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  • Ferraris for All

    In Defence of Economic Progress

    The growth of the economy and the spread of prosperity are increasingly seen as problematic rather than positive - a trend Daniel Ben-Ami has termed 'growth scepticism'. Prosperity is accused of encourage greed, damaging the environment, causing unhappiness and widening social inequalities.Ferraris for all: A defence of economic progress is a rejoinder to the growth sceptics. Using examples from a ... Leer más

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  • What's Wrong With The World

    In What's Wrong With the World, one of the twentieth century's most memorable and prolific writers takes on education, government, big business, feminism, and a host of other topics. Chesterton eloquently opposed materialism, snobbery, hypocrisy, and any adversary of freedom and simplicity in modern society. As readable and rewarding today as when they were written over a century ago. ... Leer más

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  • Amazing Grace

    The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation

    The author of Savage Inequalities, a New York Times best-seller, and Rachel and Her Children, winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, tells the stories of a handful of children who have--through the love and support of their families and dedicated community leaders--not yet lost their battle with the perils of life in America's most hopeless, helpless, and dangerous neighborhoods. ... Leer más

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  • Almost Home

    Helping Kids Move from Homelessness to Hope

    Inside the lives of homeless teens?moving stories of pain and hope from Covenant HouseAlmost Home tells the stories of six remarkable young people from across the United States and Canada as they confront life alone on the streets. Each eventually finds his or her way to Covenant House, the largest charity serving homeless and runaway youth in North America. From the son of a crack addict who ... Leer más

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  • Mirror Maze

    A Norwegian Man's True Story of Five Years in Mexican Prisons

    Tom Brungar grew up in a comfortable Norwegian environment. He became a ski champion for the Norwegian King’s Ski team. He was destined to have the perfect life… with the perfect wife… and the perfect corporate job. But, the pressure of his perfect world… led him to drug abuse… and to a secret life where he was forced to be an international drug courier… captured and imprisoned in Mexico… Tom ... Leer más

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  • The Broken Ladder

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

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • My Two Worlds

    Traducido por Margaret Carson ...
    Sebaldian in nature, Chejfec's My Two Worlds is, according to Enrique Vila-Matas, the future of the novel. ... Leer más

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  • Interstate 69

    The Unfinished History of the Last Great American Highway

    Interstate 69 is an enlightening journey through the heart of America. With this epic tale of one vast and controversial road project, Matt Dellinger brings to life the country’s complex political, social, and economic landscape.The 1,400-mile extension of I-69 south from Indianapolis, if completed, will connect Canada to Mexico through Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas ... Leer más

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  • No Place Left to Bury the Dead

    Denial, Despair and Hope in the African AIDS Pandemic

    de Nicole Itano ...
    EVERY DAY in Africa, approximately 7,000 men, women, and children are erased from the face of this planet by the devastating AIDS virus that -- even after more than two and a half decades -- continues to wreak havoc around the globe, especially in underdeveloped nations. No Place Left to Bury the Dead dares to go where media, governments, and ordinary individuals in the West seldom venture -- face ... Leer más

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  • Global Child Poverty and Well-Being

    Measurement, Concepts, Policy and Action

    Edición de Alberto Minujin, Shailen Nandy ...
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    Child poverty is a central and present part of global life, with hundreds of millions of children around the world enduring tremendous suffering and deprivation of their most basic needs. Despite its long history, research on poverty and development has only relatively recently examined the issue of child poverty as a distinct topic of concern. This book brings together theoretical, methodological ... Leer más

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  • Financial Systems in Developing Economies

    Growth, Inequality and Policy Evaluation in Thailand

    Unique in its approach and in the variety of methods and data employed, this book is the first of its kind to provide an in-depth evaluation of the financial system of Thailand, a proto-typical Asian developing economy. Using a wealth of primary source qualitative and quantitative data, including survey data collected by the author, it evaluates the impact of specific financial institutions, ... Leer más

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  • Affordable Housing in the Urban Global South

    Seeking Sustainable Solutions

    The global increase in the number of slums calls for policies which improve the conditions of the urban poor, sustainably. This volume provides an extensive overview of current housing policies in Asia, Africa and Latin America and presents the facts and trends of recent housing policies. The chapters provide ideas and tools for pro-poor interventions with respect to the provision of land for ... Leer más

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