Poverty & unemployment books

6263 books were found.

First World Hunger Revisited: Food Charity or the Right to Food?

First World Hunger Revisited: Food Charity or the Right...

Author: G. Riches ,  T. Silvasti
ISBN: 9781137298713
Format: Hardback
$145.17

 Read More >>

Homeless in a Mercedes

Homeless in a Mercedes

Author: Eva Javurek Arsenault ,  Richard Arsenault
ISBN: 9781502730831
Format: Paperback
$48.77

"""You've got to have faith, not fear."" This reality television editor was not supplied with a production team...  Read More >>

Climate Change and Poverty: A New Agenda for Developed Nations

Climate Change and Poverty: A New Agenda for Developed...

Author: Tony Fitzpatrick (School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Nottingham)
ISBN: 9781447300878
Format: Hardback
$176.95

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Climate change and poverty offers a timely new perspective on the...  Read More >>

Scarcity: The True Cost of Not Having Enough

Scarcity: The True Cost of Not Having Enough

Author: Sendhil Mullainathan ,  Eldar Shafir
ISBN: 9780141049199
Format: Paperback
$19.99

Why can we never seem to keep on top of our workload, social diary or chores? Why does poverty persist around the...  Read More >>

Living with Insecurity in a Brazilian Favela: Urban Violence and Daily Life

Living with Insecurity in a Brazilian Favela: Urban...

Author: R. Ben Penglase
ISBN: 9780813565439
Format: Paperback
$108.11

The residents of Caxambu, a squatter neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro, live in a state of insecurity as they face...  Read More >>

Silent Voices: People with Mental Disorders on the Street

Silent Voices: People with Mental Disorders on the Street...

Author: Robert L Okin
ISBN: 9780996077705
Format: Paperback
$52.67

We avert our eyes when we meet them on the street: homeless mentally ill people with their hand-scrawled signs,...  Read More >>

Living with Insecurity in a Brazilian Favela: Urban Violence and Daily Life

Living with Insecurity in a Brazilian Favela: Urban...

Author: R. Ben Penglase
ISBN: 9780813565446
Format: Hardback
$396.00

The residents of Caxambu, a squatter neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro, live in a state of insecurity as they face...  Read More >>

Decentralization, Forest and Poverty: Framework and Case Studies from Ethiopia

Decentralization, Forest and Poverty: Framework and...

Author: Abrar Juhar Mohammed
ISBN: 9781633212053
Format: Hardback
$551.11

Tropical deforestation and rural poverty are among the major apprehensions of developing nations in the 21st century....  Read More >>

Trade Reforms, Poverty and Inequality in Bangladesh

Trade Reforms, Poverty and Inequality in Bangladesh...

Author: Bodrun Nahar ,  Mahinda Siriwardana
ISBN: 9781631175053
Format: Hardback
$551.11

Trade liberalisation reforms in Bangladesh have been accompanied by impressive economic growth and substantial reductions...  Read More >>

Understanding Changes in Poverty

Understanding Changes in Poverty

Author: Gabriela Inchauste ,  World Bank
ISBN: 9781464802997
Format: Paperback
$71.95

The 2015 Millennium Development Goal to reduce by 50% the share of the world's population living in extreme poverty...  Read More >>

Economics of South African Townships: Special Focus on Diepsloot

Economics of South African Townships: Special Focus...

Author: Sandeep Mahajan ,  Sandeep Mahajan
ISBN: 9781464803017
Format: Paperback
$80.95

Countries everywhere are divided into two distinct spatial realms: one urban, one rural. Classic models of development...  Read More >>

Unlikely Fame: Poor People Who Made History

Unlikely Fame: Poor People Who Made History

Author: David Wagner
ISBN: 9781612057156
Format: Hardback
$399.00

This unique book depicts the stories of Americans born in poverty, who achieved national or international fame  Read More >>

Trapped in America's Safety Net: One Family's Struggle

Trapped in America's Safety Net: One Family's Struggle...

Author: Andrea Louise Campbell
ISBN: 9780226140308
Format: Hardback
$85.95

When the author's sister-in-law, Marcella Wagner, was run off the freeway by a hit-and-run driver, she was left...  Read More >>

Narrating Poverty and Precarity in Britain

Narrating Poverty and Precarity in Britain

Author: Barbara Korte ,  Frédéric Regard
ISBN: 9783110367935
Format: Hardback
$188.67

Poverty and precarity have gained a new societal and political presence in the twenty-first century's advanced economies,...  Read More >>

Household Food Security in the United States in 2013

Household Food Security in the United States in 2013...

Author: Christian Gregory ,  Anita Singh, PH.D.
ISBN: 9781502453303
Format: Paperback
$47.39

Most U.S. households have consistent, dependable access to enough food for active, healthy living-they are food...  Read More >>

Slum Kids

Slum Kids

Author: Suchitra Onkom ,  Richard Wolter
ISBN: 9781633231689
Format: Paperback
$34.29

 Read More >>

Sustainable Human Development: A New Territorial and People-Centred Perspective

Sustainable Human Development: A New Territorial and...

Author: M. Biggeri ,  A. Ferrannini
ISBN: 9781137380289
Format: Hardback
$290.37

 Read More >>

The Road Out: A Teacher's Odyssey in Poor America

The Road Out: A Teacher's Odyssey in Poor America

Author: Deborah Hicks
ISBN: 9780520283916
Format: Paperback
$49.95

Can one teacher truly make a difference in her students' lives when everything is working against them? Can a love...  Read More >>

Latest Reading Guide

MRG2025CC

 

Shopping Cart
Your cart is empty
Shopping cart
Mailing List