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Homelessness in America
ISBN: 9780897748698 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The number of homeless people in America has continued to grow at an alarming rate since the 1970s. Yet many members of the general public still have far more questions than answers about the magnitude and implications of this complex social problem and the reasons for its persistence. Now the answers can be found in "Homelessness in America," the most current, comprehensive, and authoritative volume available on this subject. Focusing on the broad social issue of homelessness, the book's 19 essays offer in-depth examinations of policy-related issues by noted social workers, researchers,... The number of homeless people in America has continued to grow at an alarming rate since the 1970s. Yet many members of the general public still ha... |
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304,92 |
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Street Children in Kenya: Voices of Children in Search of a Childhood
ISBN: 9780897895293 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As kinship relationships and support networks across family lines weaken with modernization, economic stressors take a great toll on children. Kenya, like some other nations in Africa and around the globe, has witnessed a rapid rise in street children. The street children in Nairobi come from single parent families which are mostly headed by women. Another group are AIDS orphans. This study documents how street children in Nairobi follow survival strategies including (for boys) collecting garbage, and (for girls), prostitution. Gender is emphasized throughout the book. Although... As kinship relationships and support networks across family lines weaken with modernization, economic stressors take a great toll on children. Keny... |
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376,07 |
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The Epic Plan: End Poverty in Civilization
ISBN: 9781403346124 / Angielski / Twarda / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The EPIC PLAN reveals a common sense solution to end poverty, wars and terrorism. It is based upon ideals of influential and successful leaders of the past. Help solve the world problem. Read this book. This is vital to all!
The EPIC PLAN reveals a common sense solution to end poverty, wars and terrorism. It is based upon ideals of influential and successful leaders of the...
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91,32 |
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Poverty and Exclusion in a Global World
ISBN: 9781403906199 / Angielski / Twarda / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume looks at the three dimensions of social exclusion: economic, social and political. Exclusion is analyzed as a new approach to such issues as the 'new' poverty, precariousness, long-term unemployment, social polarization and lack of citizenship. The book shows how relational and distributional aspects of poverty are interlinked.
This volume looks at the three dimensions of social exclusion: economic, social and political. Exclusion is analyzed as a new approach to such issues ...
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401,58 |
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Neighbourhoods of Poverty: Urban Social Exclusion and Integration in Europe
ISBN: 9781403993168 / Angielski / Twarda / 259 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Neighbourhoods of Poverty is concerned with the spatial dimension of urban social exclusion and integration. It draws on research from twenty-two neighbourhoods in eleven European cities: Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Brussels, Antwerp, London, Birmingham, Berlin, Hamburg, Milan, Naples and Paris and addresses two questions: - How do different neighbourhoods have an impact upon the opportunities and perspectives of poor individuals and households? - Are these neighbourhood impacts conditioned by national and welfare state contexts, by the wider metropolitan structures and by specific neighbourhood...
Neighbourhoods of Poverty is concerned with the spatial dimension of urban social exclusion and integration. It draws on research from twenty-two neig...
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200,77 |
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Poverty, AIDS and Hunger: Breaking the Poverty Trap in Malawi
ISBN: 9781403998330 / Angielski / Twarda / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Using the experiences of Malawi, one of the poorest countries on the African continent, to illustrate both the challenges that poverty creates, and the opportunities for change that exist. Poverty, AIDS and Hunger outlines an easily-replicable model, at modest cost, that could lift people quickly out of poverty, with sustainable benefits.
Using the experiences of Malawi, one of the poorest countries on the African continent, to illustrate both the challenges that poverty creates, and th...
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200,77 |
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Weaving Common Hope: A Future for Guatemalan Children
ISBN: 9781410731746 / Angielski / Miękka / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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51,79 |
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Handbook of Families & Poverty
ISBN: 9781412950428 / Angielski / Twarda / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Edited by two well-known family researchers at Brigham Young University, this meticulously researched compendium is a trove of useful information on areas where poverty and family issues intersect. This volume should be the first stop for anyone beginning research on poverty and families."
--CHOICE The Handbook of Families and Poverty covers hotly debated issues associated with public policy and funded research as they relate to families and poverty. Contributors, bringing multiple perspectives to bear, aim to show alternatives to welfare in... "Edited by two well-known family researchers at Brigham Young University, this meticulously researched compendium is a trove of useful information ...
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748,32 |
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Third World Poverty
ISBN: 9781413410907 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Though born an expatriate U.S. citizen in Nicaragua, the author's hometown has an English name, Bluefields, and was the former capital of the onetime British protectorate called Mosquitia. Added to this exotic background, during his boyhood in the 1930's Nicaragua was under U.S. Marine Occupation and the country's entire Caribbean region was, in effect, an Anglo-American enclave, which led to his latino friends nicknaming him a gringo hechizo, or "Counterfeit Gringo." This dual heritage, with its intimate experiencing of both American and Third World lifestyles, is what makes his comments on...
Though born an expatriate U.S. citizen in Nicaragua, the author's hometown has an English name, Bluefields, and was the former capital of the onetime ...
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83,58 |
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Third World Poverty
ISBN: 9781413410914 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Though born an expatriate U.S. citizen in Nicaragua, the author's hometown has an English name, Bluefields, and was the former capital of the onetime British protectorate called Mosquitia. Added to this exotic background, during his boyhood in the 1930's Nicaragua was under U.S. Marine Occupation and the country's entire Caribbean region was, in effect, an Anglo-American enclave, which led to his latino friends nicknaming him a gringo hechizo, or "Counterfeit Gringo." This dual heritage, with its intimate experiencing of both American and Third World lifestyles, is what makes his comments on...
Though born an expatriate U.S. citizen in Nicaragua, the author's hometown has an English name, Bluefields, and was the former capital of the onetime ...
