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  • Poverty and Development in China

    Alternative Approaches to Poverty Assessment

    de Caizhen Lu ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary China Series
    China has made huge economic strides in recent decades but poverty is still a major issue on the agenda for rural China. Poverty and Development in China analyses how poverty is recognized and measured and how people in poverty are identified, literally asking: who is poor in China? Lu Caizhen’s research compares four approaches to poverty assessment: China’s official poverty identification method ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

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  • Breaking Night

    A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard

    de Liz Murray ...
    This memoir of a young woman's indomitable spirit to survive and prevail, against all odds, reveals her journey from homelessness to Harvard.Liz Murray was born to loving but drug-addicted parents in the Bronx. In school she was taunted for her dirty clothing and lice-infested hair, eventually skipping so many classes that she was put into a girls' home. At age fifteen, Liz found herself on the ... Leer más

    $11.59 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Strumpet City

    Bestselling Irish novel with an introduction by Fintan O'Toole

    de James Plunkett ...
    Centring on the seminal lockout of 20,000 workers in Dublin in 1913, Strumpet City by Irish writer James Plunkett encompasses a wide sweep of city life. From the destitution of "Rashers" Tierney, the poorest of the poor, to the solid, aspirant respectability of Fitz and Mary, the priestly life of Father O'Connor, and the upper-class world of Yearling and the Bradshaws, it paints a portrait of a ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor

    Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor

    de David S. Landes ...
    "Readers cannot but be provoked and stimulated by this splendidly iconoclastic and refreshing book."—Andrew Porter, New York Times Book ReviewThe Wealth and Poverty of Nations is David S. Landes's acclaimed, best-selling exploration of one of the most contentious and hotly debated questions of our time: Why do some nations achieve economic success while others remain mired in poverty? The answer, ... Leer más

    $17.09 USD

  • Planet of Slums

    de Mike Davis ...
    Series series Essential Mike Davis
    THE BEST-SELLING MODERN CLASSIC: The world’s leading urbanist offers a “profound . . . brilliant” account of the rise of the world’s slums and the failures of modern urbanization (Arundhati Roy, activist and Booker Prize–winning author).According to the United Nations, more than one billion people now live in the slums of the cities of the South. In this brilliant and ambitious book, Mike Davis ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • More than Just Race

    Being Black and Poor in the Inner City

    de William Julius Wilson ...
    Series series Issues of Our Time
    A preeminent sociologist of race explains a groundbreaking new framework for understanding racial inequality, challenging both conservative and liberal dogma.In this timely and provocative contribution to the American discourse on race, William Julius Wilson applies an exciting new analytic framework to three politically fraught social problems: the persistence of the inner-city ghetto, the plight ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Grand Central Winter

    Stories from the Street

    de Lee Stringer ...
    Whether Lee Stringer is describing "God's corner" as he calls 42nd Street, or his friend Suzy, a hooker and "past due tourist" whose infant child he sometimes babysits, whether he is recounting his experiences at Street News, where he began hawking the newspaper for a living wage, then wrote articles, and served for a time as muckraking senior editor, whether it is his adventures in New York's ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Cold New World

    Growing Up in Harder Country

    de William Finnegan ...
    From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Barbarian Days, this narrative nonfiction classic documents the rising inequality and cultural alienation that presaged the crises of today.“A status report on the American Dream [that] gets its power [from] the unpredictable, rich specifics of people’s lives.”—Time“[William] Finnegan’s real achievement is to attach identities to the steady stream of ... Leer más

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  • When Helping Hurts: The Small Group Experience

    An Online Video-Based Study on Alleviating Poverty

    de Brian Fikkert, Steve Corbett ...
    Good intentions are not enough.When Helping Hurts offers a different framework for thinking about poverty and its alleviation. Rather than simply defining it as a lack of material things, the book addresses the roots of the issue: broken relationships with God, self, others, and the rest of creation. Online videos included.Join together as a class or small group to explore how to help the poor ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • How Can You Represent Those People?

    Edición de A. Smith, M. Freedman ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    How Can You Represent Those People? is the first-ever collection of essays offering a response to the 'Cocktail Party Question' asked of every criminal lawyer. A must-read for anyone interested in race, poverty, crime, punishment, and what makes lawyers tick. ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

  • Closing the Food Gap

    Resetting the Table in the Land of Plenty

    de Mark Winne ...
    This powerful call to arms offers a realistic vision for getting locally produced, healthy food onto everyone’s table, “[blending] a passion for sustainable living with compassion for the poor” (Dr. Jane Goodall)In Closing the Food Gap, food activist and journalist Mark Winne poses questions too often overlooked in our current conversations around food: What about those people who are not ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • American Poverty

    Life in America, #2

    de Laurel A. Rockefeller ...
    Series Libro 2 - Life in America
    In this thought-provoking historical and economic analysis, Laurel A. Rockefeller takes on poverty culture head-on, exploring what it means to poor in the United States while taking a look at how America's closest and much more economically successful allies (Canada, Germany, France, and the United Kingdom) take care of their poor. From housing conditions to hunger to poverty psychology, Ms. ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus