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  • Paramilitarism and Neoliberalism
    Jasmin Hristov
    The people of Colombia have, for the last fifty years, been subject to a specific form of violence: paramilitarism. An embodiment of the dark underbelly of global capitalist accumulation, this form of pervasive violence expresses the exacerbation of social inequalities and class formation under capitalism. In Paramilitarism and Neoliberalism, Jasmin Hristov theorises this extre...
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    38,27 €

  • Devizes Union
    Barbara Fuller
    This is a detailed history of the union workhouse in Devizes, Wiltshire, and its subsequent history as St James’s hospital, with details of buildings and people associated with it. It includes the setting up of the Devizes Union, the child inmates, the guardians and staff, health issues and mortality, vagrants, and the later history with reminiscences. ...
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    11,76 €

  • Responding to Global Poverty
    Christian Barry / Gerhard Øverland
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    141,12 €

  • The Political Logic of Poverty Relief
    Alberto Diaz-Cayeros / Beatriz Magaloni / Federico Estévez
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    141,36 €

  • 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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    183,84 €

  • Standing with the Vulnerable
    Gil Odendaal
    The world has needs. Children are orphaned, refugees are displaced and families are devastated by natural disasters. But God is greater than those needs, and he works through his people to accomplish healing and transformation. God calls us to integral mission- obeying both the Great Commission and the Great Commandment in ministering to people’s spiritual, physical, emotional ...
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    25,29 €

  • $2.00 a Day
    H Luke Shaefer / Kathryn J Edin
    Jessica Compton’s family of four would have no income if she didn’t donate plasma twice a week at her local donation center in Tennessee. Modonna Harris and her teenage daughter, Brianna, in Chicago, often have no food but spoiled milk on weekends.After two decades of brilliant research on American poverty, Kathryn Edin noticed something she hadn’t seen before — households surv...
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    16,59 €

  • In Harm’s Way
    Javier Auyero / María Fernanda Berti
    A harrowing look at violence among Argentina’s urban poorArquitecto Tucci, a neighborhood in Buenos Aires, is a place where crushing poverty and violent crime are everyday realities. Homicides-often involving young people-continue to skyrocket, and in the emergency room there, victims of shootings or knifings are an all-too-common sight. In Harm’s Way takes a harrowing look at ...
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    36,29 €

  • On Poverty and Learning
    Marge Scherer
    This collection of articles from Educational Leadership brings together fifteen insightful and passionate pieces that will help you better understand how poverty affects learning and what educators can do to make a positive difference for each learner every day. The authors examine the existence and persistence of economic inequality, demythologize poverty as a culture, explore...
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    16,47 €

  • On Poverty and Learning
    Marge Scherer
    This collection of articles from Educational Leadership brings together fifteen insightful and passionate pieces that will help you better understand how poverty affects learning and what educators can do to make a positive difference for each learner every day. The authors examine the existence and persistence of economic inequality, demythologize poverty as a culture, explore...
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    25,50 €

  • Sara Barefield
    Marian D Schwartz
    A single mother fights poverty. She believes she can win.Sara has worked her entire life to overcome the name Barefield. To be a Barefield in the Appalchian town where she grew up means that you are the poorest of the poor, that you are shiftless and untrustworthy, lazy and stupid. Sara has succeeded in proving that she is none of those things. At the age of forty she has a nic...
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    16,80 €

  • Poverty As My Teacher
    Robert E Miller
    Poverty As My Teacher describes the birth of the initiative: Leading the Way Out of Global Poverty® with Sustainable Family Communities® which are designed with the economic and social/cultural factors necessary to be repeatable, sustainable and scalable. This is an initiative that can truly eradicate poverty, one Community at a time, as opposed to what most projects do – prov...
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    32,44 €

  • Economic Citizenship
    Amalia Sa'ar
    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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    204,95 €

  • Wavers & Beggars
    Dr. Warren Bruhl / Todd Love Ball Jr.
    Wavers & Beggars is a call to examine our role in helping our neighbor next door and 10,000 miles away. Each of us has an inner waver and a beggar inside ourselves. Recognizing our similarities to even the poorest beggar is the beginning to transform our lives and the planet. Wavers & Beggars inspires you to take a hard look at your choices and the stories you’ve made up abo...
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    26,62 €

  • Wavers & Beggars
    Dr. Warren Bruhl / Todd Love Ball Jr.
    Wavers & Beggars is a call to examine our role in helping our neighbor next door and 10,000 miles away. Each of us has an inner waver and a beggar inside ourselves. Recognizing our similarities to even the poorest beggar is the beginning to transform our lives and the planet. Wavers & Beggars inspires you to take a hard look at your choices and the stories you’ve made up abo...
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    43,94 €

  • Poverty, philanthropy and the state
    Katharine Bradley / Katherine Bradley
    This book charts the growth of the university settlement movement, a fundamental influence in the shaping of the welfare state, from 1918 to Margaret Thatcher’s election in 1979. It looks at the complex relationships between charities, the welfare state and individuals and the ways in which change was negotiated over the twentieth century. ...
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    44,51 €

