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The country of North America has a rich and interesting history that has contributed to its current human rights status.

"In Wealth, Poverty, and Politics, Dr. Thomas Sowell of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, examines the reasons for large differences in income and wealth between nations and among groups within nations. A wide range of geographic, demographic, cultural, and political factors are examined, not to find a single factor or a single combination of factors that will explain all economic differences, but to show how particular combinations of factors limit or expand the possibilities for specific nations and peoples at specific times and places. Dr. Sowell also examines some popular explanations of these differences and shows why they will not stand up under scrutiny. In doing so, he takes on some of the reigning titans of the redistributionist movement-including John Rawls, Thomas Piketty, Paul Krugman, and Joseph Stiglitz-and shows how a remarkable number of their claims cannot withstand plain common sense, expressed in plain English"--Amazon.com.

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Lea Lane has always felt caught in the middle of two worlds--that of Hawaii, and that of the Mainland. Her actress mother casts a large shadow, but things begin to turn for Lea in her junior high school year. She somehow makes friends with Will and Whitney West, spending more and more time at the prominent family's guest cottage. She begins to wonder if she might become more than friends with Will, but it is with Whitney that the most surprises come, and a deep friendship unlike anything Lea or Whitney have ever had develops.

Three teenage girls from different backgrounds work for a summer in the Hamptons as au pairs for a wealthy family, and in spite of many ups and downs, all three end up changing for the better.

Piper Baird longs to become a journalist, and getting a scholarship to Chiswick Academy in Washington, DC, is the best opportunity. There she hobnobs with children of elite ambassadors from around the world, and she knows that doing a scoop on their lawless, privileged lives, could win her the prized Bennington scholarship to college. However, when Rafael Amador, son of the Spanish ambassador, asks for her help and she gets to know him, Piper starts falling for him, and things get complicated when submitting her scoop could ruin his life.

A girl discovers that her impoverished family is rich in things that matter in life, especially being outdoors and experiencing nature.

Thirteen-year-old Sammy meets a mysterious man who dies of a heart attack after telling her to get rid of the large amount of money he is carrying, leading her to investigate who the man was and how he came to be carrying so much cash.

Told in two voices, Jean, a rich girl, and Fritz, an outsider, compete for the affection of handsome newcomer Gil during the summer of 1976 at an exclusive Fire Island enclave, and discover their competition has higher stakes than either can imagine.

As inequality grabs headlines, steals the show in presidential debates, and drives deep divides between the haves and have nots in America, class war brews. On one side, the wealthy wield power and advantage, wittingly or not, to keep the system operating in their favor?all while retreating into enclaves that separate them further and further from the poor and working class. On the other side, those who find it increasingly difficult to keep up or get ahead lash out?waging a rhetorical war against the rich and letting anger and resentment, however justifiable, keep us from seeing new potential solutions.