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Rethinking Education and Poverty
ISBN: 9781421417684 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Rethinking Education and Poverty, William G. Tierney brings together scholars from around the world to examine the complex relationship between poverty and education in the twenty-first century. International in scope, this book assembles the best contemporary thinking about how education can mediate class and improve the lives of marginalized individuals. In remarkably nuanced ways, this volume examines education's role as both a possible factor in perpetuating--and a tool for alleviating--entrenched poverty. Education has long been seen as a way out of poverty. Some... In Rethinking Education and Poverty, William G. Tierney brings together scholars from around the world to examine the complex relationship b... |
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The Vicar of Tent Town
ISBN: 9781631991578 / Angielski / Miękka / 102 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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 put differences aside in order to transform the loves of those who are desperate to feel the touch of God. I can say that I have had upscale dinners with the wealthy and split a sandwich under a bridge with the not so...
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 ...
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Generational Poverty
ISBN: 9781622730186 / Angielski / Twarda / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Consumer Vulnerability: Conditions, Contexts and Characteristics
ISBN: 9780415858588 / Angielski / Twarda / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Consumer vulnerability is of growing importance as a research topic for those exploring wellbeing. This book provides space to critically engage with the conditions, contexts and characteristics of consumer vulnerability, which affect how people experience and respond to the marketplace and vice versa. Focussing on substantive, ethical, social and methodological issues, this book brings together key researchers in the field and practitioners who work with vulnerability on a daily basis. Organised into 4 sections, it considers consumer vulnerability and key life stages,... Consumer vulnerability is of growing importance as a research topic for those exploring wellbeing. This book provides space to critically engage wi... |
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Poverty Alleviation in China: A Theoretical and Empirical Study
ISBN: 9783662473917 / Angielski / Twarda / 237 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Poverty Alleviation in China
Poverty Alleviation in China
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Avoiding Governors: Federalism, Democracy, and Poverty Alleviation in Brazil and Argentina
ISBN: 9780268028961 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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 analysis, Fenwick analyzes how federalism affects the ability of a national government to deliver CCTs. One of Fenwick's key findings is that broad institutional, structural, and political variables are more important in the...
With the goal of showing the effect of domestic factors on the performance of poverty alleviation strategies in Latin America, Tracy Beck Fenwick expl...
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Homelessness in American Literature: Romanticism, Realism, and Testimony
ISBN: 9781138868908 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book analyzes the theme of homelessness in American literature from the Civil War through the depression. Drawing on the work of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Horatio Alger, Stephen Crane, Jacob Riis, Jack London, Meridel Le Sueur and many others, it reveals how homelessness has been either romanticized or objectified.
This book analyzes the theme of homelessness in American literature from the Civil War through the depression. Drawing on the work of Harriet Beecher ...
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Being Fair, Faring Better: Promoting Equality of Opportunity for Marginalized Roma
ISBN: 9781464805981 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Central and Eastern European countries, inequalities for Roma families living in marginalized communities start early and are striking. Some of these inequalities reflect hard-wired family circumstances such as being born in poverty. Others reflect lack of opportunities such as limited access to those basic goods and services that are necessary not only for realizing one's potential in life, but also for living with dignity. Gaps between Roma and non-Roma widen over the lifecycle in a way that reinforces and perpetuates disadvantage and translates into significantly unequal outcomes,...
In Central and Eastern European countries, inequalities for Roma families living in marginalized communities start early and are striking. Some of the...
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The Political Behaviour of Temporary Workers
ISBN: 9781137394866 / Angielski / Twarda / 167 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Insecure temporary employment is growing in Europe, but we know little about how being in such jobs affects political preferences and behaviour. Combining insights from psychology, political science and labour market research, this book offers new theories and evidence on the political repercussions of temporary jobs.
Insecure temporary employment is growing in Europe, but we know little about how being in such jobs affects political preferences and behaviour. Combi...
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Mixed Methods Research in Poverty and Vulnerability: Sharing Ideas and Learning Lessons
ISBN: 9781137452504 / Angielski / Twarda / 281 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The added value of mixed methods research in poverty and vulnerability is now widely established. Nevertheless, gaps and challenges remain. This volume shares experiences from research in developed and developing country contexts on how mixed methods approaches can make research more credible, usable and responsive to complexity.
The added value of mixed methods research in poverty and vulnerability is now widely established. Nevertheless, gaps and challenges remain. This volum...
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Faith in the Time of AIDS: Religion, Biopolitics, and Modernity in South Africa
ISBN: 9781137477767 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For a long time, Christians have remained at the margins of social projects around development and humanitarianism in Africa. This was especially true of projects aimed at fighting HIV/AIDS, which was often associated with sin. Drawing on ethnographic explorations in South Africa between 2006 and 2014, this book tells the story of how Christian organizations, practices and narratives have become central for civil society responses to the epidemic. Marian Burchardt shows how Christians have employed globally circulating templates around 'behavioural change' in fields such as sexuality and...
For a long time, Christians have remained at the margins of social projects around development and humanitarianism in Africa. This was especially true...
