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  • INTERSTATE 69
    MATT DELLINGER
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    18,66 €

  • Poverty and Inequality in Middle Income Countries
    The past several decades have seen dramatic changes in global poverty--the most important of which has been a shift that has seen nearly three-quarters of the world's poor living not in the most impoverished areas of the world, but in middle income nations. This relatively rapid transformation has forced a rethinking of anti-poverty strategies, as many of the long-establish...
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    47,26 €

  • The Rent Trap
    Rosie Walker / Samir Jeraj
    Deregulation, revenge evictions, parliamentary corruption and day-to-day instability: these are the realities for the eleven million people currently renting privately in the UK. At the same time, house prices are skyrocketing and the generational promise of home ownership is now an impossible dream for many. This is the rent-trap: an inescapable consequence of market-induced i...
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    25,33 €

  • Seven Social Sins
    J.S. Rajput
    This book has been prepared with great expectations. The relevance of dynamism in Gandhian thought, percept and vision could guide the concerned citizens and policy makers in the search for solutions. Each of the seven sins identified gets organically linked to the remaining six. Hopefully, it would provide sparks for further study and analysis of how the ideology of progress t...
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    13,03 €

  • The Human Cost of Welfare
    Lisa Conyers / Phil Harvey
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    82,51 €

  • World Widows Report
    The Loomba Foundation
    The Loomba Foundation's World Widows Report is the only authoritative comprehensive data source about the discrimination and injustice faced by widows and their dependants country by country and worldwide, informing SDG-era policy formulation by the United Nations and national governments. Key findings include: The global affected population numbers 258m widows with 585...
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    38,55 €

  • World Widows Report
    The Loomba Foundation
    The Loomba Foundation's World Widows Report is the only authoritative comprehensive data source about the discrimination and injustice faced by widows and their dependants country by country and worldwide, informing SDG-era policy formulation by the United Nations and national governments. Key findings include: The global affected population numbers 258m widows with 585...
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    59,05 €

  • A Policy Travelogue
    Catherine Kingfisher
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    44,64 €

  • What’s Wrong with the Poor?
    Mical Raz
    In the 1960s, policymakers and mental health experts joined forces to participate in President Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty. In her insightful interdisciplinary history, physician and historian Mical Raz examines the interplay between psychiatric theory and social policy throughout that decade, ending with President Richard Nixon’s 1971 veto of a bill that would have provide...
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    38,13 €

  • Rewriting Homeless Identity
    Jeremy S. Godfrey / Jeremy S Godfrey / Jeremy S. Godfrey / Jeremy SGodfrey
    Rewriting Homeless Identity: Writing as Coping in an Urban Homeless Community focuses on the identities of homeless writers, with initially limited or no specialized training in writing, at a homeless community church. Through an ethnographic, two-year study, author Jeremy Godfrey hosted and participated in weekly writing workshops. He also participated in the founding of a str...
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    125,24 €

  • Avoiding Governors
    Tracy Beck Fenwick
    Fenwick analyzes poverty alleviation strategies in Brazil and Argentina to show how federalism affects the ability of a national government to sustain a conditional cash transfer program. ...
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    32,08 €

  • Avoiding Governors
    Tracy Beck Fenwick
    With the goal of showing the effect of domestic factors on the performance of poverty alleviation strategies in Latin America, Tracy Beck Fenwick explores the origins and rise of conditional cash transfer programs (CCTs) in the region, and then traces the politics and evolution of specific programs in Brazil and Argentina. Utilizing extensive field research and empirical analys...
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    143,32 €

  • Follow the Money
    Daniel Gray
    Is it Really Possible to End Global Poverty? Every generation of people puts forth a prescription for handling poverty. To date, every antidote for poverty has been a miserable failure. Follow the Money looks at the history of failures, both liberal and conservative, in the United States and declares if the real causes aren’t addressed we are headed for a catastrophic economic...
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    14,38 €

  • Public Assistance of the Poor in France
    Emily Greene Balch
    SUMMARY: This book is a historical assessment of state institutions and other social arrangements put in place to alleviate poverty in France. It draws from both primary (notably archives of the Church) and secondary sources (such as Monnier’s Histoire de l’Assistance Publique). It offers a comparative perspective with respect to contemporary arrangements in Britain and the Un...
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    39,04 €

  • The Role of Social Work in Poverty Reduction and Realization of MDGs in Kenya
    Agnes P. Zani / Agnes PZani / Gidraph G. Wairire / Gidraph GWairire / Mumbi Machera
    This publication addresses the extent to which social work curricula in Kenya prepares graduates to handle issues of poverty and social development, the specific knowledge and skills that they are equipped with an existing gaps therein. In addition, the challenges that confront the training and practice of social workers and what needs to be done to ensure that there is an enab...
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    46,25 €

