General Books


Something Left To Lose Pb Best Price: $20.13 Most people living in urban centers pay no attention to the unkempt panhandlers that line the...	Homeless Mind: Modernization and Consciousness Best Price: $19.95 This book seems to have fallen out of the Peter Berger canon, and that is a shame. I found the...	Dark Victory: The United States and Global Poverty (Transnational Institute) Best Price: $3.75 This short but powerful book provides the best and most concise review of the disastrous...	Child Poverty: Love, Justice and Social Responsibility Best Price: $18.54 Child Poverty: Love, Justice, and Social Responsibility serves as a tool for those who wish to...	Psychology And Economic Injustice: Personal, Professional, And Political Intersections (Psychology of Women) Best Price: $34.25 Social class is a powerful contributor to physical, social, and mental well-being. Psychology...



Plunge2poverty: An Intensive Poverty Simulation Experience Best Price: $7.99 Plunge2Poverty is a guidebook that will help leaders plan an intensive 42-hour weekend event...	The Democratic Republic of Congo: From Peace Rhetoric to Sustainable Political Stability? Best Price: $25.00 In this issue, we focus on the Democratic Republic of Congo, often referred to as the DRC, and...	Keepin' on: The Everyday Struggles of Young Families in Poverty Best Price: $18.74 The result of a 5-year research project conducted in one major American city, this fascinating...	Mastering the Machine Revisited: Poverty, Aid and Technology Best Price: $26.49 'Mastering the Machine Revisted' is about the connection between poverty, aid and technology. It...	Minding the Gaps: Integrating Poverty Reduction Strategies and Budgets for Domestic Accountability Best Price: $14.00 By integrating their poverty reduction strategies, national budgets, and the corresponding...



An Atlas of Poverty in America: One Nation, Pulling Apart, 1960-2003 Best Price: $17.50 This volume is as good as it gets for depicting poverty in America, but it could have been...	Progress against Poverty: Sustaining Mexico's Progresa-Oportunidades Program Best Price: $18.90 Levy was the Mexican minister who ran a vital government program, Progress Opportunities. It...	Inclusion in the American Dream: Assets, Poverty, and Public Policy Best Price: $5.65 Inclusion in the American Dream brings together leading scholars and policy experts on the topic...	From Rhetoric To Reform?: Welfare Policy In American Politics (Dilemmas in American Politics) Best Price: $2.95 Welfare policy illustrates both the strengths and weaknesses of the American political process....	Social Capital And Poor Communities (Ford Foundation Series on Asset Building) Best Price: $23.71

Development Brokers and Translators: The Ethnography of Aid and Agencies Best Price: $23.88 The book is valuable for its attention to detail on the practice of development policy. The...	The War Against The Poor: The Underclass And Antipoverty Policy Best Price: $3.98 Truth does exist and Mr. Gans is one who sees it. Forget about greed, selfishness, and vacuous...	Poverty and Development (Introductions to Sociology) Best Price: $19.95 One of a modularized series of short books on introductory sociology, this is an introduction to...	Dances with Dependency: Out of Poverty through Self-Reliance Best Price: $16.50 This book is exactly what I had hoped it would be. It provides solid historical facts,...	Building Without Borders: Sustainable Construction for the Global Village (Natural Building Series) Best Price: $14.90 Building Without Borders describes pioneering efforts to create sustainable shelter for...

Upon Whom We Depend: The American Poverty System (Counterpoints (New York, N.Y.), Vol. 98.) Best Price: $8.69 Upon Whom We Depend by Dr. J. Gordon Chamberlin draws attention to America's creation and...	Black Neighbors: Race and the Limits of Reform in the American Settlement House Movement, 1890-1945 Best Price: $22.50 Professing a policy of cultural and social integration, the American settlement house movement...	Reducing Poverty and Sustaining the Environment: The Politics of Local Engagement Best Price: $15.59 The first book to examine the role of politics in environmental issues that matter to the poor...	Consequences of Growing Up Poor Best Price: $19.46 This book is a must read for any serious student of social policy in America. Written by some...	Voices from the Street: Truths about Homelessness from Sisters of the Road Best Price: $12.99 I was expecting a book with interviews of homeless people. This book is more complex than that. ...

Global Development 2.0: Can Philanthropists, the Public, and the Poor Make Poverty History? Best Price: $19.99 An unprecedented explosion of development players heralds a new era of global action on poverty....	Reducing Global Poverty: The Case for Asset Accumulation Best Price: $17.73 Defeating global poverty remains one of the most daunting challenges facing the international...	Starving Armenians: America and the Armenian Genocide, 1915-1930 and After Best Price: $23.25 "Starving Armenians: America and the Armenian Genocide, 1915-1930 and After: by Merrill...	The Irish Famine: An Illustrated History Best Price: $11.01 This small book is a good start to the full study of the Irish Famine of 1845 through 1850. We...	Rethinking Social Policy: Race, Poverty, and the Underclass Best Price: $2.54 Christopher Jencks corroborates what so many other social scientists, including Charles Murray...

