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I donat know of anywhere else where I could go to get such compelling readings from the abottom upa across a range of topics related to poverty as I can here. It brings a very human dimension to the exploration of poverty.

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D. Stanley Eitzen (Ph.D., University of Kansas, 1968) is professor emeritus in sociology from Colorado State University. He is author or co-author of seventeen books, many of which are in multiple editions. His books that fit with this book are: SOCIAL PROBLEMS, Eighth Edition, (Allyn and Bacon, 2000); SOLUTIONS TO SOCIAL PROBLEMS: LESSONS FROM OTHER SOCIETIES, Second Edition., (Allyn and Bacon, 2001); PATHS TO HOMELESSNESS: EXTREME POVERTY AND THE URBAN HOUSING CRISIS (Westview, 1994); and THE RESHAPING OF AMERICA (Prentice-Hall, 1989). His major research interests are social problems, social inequality (race/class/gender/sexuality), families, power, and sport. Kelly Eitzen Smith (Ph.D., University of Arizona, 1999) is adjunct professor of sociology and assistant director of the Center for Applied Sociology at the University of Arizona. Her dissertation, under the direction of David A. Snow, was an ethnography of homeless women. While a graduate student she was part of a large research project where she interviewed the homeless in Detroit, Philadelphia, and Tucson. She has done extensive volunteer work in homeless shelters in Tucson. Her sociological interests are gender, social inequality, and social movements.

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