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Graham Bruce Hancock (born 2 August 1950) [1] is a British writer who promotes pseudoscientific [2] [3] ideas about ancient civilizations and hypothetical lost lands. [4] Hancock proposes that an advanced civilization with spiritual technology existed during the last Ice Age until it was destroyed following comet impacts around 12,900 years ago, at the onset of the Younger Dryas.
Lord Bird co-chairs the All-Party Parliamentary Groups on Future Generations and Libraries, and is vice-chairman of the Groups on Poverty, Ending Homelessness and Social Enterprise. He also leads debates on poverty, literacy and social business, and is a member of the Lord Speaker's Advisory Panel on Works of Art. [22]
Peter Thomas Bauer, Baron Bauer, FBA (6 November 1915 – 2 May 2002) was a Hungarian-born British development economist.Bauer is best remembered for his opposition to the then widely-held notion that the most effective manner to help developing countries advance is through state led development planning supported by foreign aid.
George's self-published Progress and Poverty was the first popular economics text and one of the most widely printed books ever written. The book's explosive worldwide popularity is often marked as the beginning of the Progressive Era and various political parties, clubs, and charitable organizations around the world were founded on George's ideas.
The Other America: Poverty in the United States is Michael Harrington's best known and likely most influential book. He was an American democratic socialist, writer, political activist, political theorist, professor of political science, radio commentator, and founding member of the Democratic Socialists of America .
Michael Dobbs was born on 14 November 1948 in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, [1] the son of nurseryman Eric and Eileen Dobbs. He was educated at Hertford Grammar School, Cheshunt Grammar School, and Christ Church, Oxford.
Meet the ‘Witch of Wall Street,’ a black-clad pioneering value investor who became the world’s richest woman—but is wrongly remembered as a cheapskate
Illustration from an 1886 edition of Little Lord Fauntleroy.The book contrasts the genteel poor main character's more refined mannerisms with the true working poor. Genteel poverty is a state of poverty marked by one's connection or affectation towards a higher ("genteel") social class. [1]