General Books


Policing Compassion: Begging Law and Power in Public Spaces Best Price: $58.51 The encounter between those begging and those passing by in public spaces has become one of the...	Bury Me In My Boots This is a true story of a woman who is curious and wants to the help the down and out. She does...	Lost in Space: The Criminalization, Globalization, and Urban Ecology of Homelessness Best Price: $23.07 Amster explores the historical and contemporary implications of homelessness as a social and...	White Collar: The American Middle Classes (Galaxy Books) Best Price: $5.00 C. Wright Mills classic treastise on white collar jobs in middle class America is as concise...	Opposing Viewpoints Series - Poverty (paperback edition) (Opposing Viewpoints Series) Revised and updated to include welfare reform, faith-based charitable giving, minimum wage...



Surviving on the Streets: How to Go Down Without Going Out Best Price: $19.41 I was a student at UC Berkeley when Ace Backwords was writing his wonderfully witty cartoons in...	Poverty and Children's Adjustment (Developmental Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry) Best Price: $54.90 "In this important little book, Suniya S. Luthar synthesizes, with impressive clarity,...	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...	Crosses Best Price: $14.24 I find this book to be disturbing in the sense that it could have been anyone of us who were...	Untouchable Freedom: A Social History of a Dalit Community Best Price: $94.00 Vijay Prashad's book shows his versatility across topics. His other books look at race and...



Untouchable Freedom: A Social History of a Dalit Community Best Price: $94.00 Vijay Prashad's book shows his versatility across topics. His other books look at race and...	Poverty, Ethnicity and the American City, 1840-1925: Changing Conceptions of the Slum and Ghetto (Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography) Best Price: $47.13 This is an examination of the relationships between migrants and the inner city from an...	A Far Cry from Home: Life in a Shelter for Homeless Women Those of us who have families and homes pretend the homeless don't exist. The author of this...	Downtowns: Revitalizing the Centers of Small Urban Communities (Garland Reference Library of Social Science. Contemporary Urban Affairs,) Best Price: $114.93 This collection evaluates the various strategies that different cities have used when attempting...	Underfed and Overfed: The Global Epidemic of Malnutrition (World Watch Paper 150, March 2000) Best Price: $10.00

Keeping Women and Children Last: America's War on the Poor Best Price: $0.25 The sequel to Women and Children Last charges that poor women and children have been made...	Linking Conservation and Poverty Reduction: Landscapes, People and Power Best Price: $30.29 High levels of rural poverty in many of the world's ecosystems make it an ethical and practical...	The After-Death Room: Journey Into Spiritual Activism Best Price: $4.98 McColly's writing is elegant and urgent. I rarely find books that combine political relevance...	Braving the Street: The Anthropology of Homelessness (Public Issues in Anthropological Perspective, V. 1) Best Price: $10.97 The problem of homelessness is a systemic one. It has not been adequately addressed by public...	Reducing Global Poverty: The Case for Asset Accumulation Best Price: $17.70 Defeating global poverty remains one of the most daunting challenges facing the international...

Something Left To Lose Pb Best Price: $19.95 Most people living in urban centers pay no attention to the unkempt panhandlers that line the...	Love, Sorrow, And Rage Best Price: $14.94 "Love, Sorrow, and Rage" gives powerful voice to women like Nora Gaines and Dixie...	Healing the World One by One Best Price: $16.94 In this age of globe-spanning charitable and relief organizations, can the ordinary individual...	Shelter Best Price: $28.63 Ever wonder what being homeless and living in a shelter really means? Read this book. It is...	Landscapes of Despair: From Deinstitutionalization to Homelessness Michael Dear and Jennifer Wolch examine the emergence of urban ghettos of the socially...

Topic of hisThoughts Best Price: $15.99 Excellent book, easy read, brilliant author- all of her books are excellent. Shontaine Ayers is...	Responsibility, Indifference And Global Poverty: A Levinasian Perspective (Morality and the Meaning of Life) (Morality and the Meaning of Life) Best Price: $51.00 Consider the fact that thousands of people die daily from preventable, poverty-related causes...	Conclave: The Politics, Personalities, and Process of the Next Papal Election Best Price: $4.39 When John Paul II died in April 2005, my Catholic friends and I decided to place bets on who...	After Revolution: Mapping Gender and Cultural Politics in Neoliberal Nicaragua Best Price: $24.95 "This will be a very significant contribution to gender studies, the literature on social...	After Revolution: Mapping Gender and Cultural Politics in Neoliberal Nicaragua Best Price: $24.95 "This will be a very significant contribution to gender studies, the literature on social...

