General Books


Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle against World Poverty Best Price: $11.64 A well written book about how Yunus successfully lent money to impoverished people in Bangladesh...	Dancing with Broken Bones: Portraits of Death and Dying among Inner-City Poor Best Price: $14.55 This book tells the stories of patients whose stories are typically not told: the urban dying...	Poverty Traps Best Price: $26.95 "Poverty Traps" is a collection of research papers on the subject of, well, poverty...	The Real Environmental Crisis: Why Poverty, Not Affluence, Is the Environment's Number One Enemy Best Price: $16.98 Mr. Hollander provides many well researched and compelling facts about the contribution of...	Poverty and Development: Into the 21st Century Best Price: $40.00 This book was (still is?) the core textbook for the Open University's Master-level course on...



Management of Non-Governmental Development Organizations: An Introduction (Routledge Studies in the Management Ofvoluntary and Non-Profit Organizations) Best Price: $40.45 This book explores the newly emerging field of the management of NGO's working toward poverty...	Reckoning With Homelessness (The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues) Best Price: $17.95 "It must be some kind of experiment or something, to see how long people can live without...	Gender Mainstreaming in Poverty Eradication and the Millennium Development Goals: A Handbook for Policy-Makers and Other Stakeholders (New Gender Mainstreaming in Development Series) Best Price: $22.50 This book explores the issue of gender inequality through the lens of the Millennium Development...	Saving Bernice: Battered Women, Welfare, and Poverty Best Price: $7.99 It is a great written case study, plus background and analysis of the social problem. It is an...	The Cost Of Being Poor: A Comparative Study Of Life In Poor Urban Neighborhoods In Gary, Indiana (S U N Y Series on the New Inequalities) Best Price: $24.35 Looks at the daily lives of poor people to demonstrate that the poor pay more than others, by...



The Politics of Disgust: The Public Identity of the Welfare Queen Best Price: $16.00 When welfare was originally developed in the 1930's, the white women who were elgible for this...	Changing the Face of Hunger: The Story of How Liberals, Conservatives, Republicans, Democrats, and People of Faith are Joining Forces in a New Movement to Help the Hungry, the Poor, and the Oppressed Best Price: $4.80 Living in the Washington DC area, we rarely hear about men like Tony Hall and Frank...	Contemporary Readings in Globalization Best Price: $11.17 Cutting-edge readings on current global topics Courses on globalization have spread rapidly...	The New Politics Of Poverty: The Nonworking Poor In America Best Price: $0.01 Mead writes a book that is not only well researched, but also understands the psychology of...	Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich Best Price: $5.93 This book has been a slow read due to the author's disorganized writing and liberal use of big...

America's Trillion-Dollar Housing Mistake: The Failure of American Housing Policy Best Price: $7.89 I recommend this book to all political science majors. It is a clear-eyed analysis of the...	Assets and the Poor: A New American Welfare Policy Best Price: $28.01 This was the most cutting edge welfare policy proposal that I have heard. Sherraden also...	Life After Welfare: Reform and the Persistence of Poverty Best Price: $20.95 Good book. Here is what UT says about it. AUSTIN, Texas -- Most Texas families who leave...	Will the Boat Sink the Water?: The Life of China's Peasants Best Price: $1.74 Will the Boat Sink the Water? is a series of stories that show the problems of peasant life in...	The Persistence of Poverty: Why the Economics of the Well-Off Can't Help the Poor Best Price: $21.49 I agree that Karelis is brilliant. I am not an economists, so I found some of his theory...

Changing the Face of Hunger: The Story of How Liberals, Conservatives, Republicans, Democrats, and People of Faith are Joining Forces in a New Movement to Help the Hungry, the Poor, and the Oppressed Best Price: $5.75 Living in the Washington DC area, we rarely hear about men like Tony Hall and Frank...	Hungry for Profit: The Agribusiness Threat to Farmers, Food, and the Environment Best Price: $17.10 Millions go hungry every year in both poor and rich nations, yet hundreds of thousands of...	The Betrayal of Work: How Low-Wage Jobs Fail 30 Million Americans and Their Families Best Price: $7.95 Although in the blurb on the front of this book, Barbara Ehrenreich says she wishes she'd...	Delivering on Doha: Farm Trade And the Poor Best Price: $18.01	Poor Support: Poverty In The American Family Best Price: $2.50 The subject of a New York Times Magazine cover story of December 8, 1996, David Ellwood is one...

