General Books


Hope Springs Maternal, Revised and Updated Edition: Homeless Mothers Talk About Making Sense of Adversity Best Price: $13.27 Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Richard Altschuler & Associates, Inc./...	Ordinary Poverty: A Little Food and Cold Storage (Labor In Crisis) Best Price: $15.50 At St. John's Bread and Life, a soup kitchen in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, more...	The Geography of American Poverty: Is There a Need for Place-based Policies? Best Price: $22.00 Partridge and Rickman explore the wide geographic disparities in poverty across the United...	La oportunidad de negocios en la base de la piramide/ The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid Best Price: $8.50	The Tunnel: The Underground Homeless of New York City (Architecture of Despair) Best Price: $92.26 In this book the author goes underground in a train tunnel in New York City where a bunch of...



Sebastiao Salgado: Migrations Best Price: $1,179.66 Salgado is without a doubt the greatest photographer alive today. His pictures are like...	Poverty & Race in America: The Emerging Agendas Best Price: $3.98 Divided into topical sections, this volume considers the issues of race, poverty, housing,...	Street Children in Kenya: Voices of Children in Search of a Childhood Best Price: $27.95 As kinship relationships and support networks across family lines weaken with modernization,...	Year at the Catholic Worker: A Spiritual Journey Among the Poor (Literature and the Religious Spirit Series X) Best Price: $29.94 Marc H. Ellis recounts his spiritual journey among the poor in New York City in the early 1970s.	Property Rights and Poverty: Political Argument in Britain 1605-1834



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 Ghetto Underclass: Social Science Perspectives Best Price: $55.87 Sponsored by the American Academy of Political and Social Science William Julius Wilson is a...	World Poverty and Human Rights: Cosmopolitan Responsibilities and Reforms Mr. Pogge seems to know as little about economics as he does about politics or the law of...	Investing in Development: A Practical Plan to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals (UN Millennium Project) Best Price: $12.00 * The flagship publication of the official fourteen-volume UN strategy on how to reduce extreme...	Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry in the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth... The Remedy Best Price: $3.93 I won't go into too much detail - the other reviewers have said it so eloquently and accurately....

Studies of Welfare Populations: Data Collection and Research Issues Best Price: $53.10 This volume, a companion to Evaluating Welfare Reform in an Era of Transition , is a collection...	More Pathways Out of Poverty Best Price: $22.60 If the title sounds familiar, it's because More Pathways Out of Poverty and its companion...	Autobiography of a Super Tramp Best Price: $20.01 A timeless tale of a man who, by little fault of his own, finds the world has turned its back to...	Reconnecting Disadvantaged Young Men Best Price: $20.65 Civil rights expert Lani Guinier, mostly in the book "The Miner's Canary," stated that...	Poverty, Ethnicity, And Violent Crime (Crime & Society Series) Best Price: $13.94 Violent crime in America is more strongly associated with poverty and with changing social and...

Economics of Poverty, Inequality and Discrimination Best Price: $63.99 This text serves as a self-contained course on income distribution and poverty, with additional...	Surviving on the Streets: How to Go Down Without Going Out Best Price: $13.95 I was a student at UC Berkeley when Ace Backwords was writing his wonderfully witty cartoons in...	A New Introduction to Poverty: The Role of Race, Power, and Politics Best Price: $18.00 "This collection of 17 essays examines poverty and its causes from a variety of angles. ...	Dear Self: A Year In The Life Of A Welfare Mother Best Price: $12.89 The dictionary defines the word welfare as financial or other aid provided, especially by the...	Differences That Matter: Social Policy And the Working Poor in the United States And Canada Best Price: $3.48 What a brilliant premise for a book: take pairs of employees doing the exact same job in the...

Welcome to the Bangkok Slaughterhouse: The Battle for Human Dignity in Bangkok's Bleakest Slums Best Price: $8.73 This collection of Bangkok Post columns from Father Joe Maier, aka the Father Teresa of...	President Johnson's War on Poverty: Rhetoric and History Best Price: $39.92 David Zarefsky's book offers readers an opportunity to examine the connection between speeches...	Traveling Light: On the Road with America#s Poor Best Price: $17.13 How far can you get on two tacos, one Dr. Pepper, and a little bit of conversation? What happens...	Voluntarism, Community Life, and the American Ethic (Philanthropic and Nonprofit Studies) Best Price: $29.75 Why do people volunteer, and what motivates them to stick with it? How do local organizations...	Encyclopedia of World Poverty, 3 Volume Set Best Price: $100.00 Poverty is more than just lack of income, it is deprivation from basic capabilities, rights, and...

Moving Out of Poverty (Volume 1): Cross-disciplinary Perspectives on Mobility (Stand Alones) Best Price: $24.36 This book brings together the latest thinking about poverty dynamics from diverse analytic...	Government Matters: Welfare Reform in Wisconsin Best Price: $13.99 This book describes the welfare reforms undertaken by the State of Wisconsin in the 1990s. It...	Ordinary People: In and Out of Poverty in the Gilded Age Best Price: $24.95 David Wagner explores the lives of poor people during the three decades after the Civil War,...	The Persistence of Poverty in the United States Best Price: $12.40 For more than thirty years, students, scholars, and policymakers have relied on successive...	Inner-City Poverty in the United States Best Price: $41.00 This volume documents the continuing growth of concentrated poverty in central cities of the...

Without a Net: Middle Class and Homeless (with Kids) in America Best Price: $0.73 Although I read this book more than two years ago, it always comes to mind when I hear of a...	American Hungers: The Problem of Poverty in U.S. Literature, 1840-1945 (20/21) Best Price: $25.27 Social anxiety about poverty surfaces with startling frequency in American literature. Yet, as...	Conclave: The Politics, Personalities, and Process of the Next Papal Election Best Price: $4.50 When John Paul II died in April 2005, my Catholic friends and I decided to place bets on who...	The Blackest Streets: The Life and Death of a Victorian Slum Set in a turbulent period in England, the book highlights the horrors and hypocrisies...	Of Time, Work, and Leisure What is the ultimate goal of a society? Two possible answers are: Work and Leisure. The goal of...

A Far Cry from Home: Life in a Shelter for Homeless Women Best Price: $7.49 Those of us who have families and homes pretend the homeless don't exist. The author of this...	Race And Ethnic Conflict: Contending Views On Prejudice, Discrimination, And Ethnoviolence, Second Edition Best Price: $13.77 The previous reviewer's commentary is both biased and flawed, and his words reveal anger and...	Rural Poverty Report Best Price: $29.93 The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) is an independent body set up in 1978...	Not Just Getting By: The New Era of Flexible Workforce Development Best Price: $19.48 Not Just Getting By chronicles groundbreaking thinking and research on new and innovative...	Community Development: Breaking the Cycle of Poverty Best Price: $36.50 Based on foundations of participation and empowerment, this entry-level study covers every...

The Milltown Boys Revisited Best Price: $76.41 How do some young people "escape" from a life of crime while others remain in it? ...	Homeless in America Best Price: $12.81 The 1980s have witnessed a dramatic increase in homelessness among impoverished and dependent...	The Color of Hunger Best Price: $4.54 The first book ever to examine the links between hunger and race, "The Color of...	Homelessness in Rural America: Policy And Practices Best Price: $19.92 Take your knowledge of the needs of the rural homeless to the next level This groundbreaking...	Understanding Human Well-being Best Price: $35.13

Hunger Watch Report 2007-08: The Justice of Eating (Action Against Hunger) Best Price: $10.25 This is the first annual report from leading NGO, Action Against Hunger. It presents an...	Poverty Policy: A Compendium of Cash Transfer Proposals Best Price: $20.00	In the Wake of the Affluent Society: An Exploration of Post-Development Best Price: $17.95 I was required to read this for my book report, and after reading it, I think this book deserves...	TRADE TRAP 2nd ed Best Price: $15.77 So you're a proud open-source-software-guy, but you had entertained dim thoughts of making a...	From Social Justice to Criminal Justice: Poverty and the Administration of Criminal Law (Practical and Professional Ethics) Best Price: $27.00 I really enjoyed this book. It was a very insightful look into the mind of the authro Dominick...

African Poverty at the Millennium: Causes, Complexities, and Challenges Best Price: $19.94 Poverty is a large and growing problem in Africa resulting in an immense amount of avoidable...	Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?: The Great Depression 1929-1933 (Library of American History) Best Price: $24.94	Citizen Hobo: How a Century of Homelessness Shaped America Best Price: $20.00 Tood DePastino had a wonderful idea: explore what Americans (particularly, white American males)...	Homelessness In America Best Price: $45.00 Homelessness in America is a comprehensive resource that examines the issues and causes of...	The Untouchables: Subordination, Poverty and the State in Modern India (Contemporary South Asia) Best Price: $29.34 In a compelling account of the lives of those at the bottom of Indian society, the authors...

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