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  • Housing, Health and Well-Being

    by Stephen Battersby, Véronique Ezratty, David Ormandy ...
    Series series Routledge Focus on Environmental Health
    Housing is a social determinant of health and this book aims to provide a concise source of the theory and evidence on safe and healthy housing to inform students, academics, public and environmental health practitioners, and policy-makers, nationally and internationally.The book reviews the functions of housing and its relationship with the health and well-being of residents. It examines the ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Housing and Health in Europe

    The WHO LARES project

    Edited by David Ormandy ...
    Series series Housing and Society Series
    In this cross-disciplinary research David Ormandy and expert contributors explain the nature and development of the World Health Organization's study of housing across Europe. In-depth analysis provides new evidence of links between the health of inhabitants and their housing conditions, with focus on critical topics such as:indoor air pollutionthe effect of cold homes and dampnessnoise ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • A World of Three Zeros

    The New Economics of Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment, and Zero Net Carbon Emissions

    by Muhammad Yunus ...
    From Nobel Prize winner and bestselling author of Banker to the Poor, a vision of an emerging new economic system that can save humankind and the planetMuhammad Yunus is one of the modern world’s most trenchant social critics. In A World of Three Zeros, he declare it’s time to admit that the capitalist engine has failed most people – that in its current form it inevitably leads to rampant ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Fire in the Ashes

    Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America

    by Jonathan Kozol ...
    In this powerful and culminating work about a group of inner-city children he has known for many years, Jonathan Kozol returns to the scene of his prize-winning books Rachel and Her Children and Amazing Grace, and to the children he has vividly portrayed, to share with us their fascinating journeys and unexpected victories as they grow into adulthood.For nearly fifty years Jonathan has pricked the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • The Children of the Poor

    by Jacob Riis ...
    Jacob Riis (May 3, 1849 May 26, 1914) is best known as a social reformer who used photography to document different social classes. In particular, his journalism and photography displayed the plight of the poor in New York City, and his attempt to help them resulted in How the Other Half Lives, a turn of the century documentary of sorts that he hoped would shed light on the social issues of the ... Read more

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  • Down, Out &Under Arrest

    Policing and Everyday Life in Skid Row

    by Forrest Stuart ...
    "A well-supported critique of therapeutic policing and, by extension, of similar paternalistic efforts to help the poor by hassling them into good behavior." — Los Angeles TimesIn his first year working in Los Angeles's Skid Row, Forrest Stuart was stopped on the street by police fourteen times. Usually for doing little more than standing there.Juliette, a woman he met during that time, has been ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Punishing the Poor

    The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity

    by Loïc Wacquant, George Steinmetz ...
    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    The punitive turn of penal policy in the United States after the acme of the Civil Rights movement responds not to rising criminal insecurity but to the social insecurity spawned by the fragmentation of wage labor and the shakeup of the ethnoracial hierarchy. It partakes of a broader reconstruction of the state wedding restrictive “workfare” and expansive “prisonfare” under a philosophy of moral ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • The housing debate

    by Stuart Lowe ...
    Series series Policy and Politics in the Twenty-First Century
    The emergence of Britain as a fully fledged home-owning society at the end of the 20th century has major implications for how houses are used not just as a home but as an asset. The key debate in this important and timely book is whether social policy and people's homes should be so closely connected, especially when housing markets are so volatile. It will be essential reading for all students ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Poverty and the Millennium Development Goals

    A Critical Look Forward

    Edited by Alberto Cimadamore, Gabriele Koehler, Thomas Pogge ...
    Series series International Studies in Poverty Research
    As the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) pass their 2015 deadline and the international community begins to discuss the future of UN development policy, Poverty and the Millennium Development Goals brings together leading economists from both the global North and South to provide a much needed critique of the prevailing development agenda. By examining current development efforts, goals and ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • How the Other Half Dies

    by Susan George ...
    To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com. ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

  • From Dependence to Dignity

    How to Alleviate Poverty through Church-Centered Microfinance

    by Brian Fikkert, Russell Mask ...
    The church of Jesus Christ finds itself at a very unique moment in history. The average Christian living in the “economically advanced countries” enjoys a level of prosperity that has been unimaginable for most of human history. At the same time, over 2.5 billion people in the Majority World (Africa, Asia, and Latin America) live on less than $2 per day, with many of these people being Christians. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • In Their Place

    The Imagined Geographies of Poverty

    by Stephen Crossley ...
    Series series Radical Geography
    This book critiques how impoverished communities are represented by politicians, the media, academics and policy makers - and how our understanding of these neighbourhoods is, often misleadingly, shaped by these stories.The alleged behavioural failings of 'poor people' have attracted a great deal of academic and political scrutiny. Spatial inequalities are also well documented and poor ... Read more

    $23.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus