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The Mole People: Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City
ISBN: 9781556522413 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Thousands of people live in the subway, railroad, and sewage tunnels that form the bowels of New York City and this book is about them, the so-called mole people. They live alone and in communities, in subway tunnels and below subway platforms and this fascinating study presents how and why people move underground, who they are, and what they have to say about their lives and the topside world they ve left behind."
Thousands of people live in the subway, railroad, and sewage tunnels that form the bowels of New York City and this book is about them, the so-called ...
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65,32 |
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Poor Women, Poor Children: American Poverty in the 1990s
ISBN: 9781563246081 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work presents the most recent data on poverty, family structure and participation in welfare programmes. It analyses the causes for the continuing rise in female-headed households, the high rates of poverty among such families, and evaluates past, present and future reform policies.
This work presents the most recent data on poverty, family structure and participation in welfare programmes. It analyses the causes for the continuin...
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132,18 |
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Double Exposure: Poverty and Race in America
ISBN: 9781563249624 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A collection of articles and symposia on controversial social issues, which include: affirmative action; the permanence of racism thesis; the use and utility of racial/ethnic categories; multiculturalism; immigration; the underclass debate; and democracy/equality.
A collection of articles and symposia on controversial social issues, which include: affirmative action; the permanence of racism thesis; the use and ...
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127,29 |
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Something Left to Lose: Personal Relations and Survival Among New York's Homeless
ISBN: 9781566395137 / Angielski / Twarda / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Homelessness is discussed in terms of its origins or in terms of its amelioration. Media focuses on poverty, drug use, lack of shelter, the social safety net, or attempts by the homeless, social service agencies, and government to end homelessness by policy and action. This book presents a portrait of the social and personal lives of the homeless.
Homelessness is discussed in terms of its origins or in terms of its amelioration. Media focuses on poverty, drug use, lack of shelter, the social saf...
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328,15 |
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Something Left to Lose: Personal Relations and Survival Among New York's Homeless
ISBN: 9781566395144 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Homelessness is usually discussed in terms of its origins or in terms of its amelioration. Media accounts focus on poverty, lack of shelter, or attempts by the homeless, social service agencies, and government to end homelessness by policy and direct action. This title presents a dramatic portrait of the social and personal lives of the homeless.
Homelessness is usually discussed in terms of its origins or in terms of its amelioration. Media accounts focus on poverty, lack of shelter, or attemp...
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117,50 |
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The Betrayal of the Urban Poor
ISBN: 9781566395434 / Angielski / Miękka / 223 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Presents the history from 1960 of how policies allegedly designed to promote the welfare of the urban poor have been half-hearted. This book shows how little the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the War on Poverty provided for the urban poor, and demonstrates the weakness of job-training programs devised at the federal level.
Presents the history from 1960 of how policies allegedly designed to promote the welfare of the urban poor have been half-hearted. This book shows how...
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122,40 |
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America's Trillion-Dollar Housing Mistake: The Failure of American Housing Policy
ISBN: 9781566635318 / Angielski / Twarda / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For more than seven decades, the American government has acted to provide housing for the poor. In America's Trillion-Dollar Housing Mistake, Howard Husock explains how, as with so many anti-poverty efforts, low-income housing programs have harmed those they were meant to help while causing grave collateral damage to cities and their citizens. Public housing projects, Mr. Husock writes, are only the best-known housing policy mistakes. His book explains how a long list of lesser-known efforts including housing vouchers, community development corporations, the low-income housing tax credit, and...
For more than seven decades, the American government has acted to provide housing for the poor. In America's Trillion-Dollar Housing Mistake, Howard H...
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73,42 |
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Voices of the Poor in Africa: Moral Economy and the Popular Imagination
ISBN: 9781580461795 / Angielski / Miękka / 297 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Elizabeth Isichei explores the Atlantic slave trade, as reflected in the poetics of rumour and the poetics of memory -- an approach different from the quantitative and demographic studies which have transformed the subject over the past twenty years. To this and to her study of popular consciousness in the colony and postcolony, she brings together a wide range of disciplines -- ethnography, art and art history, and contemporary literary theory among them -- to look at the intellectual history of Africa, from African rather than European premises. The result is a history of popular...
Elizabeth Isichei explores the Atlantic slave trade, as reflected in the poetics of rumour and the poetics of memory -- an approach different from the...
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132,18 |
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Under Attack, Fighting Back: Women and Welfare in the United States
ISBN: 9781583670088 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Named an "Outstanding Book" by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in North America "Abramovitz introduces the reader to cutting edge socioeconomic analysis. . . . It is not possible to come away from Under Attack, Fighting Back with a sense that welfare is a simplistic topic or that the human consequences of adjustments in the existing system are inconsequential." "This lively and informative book deserves to be widely read. It provides an excellent history of AFDC and the activities of various women's groups who have campaigned... Named an "Outstanding Book" by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in North America "Abramovitz introduces the reader to... |
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103,40 |
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We are the Poors: Community Struggles in Post-apartheid South Africa
ISBN: 9781583670507 / Angielski / Miękka / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When Nelson Mandela was elected president of South Africa in 1994, freedom-loving people around the world hailed a victory over racial domination. The end of apartheid did not change the basic conditions of the oppressed majority, however. Material inequality has deepened and new forms of solidarity and resistance have emerged in communities that have forged new and dynamic political identities. We Are the Poors follows the growth of the most unexpected of these community movements, beginning in one township of Durban, linking up with community and labor struggles in other parts of the...
When Nelson Mandela was elected president of South Africa in 1994, freedom-loving people around the world hailed a victory over racial domination. The...