Poverty and Psychology: From Global Perspective to Local Practice (International and Cultural Psychology) Best Price: $51.34 Although poverty is a global issue profoundly affecting millions of human beings, the psychology...	World Poverty (Global Issues) Best Price: $42.14 Although poverty has decreased over the past two centuries, about 40 percent of the world's...	Higher Ground: New Hope for the Working Poor and Their Children Best Price: $14.00 Higher Ground: New Hope for the Working Poor and their Children provides a detailed background...	The Time Has Come: To Confront the Tragedy of World Poverty Through Centers of Village Progress Best Price: $18.99	Trade, Growth, and Inequality Best Price: $68.02 Combining the fields of international trade theory, economic development, and economic growth,...

West-Bloc Dissident: A Cold War Political Memoir Best Price: $8.84 This book is outstanding both as autobiography and as historical political journalism. Bill...	Dynamics of Inequality and Poverty, Volume 13 (Research on Economic Inequality) (Research on Economic Inequality) Best Price: $115.00 This volume consists of a number of papers related to the theme of the dynamics of inequality...	Safety Nets, Politics and the Poor: Transitions to Market Economies Best Price: $1.13	Indigenous Peoples: Ethnic Minorities and Poverty Reduction: Cambodia (Indigenous Peoples series) Best Price: $5.01 This document was created to provide background on Cambodia and its ethnic minorities at the...	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,...

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...	Misplaced: New York City's Street Kids The authorship of this book was clearly a monumental task. In reporting on the young people who...	Angola: Oil, Broad-based Growth, and Equity (World Bank Country Study) (World Bank Country Study) Best Price: $22.40 Once one of the world's largest staple food producers, Angola is now known as a major oil...	Slum Upgrading and Participation: Lessons from Latin America (Directions in Development) Best Price: $32.95 This volume explores the strong link between community participation and project impact in slum...	Persistent Poverty In Rural America (Rural Studies Series of the Rural Sociological Society) Why does rural poverty persist? Despite a variety of programs and policies that have attempted...

State of the Worlds Cities 2006/7: The Millennium Development Goals and Urban Sustainability: 30 Years of Shaping the Habitat Agenda (Un Habitat) Best Price: $37.84 The year 2007 will mark a turning point in human history: the world's urban population will for...	Class Warfare: Interviews with David Barsamian Best Price: $5.99 This book comprises half a dozen extended interviews conducted in the mid-nineties with the...	The New Global Frontier: Urbanization, Poverty and Environment in the 21st Century Best Price: $33.69 Massive urban growth can either help pave the way to sustainable development or greatly...	Doing Without: Women and Work after Welfare Reform Best Price: $18.00 The welfare reform legislation enacted in 1996 was applauded by many for the successes it had in...	Poverty's Child: A True Story Best Price: $14.95 you know what i havent even read this entire book yet, but I do have to agree with the anger of...

Development Brokers and Translators: The Ethnography of Aid and Agencies Best Price: $24.63 The book is valuable for its attention to detail on the practice of development policy. The...	Dear Self: A Year In The Life Of A Welfare Mother Best Price: $12.46 The dictionary defines the word welfare as financial or other aid provided, especially by the...	Homelessness: Is Society Looking the Other Way? Best Price: $38.99	Shantytown Protest Pb Best Price: $30.33 In 1973, armed forces launched a violent attack against the Chilean presidential palace and...	Africa at a Turning Point?: Growth, Aid, and External Shocks (World Bank Development Essays) Best Price: $44.12 Sub-Saharan Africa (Africa) is the world s biggest development challenge. Much of the continent...

Poverty, Education and Development Best Price: $78.97 This book addresses the state of poverty and its effects on education and development. It is...	Microfinance and Self Help Groups In India: Living Up to Their Promise? Best Price: $30.28 Self-Help Groups (SHGs), a means of reaching rural women with savings and credit services, have...	Voices of the Poor in Africa: Moral Economy and the Popular Imagination (Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora) (Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora) Best Price: $19.85 Elizabeth Isichei explores the Atlantic slave trade, as reflected in the poetics of rumour and...	Body Snatching: The Robbing of Graves for the Education of Physicians in Early Nineteenth Century America Best Price: $34.44 This is a great book that focuses on its subject matter in a straightforward way. It is a short...

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