Poverty & unemployment books

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Understanding Street Culture: Poverty, Crime, Youth and Cool

Understanding Street Culture: Poverty, Crime, Youth...

Author: Jonathan Ilan (City University of London, UK)
ISBN: 9781137028594
Format: Hardback
$260.00

An insightful and theoretically informed overview of street culture in various parts of the world - its origins,...  Read More >>

Development As Freedom in a Digital Age: Experiences from the Rural Poor in Bolivia

Development As Freedom in a Digital Age: Experiences...

Author: Björn Sören Gigler ,  World Bank
ISBN: 9781464804205
Format: Paperback
$118.67

Under what conditions can new technologies enhance the well-being of poor communities? This study designs an alternative...  Read More >>

Mobilizing New York: AIDS, Antipoverty, and Feminist Activism

Mobilizing New York: AIDS, Antipoverty, and Feminist...

Author: Tamar W. Carroll
ISBN: 9781469619880
Format: Paperback
$112.20

Examining three interconnected case studies, Tamar Carroll powerfully demonstrates the ability of grassroots community...  Read More >>

Transition to Common Work: Building Community at the Working Centre

Transition to Common Work: Building Community at the...

Author: Joe Mancini ,  Stephanie Mancini
ISBN: 9781771121606
Format: Paperback
$40.70

The Working Centre in the downtown core of Kitchener, Ontario, is a widely recognized and successful model for community...  Read More >>

The Food Bank Britain

The Food Bank Britain

Author: Ray Barron-Woolford
ISBN: 9780993080913
Format: Paperback
$25.85

The Worlds first book on and about the huge growth in food banks across the world from the founder of the UK largest...  Read More >>

Touring Poverty

Touring Poverty

Author: Bianca Freire-Medeiros (Getulio Vargas Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
ISBN: 9781138822689
Format: Paperback
$118.00

Touring Poverty addresses a highly controversial practice: the transformation of impoverished neighbourhoods into...  Read More >>

Experiences of Charity, 1250-1650

Experiences of Charity, 1250-1650

Author: Anne M. Scott
ISBN: 9781472443380
Format: Hardback
$305.00

In this collection, contributors explore the experience of charity towards the poor, considering it in spiritual,...  Read More >>

Hardship & Health Womens Lives

Hardship & Health Womens Lives

Author: Hilary Graham
ISBN: 9781138835696
Format: Hardback
$252.00

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Poverty, Inequality and Growth in Developing Countries: Theoretical and Empirical Approaches

Poverty, Inequality and Growth in Developing Countries:...

Author: Atsushi Maki
ISBN: 9781317444800
Format: Electronic book text
$422.40

There are many problems regarding poverty, inequality and growth in developing countries in Asia and Africa. Policy...  Read More >>

Hand to Mouth: The Truth About Being Poor in a Wealthy World

Hand to Mouth: The Truth About Being Poor in a Wealthy...

Author: Linda Tirado
ISBN: 9780349005508
Format: Paperback
$25.85

An urgent, uncompromising and heartfelt insider's account of what it is like to be poor and working-class in the...  Read More >>

Rosa Lee: A Generational Tale of Poverty and Survival in Urban America

Rosa Lee: A Generational Tale of Poverty and Survival...

Author: Leon Dash
ISBN: 9780465055869
Format: Electronic book text
$44.85

Based on a heart-rending and much discussed series in the Washington Post, this is the story of one woman and her...  Read More >>

Experiences of Charity, 1250-1650

Experiences of Charity, 1250-1650

Author: Dr. Anne M. Scott
ISBN: 9781472443397
Format: Electronic book text
$232.88

For a number of years scholars who are concerned with issues of poverty and the poor have turned away from the study...  Read More >>

Experiences of Charity, 1250-1650

Experiences of Charity, 1250-1650

Author: Dr Anne M Scott
ISBN: 9781472443403
Format: Electronic book text
$232.88

For a number of years scholars who are concerned with issues of poverty and the poor have turned away from the study...  Read More >>

Mahatma of New York City

Mahatma of New York City

Author: Saurav Pathria
ISBN: 9781512227338
Format: Paperback
$39.57

A young boy of an affluent family sees the other side of the world. His life goes upside down when he is faced with...  Read More >>

Great Expectations: Complete 1867 Edition

Great Expectations: Complete 1867 Edition

Author: Dickens
ISBN: 9781512236217
Format: Paperback
$31.55

Great Expectations is Charles Dickens's thirteenth novel and his penultimate (completed) novel; a bildungsroman...  Read More >>

Looking Away: Inequality, Prejudice and Indifference in New India

Looking Away: Inequality, Prejudice and Indifference...

Author: Harsh Mander
ISBN: 9789385288456
Format: Paperback
$55.61

This feeble blemished light, this dawn mangled by night, This is not the morning we had all so longed for... -Faiz...  Read More >>

The Vicar of Tent Town

The Vicar of Tent Town

Author: Shauna Marie Hyde
ISBN: 9781631991578
Format: Paperback
$20.67

Pastor Shauna Hyde brings her experience in, not only ministering to the homeless, but becoming such a welcome part...  Read More >>

Poverty Reduction Policies and Practices in Developing Asia

Poverty Reduction Policies and Practices in Developing...

Author: Almas Heshmati ,  Esfandiar Maasoumi
ISBN: 9789812874191
Format: Hardback
$158.37

This book looks at the major policy challenges facing developing Asia and how the region sustains rapid economic...  Read More >>

The Limits of Marriage: Why Getting Everyone Married Won't Solve All Our Problems

The Limits of Marriage: Why Getting Everyone Married...

Author: Gary R. Lee
ISBN: 9781498512923
Format: Hardback
$224.00

This book shows that the declining American marriage rate and the proliferation of single-parent families are due...  Read More >>

Poverty, Progress and Development

Poverty, Progress and Development

Author: Paul-Marc Henry
ISBN: 9781138865693
Format: Paperback
$96.99

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Foreclosed America

Foreclosed America

Author: Isaac Martin ,  Christopher Niedt
ISBN: 9780804795135
Format: Paperback
$36.96

Foreclosed America offers a portrait of the people who lost their homes in the foreclosure crisis-who they are,...  Read More >>

Ending Extreme Inequality: An Economic Bill of Rights to Eliminate Poverty

Ending Extreme Inequality: An Economic Bill of Rights...

Author: Scott Myers-Lipton
ISBN: 9781612057279
Format: Paperback
$58.99

A resounding call for a new Economic Bill of Rights to combat increasing poverty and economic bifurcation  Read More >>

Mothering without a Home: Attachment Representations and Behaviors of Homeless Mothers and Children

Mothering without a Home: Attachment Representations...

Author: Ann G. Smolen ,  Alexandra M. Harrison
ISBN: 9781442250840
Format: Paperback
$119.00

This book explores the attachment style of homeless mothers and its effect on the resulting attachment style of...  Read More >>

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