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  • If It Had Not Been for the Lord
    Theresa Chatman
    As women of God, we have a hope that God is working powerfully in our lives to make us into gleaming, shining diamonds for His glory. I am a diamond in God’s eyes; I have been through the fire and have come out even more beautiful and strong. God brought me from the dirt roads of life and made me into a diamond for His glory!Throughout my life, God has used the pressure of tria...
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    19,04 €

  • ADB Through the Decades
    Asian Development Bank
    The 5-volume publication, ADB through the Decades, provides a historical account of how ADB has evolved to respond to the dynamic changes across the Asia and Pacific region over the past 5 decades. This first volume from the series explains how the idea of a regional development bank for Asia emerged and gained support, and how ADB established itself as a sound and credible ins...
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    24,65 €

  • ADB Through the Decades
    Asian Development Bank
    The 5-volume publication, ADB through the Decades, provides a historical account of how ADB has evolved to respond to the dynamic changes across the Asia and Pacific region over the past 5 decades. This second volume from the series shows how ADB responded to the growing diversity among its developing member countries as both membership and operations widened during 1977-1986. ...
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    24,80 €

  • ADB Through the Decades
    Asian Development Bank
    The 5-volume publication, ADB through the Decades, provides a historical account of how ADB has evolved to respond to the dynamic changes across the Asia and Pacific region over the past 5 decades. This third volume from the series presents ADB’s response to expert recommendations for a new role for ADB in the 1990s, and greater emphasis on effectiveness in the delivery of deve...
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    27,85 €

  • ADB Through the Decades
    Asian Development Bank
    The 5-volume publication, ADB through the Decades, provides a historical account of how ADB has evolved to respond to the dynamic changes across the Asia and Pacific region over the past 5 decades. This fourth volume from the series presents how ADB responded to rapid changes in the region following the Asian financial crisis and the changes in international development thinkin...
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    31,72 €

  • ADB Through the Decades
    Asian Development Bank
    The 5-volume publication, ADB through the Decades, provides a historical account of how ADB has evolved to respond to the dynamic changes across the Asia and Pacific region over the past 5 decades. This fifth volume from the series presents ADB’s response to intensified development challenges, a more ambitious global development agenda, and the emergence of new sources of devel...
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    35,09 €

  • Tranquility on the Razor’s Edge
    Eric Weissman
    In this exciting, thought-provoking new book, author Eric Weissman draws on personal experience, firsthand empirical research, and social theory to probe the causes and consequences of homelessness.Hundreds of thousands of North Americans are homeless according to government statistics; hundreds of thousands, even millions more are only precariously housed, one paycheck away fr...
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    33,05 €

  • Asian Development Outlook 2017 Update
    Asian Development Bank
    Developing Asia is forecast to expand by 5.9% in 2017 and 5.8% in 2018, a slight upgrade from projections in Asian Development Outlook 2017. Growth prospects for developing Asia are looking up, bolstered by a revival in world trade and strong momentum in the People’s Republic of China. Rebounds in international food and fuel prices are gentler than expected, helping to contain ...
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    47,42 €

  • A Grave above Ground
    Diana Hutton
    We are in Spain as we follow the life and thoughts of Mara, a Romanian beggar who sits, day after day, on the pavement outside a bank in Madrid. Little by little her past takes shape, her tragic past, as she reflects on the members of her family, as she describes the village of her childhood, the hardships of Ceausescu's Romania, her relationships - one of which was her dow...
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    16,34 €

  • The Power of Proximity
    Michelle Ferrigno Warren
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    18,87 €

  • Veinticinco años de modernización neocolonial
    FELIX JIMENEZ
    El estancamiento de la economía internacional, la desaceleración de los precios de los minerales y la salida de los capitales que acompaña al actual proceso de enfriamiento de la economía han puesto al descubierto las debilidades del modelo: la inexistencia de aumentos genuinos y generalizados de la productividad, el relativo atraso en la educación y salud de calidad, la persis...
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    31,20 €

  • Masterless Men
    Keri Leigh Merritt
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    79,23 €

  • I Need Real Tuxedo and a Top Hat!
    Wyatt Doyle
    Street people and street life in photographs and stories by the author of Stop Requested, Dollar Halloween, and The Last Coloring Book. I Need Real Tuxedo and a Top Hat! is available as a trade softcover and in a deluxe expanded hardcover edition with additional material. Words and pictures by Wyatt Doyle. ...
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    26,56 €

  • The Violence of Austerity
    Vickie Cooper
    Austerity, a response to the aftermath of the financial crisis, continues to devastate contemporary Britain.In The Violence of Austerity, Vickie Cooper and David Whyte bring together the voices of campaigners and academics including Danny Dorling, Mary O’Hara and Rizwaan Sabir to show that rather than stimulating economic growth, austerity policies have led to a dismantling of ...
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    126,99 €

  • The English Poor Laws 1700-1930
    Anthony Brundage
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    57,86 €

  • Understanding Poverty
    P. Alcock
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    225,80 €

