Poverty & unemployment books

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The Handbook of Research on Trauma with Children: Working with High Poverty Schools and Communities

The Handbook of Research on Trauma with Children: Working...

Author: La Vera C. Brown ,  Tahani Dari
ISBN: 9781793511874
Format: Paperback
$93.50

The Handbook of Research on Trauma with Children: Working with High Poverty Schools and Communities helps readers...  Read More >>

Rich World, Poor World: The Struggle to Escape Poverty

Rich World, Poor World: The Struggle to Escape Poverty...

Author: Ali A. Allawi
ISBN: 9780300214284
Format: Hardback
$51.95

A landmark history of the world economic order, exploring how developing countries have fought to escape impoverishment...  Read More >>

The Poverty of Growth

The Poverty of Growth

Author: Olivier De Schutter ,  Kate Raworth
ISBN: 9780745350233
Format: Paperback
$38.79

An accessible, jargon-free manifesto for how to achieve prosperity without growth  Read More >>

Poor: The No. 1 bestseller – ‘Moving, uplifting, brave heroic’ BBC Woman’s Hour

Poor: The No. 1 bestseller – ‘Moving, uplifting, brave...

Author: Katriona O'Sullivan
ISBN: 9780241996768
Format: Paperback
$24.99

'One of the best books I have ever read about the complexities of poverty . . . one of the most remarkable people...  Read More >>

Ideas of Poverty in the Age of Enlightenment

Ideas of Poverty in the Age of Enlightenment

Author: Niall O’Flaherty ,  Robin Mills
ISBN: 9781526166777
Format: Hardback
$206.99

This collection of essays examines the ways in which poverty was conceptualised in the social, political, and religious...  Read More >>

Just Act: We are the Solution to Poverty

Just Act: We are the Solution to Poverty

Author: Angie Peters
ISBN: 9781998815173
Format: Paperback
$52.67

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Undercurrent: Nero Book Awards shortlist 2023

Undercurrent: Nero Book Awards shortlist 2023

Author: Natasha Carthew
ISBN: 9781399706513
Format: Paperback
$26.99

Shortlisted for the Nero Book Awards 2023, Undercurrent is a vivid, lyrical and powerful exploration of rural poverty,...  Read More >>

Unhomed: Cycles of Mobility and Placelessness in American Cinema

Unhomed: Cycles of Mobility and Placelessness in American...

Author: Pamela Robertson Wojcik
ISBN: 9780520390362
Format: Paperback
$49.95

"In this rich cultural history, Pamela Roberston Wojcik examines America's ambivalent and shifting attitude toward...  Read More >>

How Black Was My Valley: Poverty and Abandonment in a Post-Industrial Heartland

How Black Was My Valley: Poverty and Abandonment in...

Author: Brad Evans
ISBN: 9781913462840
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Providing a searing insight and honest portrayal of post-industrial communities ravaged by decades of abandonment,...  Read More >>

Broke

Broke

Author: Tom Clark
ISBN: 9781785908293
Format: Paperback
$22.99

"A dozen years into austerity, statistical warning lights are flashing to suggest a return to types of deprivation...  Read More >>

The Undesirables: The Law that Locked Away a Generation

The Undesirables: The Law that Locked Away a Generation...

Author: Sarah Wise
ISBN: 9780861544554
Format: Hardback
$39.99

The shocking story of how the British government locked up thousands of innocent people – then forgot about them....  Read More >>

Hidden Dimensions of Poverty: Natural Resources and the Environment

Hidden Dimensions of Poverty: Natural Resources and...

Author: World Bank ,  Harun Dogo
ISBN: 9781464812460
Format: Paperback
$118.80

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Ruptures in the Afterlife of the Apartheid City

Ruptures in the Afterlife of the Apartheid City

Author: Yousuf Al-Bulushi
ISBN: 9783031424328
Format: Hardback
$343.17

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Poverty, by America

Poverty, by America

Author: Matthew Desmond
ISBN: 9780141998794
Format: Paperback
$24.99

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Tent City, Seattle: Refusing Homelessness and Making a Home

Tent City, Seattle: Refusing Homelessness and Making...

Author: Tony Sparks
ISBN: 9780295752617
Format: Paperback
$79.20

Transforms our understanding of being unhoused in the United States Tent City 3 provides Seattle’s unhoused people...  Read More >>

Tent City, Seattle: Refusing Homelessness and Making a Home

Tent City, Seattle: Refusing Homelessness and Making...

Author: Tony Sparks
ISBN: 9780295752600
Format: Hardback
$277.20

Transforms our understanding of being unhoused in the United States Tent City 3 provides Seattle’s unhoused people...  Read More >>

Enough: Why It's Time to Abolish the Super-Rich

Enough: Why It's Time to Abolish the Super-Rich

Author: Luke Hildyard
ISBN: 9780745348544
Format: Paperback
$38.79

A call for an end to obscene wealth  Read More >>

The Journey to Hangtown Haven

The Journey to Hangtown Haven

Author: Arthur Edwards
ISBN: 9798893569131
Format: Paperback
$36.93

"How a group of committed volunteers led by a retired aerospace engineer built a homeless shelter in a gold rush...  Read More >>

The Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of Work

The Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of...

Author: Jason Read
ISBN: 9781839767623
Format: Paperback
$34.99

How Marx and Spinoza can explain our perverse attachment to the indignities of work  Read More >>

Boosting Africa's Growth Potential: The Power of Reducing Poverty and Inequality

Boosting Africa's Growth Potential: The Power of Reducing...

Author: Nistha Sinha ,  Gabriela Inchauste
ISBN: 9781464820793
Format: Paperback
$116.03

Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa has slowed significantly since its impressive momentum of the early 2000s....  Read More >>

The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America

The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost...

Author: Monica Potts
ISBN: 9780141986746
Format: Paperback
$24.99

The acclaimed New York Times bestseller now in paperback- an unforgettable story of friendship and lost promise...  Read More >>

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