General Books


Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare Best Price: $10.05 This book by Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward came out over three decades ago. And it is...	Dear Mrs. Roosevelt: Letters from Children of the Great Depression Best Price: $15.05 Robert Cohen has taken letters from children (and young adults) who wrote to Eleanor Roosevelt...	Happy Are You Poor: The Simple Life and Spiritual Freedom Best Price: $8.19 I didn't finish the book because the author just kept talking around the subject, lots of...	NO SALVATION OUTSIDE THE POOR: Prophetic-Utopian Essays Best Price: $13.41 Jon Sobrino writes what the first world is unwilling to read. He gives the USA a gantle...	World Poverty and Human Rights Best Price: $22.40 Some 2.5 billion human beings live in severe poverty, deprived of such essentials as adequate...



Enslaved: True Stories of Modern Day Slavery Best Price: $7.59 This book is edited by Jesse Sage and one other author. The forward was written by Gloria...	Villa Victoria: The Transformation of Social Capital in a Boston Barrio Best Price: $16.97 book came more quickly than other books purchased through independent sellers. amazon got it to...	The Broken Fountain: Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition (Columbia Classics in Anthropology) (Columbia Classics in Anthropology) Best Price: $17.95 I have this book in a socialsience method class, and for that i am realy glad! This book is...	Reproducing Inequities: Poverty And the Politics of Population in Haiti (Studies in Medical Anthropology) Best Price: $24.25 Residents of Haitione of the poorest and most unstable countries in the...	Bridges Out of Poverty: Strategies for Professionals and Communities Best Price: $8.99 I have not had a chance to read the material yet.



Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation Best Price: $26.53 A very persuasive acount of the famine problem is displayed by Nobel Laureate Dr. Sen. Contrary...	Our Day to End Poverty: 24 Ways You Can Make a Difference (BK Currents (Paperback)) Best Price: $8.28 Our Day to End Poverty: 24 Ways You Can Make a Difference is a guide for readers of all walks of...	Red Mafiya: How the Russian Mob Has Invaded America Best Price: $15.06 Robert Friedman the author Of "Red Mafiya" reveals who the Russian Mafia are , and how...	Poverty and Discrimination Best Price: $42.95 This book is designed to make you feel less sure of your knowledge, and it succeeds in that...	In Defense of Elitism Best Price: $4.73 The late journalist William A. Henry was a registered Democrat with a membership in the ACLU. At...

Health and Social Justice: Politics, Ideology, and Inequity in the Distribution of Disease (Public Health/Vulnerable Populations) Best Price: $45.00 Discusses the health effects of lower income, poverty, capitalism, injustices, and so on. Well...	The Child Poverty and Inequality: Securing a Better Future for America's Children Best Price: $14.97 One of the United States great promises is that all children will be given the opportunity to...	Dispossessed: Life in Our World's Urban Slums Best Price: $11.73 I particularly liked the mix of personal encounter, eye-witness description and factual...	The Invisible Safety Net: Protecting the Nation's Poor Children and Families Best Price: $29.95 This is a very thoughtful review of the literature that helps one understand what really works...	So You Think I Drive a Cadillac?: Welfare Recipients' Perspectives on the System and Its Reform (2nd Edition) Best Price: $42.68 Finally, a book that discusses the subject of poverty, welfare dependency and our economic...

I Live Here Best Price: $19.77 I Live Here is a paper documentary–an intimate journey to humanitarian crises in four...	Educating the Other America: Top Experts Tackle Poverty, Literacy, and Achievement in Our Schools Best Price: $24.37 This book brings together leaders in the field of literacy, early childhood education, media,...	Poverty Knowledge: Social Science, Social Policy, and the Poor in Twentieth-Century U.S. History (Politics and Society in Twentieth Century America) Best Price: $25.15 Progressive-era "poverty warriors" cast poverty in America as a problem of...	Structure of Social Stratification in the United States, The (5th Edition) Best Price: $53.25 I always ask my Professors if I can used a later edition textbook first before purchasing my...	Street Crazy : America's Mental Health Tragedy Best Price: $14.90 I am going to school to be a Psychiatric Technician to work in a State Mental Health Hospital...

