General Books


Homeless Children: Problems and NeedsHomeless Children: Problems and Needs
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I found this publication to be well written, well organized and exactly what I needed for my...
Understanding Poverty and Well-Being: Bridging the DisciplinesUnderstanding Poverty and Well-Being: Bridging the Disciplines
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Opposing Viewpoints Series - The Homeless (paperback edition) (Opposing Viewpoints Series)Opposing Viewpoints Series - The Homeless (paperback edition) (Opposing Viewpoints Series)
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Visible on the streets of every American city, the homeless continue to elicit emotional debate....
Braving the Street: The Anthropology of Homelessness (Public Issues in Anthropological Perspective, V. 1)Braving the Street: The Anthropology of Homelessness (Public Issues in Anthropological Perspective, V. 1)
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The problem of homelessness is a systemic one. It has not been adequately addressed by public...
Not by Bread Alone: Social Support in the New RussiaNot by Bread Alone: Social Support in the New Russia
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What Muscovites get in a soup kitchen run by the Christian Church of Moscow is something far...


Cold New WorldCold New World
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Poverty and Schooling in the U.S.: Contexts and Consequences (Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education)Poverty and Schooling in the U.S.: Contexts and Consequences (Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education)
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Provides information&analysis to help educators understand the educational significance of...
Separate Societies Pb (Conflicts In Urban & Regional)Separate Societies Pb (Conflicts In Urban & Regional)
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"Economic and political forces no longer combat poverty—they generate...
The Victorian Workhouse (Shire Library)The Victorian Workhouse (Shire Library)
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Coping With Poverty PbCoping With Poverty Pb
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Only by understanding the enduring poverty of Brazil can one hope to understand the recent...


The Welfare State As Piggy Bank: Information, Risk, Uncertainty, and the Role of the StateThe Welfare State As Piggy Bank: Information, Risk, Uncertainty, and the Role of the State
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Barr contends that the welfare state exists for reasons besides poverty relief, reasons arising...
She Was Aye Workin': Memories of Tenement Women in Edinburgh and GlasgowShe Was Aye Workin': Memories of Tenement Women in Edinburgh and Glasgow
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Exploring the previously hidden lives of the women who raised families and made ends meet in...
What Price the Poor?: William Booth, Karl Marx and the London Residuum (Rethinking Classical Sociology)What Price the Poor?: William Booth, Karl Marx and the London Residuum (Rethinking Classical Sociology)
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Poverty Dynamics: Interdisciplinary PerspectivesPoverty Dynamics: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
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This collection of essays provides a state-of-the-art examination of the concepts and methods...
Welfare Warriors: The Welfare Rights Movement in the United StatesWelfare Warriors: The Welfare Rights Movement in the United States
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These low-income single mothers might not have all considered themselves 'feminist' as the term...

Many Dimensions of PovertyMany Dimensions of Poverty
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This book shows that poverty is multidimensional and hence needs to be analyzed from a...
DONT CALL US OUT OF NAME CLDONT CALL US OUT OF NAME CL
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A very important and eloquently written book. Dodson is smart and committed to her work in a way...
WorkhouseWorkhouse
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Workhouses cast deep shadows over Victorian Britain and terrified the poor for generations....
Learning about LivelihoodsLearning about Livelihoods
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This book and NTSC video pack is an important new resource for learning and teaching about...
The Poor in the Middle Ages: An Essay in Social HistoryThe Poor in the Middle Ages: An Essay in Social History
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Everything You Need to Know About Living in a Shelter (Need to Know Library)Everything You Need to Know About Living in a Shelter (Need to Know Library)
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Limits of Liberation: Feminist Theology and the Ethics of Poverty and ReproductionLimits of Liberation: Feminist Theology and the Ethics of Poverty and Reproduction
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Classism For DimwitsClassism For Dimwits
Best Price: $37.50
Cla$$ism for Dimwits is an unusual, nonfiction book about poverty in America. Jacqueline S....
Education for the End of Poverty: Implementing All the Millennium Development GoalsEducation for the End of Poverty: Implementing All the Millennium Development Goals
Best Price: $102.78
Manual del perfecto idiota latinoamericanoManual del perfecto idiota latinoamericano
Para empezar, quien considera idiota al que no piensa como uno, ya da cuenta de su inmensa...

Defending a Place in the City: Localities and the Struggle for Urban Land in Metro ManilaDefending a Place in the City: Localities and the Struggle for Urban Land in Metro Manila
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Hands to Work: The Stories of Three Families Racing the Welfare ClockHands to Work: The Stories of Three Families Racing the Welfare Clock
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Different approach to the welfare-system. Long term study of three women struggling in NYC, one...
Protecting the Poor: A Microinsurance CompendiumProtecting the Poor: A Microinsurance Compendium
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Encyclopedia of Homelessness, 2 Volume SetEncyclopedia of Homelessness, 2 Volume Set
Best Price: $250.00
Click 'Additional Materials' for downloadable samples "This valuable reference provides...
Neighborhood Poverty: Policy Implications in Studying NeighborhoodsNeighborhood Poverty: Policy Implications in Studying Neighborhoods
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The Poor and Their Money (Oxford India Paperbacks)The Poor and Their Money (Oxford India Paperbacks)
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This slim volume provides an easy-to-read description of how poor people in developing countries...
Christianity, Poverty and WealthChristianity, Poverty and Wealth
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Urban Poverty in Africa: From Understanding to AlleviationUrban Poverty in Africa: From Understanding to Alleviation
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This book takes a new look at the urban poverty debate at a time when there is renewed interest...
RaceRace
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Kenneth Leech, one of the most beloved and respected Christian social thinkers of our time, has...
Money With a Mission, Volume 2: Managing Social Performance of MicrofinanceMoney With a Mission, Volume 2: Managing Social Performance of Microfinance
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This volume provides a description of the experiences of twelve microfinance organizations in...

