PBS's fascinating recreation of life upstairs and downstairs in an Edwardian country home. For three months, ordinary people played the parts of the Lord and Lady and the thirteen servants who worked endlessly for them.

California is at a crossroads. For decades a global leader, inspiring the hopes and dreams of millions, the state has recently faced double-digit unemployment, multi-billion dollar budget deficits and the loss of trillions in home values. This atlas brings together the latest research and statistics in a graphic form that gives shape and meaning to these numbers. It shows a new California in the making, as it maps the economic, social, and political...

A volume of linked stories describes the intertwined lives of landowners and their retainers on the Gurmani family farm in Pakistan, in a collection that explores such themes as culture, class power, and desire.

The Compassion Explorer Atlas is designed to help children learn about others and develop their own compassionate approaches. It uses colorful illustrated maps and interesting, relatable facts to introduce children to 26 countries where Compassion International is transforming impoverished children's lives.

In this short story collection set in the Indian city of Kittur sometime between the assassination of Indira Gandhi in 1984 and that of her son Rajiv in 1991, Adiga creates a cast of characters--from a twelve-year old boy to a Marxist-Maoist Party member--who are immersed in class struggles and their own personal denouements.