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  • A Modest Proposal
    Jonathan Swift
    Read & Co. Great Essays presents this brand new edition of Jonathan Swift’s satirical essay, 'A Modest Proposal' (1729). Referring to the worsening state of poverty amongst families and children in Ireland at the time, Swift’s proposal is to solve the problem by feeding the children of the poor to the rich. Throughout the text he uses statistics, data, and various methods – inc...
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    14,46 €

  • How the Other Half Lives - Studies Among the Tenements of New York
    Jacob A. Riis / Jacob ARiis
    Classic Books Library presents this brand new edition of 'How the Other Half Lives' (1890) by Jacob Riis. This powerful collection of photographs depicts the slums of New York during the 1800s. As an émigré, Riis witnessed the poverty and crowded conditions of the city, and turned to photojournalism to document street life. Mastering the innovative use of flash, and being one o...
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    29,07 €

  • People-Centred Public Works Programmes
    Costain Tandi / Munyaradzi Mawere
    Poverty has long been a developmental challenge in the Global South in general and in sub-Saharan Africa in particular. With a fifth, mainly from the rural areas of the world, living below the poverty datum line, the world has a huge challenge to reduce poverty, worse still to eradicate it from the face of the earth. A target was set through the 2000-2015 United Nations (UN) Mi...
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    36,10 €

  • Class Matters
    Charles Umney
    Social class remains a fundamental presence in British life in the twenty-first century. It is woven into the very fabric of social and political discourse, undiminished by the end of mass industry; unaugmented despite the ascendancy of ’ordinary working people’ and other substitute phrases. Absent from this landscape, however, is any compelling Marxist expression or analysis o...
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    127,12 €

  • Poverty in the United States
    John Burch
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    156,98 €

  • Winning the War on Poverty
    Brian Fife
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    95,52 €

  • Food Security in Africa’s Secondary cities
    Emmanuel Chilanga / Liam Riley / Lovemore Zuze
    This report marks the first stage of AFSUN’s goal of expanding knowledge about urban food systems and experiences of household food insecurity in secondary African cities. It contributes to an understanding of poverty and sustainability in Mzuzu, Malawi, through the lens of household food security. The focus on food as an urban issue not only speaks to the development challenge...
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    34,49 €

  • Poverty Is Wicked Harassment
    Rankli Koh
    The book, Poverty is Wicked Harassment: The Way Out, is Bold and Invading. Its quite simple and understandable for self-help.This book is highly acclaimed as the worlds fastest and most dynamic provider of start-up capabilities and capital with 100% guarantee, even to the poorest in arid zones and desserts! Not just PRINCIPLES, but ABILITIES and RESOURCES for application and op...
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    21,29 €

  • Poverty Is Wicked Harassment
    Rankli Koh
    The book, Poverty is Wicked Harassment: The Way Out, is Bold and Invading. Its quite simple and understandable for self-help.This book is highly acclaimed as the worlds fastest and most dynamic provider of start-up capabilities and capital with 100% guarantee, even to the poorest in arid zones and desserts! Not just PRINCIPLES, but ABILITIES and RESOURCES for application and op...
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    34,85 €

  • The Children of the Poor
    Jacob Riis
    Tenements, saloons, and streets — How did children survive the perils of New York City slums? When this book appeared in 1892, it shocked the privileged class. The evidence of misery and greed was undeniable.The author, Jacob Riis, was a muckraker and social documentary photographer. His exposé includes stories of survival, child abuse and neglect, orphans and outcasts. He wrot...
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    13,06 €

  • Red Winds
    Irma Upex-Huggins
    Red Winds is an account of Irma Upex-Huggins' time with the VSO in Tanzania, living and working in an environment of extreme poverty, and it charts her journey through the country and through illness and recovery from a serious accident. Red Winds is a combination of poetry and prose, letters from Africa.Irma was born in Antigua in the West Indies, finished school in Nevis ...
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    14,14 €

  • Relational Poverty Politics
    This collection examines the power and transformative potential of movements that fight against poverty and inequality. Broadly, poverty politics are struggles to define who is poor, what it means to be poor, what actions might be taken, and who should act. These movements shape the sociocultural and political economic structures that constitute poverty and privilege as materia...
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    115,12 €

  • Relational Poverty Politics
    This collection examines the power and transformative potential of movements that fight against poverty and inequality. Broadly, poverty politics are struggles to define who is poor, what it means to be poor, what actions might be taken, and who should act. These movements shape the sociocultural and political economic structures that constitute poverty and privilege as materia...
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    38,08 €

  • The Democratic Developmental State
    The idea of a democratic developmental state forms part of the current development discourse advocated by international aid agencies, deliberated on by academics, and embraced by policy makers in many emerging economies in the global South. What is noticeable in this discourse is how little attention has been paid to a discussion of the essence of a democratic developmental sta...
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    51,72 €

  • The Children of the Poor
    Jacob Riis
    Tenements, saloons, and streets - How did children survive the perils of poor New York City neighborhoods? When this book appeared in 1892, it shocked the privileged class. The evidence of misery and greed was undeniable.The author, Jacob Riis, was a muckraker and social documentary photographer. His book includes stories of survival, child abuse and neglect, orphans and outcas...
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    22,90 €

