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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorA Free Man: A True Story of Life and Death in Delhi
Aman Sethi · 226 pages
Depicts the lives of a group of homeless friends living in the Old Delhi Railway Station in India and the adventures and misfortunes they experienced that ultimately brought each of them there.
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Katherine Boo · 256 pages
The dramatic and sometimes heartbreaking story of families striving toward a better life in one of the twenty-first century's great, unequal cities. In this fast-paced book, based on three years of uncompromising reporting, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human. Annawadi is a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport, and as India starts
The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire
Tim Schwab · 496 pages
The Shame Of The Nation: The Restoration Of Apartheid Schooling In America
Jonathan Kozol · 416 pages
"This is a book about betrayal of the young, who have no power to defend themselves. It is not intended to make readers comfortable." Visiting nearly 60 public schools, Kozol finds that conditions have grown worse for inner-city children in the 15 years since federal courts began dismantling the landmark 1954 ruling in Brown v. Board of Education. First, the segregation of black children is at a l
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Barbara Ehrenreich · 240 pages
The author's experience holding low-wage jobs in three parts of the U.S. in the late 1990s.
A Feast of Vultures: The Hidden Business of Democracy in India
Josy Joseph · 256 pages
Hello, Bastar - The Untold Story of India's Maoist Movement
Rahul Pandita · 202 pages
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America
George Packer · 448 pages
The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap
Matt Taibbi · 432 pages
"Matt Taibbi's genius is in untangling complex stories and making us care about them by providing striking moral clarity and a genuine sense of outrage. He has become among the most read journalists in America, leading the dialogue with epic Rolling Stone pieces that offer an "almost startling reminder of the power of good writing" (Washington Post). In this new work, he once again takes readers i
Mutiny: The Rise and Revolt of the College-Educated Working Class
Noam Scheiber · 384 pages
Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc · 424 pages
The result of over ten years of immersion reporting, "Random Family" charts a tumultuous decade in which girls become mothers, mothers become grandmothers, boys become criminals, and hope struggles against deprivation.
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Naomi Klein · 619 pages
**The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism** is a 2007 book by the Canadian author and social activist Naomi Klein. In the book, Klein argues that neoliberal free market policies (as advocated by the economist Milton Friedman) have risen to prominence in some developed countries because of a deliberate strategy of "shock therapy". This centers on the exploitation of national crises (dis
Amritsar- Mrs Gandhis Last Battle
Mark Tully, Satish Jacob · 261 pages
This Unquiet Land
Barkha Dutt · 336 pages
India's fault lines run wide and deep. Some of them go back centuries, others are of comparatively recent origin. The myriad villains these fault lines have spawned include rapists, murderers, terrorists, prophets of religious hatred, corrupt politicians, upholders of abhorrent caste traditions, opponents of free speech and dissent, apologists for regressive cultural practices, and external advers
The Siege: 68 Hours Inside The Taj Hotel
Adrian Levy, Cathy Scott-Clark · 318 pages
Describes what took place during the 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai when terrorists assailed the luxurious Taj Mahal Palace Hotel and how the combined efforts of courageous staff and guests helped keep the death toll down.
The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee's, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table
Tracie McMillan · 330 pages
"In 2009 McMillan embarked on a groundbreaking undercover journey to see what it takes to eat well in America. For nearly a year, she worked, ate, and lived alongside the working poor to examine how Americans eat when price matters"--Jacket.
There are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America
Alex Kotlowitz · 323 pages
The People of the Abyss
Jack London · 224 pages
Book of Jack London about life in the East End of London in 1902. He wrote the experiences of living in the East End for months, staying in workhouses or sleeping on the streets. The conditions he experienced and wrote would be the same as would have supported an estimated 500,000 poor in London at the time.
Working in the Shadows: A Year of Doing the Jobs (Most) Americans Won't Do
Gabriel Thompson · 317 pages
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
James Agee · 432 pages
Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense
David Cay Johnston · 344 pages
The bestselling author of Perfectly Legal returns with a powerful new exposeHow does a strong and growing economy lend itself to job uncertainty, debt, bankruptcy, and economic fear for a vast number of Americans? Free Lunch provides answers to this great economic mystery of our time, revealing how today's government policies and spending reach deep into the wallets of the many for the benefit of
The Beautiful and the Damned: A Portrait of the New India
Siddhartha Deb · 253 pages
Siddhartha Deb grew up in a remote town in the northeastern hills of India and made his way to the United States via a fellowship at Columbia. Six years after leaving home, he returned as an undercover reporter forThe Guardian, working at a call center in Delhi in 2004, a time when globalization was fast proceeding and Thomas L. Friedman declared the world flat. Deb's experience interviewing the c