The London Underworld in the Victorian Period: Authentic First-Person Accounts by Beggars, Thieves and Prostitutes Best Price: $10.73 The book is heavily referenced in Theodore Dalrymple's "Life at the Bottom" and due to...	From Poverty to Power: How Active Citizens and Effective States Can Change the World Best Price: $25.08 The twenty-first century will be defined by the fight against the scourges of poverty,...	In Our Hands : A Plan To Replace The Welfare State Best Price: $7.95 I have come to believe that the welfare state is nothing more than a vehicle for egalitarians to...	The London Underworld in the Victorian Period: Authentic First-Person Accounts by Beggars, Thieves and Prostitutes Best Price: $10.73 The book is heavily referenced in Theodore Dalrymple's "Life at the Bottom" and due to...	From Poverty to Power: How Active Citizens and Effective States Can Change the World Best Price: $25.08 The twenty-first century will be defined by the fight against the scourges of poverty,...

In Our Hands : A Plan To Replace The Welfare State Best Price: $7.95 I have come to believe that the welfare state is nothing more than a vehicle for egalitarians to...	Freedom f Poverty As a Human Right: Who Owes What to the Very Poor? Best Price: $27.04 Collected here in one volume are fifteen cutting-edge essays by leading academics which together...	On Wealth and Poverty Best Price: $10.20 I completely agree with the previous reviewer, this book is a short read that will make you look...	In the Deep Heart's Core Best Price: $4.22 I found Johnston's story both fascinating and disturbing. As a Mississippian, I have witnessed...	Ending Poverty in America: How to Restore the American Dream Best Price: $11.11 When I first saw the cover of this book, I thought it might be the usual book written by a...

Down and Out in America: The Origins of Homelessness Best Price: $22.50 Are you tired of reading the same old zhit about "The Homeless"? Then check out...	Life for Me Ain't Been No Crystal Stair: One Family's Passage Through the Child Welfare System Best Price: $7.60 Susan Sheehan provides a well-written account of a young girl, Crystal, who grows up with a...	Ending Poverty in America: How to Restore the American Dream Best Price: $11.11 When I first saw the cover of this book, I thought it might be the usual book written by a...	Down and Out in America: The Origins of Homelessness Best Price: $22.50 Are you tired of reading the same old zhit about "The Homeless"? Then check out...	Life for Me Ain't Been No Crystal Stair: One Family's Passage Through the Child Welfare System Best Price: $7.60 Susan Sheehan provides a well-written account of a young girl, Crystal, who grows up with a...

The Power Elite (Galaxy Books) Best Price: $7.94 This leading Sociology professor at Columbia University is considered by many to be the father...	Hunger: A Modern History Best Price: $21.44 Hunger is as old as history itself. Indeed, it appears to be a timeless and inescapable...	Assets and the Poor: A New American Welfare Policy Best Price: $23.31 This was the most cutting edge welfare policy proposal that I have heard. Sherraden also...	The Kids Left Behind: Catching Up the Underachieving Children of Poverty Best Price: $24.44 The Kids Left Behind: Catching Up the Underachieving Children of Poverty examines critical...	Families in Poverty: Volume I in the "Families in the 21st Century Series" (Families in the 21st Century) Best Price: $16.75

Cracks in the Pavement: Social Change and Resilience in Poor Neighborhoods Best Price: $16.95 Woven throughout with rich details of everyday life, this original, on-the-ground study of poor...	Festival Elephants and the Myth of Global Poverty Best Price: $13.99	Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class Best Price: $11.98 I came across Barbara Ehrenreich's books by chance through an assignment for a course by a...	Making Ends Meet: How Single Mothers Survive Welfare and Low-Wage Work Best Price: $17.44 Bill Clinton ran for President campaigning to end "welfare as we know it" and...	The Tragedy of American Compassion Best Price: $8.24 Does the way that America does charity actually makes things worse? Now in a special fifteenth...

Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness Best Price: $19.00 Matt Wray has put together an extremely powerful treatise on the cultural construction of poor...	Disabled Village Children Best Price: $22.50 If I ever get the chance to provide services to children in need (who do not have appropriate...	Wealth and Poverty in Early Church and Society (Holy Cross Studies in Patristic Theology and History) Best Price: $18.04 Wealth and poverty are issues of perennial importance in the life and thought of the church....	Under Attack, Fighting Back Best Price: $15.00 Now in a newly updated edition, Mimi Abramovitz's Under Attack, Fighting Back: Women And Welfare...	My Name Is Child of God...Not "Those People": A First Person Look at Poverty Best Price: $7.87 This book is a MUST READ! It should be required reading for every highschool and/or college age...

The Minds of Marginalized Black Men: Making Sense of Mobility, Opportunity, and Future Life Chances (Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology) Best Price: $23.88 Lots of books have been written about poor, black males in Chicago. There is the personal...	The Classic Slum: Salford Life in the First Quarter of the Century Best Price: $7.45 I was raised to be an anglophile, and revere all things British. I still do, but I'm wiser...

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