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In this acclaimed investigation, Owen Jones explores how the working class has gone from 'salt of the earth' to 'scum of the earth.' Exposing the ignorance and prejudice at the heart of the chav caricature, he portrays a far more complex reality. The chav stereotype, he argues, is used by governments as a convenient fig leaf to avoid genuine engagement with social and economic problems and to justify widening inequality.

Behind our democracy lurks a powerful but unaccountable network of people who wield massive power and reap huge profits in the process. In exposing this shadowy and complex system that dominates our lives, Owen Jones sets out on a journey into the heart of our Establishment, from the lobbies of Westminster to the newsrooms, boardrooms, and trading rooms of Fleet Street and the City.

Lek, the eldest child in a typical rice-farming family, did not hope for anything more than the other girls in her village: work in the fields for a few years; have a few babies; let mum take care of them and go back to work until they had their own children and it was her turn to take care of them. Suddenly, her father died with debts ...Lek was 20 and the only one who could prevent foreclosure...the only way she knew was to work in a bar in Pattaya. She went as a waitress, but when she became pregnant, things had to change...needing more money now, she drifted into the sex industry.

Lek was born the eldest child of four in a typical rice farming family. She did not expect to do anything any different from the other girls in her class in the northern rice belt of Thailand. Typically that would be: work in the fields for a few years, have a few babies, give them to mum to take care of and get back to work until her kids had their own children and it would be her turn to stop working to take care of them. A catastrophe occurred out of the blue. Her father died huge debts that the family knew nothing about. Lek was 20 and the only one who could stop foreclosure.  

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From Paris to Prague, from the past to the present, authors and artists say farewell in this unique collection. In this audiobook you'll find personal letters, reminiscences, poetry, art and brand new fiction from some of the most talented and important voices at work today, including Jessie Burton, Alain de Botton, Matt Haig, Richard Herring, Owen Jones, Mark Kermode, Robert Macfarlane, Kate Mosse, Chris Riddell, Lionel Shriver and many others.

A unique hill-walking guide to 20 of Britain’s peaks, adding up to the exact height of Everest. This audiobook allows you to embark on your own personal "Everest" without leaving England’s green and pleasant land. Ascending hills of varying sizes whose ascents add up to the same height as Everest, around 29,000 feet, celebrity vicar and countryman Peter Owen Jones guides the you on a road trip covering over 20 hill-climbs in different parts of England. 

 Megan è una ragazzina di 13 anni, che si rende conto di avere poteri psichici che altri non hanno. All'inizio, ha cercato di parlare del suo potere con sua madre, ma con conseguenze disastrose, così ha imparato a tacere. Tuttavia, alcune persone si sono offerte di aiutare e un animale ha mostrato un'amicizia speciale, ma questi non sono "vivi".  

Megan è una ragazza con poteri soprannaturali e sensitivi, che ancora non comprende appieno. È in costante ricerca di di qualcuno che la guidi a svilupparli, ma le uniche persone che conosce capaci di aiutarle sono fantasmi. Questo non la frena comunque dal cercare il loro aiuto.

L’Equivoco è il primo di una serie di ventitré romanzi sullo sviluppo spirituale di una ragazza di nome Megan. La protagonista possiede dei latenti poteri soprannaturali che la rendono curiosa di scoprirli appieno, anche se nessun altro che conosce sembra avere idea di cosa lei stia parlando.

Daisy, the proud daughter of a wealthy ex-London gangster, John, and his Spanish wife, Teresa, grew up in Marbella on the Costa del Sol, aka the Costa del Crime. She idolized her parents and sought to impress her aging father by helping him run the family businesses after university. However, a disastrous error of judgment ends in family tragedy, and her mother puts Daisy on a safer path of helping the local community as a penance. 

'Hoe om Jou Hond ‘n Werklike Hond se Lewe te Gee - en hom jou daarvoor te laat liefhê.' is die volledige handboek oor kies, koop, verbinding met 'n hond bou en vir hom sorg, geskryf deur 'n honde-eienaar wat so passievol oor honde is dat sy vrou seker is dat hy 'n hond was in sy laaste lewe! Owen Jones het sy lewe gedeel met honde sedert die eerste dag van sy lewe. Hy ken hulle so goed dat hy is seker dat hy hulle grappies kan vertel! Dit is 'n moet lees!

The content of this audiobook on koi garden ponds and related subjects is organized into 17 chapters that will help you choose a site for your koi carp pond, set up and maintain it all year around, and look after your valuable fish during the various seasons and even in particularly adverse weather conditions. 

Two girls, born thousands of miles apart in Kazakhstan and Japan just after World War II, meet and are like peas in a pod. They also get on like sisters and keep n touch for the rest of their lives. However, one wants to help her battle-scarred country and the other wants to leave hers for the West. They dream up a daring, dangerous plan to achieve both goals, which Andropov, the chief of the Soviet KGB, is told about. He dubs it "Operation Youriko", and it is set in motion, but does it have even the remotest chance of success?

The information in this audiobook on home movie systems and related subjects is organized into 17 sections. It will help you set up a home movie theatre system, and it may even help you venture out into a new career. The least that it will do is save you hundreds on professional advice.

Michael has lived with his Thai wife in Thailand for 12 years and Spain for two, but failed to get her a residence permit for the UK. She was sent back to Thailand and he moved back to his home town of Barry in South Wales to try to "get her in" before Brexit. The chances are slim, and he sinks ever deeper into despair even sleeping on the beach to save money. In truth, he starts to lose his mind with worry and loneliness. He won't even go to his family for help, because he feels that they have shunned him, but is he right?

William Jones, a sheep farmer from the Brecon Beacons, had led a happy life, until his wife, Sarah, died young. It left him devastated and seemingly bent on self-destruction. His daughter, Becky tried to help, but even she was losing patience with her father. One evening, he is certain that he has died and been put out of his misery, but it was not to be. He recovered. However his life was never to be the same again. He had discovered Annwn where his wife lived, and his newly found vitality changed his life and that of all those with whom he came into contact. 

Heng Lee is a goatherd in the remote mountains northeast of Chiang Rai in northern Thailand, very close to the border with Laos. It is a tight-knit community where everyone knows one another. Heng gets sick all of a sudden but not too sick to take the goats out, until one day, he has to go to see the local shaman because he has started fainting.

Lily was a happy little girl, which lasted until an 'uncle' started to abuse her from the age of eleven. She became shy and introverted, leading a lonely life until she moved to Bangkok to study at university. However, her thoughts and her past would not leave her alone, so, after classes, she began to seek out men she suspected of paedophilia and exact her own peculiar type of revenge on them. She became the vengeful Tiger Lily of Bangkok and terrified society, but how long could she keep evading the police, and did she secretly want to get caught anyway so she could make her story public?

Os Inadmissíveis é, na sua essência, uma comédia filosófica que tem o seu início quando Heng, um pastor de cabras de meia-idade que vive com a sua família nas montanhas de Chiang Rai, no norte da Tailândia, se começa a sentir mal. A princípio decide não ligar, mas com o passar dos dias começa a sentir-se cada vez pior e decide visitar a sua velha tia Da, a xamã da aldeia.