  • The Political Economy of Poverty and Social Transformations of the Global South.
    This book brings forth debates on the production and eradication of poverty from experiences in the global South. It collects a set of innovative articles concentrating on the way in which poverty, as a social process, has been tackled by popular movements and the governments of various states across the globe. Providing new insights into the limitations of traditional strategi...
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    51,59 €

  • The Limits of Marriage
    Gary R. Lee / Gary RLee
    This book documents and explains the remarkable decline in the American marriage rate that began about 1970. This decline has occurred in spite of the fact that married people are better off than unmarried people in many ways. Many other attempts to explain the 'retreat from marriage' blame it on culture change involving a devaluation of marriage, and/or on ignorance of the ben...
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    63,90 €

  • Generational Poverty
    Adam D Vass Gal
    Are the impoverished victims of circumstance or are they contributing to their situations through their own actions and principles?  This perplexing question does not have a simple answer. "Generational Poverty: An Economic Look at the Culture of the Poor" examines both sides of the coin.  Written by an economist, the book provides a unique perspective into the study of this em...
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    37,45 €

  • Unequal Health
    Grace Budrys
    Unequal Health examines the reasons why stark differences in health and well-being persist, even as the health care industry and access to health care grow. The third edition of this powerful book retains the accessible style and focus on inequality from previous editions while featuring significant new material throughout.After an overview of key themes, the book introduces th...
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    136,15 €

  • To Fool the Rain
    Steven Werlin
    To Fool the Rain thoughtfully chronicles Steven Werlin’s journey with Fonkoze, but it is also the story of Fonkoze itself. Presented in vivid detail are the lived experiences of Mirlene, Micheline, Ti Rizib, Monique, Rose Marthe, Alta, and other Chemen Lavi Miyò participants, who have benefited in many ways from this remark­able program. As Werlin makes clear in To Fool the Rai...
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    20,43 €

  • To Fool the Rain
    Dr. Paul Farmer / DrPaul Farmer / Steven Werlin
    To Fool the Rain thoughtfully chronicles Steven Werlin’s journey with Fonkoze, but it is also the story of Fonkoze itself. Presented in vivid detail are the lived experiences of Mirlene, Micheline, Ti Rizib, Monique, Rose Marthe, Alta, and other Chemen Lavi Miyò participants, who have benefited in many ways from this remark­able program. As Werlin makes clear in To Fool the Rai...
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    13,17 €

  • Unequal Health
    Grace Budrys
    Unequal Health examines the reasons why stark differences in health and well-being persist, even as the health care industry and access to health care grow. The third edition of this powerful book retains the accessible style and focus on inequality from previous editions while featuring significant new material throughout.After an overview of key themes, the book introduces th...
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    51,75 €

  • Dig Where You Are
    Nan Alexander Doyal
    For anyone who has ever wondered if what they do matters or how they can make a difference in their lives – Nan Alexander Doyal’s voice is what you’ve been waiting for.In her book Dig Where You Are she introduces us to seven men and women who have solved some of the biggest challenges facing our societies today. Their stories are entertaining, heart-breaking, inspiring and at t...
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    11,42 €

  • The Millipede Effect
    Rodney D. Brooks
    Government, civic organizations, and religion (the church) all play a major part in finding ways to help the plight of the homeless. This is displayed on a daily basis by so many who are constantly doing their part through service, financial giving, and voluntary work. However, the challenge still remains. Like the millipede with many body parts/compartments (government, civic...
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    32,22 €

  • The Millipede Effect
    Rodney D. Brooks
    Government, civic organizations, and religion (the church) all play a major part in finding ways to help the plight of the homeless. This is displayed on a daily basis by so many who are constantly doing their part through service, financial giving, and voluntary work. However, the challenge still remains. Like the millipede with many body parts/compartments (government, civic...
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    15,14 €

  • Measuring Poverty and Wellbeing in Developing Countries
    Detailed analyses of poverty and wellbeing in developing countries, based on household surveys, have been ongoing for more than three decades. The large majority of developing countries now regularly conduct a variety of household surveys, and the information base in developing countries with respect to poverty and wellbeing has improved dramatically. Nevertheless, appropriate ...
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    60,48 €

  • Mapping the Invisible
    Jane Battersby / Maya Marshak / Ncedo Mngqibisa
    This report argues that it is essential to understand  the dynamics of the informal  food retail sector because of its vital role in ensuring  greater access to food by the urban poor. Existing policy frameworks to address food security and to govern the informal sector tend to neglect informal retail in the food system. As a result, the sector is poorly understood. The report ...
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    40,45 €

  • Poverty and Welfare in Modern German History
    Lutz Raphael
    For many, the history of German social policy is defined primarily by that nation's postwar emergence as a model of the European welfare state. As this comprehensive volume demonstrates, however, the question of how to care for the poor has had significant implications for German history throughout the modern era. Here, eight leading historians provide essential case studie...
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    184,19 €

  • Inequality after the 20th Century
    Volume 24 offers fresh theoretical and methodological insights into the key issues in the field of economic inequality. ...
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    274,81 €


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