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127,67 |
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Hunger in History: Food Shortage, Proverty, and Deprivation
ISBN: 9781557866288 / Angielski / Miękka / 444 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hunger in History represents the culmination of two years' work in human hunger by the members of the World Hunger Program at Brown University. In bringing together original and specially commissioned articles by some of the world's leading authorities on this topic, Amartya Sen, David Herlihy, Peter Garnsey, among others, the editors have succeeded in providing a strong cross-disciplinary base for the study of hunger. The volume, which includes 16 papers, looks at the problem of hunger from the beginnings of human society, defining and redefining the problem in ancient society and again in...
Hunger in History represents the culmination of two years' work in human hunger by the members of the World Hunger Program at Brown University. In bri...
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197,95 |
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China's Economic Dilemmas in the 1990s: The Problem of Reforms, Modernisation and Interdependence
ISBN: 9781563241581 / Angielski / Twarda / 950 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Most students of contemporary China are familiar with the Joint Economic Committee studies on China, which have appeared periodically since 1967. This is the most recent study in the series (released in April, 1991).
Most students of contemporary China are familiar with the Joint Economic Committee studies on China, which have appeared periodically since 1967. This...
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700,05 |
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Calcutta Poor: Inquiry Into the Intractability of Poverty
ISBN: 9781563249815 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work shows how the poor survive in Calcutta where over half the population live in slums. It argues that since the major cities in India are half slum already, policies should accept that the poor are a part of the urban population and help them in finding the solution to improve their lives.
This work shows how the poor survive in Calcutta where over half the population live in slums. It argues that since the major cities in India are half...
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178,58 |
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Homeless in Paradise: A Map of the Terrain
ISBN: 9781566391306 / Angielski / Miękka / 265 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Paradise is Santa Barbara, California, where in the early 1980s the beautiful, affluent city faced the problem of what to do with the 'street people'. Explaining the author's work with the Homeless People's Project in Santa Barbara, this title portrays agents attempting to preserve networks and obtain resources essential for managing homelessness.
Paradise is Santa Barbara, California, where in the early 1980s the beautiful, affluent city faced the problem of what to do with the 'street people'....
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130,31 |
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Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass
ISBN: 9781566635059 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Here is a searing account-probably the best yet published-of life in the underclass and why it persists as it does. Theodore Dalrymple, a British psychiatrist who treats the poor in a slum hospital and a prison in England, has seemingly seen it all. Yet in listening to and observing his patients, he is continually astonished by the latest twist of depravity that exceeds even his own considerable experience. Dalrymple's key insight in Life at the Bottom is that long-term poverty is caused not by economics but by a dysfunctional set of values, one that is continually reinforced by an elite...
Here is a searing account-probably the best yet published-of life in the underclass and why it persists as it does. Theodore Dalrymple, a British psyc...
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81,18 |
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Will the Boat Sink the Water?: The Life of China's Peasants
ISBN: 9781586484415 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Chinese Economic miracle is happening despite, not because of, China's 900 million peasants. They are missing from the portraits of booming Shanghai, or Beijing. Many of China's underclass live under a feudalistic system unchanged since the fifteenth century. Wu Chuntao and Chen Guidi undertook a three-year survey of what had happened to the peasants in one of the poorest provinces, Anhui, asking the question: have the peasants been betrayed by the revolution undertaken in their name by Mao and his successors? The result is a brilliant narrative of life among the poor, a vivid portrait of...
The Chinese Economic miracle is happening despite, not because of, China's 900 million peasants. They are missing from the portraits of booming Shangh...
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75,98 |
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Crossing the Line: Taking Steps to End Homelessness
ISBN: 9781591138365 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nilan challenges ordinary people to help alleviate the suffering caused by homelessness. Poignant and hard-hitting, these stories humanize tough issues with greater understanding and response.
Nilan challenges ordinary people to help alleviate the suffering caused by homelessness. Poignant and hard-hitting, these stories humanize tough issue...
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80,67 |
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Ordinary Poverty: A Little Food and Cold Storage
ISBN: 9781592130146 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At St. John's Bread and Life, a soup kitchen in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, more than a thousand people line up for breakfast and lunch five days a week. During the twelve-year era of welfare reform, William DiFazio observed the daily lives of poor people at St. John's and throughout New York City. In this trenchant and groundbreaking work, DiFazio presents the results of welfare reform?from ending entitlements to diminished welfare benefits?through the eyes and voices of those who were most directly affected by it. Ordinary Poverty concludes with a program to guarantee...
At St. John's Bread and Life, a soup kitchen in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, more than a thousand people line up for breakfast and lunc...
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308,98 |
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Ordinary Poverty: A Little Food and Cold Storage
ISBN: 9781592134588 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At St John's Bread and Life, a soup kitchen in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, over a thousand people line up for food five days a week. This title takes the reader through the years before and after welfare reform to show how poverty has become "ordinary," a fact of life to millions of Americans and to the thousands of social workers.
At St John's Bread and Life, a soup kitchen in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, over a thousand people line up for food five days a week. T...
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101,34 |
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Social Solutions to Poverty: America's Struggle to Build a Just Society
ISBN: 9781594512100 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The voices of famous and lesser known figures in America's quest to reduce poverty are collected for the first time in this comprehensive historical anthology. The book traces the most important ideas and contributions of citizens, activists, labour leaders, scholars, politicians, and governmental agencies to ensure American citizens the basics of food, housing, employment, education, and health care. The book follows the idea of poverty reduction from Thomas Paine's agrarian justice to Josiah Quincy's proposal for the construction of poorhouses; from the Freedmen's Bureau to Sitting Bull's...
The voices of famous and lesser known figures in America's quest to reduce poverty are collected for the first time in this comprehensive historical a...
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1062,14 |
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