL? What makes talented, intelligent young men volunteer for physical punishment, cold water, and days without sleep?

The electrifying #1 New York Times bestselling debut novel from YouTube sensation Joey Graceffa dares to ask the question: What would you do in order to survive if your very existence were illegal? Rowan is a second child in a world where population control measures make her an outlaw, marked...

The energetic and bitingly satirical novel from author Edward Ashton, author of Mickey7! The End of Ordinary is a riveting near-future thriller that asks an important question: if we can’t get along when our differences are barely skin deep, what happens when they run all the way down to the...

“Three narrators find the essential humanity of a group of antiheroes in an action-packed dark academia stunner." — Kirkus "The ruthless, remarkable world you’ve been waiting for." — Chloe Gong, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of These Violent Delights "A twisty, dark academia...

Warrick was a farmer. Then the conscription officers arrived, and he became cannon fodder. For years, the kingdom has maintained a tenuous stalemate with the Portals — violent tears in reality that spew nightmare beasts upon the land. Commoners die holding the line while the magical elite, the Resonants, live in comfort behind high walls. That's the system. That's always been the system. But at the Mandatory Awakening Trial, the testing crystal didn't register Warrick as powerless. It shattered. Warrick hadn't failed the awakening. His power had absorbed it. He possesses something the ...

Don’t miss the high-stakes sequel to the instant New York Times bestselling dystopian romance, To Cage a Wild Bird! After escaping the brutal world of Endlock, Raven Thorne flees to the Wastes and finds herself drawn into the cold embrace of the Collective, a rebel group. This electrifying...

"The Glittering Hour is an exceptional novel about choosing how to live amid powerful grief and true love." — Bookpage Award-winning author Iona Grey's next unforgettable historical about true love found and lost and the secrets we keep from one another Selina Lennox is a Bright Young Thing...

”What a Great Book!” — Jennifer P., HISTORY/A+E Networks DiSilvio’s award-winning saga features the Wozniak family, who sail to America in pursuit of happiness, believing the streets are paved in gold, but find themselves enslaved in a dark and dangerous coal mine working for pennies. Meanwhile, their boss, Archibald Desmond Huxley, rakes in millions, while ignoring safety issues, and spares no expense as he builds his second opulent mansion on the Gold Coast of Long Island. Adding further to their misfortune, the death of Jedrek Wozniak, by a negligent mine explosion, thrusts his ...