  • Economic Citizenship
    Sa'ar Amalia / Sa’ar Amalia
    With the spread of neoliberal projects, responsibility for the welfare of minority and poor citizens has shifted from states to local communities. Businesses, municipalities, grassroots activists, and state functionaries share in projects meant to help vulnerable populations become self-supportive. Ironically, such projects produce odd discursive blends of justice, solidarity, ...
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    44,48 €

  • Teacher
    Michael Copperman
    When Michael Copperman left Stanford University for the Mississippi Delta in 2002, he imagined he would lift underprivileged children from the narrow horizons of rural poverty. Well-meaning but naive, the Asian American from the West Coast soon lost his bearings in a world divided between black and white. He had no idea how to manage a classroom or help children navigate the co...
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    35,66 €

  • Japan and China
    Koichi Sakamoto
     Since the opening up of China in 1979, the country had experienced phenomenal economic growth over the decades and overtook Japan as the second-largest economy in 2010. With the establishment of a conservative administration led by Shinzo Abe in December 2012 and Xi Jinping's ascendance to power as the General Secretary of China's ruling party a month earlier, the two ...
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    81,60 €

  • No Longer Homeless
    David Wagner / Gemma Atticks
    Research suggests that between 6 and 14 percent of the US population has been homeless at some point in their lives-a huge number of people. No Longer Homeless shares the stories of people who have formerly been homeless to examine how they transition off the streets, find housing, and stay housed. No Longer Homeless offers a unique perspective of people who have managed to cha...
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    47,70 €

  • Mot
    Sarah Einstein
    At forty, Sarah Einstein is forced to face her own shortcomings. In the wake of an attempted sexual assault, she must come to terms with the facts that she is not tough enough for her job managing a local drop-in center for adults with mental illness and that her new marriage is already faltering. Just as she reaches her breaking point, she meets Mot, a homeless veteran who liv...
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    17,77 €

  • Tiny Homes In a Big City
    Faith Fowler
    Tiny Homes In a Big City, by Reverend Faith Fowler is the story of Cass Community Social Services, a Detroit based nonprofit that is in the process of building a neighborhood of 25 different Tiny Homes in the northwest part of the city. The homes are being built to allow extremely low-income individuals a way to eventually own their own homes. This is the only rent-then-own tin...
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    33,63 €

  • Masterless Men
    Keri Leigh Merritt
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    27,01 €

  • Examining the Private Sector’s Role in Wealth Creation and Poverty Reduction
    The private sector is a vital factor in creating the wealth and economic growth needed to reduce poverty in a significant and sustainable manner. However, there are many obstacles preventing private sector firms from engaging in business where poverty is widespread. Examining the Private Sector’s Role in Wealth Creation and Poverty Reduction explores poverty alleviation in deve...
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    242,85 €

  • Research on Economic Inequality
    This volume presents ten chapters that discuss the economics of poverty, inequality and welfare. They address how we measure poverty, inequality and welfare and how we use such measurements to devise policies to deliver social mobility. They consider both theoretical and empirical topics with special reference to developing countries. ...
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    209,99 €

  • The Political Economy of Poverty, Vulnerability and Disaster Risk Management
    Munyaradzi Mawere
    Poverty remains a thorny and topical challenge and research topic to scholars and researchers on African development. Scholars in the Global North have since the Second World War sought to research poverty and underdevelopment in Africa, postulating what they think are the major causes of insipid and abject poverty in the continent, but with little or no success on how to solve...
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    59,02 €

  • I see a new India
    Preeti Mahurkar
    From revolution to conscious evolution....Team India - An Idea whose time has come...We are at a pivotal point in history where the future of India would not happen by chance. It would depend upon the choices and decisions we make collectively today. The further course of evolution of India will be determined by our conscious choices and decisions to utilize our powers and reso...
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    13,79 €

  • Another Way Forward
    Dede Feldman
    Another Way Forward: Grassroots Solutions from New Mexico offers hope to anyone discouraged by the nation’s inability to tackle problems like poverty and health care. Award-winning author and former Senator Dede Feldman profiles innovative organizations and inspiring local leaders who are changing the world in New Mexico, one neighborhood, one clinic, one classroom at a time. S...
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    37,34 €

  • Undeserving
    Matthew Gritter
    This book explores attempts to reform the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as food stamps. It argues that a growing focus on punitive policies attempts to characterize SNAP recipients as undeserving of governmental assistance. The book explores three areas of reform efforts: attempts to limit the types of food that can be purchased, attempts to i...
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    102,02 €

  • The Failed Welfare Revolution
    Brian Steensland
    Today the United States has one of the highest poverty rates among the world’s rich industrial democracies. The Failed Welfare Revolution shows us that things might have turned out differently. During the 1960s and 1970s, policymakers in three presidential administrations tried to replace the nation’s existing welfare system with a revolutionary program to guarantee Americans b...
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    45,77 €

  • My Way Home
    Michael Gaulden
     His life was barely worth a dollar. He slept outside, on park benches, in stairwells, under bushes. Michael Gaulden lived in shelter after shelter across the United States. With his father incarcerated and mother disabled, he stayed homeless for ten years.From the age of seven to seventeen, Michael, with his mother and sister, journeyed along his own underground railroad, desp...
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    18,50 €


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