Poverty & unemployment books

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Their Benevolent Design: Conservative Women and Protestant Child Charities in Montreal

Their Benevolent Design: Conservative Women and Protestant...

Author: Janice Harvey
ISBN: 9780228020561
Format: Paperback
$131.87

Before the advent of state-financed social services, poor relief in Quebec was private and sectarian. In Montreal...  Read More >>

Their Benevolent Design: Conservative Women and Protestant Child Charities in Montreal

Their Benevolent Design: Conservative Women and Protestant...

Author: Janice Harvey
ISBN: 9780228020271
Format: Hardback
$290.40

Before the advent of state-financed social services, poor relief in Quebec was private and sectarian. In Montreal...  Read More >>

The Making of Anti-Poverty Policies in Ghana: Transnational Actors, Processes and Mechanisms

The Making of Anti-Poverty Policies in Ghana: Transnational...

Author: Rosina K. Foli
ISBN: 9783031172328
Format: Paperback
$369.57

This book examines the roles played by transnational actors to influence poverty reduction policies in Ghana.  Read More >>

Learning to Think.: A broken system kept her trapped, education helped her break free

Learning to Think.: A broken system kept her trapped,...

Author: Tracy King
ISBN: 9780857527431
Format: Hardback
$39.99

The most exciting memoir to launch in 2024 - Educated meets Lowborn and more. A stunning coming-of-age story. When...  Read More >>

How the Other Half Lives: Interconnecting Socio-Spatial Inequalities

How the Other Half Lives: Interconnecting Socio-Spatial...

Author: Samuel Burgum ,  Katie Higgins
ISBN: 9781526176752
Format: Paperback
$44.99

How the other half lives interrogates contemporary social and spatial inequalities in housing, urban design, place-making,...  Read More >>

The Trading Game: A Confession

The Trading Game: A Confession

Author: Gary Stevenson
ISBN: 9780241688274
Format: Paperback
$36.99

The high-wire true story of the millionaire trader, who won the finance game and then blew it wide open 'If you...  Read More >>

The Trading Game: A Confession

The Trading Game: A Confession

Author: Gary Stevenson
ISBN: 9780241636602
Format: Hardback
$59.99

The high-wire true story of the millionaire trader, who won the finance game and then blew it wide open 'If you...  Read More >>

Equity in Education: Bridging the Gap Between Poverty and Learning

Equity in Education: Bridging the Gap Between Poverty...

Author: Siddharth Joshi
ISBN: 9798869172372
Format: Paperback
$66.00

Education Equality: Why It Is Important in Today's Society Education equality is not just an ideal, but an essential...  Read More >>

Thriving Beyond Debt: The Lived Experience of Bankruptcy and Redemption

Thriving Beyond Debt: The Lived Experience of Bankruptcy...

Author: Zach Roche (South East Technological University)
ISBN: 9781529231151
Format: Hardback
$185.00

Capitalism only celebrates success, and it can be difficult to know what to do when it is confronted with failure....  Read More >>

Homelessness in the Classroom

Homelessness in the Classroom

Author: Kerri Tobin ,  Brandy Gros
ISBN: 9781645041955
Format: Hardback
$131.97

There are over 1.5 million homeless students in U.S. schools, a number expected to rise as a result of Covid-19....  Read More >>

Slum Boy: A Portrait

Slum Boy: A Portrait

Author: Juano Diaz
ISBN: 9781914240829
Format: Hardback
$49.99

An utterly inspiring story of a young boy's self-discovery through art while growing up in the slums of Glasgow...  Read More >>

A Paradise of Small Houses: The Evolution, Devolution, and Potential Rebirth of Urban Housing

A Paradise of Small Houses: The Evolution, Devolution,...

Author: Max Podemski
ISBN: 9780807007785
Format: Hardback
$76.43

"""From the Haitian-style ""shotgun"" houses of the 19th century to the lavish high-rises of the 21st century, a...  Read More >>

Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class

Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social...

