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22 de dez. de 2009 · The remarkable data assembled in The Spirit Level reveals striking differences, not only among the nations of the first world but even within America's fifty states. Almost every modern social problem ill-health, violence, lack of community life, teen pregnancy, mental illness is more likely to occur in a less-equal society.
3 de mai. de 2011 · The Spirit Level is a very analytical approach to the topic of income inequality that is presented in an understandable format. The first couple chapters set the scene in describing the difference between wealth and inequality and how our success in getting things may actually be setting up cultural failure.
4 de nov. de 2010 · Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett's The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone is the most influential and talked-about book on society in the last decade - now updated with a new chapter on the controversy the book has ignited.
26 de abr. de 2011 · The Spirit Level challenges everything we've been told about why people get sick and what it takes to be healthy. While public campaigns lecture us to eat right, stop smoking, exercise more, etc., in fact, our well-being has very little to do with our individual choices and everything to do with how society is structured.
- Kate Pickett, Richard Wilkinson
23 de abr. de 2010 · The book goes to the heart of the apparent contrast between material success and social failure in many modern national societies.The Spirit Level does not simply provide a diagnosis of our ills, but provides invaluable instruction in shifting the balance from self-interested consumerism to a friendlier, more collaborative society.
26 de abr. de 2011 · Buy The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger Revised, Updated ed. by Wilkinson, Richard, Pickett, Kate (ISBN: 9781608193417) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
- Richard Wilkinson, Kate Pickett
The Spirit Level does not simply provide a diagnosis of our ills, but provides invaluable instruction in shifting the balance from self-interested consumerism to a friendlier, more collaborative society.
