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Featuring the research and analysis of the leading historians and social scientists in the field of homelessness, the Homelessness Handbook elucidates, motivates, and empowers - the ideal reference for students, professionals, activists, and anyone who needs to understand this vexing social problem.

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9781933782034

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""This handbook will be indispensable for professionals working either to help people who are homeless or to address the causes of homelessness. It deserves high praise for its thoroughness...the essays do an excellent job of presenting the many issues related to this topic...Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-lever undergraduates through professionals/practitioners."" CHOICE

"""This handbook will be indispensable for professionals working either to help people who are homeless or to address the causes of homelessness. It deserves high praise for its thoroughness...the essays do an excellent job of presenting the many issues related to this topic...Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-lever undergraduates through professionals/practitioners."" CHOICE"

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David Levinson is a cultural anthropologist. He has been the editor or senior editor of several major anthropological reference works including the Encyclopedia of World Cultures, Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology, and American Immigrant Groups. He received his PhD at SUNY/Buffalo and his own research has focused on cross-cultural studies, forgotten or invisible peoples, family relationships, ethnic relations, and local history and culture. David was formerly vice-president of the Human Relations Area Files, at Yale University, and was a co-founder of Berkshire Publishing Group in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. He is the author of African American Heritage in the Upper Housatonic Valley and Sewing Circles, Dime Suppers, and W. E. B. Du Bois: A History of the Clinton A. M. E. Zion Church, among other books.

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