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  • Development and the Rural-Urban Divide

    Edited by John Harriss, Mick Moore ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Urban Studies
    First published in 1984. It is widely acknowledged that rural-urban differences and interrelationships play an important role in the development process. Some theorists believe they are a primary cause of continuing poverty in poor nations. This volume of essays summarises and appraises theories of rural-urban relations and economic development and explores, mainly on the basis of country case ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Elite Perceptions of Poverty and Inequality

    Edited by Elisa Reis, Mick Moore ...
    Series series International Studies in Poverty Research
    The researchers who have written this volume are clear not only that mass poverty is still the leading humanitarian crisis in developing countries, but that, if effective policies are to be put in place, the national elites who control governments and economies need to be convinced of both the reasons why reducing poverty is in their own and the national interest, and that public action can make a ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

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    Sidehustle

    How to Start a Business for Less Than $1,000

    by Tyler Basu, Mick Moore, Tom Corson-Knowles ...
    Narrated by Greg Zarcone ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 38 min

    Uber, Lyft, Amazon, Postmates, Doordash, Caviar … the list goes on for sidehustle gigs you can add in to your income stream, but they all require you to share some of your profit as a subcontractor. Short on cash, but want to learn how to do the same thing and take control of your life, income, and destiny? No matter how humble the beginnings, you CAN achieve what you desire most! Learn how to ... Read more

    $24.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Dispatches from America's Class War

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    Years before Hillbilly Elegy and White Trash, a raucous, truth-telling look at the white working poor -- and why they have learned to hate liberalism. What it adds up to, he asserts, is an unacknowledged class war.By turns tender, incendiary, and seriously funny, this book is a call to arms for fellow progressives with little real understanding of "the great beery, NASCAR-loving, church-going, gun ... Read more

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  • The Other America

    Poverty in the United States

    by Michael Harrington ...
    In the fifty years since it was published, The Other America has been established as a seminal work of sociology. This anniversary edition includes Michael Harrington’s essays on poverty in the 1970s and ’80s as well as a new introduction by Harrington’s biographer, Maurice Isserman. This illuminating, profoundly moving classic is still all too relevant for today’s America.When Michael Harrington ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Favela

    Four Decades of Living on the Edge in Rio de Janeiro

    by Janice Perlman ...
    Janice Perlman wrote the first in-depth account of life in the favelas, a book hailed as one of the most important works in global urban studies in the last 30 years. Now, in Favela, Perlman carries that story forward to the present. Re-interviewing many longtime favela residents whom she had first met in 1969--as well as their children and grandchildren--Perlman offers the only long-term ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Getting Better

    Why Global Development Is Succeeding--And How We Can Improve the World Even More

    by Charles Kenny ...
    As the income gap between developed and developing nations grows, so grows the cacophony of voices claiming that the quest to find a simple recipe for economic growth has failed. Getting Better, in sharp contrast, reports the good news about global progress. Economist Charles Kenny argues against development naysayers by pointing to the evidence of widespread improvements in health, education, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Darwin's Moving

    by Taylor Lambert ...
    Winner of the City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize!Finalist in the Trade Non-Fiction Award at the 2018 Alberta Book Publishing Awards!Finalist in the Cover Design Award at the 2018 Alberta Book Publishing Awards!In a city known for wealth and prosperity, the divide between haves and have-nots is rarely clearer than on moving day, when those two worlds come together in intimate fashion. Violent ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • No Such Thing as a Free Gift

    The Gates Foundation and the Price of Philanthropy

    by Linsey McGoey ...
    Philanthro-capitalism: How charity became big businessThe charitable sector is one of the fastest-growing industries in the global economy. Nearly half of the more than 85,000 private foundations in the United States have come into being since the year 2000. Just under 5,000 more were established in 2011 alone. This deluge of philanthropy has helped create a world where billionaires wield more ... Read more

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  • Johannesburg

    The Elusive Metropolis

    by AbdouMaliq Simone ...
    Series series a Public Culture Book
    Johannesburg: The Elusive Metropolis is a pioneering effort to insert South Africa’s largest city into urban theory, on its own terms. Johannesburg is Africa’s premier metropolis. Yet theories of urbanization have cast it as an emblem of irresolvable crisis, the spatial embodiment of unequal economic relations and segregationist policies, and a city that responds to but does not contribute to ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Public Housing Myths

    Perception, Reality, and Social Policy

    Edited by Nicholas Dagen Bloom, Fritz Umbach, Lawrence J. Vale ...
    Popular opinion holds that public housing is a failure; so what more needs to be said about seventy-five years of dashed hopes and destructive policies? Over the past decade, however, historians and social scientists have quietly exploded the common wisdom about public housing. Public Housing Myths pulls together these fresh perspectives and unexpected findings into a single volume to provide an ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • The Missing Class

    Portraits of the Near Poor in America

    by Katherine Newman, Victor Tan Chen ...
    Fifty-seven million Americans-including 21 percent of the nation's children-live a notch above the poverty line, and yet the challenges they face are largely ignored. While government programs assist the poor, and politicians woo the more fortunate, the "Missing Class" is largely invisible and left to fend for itself.Missing Class parents often work at a breakneck pace to preserve the progress ... Read more

    $15.99 USD