Author: Rob Henderson
ISBN: 9781800753648
Format: Hardback
$36.99

In this vivid coming-of-age memoir, Rob Henderson recounts growing up in foster care, enlisting in the US Air Force,...  Read More >>

El Derecho A Vivir Dignamente

El Derecho A Vivir Dignamente

Author: Luz Milena Ospina Escobar
ISBN: 9781685745844
Format: Paperback
$28.09

Cuando apenas era una estudiante universitaria, recuerdo c�mo mi coraz�n se oprimi� al observar la carita de dolor...  Read More >>

How to Adopt a Village in Africa: A Story of Joy, Pain, and Purpose

How to Adopt a Village in Africa: A Story of Joy, Pain,...

Author: Sheena Ashdown
ISBN: 9781039174757
Format: Paperback
$95.01

How to Adopt a Village in Africa: A Story of Joy, Pain, and Purpose is the memoir of how author Sheena Ashdown started...  Read More >>

The Poverty of the World Lib/E: Rediscovering the Poor at Home and Abroad, 1941-1968

The Poverty of the World Lib/E: Rediscovering the Poor...

Author: Sheyda F a Jahanbani ,  Teri Schnaubelt
ISBN: 9798874637590
Format: Audio
$190.05

"In The Poverty of the World, Sheyda Jahanbani brings together the histories of United States foreign relations...  Read More >>

Life Underground: Encounters with People Below the Streets of New York

Life Underground: Encounters with People Below the Streets...

Author: Terry Williams
ISBN: 9780231177924
Format: Hardback
$198.95

Beneath the surface of Manhattan’s Riverside Park run railroad tunnels, disused for decades, where over the years...  Read More >>

Chilean Economic Development under Neoliberalism: Structural Transformation, High Inequality and Environmental Fragility

Chilean Economic Development under Neoliberalism: Structural...

Author: Andrés Solimano (International Center for Globalization and Development) ,  Gabriela Zapata-Román (Universidad Central de Chile)
ISBN: 9781009477383
Format: Paperback
$43.99

This Element examines the process of economic development of the last 50 years under the neoliberal model in terms...  Read More >>

Chilean Economic Development under Neoliberalism: Structural Transformation, High Inequality and Environmental Fragility

Chilean Economic Development under Neoliberalism: Structural...

Author: Andrés Solimano (International Center for Globalization and Development) ,  Gabriela Zapata-Román (Universidad Central de Chile)
ISBN: 9781009477345
Format: Hardback
$129.35

This Element examines the process of economic development of the last 50 years under the neoliberal model in terms...  Read More >>

Four Decades of Poverty Reduction in China: Drivers, Insights for the World, and the Way Ahead

Four Decades of Poverty Reduction in China: Drivers,...

Author: Development Research Center of the State Council the People's Republic of China
ISBN: 9781464818776
Format: Paperback
$92.40

Over the past 40 years, the number of people in China with incomes below US$ 1.90 per day has fallen by close to...  Read More >>

Stories of XI Jinping and Poverty Alleviation in China

Stories of XI Jinping and Poverty Alleviation in China...

Author: Ren Hai N/A
ISBN: 9781487811310
Format: Hardback
$131.87

"This book contains 67 well-known short stories about President Xi Jinping's thoughts and practices of poverty alleviation....  Read More >>

The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration

The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next...

Author: Jake Bittle
ISBN: 9781982178260
Format: Paperback
$34.99

"""The untold story of climate migration-the personal stories of those experiencing displacement, the portraits...  Read More >>

Profit and Punishment: How America Criminalizes the Poor in the Name of Justice

Profit and Punishment: How America Criminalizes the...

Author: Tony Messenger (St Louis Post-Dispatch)
ISBN: 9781250792976
Format: Paperback
$52.80

Pulitzer Prize winner Tony Messenger offers the first humane, journalistic expose of an American tragedy: Modern-day...  Read More >>

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