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  • The Book on Ending Homelessness
    Iain De Jong
    The Book on Ending Homelessness provides insights for those in the industry, elected officials, policy makers, funders, public servants and the general public on the best ways to move from managing homelessness to ending homelessness. While ending homelessness may seem to be a whacky or even preposterous idea, Iain De Jong takes more than two decades of experience as an award w...
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    46,11 €

  • The Book on Ending Homelessness
    Iain De Jong
    The Book on Ending Homelessness provides insights for those in the industry, elected officials, policy makers, funders, public servants and the general public on the best ways to move from managing homelessness to ending homelessness. While ending homelessness may seem to be a whacky or even preposterous idea, Iain De Jong takes more than two decades of experience as an award w...
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    38,83 €

  • The McQueen Foundation Beginner's Guide for Helping the Homeless
    Dishambra McQueen
    Have you ever looked at a homeless person and thought to yourself, “That could easily be me?” The reality is many of us are one paycheck away from being in that very position. For Dishambra McQueen, that was her story before rising above her circumstances and founding The McQueen Foundation. Now, she trains other individuals with the same dream and passion to make a difference ...
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    13,00 €

  • Poverty and Welfare in America
    David Wagner
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    89,14 €

  • Struggling in the Land of Plenty
    Anne R. Roschelle / Anne RRoschelle
    At the conclusion of the twentieth century, the US economy was booming, but the gap between the rich and poor widened significantly in the 1990s, poverty rates among women and children skyrocketed, and there was an unprecedented rise in familial homelessness. Based on a four-year ethnographic study, Anne R. Roschelle examines how socially structured race, class, and gender ineq...
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    129,24 €

  • Coming of Age in a Hardscrabble World
    Nonfiction storytelling is at its best in this anthology of excerpts from memoirs by thirty authors--some eminent, some less well known--who grew up tough and talented in working-class America. Their stories, selected from literary memoirs published between 1982 and 2014, cover episodes from childhood to young adulthood within a spectrum of life-changing experiences. Although d...
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    127,91 €

  • Night Comes to the Cumberlands
    Harry M. Caudill / Harry MCaudill
    2019 Reprint of 1963 Edition.  Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software.  The biography of the Cumberland Plateau in Appalachia begins in the violence of the Indian Wars and ends in the despair of the idle miners living off Welfare.  Two hundred years ago the plateau was a land of promise.  The deep, twisting valleys contained ric...
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    24,59 €

  • Hunters, Gatherers, and Practitioners of Powerlessness
    Tomasz Rakowski
    The socio-economic transformations of the 1990s have forced many people in Poland into impoverishment. Hunters, Gatherers, and Practitioners of Powerlessness gives a dramatic account of life after this degradation, tracking the experiences of unemployed miners, scrap collectors, and poverty-stricken village residents. Contrary to the images of passivity, resignation, and helple...
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    44,12 €

  • Las Malvinas: los sobrevivientes del incendio
    Gian Calsina Calixto
    Esta crónica narra las historias de las víctimas y de los sobrevivientes de uno de los peores incendios en la historia del Perú. En el año 2017, Jorge Luis Huamán y Jovi Herrera perdieron la vida al no poder escapar del siniestro, pues permanecían encerrados en un contenedor donde trabajan de manera habitual, sin contrato y sin seguridad en el conglomerado comercial llamada Las...
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    10,40 €

  • Shadow
    M. J. Manley / MJManley
    Dr. Michael J. Manley, a therapist for the homeless in Los Angeles, wanted to know what it’s really like living on the streets. So following his retirement, he purposely became like the people he had counseled, discovering that their life is far more difficult than he could have possibly imagined.African Americans living in the United States are treated unequal to the white Ame...
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    8,46 €

  • The Road
    Jack London
    “The Road” is a 1907 autobiographical memoir by American writer Jack London. Within it, London recounts his experience of being homeless during the 1890 depression in the United States. He tells of his having to hop freight trains, beg to survive, his various run-ins with the police, and much more in an interesting and insightful account of life during an economic depression. T...
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    20,21 €

  • Emerson on Sound Money
    Willis George Emerson
    First published in 1896, 'Emerson on Sound Money' is the transcript of a speech delivered by Willis G. Emerson to the Young Men’s Republican Club at Lockerby Hall Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1896. The speech primarily concerns money and finances, referring to the contemporary political situation and providing suggestions as to how it can be improved. Willis George Emerson (1856 -...
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    14,78 €

  • Arthur Talks
    Ruth Hobson
    Poetry about the homeless and how their lives evoke the legendary figure of King Arthur. Some poetry looks inwards and serves only its own ends, but the poems here serve the memory of the real people you sense behind the characters who populate it. They are portrayed with a remarkably precise eye and ear, and without any hint of sentimentality. These sharp, funny and touching p...
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    13,49 €

  • The Thin Blue Lifeline
    Ellis Amdur / Hutchings John
    The first section of this book is tactical: everything from field safety and strategic planning on one side, to honing your intuition to pick up early signs of danger on the other. In the second section of the book, the authors focus on us: what we can do to achieve a state of integrity and powerful calm. Rather than abstract pronouncements, they offer specific strategies, incl...
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    34,87 €