Love, Sorrow, And Rage Best Price: $14.99 Love, Sorrow, and Rage gives powerful voice to women like Nora Gaines and Dixie Register, who...	Second Home: Orphan Asylums and Poor Families in America Best Price: $98.68 As orphan asylums ceased to exist in the late twentieth century, interest in them dwindled as...	Neighborhood Poverty: Context and Consequences for Children Best Price: $15.55	Why America Lost the War on Poverty--And How to Win It Best Price: $17.95 This is a timely, must-have book for anyone who cares about reducing the level of poverty in our...	All You Can Eat: How Hungry is America? Best Price: $15.61 With the biting wit of Super Size Me and the passion of a lifelong activist, Joel Berg has his...

Child of the dark;: The diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus Not the best book about Brazil in general, probably a well not the best book about Favelas...	Suburban Xanadu: The Casino Resort on the Las Vegas Strip and Beyond Best Price: $26.34 Not that great. A far better read is "Sun, Sin And Suburbia: An Essential History Of Modern...	The Poorhouse: America's Forgotten Institution Best Price: $7.90 'David Wagner's extraordinary journey through the history of 'the poorhouse' in the United...	Politics and Public Morality: The Great American Welfare Reform Debate Best Price: $5.82 Welfare reform has played a prominent role in recent presidential and congressional elections....	What Government Can Do: Dealing With Poverty and Inequality (American Politics and Political Economy) Best Price: $19.24 This book is very informative about a whole range of social issues. Although it specifically...

From a Native Son: Selected Essays on Indigenism, 1985-1995 Best Price: $11.95 I wasn't too thrilled with the book. Maybe it's just me but the way it's written made it hard...	Global Trade and Poor Nations: The Poverty Impacts and Policy Implications of Liberalization Best Price: $11.95 This thoughtful volume assesses the likely impact of reformed trade policies on the poorest of...	Valuing Freedoms: Sen's Capability Approach and Poverty Reduction (Queen Elizabeth House Series in Development Studies) Best Price: $39.86 Sabina Alkire shows how Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen's capability approach can be...	Sustainable Livelihoods: Building on the Wealth of the Poor Best Price: $14.99 " A useful book that should be read by all those with an interest in development generally,...	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...

Night Comes to Cumberlands Best Price: $16.80 This is an excellent book. Gives a lot of great detailed information on the history of that era.	Corazon Descalzo: Historias De Una Nina Migratoria Best Price: $10.30	The People of the Abyss Best Price: $11.20 Jack London's social document written in 1902 about the slum of London's East End paints no less...	Poor Whites of the Antebellum South: Tenants and Laborers in Central North Carolina and Northeast Mississippi Best Price: $21.58 In Poor Whites of the Antebellum South, Charles Bolton effectively reveals the economic, social,...	Impossible Democracy: The Unlikely Success of the War on Poverty Community Action Programs Best Price: $24.95

Dirty Truths Best Price: $5.75 I was waiting for the book to blame conservatives for human mortality and to suggest that...	Blame Welfare, Ignore Poverty and Inequality Best Price: $71.98 The authors have important things to say about poverty in the United States. One is that we...	Debt and Dispossession: Farm Loss in America's Heartland Best Price: $21.97 If you've ever gone through hard times and felt like the world was standing in judgement, you...	The Tragedy of American Compassion Best Price: $40.00 Does the way that America does charity actually makes things worse? Now in a special fifteenth...	Crow Call Best Price: $5.50 Crow Call is a collection of poetry written to eulogize, honor, and cherish the memory of poet...

Tools for Institutional, Politicial, and Social Analysis of Policy Reform: A Sourcebook for Development Practitioners Best Price: $30.00 Analysis of the distributional impact of policy reforms plays an important role in the...	Hope for Children in Poverty: Profiles and Possibilities Best Price: $8.99 This is the book I have been waiting for somebody to publish for years... HOPE for Children...	Lifting Up the Poor: A Dialogue on Religion, Poverty & Welfare Reform (The Pew Forum Dialogues on Religion and Public Life) Best Price: $11.95 People who participate in debates about povertyand its causes and curesoften...	An Inquiry into Well-Being and Destitution Best Price: $66.00 Many will probably notice the similarity to "Development as Freedom," the book by '98...

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