Poverty & unemployment books

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Almost Home

Almost Home

Author: Kevin Ryan, PhD (Boston University) ,  Tina Kelley
ISBN: 9781283550185
Format: Electronic book text
$53.70

Inside the lives of homeless teens-moving stories of pain and hope from Covenant House Almost Home tells the stories...  Read More >>

Sleepwalking into Global Famine: The World Cannot Feed 9.3 Billion People

Sleepwalking into Global Famine: The World Cannot Feed...

Author: Benny Dembitzer
ISBN: 9780957382305
Format: Paperback
$23.29

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Topical Issues in Nigeria's Political Development

Topical Issues in Nigeria's Political Development

Author: Isawa J Elaigwu
ISBN: 9781906704995
Format: Paperback
$89.76

Nigerians love to debate. Even under colonial rule, the authorities realised that Nigerians could not be repressed...  Read More >>

The British Gurkhas After Resettlement: How they can successfully contribute towards Nepal's development from the UK

The British Gurkhas After Resettlement: How they can...

Author: Anna M Townsend
ISBN: 9781497584518
Format: Paperback
$26.32

Many Nepalis have settled in the UK following service in the Gurkha regiments of the British Army. In 2009 their...  Read More >>

Producing Knowledge, Protecting Forests: Rural Encounters with Gender, Ecotourism, and International Aid in the Dominican Republic

Producing Knowledge, Protecting Forests: Rural Encounters...

Author: Light Carruyo (Vassar College)
ISBN: 9780271033266
Format: Paperback
$56.99

Development studies has not yet found a vocabulary to connect large structural processes to the ways in which people...  Read More >>

The Illusion of Civil Society: Democratization and Community Mobilization in Low-Income Mexico

The Illusion of Civil Society: Democratization and Community...

Author: Jon Shefner (University of Tennesse-Knoxville)
ISBN: 9780271033853
Format: Paperback
$77.99

Addresses the success and failures of the Union de Colonos Independientes (UCI), a community organization in Guadalajara,...  Read More >>

Social Forces and States: Poverty and Distributional Outcomes in South Korea, Chile, and Mexico

Social Forces and States: Poverty and Distributional...

Author: Judith Teichman
ISBN: 9780804778268
Format: Paperback
$79.20

This book is a comparative study of the different distributional and poverty outcomes in South Korea, Chile, and...  Read More >>

Social Forces and States: Poverty and Distributional Outcomes in South Korea, Chile, and Mexico

Social Forces and States: Poverty and Distributional...

Author: Judith Teichman
ISBN: 9780804778251
Format: Hardback
$316.80

This book is a comparative study of the different distributional and poverty outcomes in South Korea, Chile, and...  Read More >>

Refugees, Capitalism and the British State

Refugees, Capitalism and the British State

Author: Tom Vickers
ISBN: 9786613718303
Format: Electronic book text
$316.64

Today, in a period of economic crisis, public sector cuts and escalating class struggle, Marxism offers important...  Read More >>

Basic Income Worldwide

Basic Income Worldwide

Author: Matthew C Murray ,  Carole Pateman (UCLA, USA University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles)
ISBN: 9786613900180
Format: Electronic book text
$269.28

Increasing inequality and the yawning gap between rich and poor are provoking criticism of the economic system....  Read More >>

The Cost of Inaction: Case Studies from Rwanda and Angola

The Cost of Inaction: Case Studies from Rwanda and Angola...

Author: Sudhir Anand ,  Chris Desmond
ISBN: 9780674065581
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Case studies from Rwanda and Angola show how the cost of inaction can be greater than the cost of action. Failure...  Read More >>

Representations of Global Poverty: Aid, Development and International NGOs

Representations of Global Poverty: Aid, Development...

Author: Nandita Dogra
ISBN: 9781848858916
Format: Hardback
$310.50

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Homelessness, Poverty & Unemployment

Homelessness, Poverty & Unemployment

Author: Sanna J Thompson
ISBN: 9781613249253
Format: Hardback
$369.60

Provides an introduction to the interconnections between homelessness, poverty and unemployment. This book includes...  Read More >>

Slum Tourism: Poverty, Power and Ethics

Slum Tourism: Poverty, Power and Ethics

Author: Fabian Frenzel ,  Ko Koens
ISBN: 9780415698788
Format: Hardback
$326.00

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The Oxford Handbook of Poverty and Child Development

The Oxford Handbook of Poverty and Child Development...

Author: Valerie Maholmes, PhD. ,  Rosalind Berkowitz King, PhD.
ISBN: 9780199769100
Format: Hardback
$369.95

Comprehensive and integrative, The Oxford Handbook of Poverty and Child Development describes the contextual and...  Read More >>

Invisible Victims: Homelessness and the Growing Security Gap

Invisible Victims: Homelessness and the Growing Security...

Author: Laura Huey
ISBN: 9781442611764
Format: Paperback
$69.99

Invisible Victims presents the first comprehensive, integrated study of the risks faced by homeless people and their...  Read More >>

The New Gilded Age: The Critical Inequality Debates of Our Time

The New Gilded Age: The Critical Inequality Debates...

Author: David Grusky ,  Tamar Kricheli-Katz
ISBN: 9780804759366
Format: Paperback
$79.20

Income inequality is an increasingly pressing issue in the United States and around the world. This book explores...  Read More >>

The New Gilded Age: The Critical Inequality Debates of Our Time

The New Gilded Age: The Critical Inequality Debates...

Author: David Grusky ,  Tamar Kricheli-Katz
ISBN: 9780804759359
Format: Hardback
$316.80

This book asks leading scholars to debate the causes of inequality, whether we have an obligation to help the poor,...  Read More >>

Seasonal Hunger and Public Policies

Seasonal Hunger and Public Policies

Author: Shahidur R Khandker ,  Wahiduddin Mahmud (University of Dhaka, Bhangladesh)
ISBN: 9781280878633
Format: Electronic book text
$63.33

Agricultural development through crop diversification, irrigation, high yielding crop varieties, and public investments...  Read More >>

Patients of the State: The Politics of Waiting in Argentina

Patients of the State: The Politics of Waiting in Argentina...

Author: Javier Auyero
ISBN: 9780822352334
Format: Paperback
$81.71

This volume examines the power that can be imposed, and the misery that is caused, especially for the poor, by the...  Read More >>

Patients of the State: The Politics of Waiting in Argentina

Patients of the State: The Politics of Waiting in Argentina...

Author: Javier Auyero
ISBN: 9780822352594
Format: Hardback
$290.27

This volume examines the power that can be imposed, and the misery that is caused, especially for the poor, by the...  Read More >>

Liberty One Man's Quest for Sovereignty in an Unrealized Democracy

Liberty One Man's Quest for Sovereignty in an Unrealized...

Author: M H Kisner ,  Lisa Corcoran
ISBN: 9780984560547
Format: Paperback
$31.55

Adult Non-fiction, American Poverty, American Politics, American Education  Read More >>

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