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108,80 |
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Wages of Empire: Neoliberal Policies, Repression, and Women's Poverty
ISBN: 9781594513473 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Corporate globalization has intensified in recent years, taking a terrible toll on the lives of ordinary women in the global North and South. This book investigates the related processes of neoliberal economic restructuring and increased militarization, tracking policy and its enforcement to its impact on low-income women. This interdisciplinary volume provides rich analyses of the oppressive working and living conditions of urban and rural women, rightward shifts in public policies, and women's resistance to these developments.
Corporate globalization has intensified in recent years, taking a terrible toll on the lives of ordinary women in the global North and South. This boo...
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1077,50 |
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Ordinary People: In and Out of Poverty in the Gilded Age
ISBN: 9781594514609 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. David Wagner explores the lives of poor people during the three decades after the Civil War, using a unique treasure of biographies of people who were (at one point in time) inmates in a large almshouse, combined with genealogical and other official records to follow their later lives. Ordinary People develops a more fluid picture of "poverty" as people's lives change over the course of time.
David Wagner explores the lives of poor people during the three decades after the Civil War, using a unique treasure of biographies of people who were...
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1077,50 |
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Poor and Pregnant in New Delhi, India
ISBN: 9781598742930 / Angielski / Miękka / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this innovative contribution to the study of food, gender, and power, Helen Vallianatos meticulously documents cultural values and beliefs, dietary practaices, and the nutritional and health status of mothers in Indian squatter settlements. She explores both large-scale forces incorporating critical medical anthropology and feminist theory into a biocultural paradigm and the local and individual choices New Delhi women make in interpreting cultural dietary norms based on their reproductive histories, socioeconomic status, family structure, and other specific conditions. Her findings have...
In this innovative contribution to the study of food, gender, and power, Helen Vallianatos meticulously documents cultural values and beliefs, dietary...
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195,86 |
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Indigenous Peoples and Poverty: An International Perspective
ISBN: 9781842776797 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book brings together two key concerns in development policy: the urgent need for poverty reduction and the situation of indigenous peoples in both developing and industrialized countries. It analyzes patterns of indigenous disadvantage worldwide and explores some difficult questions, including the right balance between autonomy and participation.
This book brings together two key concerns in development policy: the urgent need for poverty reduction and the situation of indigenous peoples in bot...
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180,39 |
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Poverty and Social Deprivation in the Mediterranean: Trends, Policies and Welfare Prospects in the New Millennium
ISBN: 9781842777572 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'This collection of essays lucidly addresses major issues related to poverty in the Mediterranean area. Empirical measurements of poverty reduced to a meaningless 'one or two dollars of daily expenditure', as suggested by the World Bank, are meant to escape the political economy analysis of the processes that generate the phenomenon. Eradicating poverty implies implementing a programme of social security for all citizens, whatever level of development is reached by the country, in accordance with the basic human rights approach cogently suggested in this book.' - Professor Samir Amin,...
'This collection of essays lucidly addresses major issues related to poverty in the Mediterranean area. Empirical measurements of poverty reduced to a...
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180,39 |
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Old Age and the English Poor Law, 1500-1700
ISBN: 9781843830948 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study is a test-case of the old poor law. In its exploration of the virtually unknown world of the aged poor in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England, it asks how the elderly poor managed to survive in a pre-industrial economy, and answers through focusing on the many factors that make up the experience of old age - status, health, wealth, and local culture - in two Suffolk villages. Botelho demonstrates that the poor law did not, nor did it intend to, provide complete support, and she documents the individual efforts of the poor as they made their own old age arrangements, drawing...
This study is a test-case of the old poor law. In its exploration of the virtually unknown world of the aged poor in sixteenth- and seventeenth-centur...
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416,30 |
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Reducing Poverty and Sustaining the Environment: The Politics of Local Engagement
ISBN: 9781844071166 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Addresses the role of politics in environmental issues that matter to the poor through a series of case studies. This title describes experiences at regional, national and local levels in low and middle income countries including China, Tanzania, Nigeria, South Africa, Pakistan, Colombia, Peru, India, Saint Lucia and countries in East Africa.
Addresses the role of politics in environmental issues that matter to the poor through a series of case studies. This title describes experiences at r...
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215,45 |
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Financing Urban Shelter: Global Report on Human Settlements 2005
ISBN: 9781844072101 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. * An authoritative, up-to-date global assessment of the challenges of financing urban shelter
* Supported by informative graphics and case studies from around the world * Statistical annexes provides a thorough breakdown of essential data The Global Report on Human Settlements is the most authoritative and up-to-date assessment of conditions and trends in the world??'s cities. It is an essential tool and reference for researchers, academics, public authorities and civil society organizations around the world. The 2005... * An authoritative, up-to-date global assessment of the challenges of financing urban shelter
* Supported by informative graphics and case studie... |
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930,57 |
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Financing Urban Shelter: Global Report on Human Settlements 2005
ISBN: 9781844072118 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The 2005 Global Report on Human Development presents a global assessment of housing finance systems, placing shelter and urban development challenges within the overall context of macroeconomic policies.
The 2005 Global Report on Human Development presents a global assessment of housing finance systems, placing shelter and urban development challenges ...
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303,61 |
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Un Millennium Development Library: Investing in Development: A Practical Plan to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals
ISBN: 9781844072170 / Angielski / Miękka / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Millennium Development Goals, adopted at the UN Millennium Summit in 2000, are the world's targets for dramatically reducing extreme poverty in its many dimensions by 2015 income poverty, hunger, disease, exclusion, lack of infrastructure and shelter while promoting gender equality, education, health and environmental sustainability. These bold goals can be met in all parts of the world if nations follow through on their commitments to work together to meet them. Achieving the Millennium Development Goals offers the prospect of a more secure, just, and prosperous world for all. The UN...
The Millennium Development Goals, adopted at the UN Millennium Summit in 2000, are the world's targets for dramatically reducing extreme poverty in it...
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