  • The Return of Food. Poverty and Urban Food Security in Zimbabwe after the Crisis
    The nadir of Zimbabwe’s political and economic crisis in 2008 coincided with the implementation of a baseline household food security survey in Harare by AFSUN. This survey found that households in low income urban areas in Zimbabwe’s capital were far worse off in terms of all the food insecurity and poverty indicators than households in the other 10 Southern African cities sur...
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    28,95 €

  • Help Saint Germain Stop Poverty
    Kim Michaels
    This book if for anyone who wants to make a contribution to a better society by doing something that none of the forces of this world can prevent. You can use the knowledge and practical tools in this book to make a powerful contribution to removing poverty and its spiritual causes from this planet. Saint Germain is the primary ascended master overseeing the coming 2000 years. ...
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    23,57 €

  • The Journey to Hangtown Haven
    Arthur A. Edwards / Arthur AEdwards
    The Journey to Hangtown Haven.How a group of committed volunteers led by a retired aerospace engineerbuilt a homeless shelter in a gold rush community and how the power and financial elite closed it down. Was it because Hangtown Haven was an unexpected success?How does one build a successful homeless shelter that is legal, practical and economical at no cost to the taxpayer? A ...
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    33,71 €

  • Poverty Traps
    Much popular belief--and public policy--rests on the idea that those born into poverty have it in their power to escape. But the persistence of poverty and ever-growing economic inequality around the world have led many economists to seriously question the model of individual economic self-determination when it comes to the poor. In Poverty Traps, Samuel Bowles, Steven Durlauf,...
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    37,69 €

  • Rescuing the Vulnerable
    In many ways, the European welfare state constituted a response to the new forms of social fracture and economic turbulence that were born out of industrialization-challenges that were particularly acute for groups whose integration into society seemed the most tenuous. Covering a range of national cases, this volume explores the relationship of weak social ties to poverty an...
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    204,13 €

  • New Rules for Global Justice
    Today’s globalised world means offshore finance, airport boutiques and high-speed Internet for some people, against dollar-a-day wages, used t-shirts, and illiteracy for others. How do these highly skewed global distributions happen, and what can be done to counter them?New Rules for Global Justice engages with widespread public disquiet around global inequality. It explores (m...
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    154,20 €

  • The Poverty of Revolution
    Susan Eva Eckstein
    The plight of the urban poor in Mexico has changed little since World War II, despite the country’s impressive rate of economic growth. Susan Eckstein considers how market forces and state policies that were ostensibly designed to help the poor have served to maintain their poverty. She draws on intensive research in a center city slum, a squatter settlement, and a low-cost hou...
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    222,36 €

  • Securing the Right to Employment
    Philip Harvey
    Basing his proposal on plans developed by New Deal social welfare administrators, Harvey analyzes the feasibility and desirability of using public sector job creation to secure a right to employment. He shows that such a policy would provide more effective relief from the problems of poverty and unemployment than do existing arrangements while permitting a major expansion in th...
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    120,87 €

  • Yokohama Street Life
    Tom Gill
    Yokohama Street Life: The Precarious Career of a Japanese Day Laborer is a one-man ethnography, tracing the career of a single Japanese day laborer called Kimitsu, from his wartime childhood in the southern island of Kyushu through a brief military career to a lifetime spent working on the docks and construction sites of Tokyo, Osaka and Yokohama. Kimitsu emerges as a unique vo...
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    60,13 €

  • Gloom to Glory
    Indira Dutta / Meera Lal
    This volume offers an insight into the socio-economic profile of tribes in the states of Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh. It looks into the various facets of the way of living of the tribes dwelling in these states. The effectiveness of tribal development projects in both the states have been analysed on several parameters including Work Participation Rate, literacy, housing and acc...
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    17,23 €

  • New Rules for Global Justice
    Today’s globalised world means offshore finance, airport boutiques and high-speed Internet for some people, against dollar-a-day wages, used t-shirts, and illiteracy for others. How do these highly skewed global distributions happen, and what can be done to counter them?New Rules for Global Justice engages with widespread public disquiet around global inequality. It explores (m...
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    51,81 €

  • Blacks and Poverty
    Raymond L. Chukwu
    This book delivers the hard-hitting evidence to explain why blacks disproportionately suffer from limited access to technology, poor health, and inadequate professional health care treatment in the United States and throughout the world. Chukwu, former Republican candidate for Congress and a candidate to be the US ambassador to Nigeria, is an aerospace engineer and president of...
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    16,52 €

  • Blacks and Poverty
    Raymond L. Chukwu
    This book delivers the hard-hitting evidence to explain why blacks disproportionately suffer from limited access to technology, poor health, and inadequate professional health care treatment in the United States and throughout the world. Chukwu, former Republican candidate for Congress and a candidate to be the US ambassador to Nigeria, is an aerospace engineer and president of...
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    31,41 €

  • Poverty to Empowerment
    Indira Dutta
    This volume provides insights into the various issues pertaining to measurement, incidence and dimensions of poverty in India. It analyses various growth theories of spatial planning which have been propounded by various authors from time to time. There is a detailed study of the functioning of various poverty alleviation programmes in India and why they have not accomplished t...
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    17,72 €


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