Class Conflict

In a radical analysis of contemporary classrooms, MacArthur Award-winning author Lisa Delpit develops ideas about ways teachers can be better "cultural transmitters" in the classroom, where prejudice, stereotypes, and cultural assumptions breed ineffective education. Delpit suggests that many academic problems attributed to children of color are actually the result of miscommunication, as primarily white teachers and "other people's children" struggle with the imbalance of power and the dynamics plaguing our system.

A big novel about a small town... When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty façade is a town at war. Rich at war with poor...

A stunning new work from universally acclaimed Daniyal Mueenuddin, whose debut short story collection won the Story Prize and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Book Prize, the National Book Award, and the Pulitzer Prize. NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2026: Town & Country, Bustle, AARP...

Attention is the real currency. Not time. Not talent. Not charisma. If you’ve ever walked out of a meeting knowing you were competent… and still didn’t move the room, you already know what this is about. If you’ve ever watched a conversation drift into fog, or felt yourself start performing, over-explaining, or rushing just to keep someone’s attention—same problem. You weren’t lacking personality. You were lacking structure. Attention Engineering: A Masterclass on The Crown Method is a practical course-in-a-book for people who want their communication to land—cleanly, ...

#1 International bestselling author Ian Rankin returns with a razor-sharp, twisty standalone thriller—this one exposing the lives of the 1% in London’s most exclusive high rise Facing Hyde Park, The Heights is London’s most coveted luxury high-rise apartment—designed to satisfy every...

Elegantly constructed and told with exceptional grace, The Light Years is a modern classic of twentieth-century English life and is the first novel in Elizabeth Jane Howard's extraordinary, bestselling family saga The Cazalet Chronicles. Every summer, the Cazalet brothers – Hugh, Edward and...

Campbell Flynn, art historian, professor, and fêted fixture of the literati, always knew that when his life came crashing down, it would happen in public—yet he never imagined that a single year in London would expose so much. He’s never taken other people half as seriously as they take themselves, which is the first of his mistakes. The second is a new project: opportunistic and precisely calibrated to rake in a fortune.

This program is read by the author "Just brilliant."—Kirkus Reviews Heavily autobiographical and infused with magical realism, Black Girl Unlimited fearlessly explores the intersections of poverty, sexual violence, depression, racism, and sexism—all through the arc of a transcendent...

Proper customer care is what todays business success is all about. From the minute the customer picks up the phone or walks through your doors it is critical that you provide them the very best customer experience. Why? Because todays customer has far more options than they did even just 10 years ago. If you do not provide the type of experience your customers want, they will go elsewhere. Often to never be seen again. Learn how to provide superior customer service experiences for every customer. From the easy going young customers to even the most unreasonable and demanding customers. Show...

“A Death of No Importance has such rich historic detail that you feel as if you’ve been transported to early twentieth century New York. Mariah Fredericks is the best at creating compulsively addictive, fresh, twisty reads.”—Meg Cabot Through her exquisite prose, sharp observation and...

INTRODUCTION: WHY DO WE HATE? Hatred is one of the fundamental motivating aspects of human life; the other is desire. Desire can be of a worldly nature or of a spiritual, elevating nature. Worldly desire and hatred are like two sides of the same coin in that human life is usually swaying from one to the other; but the question is why? And is there a way to satisfy the desiring or hating mind in such a way as to find peace in life? Why do human beings go to war? Why do human beings perpetrate violence against one another? And is there a way not just to understand the phenomena but to resolve...

Pete and Geri Scazzero developed The Emotionally Healthy (EH) Relationships Course over a 21-year period to directly address core biblical principles to guide you and others into an experience of discipleship that will deeply change your life. In the EH Relationships Course, everyone will learn...

In Belle Rive, talent is admired right up until it threatens the wrong people. Liza Bennet has fought for every inch of ground she’s won in the dressage world. At Briar Glen Stables, nothing is inherited, nothing is polished for show, and every ribbon has to be earned the hard way. So when her brilliant ride turns heads at an elite competition, Liza should be celebrating. Instead, one cutting remark from the cold, impossibly controlled Fitz Darcy turns her triumph into humiliation. He sees her as raw talent without proper refinement. She sees him as everything rotten about old money, old ...

Mages suck! Too bad she is one. After tragedy strikes, Samara Yancy vows to keep those she loves safe. But her job’s uninspiring, her sister is spiraling, and she barely sleeps. So, when asked to bring her friend’s killer to justice on The Mainland, she accepts. Disguised as a Mage, blondish hair and a fake name aren’t enough to protect her. On the run, she finds shelter with those who view her as bait, devising a plan to keep her friends and family safe. Which, as usual, looks better on paper than when executed. As Sam navigates through a sea of half-truths, magic within her awakens....

'Some of the most beautiful prose being written in Ireland today' Irish Times Lorraine would say afterwards that she was smitten straight off with Paddy Farrell. You could tell that he was occupying the room in a different way, he found the spaces that fitted him. She was the kind of girl the...

MAGIC RULES. WE SERVE. In a darkly fantastical debut set in modern-day Britain, magic users control everything: wealth, politics, power—and you. If you’re not one of the ultimate one-percenters—the magical elite—you owe them ten years of service. Do those years when you’re old, and...

Michael Shelburne, the stepson of the richest and most powerful man on earth is kidnapped by radical students from his college with the intention of turning him into a tool for their own political purpose. When this goes horribly wrong, a complex thriller unfolds were great wealth, social classes, political power and organize crime collide under the glittering and gritty backdrop of Atlantic City.

Brought to you by Penguin. Now a major film directed by Danny Boyle reuniting the cast of Trainspotting Years on from Trainspotting Sick Boy is back in Edinburgh after a long spell in London. Having failed spectacularly as a hustler, pimp, husband, father and businessman, Sick Boy taps into an...

What is it about Napoleon Bonaparte that has led recognized leaders such as General George S. Patton to study his principles-and countless books on management and leadership to quote his maxims? What lessons can today's project managers and leaders learn from Napoleon's successes and failures?...

In the vibrant heart of London, where the clamour of life intertwined with whispers of forgotten dreams, a delicate ballet unfolded between two souls destined to tread divergent paths. Eliza Croft, an aristocrat burdened by the weight of societal expectations, yearned for freedom from the gilded cage that adorned her existence. Beneath the wide-brimmed hat that framed her porcelain face, her heart ached for something beyond the confines of polite conversation and arranged marriages. Across the lush gardens of her family’s townhouse, Julian Thorne, a struggling artist cloaked in tattered ...