Poverty and Inequality (Studies in Social Inequality)Poverty and Inequality (Studies in Social Inequality)
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The book starts with a credible observation that there is a resurgent interest in problems of...
Untimely Beggar: Poverty and Power from Baudelaire to BenjaminUntimely Beggar: Poverty and Power from Baudelaire to Benjamin
Best Price: $25.00
This highly original book takes as its starting point a central question for nineteenth- and...
Saving Our Children from Poverty: What the United States Can Learn from FranceSaving Our Children from Poverty: What the United States Can Learn from France
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I read Bergmann's book (and I have read a number of her essays and excerpts from her other...
Malign Neglect: Homelessness in an American City (Jossey Bass Public Administration Series)Malign Neglect: Homelessness in an American City (Jossey Bass Public Administration Series)
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Welfare in America: Christian Perspectives on a Policy in CrisisWelfare in America: Christian Perspectives on a Policy in Crisis
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Should welfare be abolished because it fosters dependency, or should it be expanded to offer...

The American Dole: Unemployment Relief and the Welfare State in the Great Depression (Contributions in American History)The American Dole: Unemployment Relief and the Welfare State in the Great Depression (Contributions in American History)
Best Price: $12.49
As Jeff Singleton shows, the rapid expansion of unemployment relief in the early 1930s generated...
More Than a Pretty Picture: Using Poverty Maps to Design Better Policies and InterventionsMore Than a Pretty Picture: Using Poverty Maps to Design Better Policies and Interventions
Best Price: $30.00
The allocation of resources and the design of policies tailored to local-level conditions...
Trade, Growth, and InequalityTrade, Growth, and Inequality
Best Price: $69.35
Combining the fields of international trade theory, economic development, and economic growth,...
Responding to the Homeless: Policy and Practice (Topics in Social Psychiatry)Responding to the Homeless: Policy and Practice (Topics in Social Psychiatry)
Best Price: $87.95
Confronting Poverty: Prescriptions for Change (Russell Sage Foundation Books at Harvard University Press)Confronting Poverty: Prescriptions for Change (Russell Sage Foundation Books at Harvard University Press)
Best Price: $7.98

Body Snatching: The Robbing of Graves for the Education of Physicians in Early Nineteenth Century AmericaBody Snatching: The Robbing of Graves for the Education of Physicians in Early Nineteenth Century America
Best Price: $48.17
This is a great book that focuses on its subject matter in a straightforward way. It is a short...
Make Poverty BusinessMake Poverty Business
Best Price: $40.00
I recently returned from a conference addressing global poverty where a young entrepeneuer from...
Health Work With the Poor: A  Health Worker's Primer on Serving Low-Income ClientsHealth Work With the Poor: A Health Worker's Primer on Serving Low-Income Clients
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Looking for the New Deal: Florida Women's Letters during the Great Depression (Women's Diaries and Letters of the South)Looking for the New Deal: Florida Women's Letters during the Great Depression (Women's Diaries and Letters of the South)
Best Price: $37.52
Rife with palpable misery and often pleading with desperate urgency, the hundreds of letters...
Innovative Approaches to Reducing Global Poverty (PB)Innovative Approaches to Reducing Global Poverty (PB)
Best Price: $45.98
This book presents many innovative approaches to reducing poverty through business commitment...

Ending Poverty: Changing Behavior, Guaranteeing Income, and Transforming GovernmentEnding Poverty: Changing Behavior, Guaranteeing Income, and Transforming Government
Best Price: $39.95
Ending Poverty presents a new approach to government policy that is capable of eliminating...
The Africa Multi-Country AIDS Program 2000-2006: Results of the World Bank's Response to a Development CrisisThe Africa Multi-Country AIDS Program 2000-2006: Results of the World Bank's Response to a Development Crisis
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Early History of English Poor ReliefEarly History of English Poor Relief
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The Time Has Come: To Confront the Tragedy of World Poverty Through Centers of Village ProgressThe Time Has Come: To Confront the Tragedy of World Poverty Through Centers of Village Progress
Best Price: $18.99
Checkerboard Square: Culture And Resistance In A Homeless CommunityCheckerboard Square: Culture And Resistance In A Homeless Community
Best Price: $17.50
David Wagner accurately portrays a well-organized homelessness community and the less known...

El fin de la pobreza (Arena Abierta)El fin de la pobreza (Arena Abierta)
Best Price: $11.31
if you want to support any effort related with justice. you have to read this book.
Making Room: The Economics of HomelessnessMaking Room: The Economics of Homelessness
Best Price: $19.90
Mentally ill people turned out of institutions, crack-cocaine use on the rise, more poverty,...
Sustaining and Sharing Economic Growth in Tanzania (World Bank Country Study) (World Bank Country Study)Sustaining and Sharing Economic Growth in Tanzania (World Bank Country Study) (World Bank Country Study)
Best Price: $29.99
Far reaching macro-economic and structural reforms combined with increases in government...
The Role of Tourism in Poverty Alleviation in TanzaniaThe Role of Tourism in Poverty Alleviation in Tanzania
Best Price: $12.95
Global trends have led to a marked decline in the role of the state in national development....
 
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