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Family Poverty and Homelessness in New York City: The Poor Among Us
ISBN: 9781137520296 / Angielski / Twarda / 319 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Family Poverty and Homelessness in New York City, Nunez and Sribnick explore the world of New York's poor children and families, from the era of European settlements to the present day. The book examines successes and failures of past efforts, providing historical context often lacking in contemporary policy debates.
In Family Poverty and Homelessness in New York City, Nunez and Sribnick explore the world of New York's poor children and families, from the era of Eu...
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The Economics of Poverty: History, Measurement, and Policy
ISBN: 9780190212766 / Angielski / Twarda / 736 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There are fewer people living in extreme poverty in the world today than 30 years ago. While that is an achievement, continuing progress for poor people is far from assured. Inequalities in access to key resources threaten to stall growth and poverty reduction in many places. The world's poorest have made only a small absolute gain over those 30 years. Progress has been slow against relative poverty as judged by the standards of the country and time one lives in, and a great many people in the world's emerging middle class remain vulnerable to falling back into poverty. The Economics...
There are fewer people living in extreme poverty in the world today than 30 years ago. While that is an achievement, continuing progress for poor peop...
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The Economics of Poverty: History, Measurement, and Policy
ISBN: 9780190212773 / Angielski / Miękka / 736 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There are fewer people living in extreme poverty in the world today than 30 years ago. While that is an achievement, continuing progress for poor people is far from assured. Inequalities in access to key resources threaten to stall growth and poverty reduction in many places. The world's poorest have made only a small absolute gain over those 30 years. Progress has been slow against relative poverty as judged by the standards of the country and time one lives in, and a great many people in the world's emerging middle class remain vulnerable to falling back into poverty.
The Economics... There are fewer people living in extreme poverty in the world today than 30 years ago. While that is an achievement, continuing progress for poor peop...
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Living Black: Social Life in an African American Neighborhood
ISBN: 9780299305345 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Living Black breaks the stereotype of poor African American neighborhoods as dysfunctional ghettos of helpless and hopeless people. Despite real and enduring poverty, the community described here the historic North End of Champaign, Illinois has a vibrant social life and strong ties among generations. But it operates on its own nonjudgmental terms teen moms aren t derided, school dropouts aren t ridiculed, and parolees and ex-cons aren t scorned.
Mark S. Fleisher offers a window into daily life in this neighborhood, particularly through the stories of Mo and Memphis Washington, who... Living Black breaks the stereotype of poor African American neighborhoods as dysfunctional ghettos of helpless and hopeless people. Despite rea...
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Poverty Knowledge in South Africa: A Social History of Human Science, 1855-2005
ISBN: 9781107551732 / Angielski / Miękka / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book discusses unconventional ways of measuring and addressing poverty in South Africa, which remains one of the country's biggest challenges.
This book discusses unconventional ways of measuring and addressing poverty in South Africa, which remains one of the country's biggest challenges.
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Critical Theory and Frankfurt Theorists: Lectures-Correspondence-Conversations
ISBN: 9781412857024 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The core of this volume is its presentation of Lowenthal's sixty-year-long intellectual career as a critical theorist and sociologist. The book includes some of his speeches on Theodor Adorno and Walter Benjamin and presents excerpts from conversations on his life as a scholar and teacher, as managing editor of the Institute for Social Research's famous journal, as government servant during and immediately after the war, and as observer and critic of contemporary culture and politics. Together these selections present an intriguing biographical panorama of a major intellectual figure. The core of this volume is its presentation of Lowenthal's sixty-year-long intellectual career as a critical theorist and sociologist. The book inc... |
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Dollarisation of Poverty: Rethinking Poverty Beyond 2015
ISBN: 9781137541420 / Angielski / Twarda / 101 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers a critical analysis on employing a universal understanding of poverty and suggests ways forward for poverty reduction for developing countries in a post-2015 era. Taking specific country-contexts into account, the author argues that national poverty lines should be the benchmark for future anti-poverty policies.
This book offers a critical analysis on employing a universal understanding of poverty and suggests ways forward for poverty reduction for developing ...
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Jack London: The Socialist Writings: The People of the Abyss, War of the Classes, Revolution and Other Essays
ISBN: 9781939375032 / Angielski / Miękka / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jack Londons most inspired political texts, collected in one volume.
Even a century after his death, Jack London remains one of Americas most iconic authors. Born poor, and rising to become Americas 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 child living in Americas capitalist society. What is often overlooked in these reminiscences, though, is the disdain London harbored for capitalism throughout his adult life. Before he wrote the stories that made him... Jack Londons most inspired political texts, collected in one volume.
Even a century after his death, Jack London remains one of Americas most... |
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Disasters and Social Crisis in Contemporary Japan: Political, Religious, and Sociocultural Responses
ISBN: 9781137521316 / Angielski / Twarda / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Japan was shaken by the 'double disaster' of earthquake and sarin gas attack in 1995, and in 2011 it was hit once again by the 'triple disaster' of earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown. This international, multi-disciplinary group of scholars examines the state and societal responses to the disasters and social crisis.
Japan was shaken by the 'double disaster' of earthquake and sarin gas attack in 1995, and in 2011 it was hit once again by the 'triple disaster' of ea...
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