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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Rachel Ray Rachel Ray Anthony Trollope "Rachel Ray is an 1863 novel by Anthony Trollope. It recounts the story of a young woman who is forced to give up her fiancé because of baseless suspicions directed toward him by the members of her c… OL109861W
Les cols blancs Les cols blancs C. Wright Mills "The late C.Wright Mills was former Professor of Sociology at Columbia University."--BOOK JACKET. OL14863142W
The speech The speech Bernard Sanders Presents the Vermont Senator's speech from December 10, 2010, in which he spoke for eight and a half hours to call to action the middle class in an effort to save themselves by becoming informed, org… OL16243237W
I could love you I could love you William Nicholson When Belinda discovers her husband is having an affair, her world is turned upside down; she's furious, hurt, and bent on evening the score. But Belinda isn't the only one in her affluent suburban ne… OL16262818W
Zhong chan you zheng qi = Opinion Reserve Zhong chan you zheng qi = Opinion Reserve Bingfeng Huang This is a book written by a locally born and raised Hong Kong Chinese about Middle Class in politics. The Author has a creative idea of a new opinion machine, namely "Opinion Reserve", to help breaki… OL16687523W
Listen, Liberal Listen, Liberal Thomas Frank How the Democratic Party lost its working class, and what happened afterward. OL17591440W
Black silent majority Black silent majority Michael Javen Fortner "Often seen as a political sop to the racial fears of white voters, aggressive policing and draconian sentencing for illegal drug possession and related crimes have led to the imprisonment of million… OL20013271W
The way of all flesh The way of all flesh Samuel Butler I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. If I cannot, and I know I cannot, get the literary and scientific big-wigs to give me a shilling, I can, and I know I can, heave bricks into the mi… OL22372W
El proceso histórico de la agricultura venezolana El proceso histórico de la agricultura venezolana Gastón Carvallo "Although historical and descriptive, author relies on secondary material and does not provide new insights to the topic"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57. OL2503305W
Millennium people Millennium people J. G. Ballard When a bomb goes off at Heathrow it looks like just another random act of violence to psychologist David Markham. But then he discovers that his ex-wife Laura is among the victims. Acting on police s… OL2745947W
A charge for the angels A charge for the angels Aileen Hall Growing up in Floyd County, Ky., in the 1920s and 1930s, Hall recounts her life on her homeplace at Banner, adventures at high school and in towns like Prestonsburg and Pikeville such as dancing at D… OL28178393W
The middle class The middle class Lawrence James For Lawrence James, the middle class is the great powerhouse of British history. The death of feudalism, the advancement of democracy, the industrial revolutions, the development of mass media - the … OL764117W
Where Angels Fear to Tread Where Angels Fear to Tread E. M. Forster Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905) follows two women to Italy: the widowed Lilia Herriton and her traveling companion Caroline Abbott. Lilia falls passionately in love with the country, and also with … OL88876W
Schnitzler's century Schnitzler's century Peter Gay Schnitzler's Century reassesses nineteenth-century history and traces the dramatic rise of the middle class. We have always believed that corseted Queen Victoria defined the mores of the nineteenth c… OL924635W
Reproducing class Reproducing class Henry J. Rutz "Middle classes are by definition ambiguous, raising all sorts of paradoxical questions, perceived and real, about their power and place relative to those above and below them in a class-structured s… OL9286554W
State of the Unions State of the Unions Philip M. Dine From steel workers, Teamsters, and coal miners to teachers, actors, and civil servants, union members once accounted for more than one third of the American workforce. At a mere 12 percent, union mem… OL9306985W