  • Urban Ills
    Urban Ills: Twenty First Century Complexities of Urban Living in Global Contexts is a collection of original research focused on critical challenges and dilemmas to living in cities. Volume 2 is devoted to the myriad issues involving urban health and the dynamics of urban communities and their neighborhoods. The editors define the ecology of urban living as the relationship and...
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    63,32 €

  • Urban Ills
    Urban Ills: Twenty First Century Complexities of Urban Living in Global Contexts is a collection of original research focused on critical challenges and dilemmas to living in cities. Volume 1 examines both the economic impact of urban life and the social realities of urban living. The editors define the ecology of urban living as the relationship and adjustment of humans to a h...
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    62,89 €

  • Tough Love
    John-Manuel Andriote
    Tough Love is a collection of weekly newspaper columns, front-page feature articles, and other commentary by a longtime Washington, DC reporter who returned home to Norwich, Connecticut. Planning a second career and a new life, the author instead found his journalist’s instincts at full alert as he watched--often incredulously--as the city’s leaders grasped at one plan after an...
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    19,27 €

  • Measurement of Poverty, Deprivation, and Social Exclusion
    The papers in Measurement of Poverty, Deprivation, and Social Exclusion represent the most current research on poverty, deprivation, and income mobility. They illustrate the multidimensionality of poverty that is difficult to capture in any one measure. The volume presents state-of-the-art research that is relevant to poverty academics globally. ...
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    290,25 €

  • To Right These Wrongs
    James L. Leloudis / James LLeloudis / Robert R. Korstad / Robert RKorstad
    When Governor Terry Sanford established the North Carolina Fund in 1963, he saw it as a way to provide a better life for the 'tens of thousands whose family income is so low that daily subsistence is always in doubt.' Illustrated with evocative photographs by Billy Barnes, To Right These Wrongs offers a lively account of this pioneering effort in America’s War on Poverty. Rober...
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    50,42 €

  • The Unseen Politics of Public Housing
    Tiffany Chenault / Tiffany Gayle Chenault
    The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) emphasizes the word 'community' for building economic development, citizen participations, and revitalization of facilities and services in urban and rural areas. Resident Councils are one way to develop and build community among residents of public housing. Despite HUD stressing community building in public housing and inv...
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    125,35 €

  • When Life Happens
    Lea LaRuffa
    If you have found yourself alone, abused, neglected and unwanted. And have contemplated ending your life on so many occasions. Then When Life Happens, will help you restore your soul, and your faith; if not in humanity, than in yourself. Follow the life of a childless and homeless woman, who spent her life caring for others, loving others; while others did nothing for her. B...
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    38,55 €

  • Jack London
    Jack London
    Jack London’s most inspired political texts, collected in one volume.Even a century after his death, Jack London remains one of America’s most iconic authors. Born poor, and rising to become America’s first millionaire writer, London was the living embodiment of the American Dream. His very life illustrated for many the limitless possibilities available to every man, woman and ...
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    20,50 €

  • Managing Egypt’s Poor and the Politics of Benevolence, 1800-1952
    Mine Ener
    This richly textured social history recovers the voices and experiences of poor Egyptians--beggars, foundlings, the sick and maimed--giving them a history for the first time. As Mine Ener tells their fascinating stories alongside those of reformers, tourists, politicians, and philanthropists, she explores the economic, political, and colonial context that shaped poverty policy ...
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    30,89 €

  • Good news from your poor neighbours
    Alan Sharp
    For the first time in 850 years, the centre of gravity of the world church has moved from Europe to the Majority World, centred in Africa. What might God be saying by doing this? Are Western people able to learn from Black, Asian and Latin American women and men about God, the Bible and life? Sharp finds that the Majority World's 21st century experience of global inequality and...
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    17,36 €

  • Poverty Knowledge in South Africa
    Grace Davie
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    41,74 €

  • From Dependence to Dignity
    Brian Fikkert / Russell Mask
    Drawing on best practice research and their own pioneering work with the Chalmers Center, in From Dependence to Dignity, Brian Fikkert and Russell Mask show readers how they can help 'churches of the poor' to use cutting-edge microfinance ministries to restore the poor to lives of dignity in Jesus Christ. ...
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    30,62 €

  • Poverty Knowledge in South Africa
    Grace Davie
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    136,85 €

  • The Vicar of Tent Town
    Shauna Marie Hyde
    Pastor Shauna Hyde brings her experience in, not only ministering to the homeless, but becoming such a welcome part of their world, that she is known as 'The Vicar of Tent Town.' I struggle to be accepting and understanding when organizations refuse to work together because an issue is more important than people. I become angry, distressed, and depressed when churches cannot pu...
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    7,97 €

  • The Limits of Marriage
    Gary R Lee / 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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    133,27 €


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