A Kids' Guide to Hunger & Homelessness: How to Take Action! (Service Learning for Kids) Best Price: $3.49 I work for a non-profit organization and often teach classes and make presentations about...	Containing the Poor: The Mexico City Poor House, 1774-1871 Best Price: $12.91 In 1774 Mexico City leaders created the Mexico City Poor House???the centerpiece of a bold...	Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression Best Price: $3.50 As a former grad student in History, I found this book fascinating. Author Studs Terkel...	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...	The Battle with the Slum Best Price: $11.32 What sets THE BATTLE WITH THE SLUM apart from Jacob Riis' classic, HOW THE OTHER HALF LIVES, is...

The Cruel Years: American Voices at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century Best Price: $13.90 "Hearing the words of these people is a requirement for a truly democratic society."...	Changing Places: A Kids View of Shelter Living Best Price: $2.55 The voices of eight homeless children, ages 6-13, are captured here with stunning illustrations...	Boy Without a Flag Best Price: $11.16 I read this book when I was in highschool and I can still remember the descriptive, insane, sad...	Faces of Poverty: Portraits of Women and Children on Welfare Best Price: $6.95 Drug abuse damage to the children is brushed aside. A little overly-political correst.	An End to Poverty?: A Historical Debate Best Price: $17.45 It is very disappointing to see so little information provided by the publisher on this book,...

Unknown City Best Price: $21.50 The Unknown City by Michelle Fine and Lois Weis did a fantastic job of telling the story of...	Progress and Poverty - edited and abridged for modern readers by Bob Drake Best Price: $12.80 What a shame it would be to miss the message of Henry George because the original Poverty &...	Pedagogy of the Heart Best Price: $14.13	Unequal Chances: Family Background and Economic Success Best Price: $21.31 Is the United States "the land of equal opportunity" or is the playing field tilted in...	Whose Welfare? Best Price: $15.40 Over the past few decades, the goal of welfare reform has been to move poor families off of...

Understanding the Nature of Poverty in Urban America Best Price: $33.95 This book is designed to help readers navigate through the vast and rapidly growing literature...	There Shall Be No Poor Among You: Poverty In The Bible Best Price: $11.74	Ending Poverty As We Know It: Guaranteeing A Right To A Job Best Price: $15.00 While I would like to see everyone in America able to achieve a good job at a wage that feeds...	On Wealth and Poverty Best Price: $8.00 I completely agree with the previous reviewer, this book is a short read that will make you look...	Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind: Homeless Children and Families in Small-Town America Best Price: $25.00 This is the product of six years of research and work with homeless rural children and families....

Too Poor for Peace?: Global Poverty, Conflict, and Security in the 21st Century Best Price: $12.50 A really informative book. It is quite user friendly for those beginning to read or learn about...	Worlds of Pain: Life in the Working-Class Family Best Price: $2.13 As interesting as this book was, Rubin failed to distance herself and her own biases from the...	Growing Up Empty: The Hunger Epidemic in America Best Price: $6.00 I just finished reading this book and I must say it's one of the most influential books I've...	City Literacies: Learning to read across generations and cultures (Literacies) Best Price: $149.97 This book focuses on Spitalfields and The City in London of England. This is a very well written...	Feeding the Future: From Fat to Famine, How to Solve the World's Food Crises (Ingenuity Project, The) Best Price: $11.31 As humanity enters the 21st century, globalization and modernization promise to make for more...

The Color of Class: Poor Whites and the Paradox of Privilege Best Price: $19.93 This is a worthwhile effort in an under-studied area. Surely, poor whites are among among the...	Surviving in a Material World: The Lived Experience of People in Poverty Best Price: $14.31	Rosa Lee: A Generational Tale Of Poverty And Survival In Urban America Best Price: $14.99 This was required reading for a nursing class. I was completely engrossed in Rosa's story and...	Laboring Below the Line: The New Ethnography of Poverty, Low-Wage Work, and Survival in the Global Economy Best Price: $21.26 Compiled and edited by Frank Munger (Professor of Law and Adjunct Professor of Sociology, State...	Home Is Where We Live: Life at a Shelter Through a Young Girl's Eyes Best Price: $3.93

Lone Pursuit: Distrust and Defensive Individualism Among the Black Poor Best Price: $20.38 Unemployment among black Americans is twice that of whites. Myriad theories have been put...	The Urban Poor in Latin America (Directions in Development) (Directions in Development) Best Price: $24.99 The urbanization of Latin America has also lead to the urbanization of its poor. Today about...	One Nation, Underprivileged: Why American Poverty Affects Us All Best Price: $16.50 This book provides information, both statistical and anecdotal, on the structural perspective of...	Shelter Blues: Sanity and Selfhood Among the Homeless (Contemporary Ethnography) Best Price: $32.70 I'm very interested in homelessness and I enjoy social theory, but this book is far more...

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