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  • Rekindling Democracy

    A Professional’s Guide to Working in Citizen Space

    by Cormac Russell, Julia Unwin ...
    Finally, a book that offers a practical yet well-researched guide for practitioners seeking to hone the way they show up in citizen space. At a time when public trust in institutions is at its lowest, expectations of those institutions to make people well, knowledgeable, and secure are rapidly increasing. These expectations are unrealistic, causing disenchantment and disengagement among citizens ... Read more

    $24.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Using Evidence to End Homelessness

    by Julia Unwin, David Gough, Howard White, Jo Bibby, Louise Marshall, Emma Taylor-Collins, Jonathan Breckon, Dan Treglia, Suzanne Fitzpatrick, Dennis Culhane, Neil Coyle, Campbell Robb, Olly Grender, Danny Dorling, Jon Sparkes ...
    Available open access under CC-BY-NC license. Homelessness is unequivocally devastating. In the UK, people affected by homelessness are ten times more likely to die than their peers in the general population, yet we still miss important opportunities to adequately address the issue.The Centre for Homelessness Impact brings together this urgent book gathering the insights and experiences of leaders ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Why Fight Poverty?

    by Julia Unwin ...
    Series series Perspectives
    Poverty, and calls to end it, date back centuries. Even in prosperous modern times, despite the huge transformation of society, poverty has persisted. This book looks back at the struggle to end poverty and asks if it is worth it. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future

    How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future

    by Joseph E. E. Stiglitz ...
    A forceful argument against America's vicious circle of growing inequality by the Nobel Prize–winning economist.The top 1 percent of Americans control 40 percent of the nation’s wealth. And, as Joseph E. Stiglitz explains, while those at the top enjoy the best health care, education, and benefits of wealth, they fail to realize that “their fate is bound up with how the other 99 percent live. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Nickel and Dimed

    On (Not) Getting By in America

    by Barbara Ehrenreich ...
    The New York Times bestselling work of undercover reportage from our sharpest and most original social critic, with a new foreword by Matthew Desmond, author of EvictedMillions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that a job—any job—can ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Rabbit

    A Memoir

    by Patricia Williams, Jeannine Amber ...
    Nominated for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work"An absolute must-read" – Shondaland“[Rabbit] tells how it went down with brutal honesty and outrageous humor” – New York TimesThey called her Rabbit.Patricia Williams (aka Ms. Pat) was born and raised in Atlanta at the height of the crack epidemic. One of five children, Pat watched as her mother struggled to get by on... ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Another Day in the Death of America

    A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives

    by Gary Younge ...
    Winner of the 2017 J. Anthony Lukas PrizeShortlisted for the 2017 Hurston/Wright Foundation AwardFinalist for the 2017 Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism****Longlisted for the 2017 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Non FictionOn an average day in America, seven children and teens will be shot dead. In Another Day in the Death of America, award-winning journalist Gary ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Under the Affluence

    Shaming the Poor, Praising the Rich and Sacrificing the Future of America

    by Tim Wise ...
    Series series City Lights Open Media
    "Tim Wise is one of the great public moralists in America today. In his bracing new book, Under the Affluence, he brilliantly engages the roots and ramifications of radical inequality in our nation, carefully detailing the heartless war against the poor and the swooning addiction to the rich that exposes the moral sickness at the heart of our culture. Wise's stirring analysis of our predicament is ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Broken Ladder

    How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die

    by Keith Payne ...
    A timely examination by a leading scientist of the physical, psychological, and moral effects of inequality.Today’s inequality is on a scale that none of us has seen in our lifetimes, yet this disparity between rich and poor has ramifications that extend far beyond mere financial means. In The Broken Ladder psychologist Keith Payne examines how inequality divides us not just economically, but has ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • Waltzing at the Doomsday Ball: the best of Joe Bageant

    the best of Joe Bageant

    by Joe Bageant ...
    Essentially, it comes down to the fact that a very large portion of Americans are crazier than shithouse rats and are being led by a gang of pathological misfits, most of whom are preachers and politicians.In 2004, at the age of 58, writer Joe Bageant sensed that the internet could give him editorial freedom. Without having to deal with gatekeepers, he began writing about what he was really ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • Selling Diversity

    Immigration, Multiculturalism, Employment Equity, and Globalization

    by Yasmeen Abu-Laban, Christina Gabriel ...
    Since the 1990s, Canadian policy prescriptions for immigration, multiculturalism, and employment equity have equated globalization with global markets. This interpretation has transformed men and women of various ethnic backgrounds into trade-enhancing commodities who must justify their skills and talents in the language of business. This particular neo-liberal reading of globalization and public ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • The Hidden Cost of Being African American

    How Wealth Perpetuates Inequality

    by Thomas M. Shapiro ...
    Thomas Shapiro reveals how the lack of family assets--inheritance, home equity, stocks, bonds, savings accounts, and other investments-- along with continuing racial discrimination in crucial areas like homeownership dramatically impact the everyday lives of many black families, reversing gains earned in schools and on jobs, and perpetuating the cycle of poverty in which far too many find ... Read more

    $15.19 USD