Beaten Down, Worked Up

Beaten Down, Worked UpBy: Steven Greenhouse A page turning book that spans a century of worker strikes. Engrossing, character driven, panoramic. The New York Times Book Review We live in an era of soaring corporate profits and anemic wage gains, one in which low paid jobs and blighted blue collar communities have become a common feature of our nations landscape. Behind these trends lies a little discussed problem: the decades long decline in worker power. Award winning

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Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending and one of Britain’s greatest writers: a brilliant collection of essays on the books and authors that have meant the most to him throughout his illustrious career

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have raised five accomplished children

CAUGHT STEALING • SIX BAD THINGS • A DANGEROUS MAN

silhouette artist Agnes is struggling to keep her business afloat

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插畫家與繪本作家，英國劍橋藝術學院 （Cambridge School of Art） 童書插畫系碩士。喜歡聽故事、體驗新事物，和漫無目的地在城市裡散步。最常取材於大自然，蒐集生活中的靈感，希望能創作出令人感到溫暖的作品。繪本作品《Kevin è Timido》曾入圍小涼帽國際繪本獎，並在義大利與西班牙出版。

英格蘭銀行高級經濟學家。倫敦政經學院（LSE）經濟學碩士。2013年加入銀行以來，一直致力於防止經濟危機、維持金融穩定，並分析相關政策風險，如新冠肺炎封城對企業的影響等等。

Poems of the Night is a moving collection of the great literary visionary's poetic meditations on nighttime

"do elephants have teeth" and "why do frogs jump