  • Oliver Twist
    Charles Dickens
    "Oliver Twist" was Charles Dickens' second novel, further establishing him as one of England's greatest writers of the 19th century.  Set in London in the midst of an industrial revolution, the novel treats issues such as child labor, poverty, and criminal greed.  Originally published in serial form and being titled "The Parish Boy's Progress," the book remains popu...
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    27,07 €

  • Gender Inequality
    Clement A Tisdell
    This unique book provides an easily comprehended overview of facts about gender inequality and contains a valuable introduction to economic theories of this inequality, the applicability of which is assessed in the light of empirical evidence. A special feature of this book is its adoption of a multidisciplinary approach to the study of gender inequality. Both economic and soci...
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    175,86 €

  • Superar el desempleo en familia
    Ginette Lespine / Sophie Guillou
    Hoy en día el desempleo afecta cada vez a un mayor número de familias. A menudo, trastorna su equilibrio y desestabiliza a la pareja. Por eso, es importante entender lo que pasa en la cabeza de cada uno, tanto del afectado directamente, como de su pareja e hijos, ya sean pequeños o mayores. ...
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    10,35 €

  • Holes in the Safety Net
    Ezra Rosser
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    132,67 €

  • Poverty and the Poor in the World’s Religious Traditions
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    107,64 €

  • Poor Representation
    Kristina C. Miler / Kristina CMiler
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    44,65 €

  • Desigualdad y pobreza en un contexto de crecimiento económico
    Angelo Cozzubo Chaparro / Carlos Ernesto Urrutia Apaza / Carolina Trivelli Avila / Jhonatan Augusto Clausen Lizárraga / Johanna Marissa Yancari Cueva / Ursula Teresa Aldana Durán / Yancari Cueva Johanna Marissa
    El crecimiento del producto bruto interno sostenido de las últimas dos décadas ha sido el más notable de los efectos del nuevo modelo económico vigente desde la implementación del Consenso de Washington. Junto a ello, la reducción de la pobreza es otro logro que para muchos se debe a una economía más solida. Sin embargo, ¿la reducción de la pobreza monetaria equivale a un mayor...
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    26,00 €

  • The Cultural and Economic Context of Maternal Infanticide
    Martha Smithey
    This book examines the social, economic and cultural conditions and stressors under which mothers commit infanticide, and shows how these conditions affect the ability to meet societal and self-perceived expectations of ’good’mothering. ...
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    151,56 €

  • Poor Representation
    Kristina C. Miler / Kristina CMiler
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    128,37 €

  • SDG1 - No Poverty
    Amanda Lange Salvia / Katarzyna Cichos
    This work provides a new look at global problems of poverty and presents applicable solutions to show that the global community can eliminate poverty today and achieve its global promise - Sustainable Development Goal 1 (SDG 1). ...
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    104,48 €

  • Walking By the Homeless
    Laura Sandretti
    How many times have you walked by a homeless person? Or read about someone hurting or in need and felt conflicted? How often have you spoken to a stranger more nicely than your husband? How often have you looked in the mirror and not liked the person looking back at you?Walking By the Homeless is a book about ordinary life intersecting with awareness. It is about one suburban w...
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    19,14 €

  • T.V. Reddy’s Fleeting Bubbles
    Ramesh Chandra Mukhopadhyay / Ramesh Chandra Mukhopadhyay / T. Vasudeva Reddy / TVasudeva Reddy / Vasudeva TReddy
    Prof. Ramesh, with his thorough knowledge of the Western and Indian poetics, as well as the culture of the land is the right person to explain and interpret the poems of T. Vasudeva Reddy’s Fleeting Bubbles. This collection of poems holds a mirror as it were to the existing social situations in India. Following an introduction, this book explores Fleeting Bubbles in six phases:...
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    19,45 €

  • Entrepreneurship and the Sustainable Development Goals
    Given the compelling need to understand how entrepreneurship can support the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and be appropriately guided, this book explores how entrepreneurial thinking and action can support social change, and investigates alternative entrepreneurship approaches by drawing together different studies. ...
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    184,37 €

  • Oh, For The Love Of Haiti!
    JoAnne M Kuehner
    In this book, I tell you of my experiences in Haiti over the past thirty years. Some of my stories are humorous, many are sad. However, all are true. I will also introduce you to a number of interesting individuals that I met along the way. Unfortunately, I did not keep written notes of all of my encounters, so there may be some factual errors, for which I apologize in advance....
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    18,95 €

  • Oh, For The Love Of Haiti!
    JoAnne M Kuehner
    In this book, I tell you of my experiences in Haiti over the past thirty years. Some of my stories are humorous, many are sad. However, all are true. I will also introduce you to a number of interesting individuals that I met along the way. Unfortunately, I did not keep written notes of all of my encounters, so there may be some factual errors, for which I apologize in advance....
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    34,87 €

  • AIDS Orphans Rising
    Sister Mary Elizabeth Lloyd
    A Child-Headed Household is formed every 15 seconds... Thousands of children around the world are orphaned daily when their parents die of AIDS. When siblings stay together to form a family, it is called a Child-Headed Household. They desperately want to live together, resisting attempts to separate them amongst relatives or orphanages. The eldest sibling, often only 10 years o...
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    11,14 €


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