General Books


World Hunger and Morality (2nd Edition) Best Price: $30.97 World Hunger and Morality contains the best current thinking about the appropriate moral...	Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation Best Price: $26.54 A very persuasive acount of the famine problem is displayed by Nobel Laureate Dr. Sen. Contrary...	Wasted Lives: Modernity and Its Outcasts Best Price: $12.56 I haven't had time to catch up with all of the amazing number of books that Bauman has been...	It Takes a Nation Best Price: $19.95 I'm a Medicaid eligibility worker in the USA. I don't have textbook knowledge of Medicaid; I...	Empire of Scrounge: Inside the Urban Underground of Dumpster Diving, Trash Picking, and Street Scavenging (Alternative Criminology) Best Price: $19.80 Ferrell's book is a powerful consideration of what it means to identify and de-identify oneself...



Inside the Third World: The Anatomy of Poverty; Third Edition (Penguin Politics) Best Price: $23.82 This book contains lots of valuable information, but it's long and not very well written. To be...	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...	Hungry for Profit: The Agribusiness Threat to Farmers, Food, and the Environment Best Price: $19.00 Millions go hungry every year in both poor and rich nations, yet hundreds of thousands of...	The Homeless Best Price: $11.95 Jencks is one of the best sociologists in the world. He is a liberal, but you would not know it...	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...



The Battle with the Slum Best Price: $11.54 What sets THE BATTLE WITH THE SLUM apart from Jacob Riis' classic, HOW THE OTHER HALF LIVES, is...	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...	Ending Poverty: A 20/20 Vision Guide for Individuals And Congregations Best Price: $6.01 Ending Poverty invites people from varied faith backgrounds to commit themselves to the study of...	Wealth and Poverty in America: A Reader Best Price: $41.67 What does it mean to be poor in America at the dawn of the 21st century? For that matter, what...	Voices of the Poor: Volume 1: Can Anyone Hear Us? (World Bank Publication) Best Price: $25.00 Can Anyone Hear Us?, goes beyond typical methods of poverty assessment to get the inside track...

The Kids Left Behind: Catching Up the Underachieving Children of Poverty Best Price: $23.90 The Kids Left Behind: Catching Up the Underachieving Children of Poverty examines critical...	The Betrayal of Work: How Low-Wage Jobs Fail 30 Million Americans and Their Families Best Price: $7.94 Although in the blurb on the front of this book, Barbara Ehrenreich says she wishes she'd...	Give Us This Day A Lutheran Proposal For Ending World Hunger (Lutheran Voices) Best Price: $5.97 Nessan does a great job of discussing the issue of world hunger and how Christians have become...	Hands to Work: Three Women Navigate the New World of Welfare Deadlines and Work Rules Best Price: $4.99 In this illuminating examination of our national welfare policy, award-winning veteran reporter...	The London Underworld in the Victorian Period: Authentic First-Person Accounts by Beggars, Thieves and Prostitutes Best Price: $11.09 The book is heavily referenced in Theodore Dalrymple's "Life at the Bottom" and due to...

Poor Families in America's Health Care Crisis Best Price: $16.99 Poor Families in America's Health Care Crisis examines the implications of the fragmented and...	The Skeptic's Guide To Global Poverty (The Skeptic's Guide) Best Price: $5.40 I love these "Skeptic's Guide" books from Dale Bourke. The Skeptic's Guide to the...	Poor People's Politics: Peronist Survival Networks and the Legacy of Evita Best Price: $18.99 Where should we shelve this book? Does it matter? Should it be in LAtin American Studies? Should...	The No-Nonsense Guide to World Poverty (No-Nonsense Guides) Best Price: $6.43 I don't know how objective the writing is, but the general picture of world poverty produced by...	Social Solutions to Poverty: America's Struggle to Build a Just Society (Great Barrington Books) Best Price: $28.95 If your are an academic or just a socially aware citizen, this book has something for you. Each...

One More Train to Ride: The Underground World of Modern American Hoboes Best Price: $10.79 For anyone interested in this fascinating area of Americana, Cliff "Oats" Williams...	Riches for the Poor: The Clemente Course in the Humanities Best Price: $8.90 what a great book I have just read. it wanders across the problem of poverty in the capitalist...	Africa Doesn't Matter: How the West Has Failed the Poorest Continent and What We Can Do About It Best Price: $8.65 This book is not a self righteous tirade against developed countries not doing enough. Rather,...	Crossing the Border: Encounters between Homeless People and Outreach Workers Best Price: $19.79 Having been an outreach worker for roughly six years, I found this book to be surprisingly well...	The Colors of Poverty: Why Racial and Ethnic Disparities Exist (Npvol) Best Price: $32.54 Given the increasing diversity of the nation--particularly with respect to its growing Hispanic...

Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet Best Price: $8.58 This is a very interesting book. It features in one part a detailed description of 2006 Nobel...	Development as Freedom Best Price: $37.99 Amartya Sen's book answers a question that current development practices beg: Development for...	The Ingenuity Gap: Facing the Economic, Environmental, and Other Challenges of an Increasingly Complex and Unpredictable Future Best Price: $10.12 I have read and reviewed one earlier book by this author, and bought the two more recent works a...	From Poverty to Power: How Active Citizens and Effective States Can Change the World Best Price: $25.20 The twenty-first century will be defined by the fight against the scourges of poverty,...	Scam: How the Black Leadership Exploits Black America Best Price: $5.98 Tired of reverse-racism? This is for you. Rev Peterson shows what I think most people already...

Under Attack, Fighting Back Best Price: $10.00 Now in a newly updated edition, Mimi Abramovitz's Under Attack, Fighting Back: Women And Welfare...	The Child Poverty and Inequality: Securing a Better Future for America's Children Best Price: $23.96 One of the United States great promises is that all children will be given the opportunity to...	Dear Mrs. Roosevelt: Letters from Children of the Great Depression Best Price: $12.52 Robert Cohen has taken letters from children (and young adults) who wrote to Eleanor Roosevelt...	A Place on the Corner, Second Edition (Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries) Best Price: $18.01 This paperback edition of A Place on the Corner marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of Elijah...	The Power Elite (Galaxy Books) Best Price: $7.97 This leading Sociology professor at Columbia University is considered by many to be the father...

Educating the Other America: Top Experts Tackle Poverty, Literacy, and Achievement in Our Schools Best Price: $26.36 This book brings together leaders in the field of literacy, early childhood education, media,...	Who Cares for Our Children?: The Child Care Crisis in the Other America Best Price: $14.96 Lack of access to affordable high quality child care is frequently the tipping point that...	Angels of a Lower Flight: One Womans Mission to Save a Country . . . One Child at a Time Best Price: $4.67 This is a well told, touching story. Krabacher's style of writing is fluent and fast-paced. I...	Wealth and Poverty (Ics Series in Self-Governance) Best Price: $18.84 I've read the reviews, but not the book. I acknowledge that capitalist economies produce more...	MEMOIR ON PAUPERISM: Does Public Charity Produce an Idle and Dependent Class of Society? Best Price: $7.93 Most people who are familiar with Democracy in America are aware of just how well de...

The Undeserving Poor: From the War on Poverty to the War on Welfare Best Price: $5.40 In the United States in 1960 there was significant poverty. Twenty percent of the population had...	Why Are Our Babies Dying?: Pregnancy, Birth, and Death in America Best Price: $14.18 Syracuse, New York, in the late 1980s led U.S. cities in African American infant deaths. Even...	The Moral Demands of Affluence Best Price: $28.51 How much are we morally required to do to help people who are much worse off than us? ...	Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class Best Price: $11.99 I came across Barbara Ehrenreich's books by chance through an assignment for a course by a...	Whats Wrong with Microfinance? Best Price: $34.21 I initially thought this book will have negative points of view on Microfinance. In other...

The Weight of the World: Social Suffering in Contemporary Society Best Price: $16.71 "The Weight of the World" consists mainly of conversations with a wide variety of...	The Word On The Street: Homeless Men In Las Vegas Best Price: $12.95 A compassionate and realistic look(very real) of life on the mean streets of Las Vegas. Detailed...	Bread & Spirit: Therapy With the New Poor : Diversity of Race, Culture, and Values (A Norton Professional Book) Best Price: $21.87 How unfortunate that Harry Aponte has written only 1 book. His wisdom is something therapists...	Social Movements in India: Poverty, Power, and Politics (Asia/Pacific/Perspectives) Best Price: $37.95 Social movements have played a vital role in Indian politics since well before the inception of...	Poverty and Place: Ghettos, Barrios, and the American City Best Price: $15.00 Structural changes in the economy have adversely affected those with lower levels of education...

Insurance against Poverty (W I D E R Studies in Development Economics) Best Price: $115.80 Poor people in developing countries are often affected by droughts, floods, illness, crop...	AIDS and the Ecology of Poverty Best Price: $23.98 AIDS and the Ecology of Poverty combines the insights of economics and biology to explain the...	Inside Game/Outside Game: Winning Strategies for Saving Urban America Best Price: $23.68 The biggest obstacle Americans suffer to any sort of progress on urban problems is the Big Lie...

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