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“lisbeth schorr”

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  • Within Our Reach

    by Lisbeth Schorr ...
    In this solidly researched book, the authors demonstrate that the knowledge and techniques exist to decrease the incidence of welfare dependency, poor single-parent families and alienated, uneducated youth. In addition to providing a detailed account of the problem, they describe twenty-four programs that have proved successful in changing the lives of seriously disadvantaged children. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Common Purpose

    Strengthening Families and Neighborhoods to Rebuild America

    by Lisbeth Schorr ...
    In her previous book, Within Our Reach, renowned Harvard social analyst Lisbeth Schorr examined pilot social programs that were successful in helping disadvantaged youth and families. But as those cutting-edge programs were expanded, the very qualities that had made them initially successful were jettisoned, and less than half of them ultimately survived. As a result, these groundbreaking programs ... Read more

    $7.99 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

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  • Perceptual Coherence

    Hearing and Seeing

    by Stephen Handel ...
    The job of any sensory system is to create objects in the world out of the incoming proximal stimulus energy. The energy is neutral; it does not specify the objects itself. Thus, sensory systems must abstract the energy that does specify objects and differentiate it from the noise energy. The perceptual variables that specify objects for both listening and looking become those of contrast and ... Read more

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  • Portfolios of the Poor

    How the World's Poor Live on $2 a Day

    by Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch, Stuart Rutherford, Orlanda Ruthven ...
    Nearly forty percent of humanity lives on an average of two dollars a day or less. If you've never had to survive on an income so small, it is hard to imagine. How would you put food on the table, afford a home, and educate your children? How would you handle emergencies and old age? Every day, more than a billion people around the world must answer these questions. Portfolios of the Poor is the ... Read more

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  • First Steps in Parenting the Child who Hurts

    Tiddlers and Toddlers Second Edition

    by Caroline Archer ...
    `This excellent book looks at the attachment and development of very young children in the fostering and adoption situation. It deals sensitively and practically with the young child's "hurts" to help adopters and foster carers understand and cope with the many traumas they may experience in integrating a young child into their family. Caroline Archer is a real adoptive parent speaking from ... Read more

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  • American Dream

    Three Women, Ten Kids, and a Nation's Drive to End Welfare

    by Jason DeParle ...
    In this definitive work, two-time Pulitzer finalist Jason DeParle, author of A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves, cuts between the mean streets of Milwaukee and the corridors of Washington to produce a masterpiece of literary journalism. At the heart of the story are three cousins whose different lives follow similar trajectories. Leaving welfare, Angie puts her heart in her work. Jewell bets on an ... Read more

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  • Legacies of Crime

    A Follow-Up of the Children of Highly Delinquent Girls and Boys

    by Peggy C. Giordano ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Criminology
    Legacies of Crime explores the lives of seriously delinquent girls and boys in the United States who were followed over a twenty-year period as they grew to adulthood. In-depth interviews with these women and men and their children - a majority now adolescents themselves - depict the adults' economic and social disadvantages and continued criminal involvement, and in turn the unique ... Read more

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  • So Rich, So Poor

    Why It's so Hard to End Poverty in America

    by Peter Edelman ...
    "A competent, thorough assessment from a veteran expert in the field." — Kirkus ReviewsIncome disparities in our wealthy nation are wider than at any point since the Great Depression. The structure of today's economy has stultified wage growth for half of America's workers—with even worse results at the bottom and for people of color—while bestowing billions on the few at the very top.In this ... Read more

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  • The Right To Be Loved

    by S. Matthew Liao ...
    S. Matthew Liao argues here that children have a right to be loved. To do so he investigates questions such as whether children are rightholders; what grounds a child's right to beloved; whether love is an appropriate object of a right; and other philosophical and practical issues. His proposal is that all human beings have rights to the fundamental conditions for pursuing a good life; therefore, ... Read more

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  • Evidence-Based Policymaking

    Insights from Policy-Minded Researchers and Research-Minded Policymakers

    by Karen Bogenschneider, Thomas Corbett ...
    This book is for those who believe that good government should be based on hard evidence, and that research and policy ought to go hand-in-hand. Unfortunately, no such bond exists. Rather, there is a substantial gap, some say chasm, between the production of knowledge and its utilization. Despite much contrary evidence, the authors propose there is a way of doing public policy in a more reflective ... Read more

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