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Hobos to Street People: Artists' Responses to Homelessness from the New Deal to the Present
ISBN: 9780915117208 / Angielski / Miękka / 84 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hobos to Street People: Artists Responses to Homelessness From the New Deal to the Present offers a comparison of the culture and politics of homelessness as seen through artwork since the Great Depression. The book is based on the touring exhibition of the same name that first opened in early 2009-the time of the greatest economic downturn since the 1929 Stock Market Crash. As the numbers of people living in poverty continues to swell, this book looks to the past for lessons for today. A wide range of artists have brought attention to the issue, including historical figures such as Rockwell...
Hobos to Street People: Artists Responses to Homelessness From the New Deal to the Present offers a comparison of the culture and politics of homeless...
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Pauperism and Poor Laws
ISBN: 9781108037006 / Angielski / Miękka / 442 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Robert Pashley (1805 59), lawyer, economist, traveller, and fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, is famous for his travel memoirs as well as his legal achievements. First published in 1852, his history of pauperism and the poor laws in England analyses the history of poverty and the various attempts at reform, including legislation in the reign of Elizabeth I, the statute of Charles II for the Removal of the Poor, and the pauper legislation of 1834. In the final chapters, Pashley asserts the necessity for a total repeal of the existing legislation, including the Poor Law Amendment Act of...
Robert Pashley (1805 59), lawyer, economist, traveller, and fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, is famous for his travel memoirs as well as his lega...
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Ask Me Why I Hurt: The Kids Nobody Wants and the Doctor Who Heals Them
ISBN: 9780307719010 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The unforgettable inspiring memoir of one extraordinary doctor who is saving lives in a most unconventional way. Ask Me Why I Hurt is the touching and revealing first-person account of the remarkable work of Dr. Randy Christensen. Trained as a pediatrician, he works not in a typical hospital setting but, rather, in a 38-foot Winnebago that has been refitted as a doctor s office on wheels. His patients are the city s homeless adolescents and children.
In the shadow ofan affluent American city, Dr. Christensen has dedicated his life to caring for society's throwaway kids the... The unforgettable inspiring memoir of one extraordinary doctor who is saving lives in a most unconventional way. Ask Me Why I Hurt is the touch...
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Moving the Rock: Poverty and Faith in a Black Storefront Church
ISBN: 9780759113206 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Moving the Rock portrays several generations of African American women whose families migrated from the South to the Pacific Northwest in the 1940s and 1950s. As members of a small storefront church in central Seattle, these women--grandmothers, mothers, daughters--lean on their faith and church to face the challenges of poverty, racism, ignorance, and health. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, it is painfully obvious that many of us know little about what it is like to be poor and Black in the United States. These powerful, profound stories bring this group of women and their problems, and...
Moving the Rock portrays several generations of African American women whose families migrated from the South to the Pacific Northwest in the 1940s an...
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The Economics of Neighborly Love: Investing in Your Community's Compassion and Capacity
ISBN: 9780830843923 / Angielski / Miękka / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Everybody's Problem: The War on Poverty in Eastern North Carolina
ISBN: 9780813054971 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Offers a new interpretation of the war on poverty by demonstrating the centrality of moderate local leadership (both white and black) in launching and operating antipoverty programs."--Marisa Chappell, author of The War on Welfare: Family, Poverty, and Politics in Modern America "Hawkins has done a remarkable job of mining the sources and reconstructing the reality of what was going on in eastern North Carolina."--Frank Stricker, author of Why America Lost the War on Poverty--And How to Win It While many scholars have argued that confrontation and protest were the most effective ways for the...
"Offers a new interpretation of the war on poverty by demonstrating the centrality of moderate local leadership (both white and black) in launching an...
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Social Justice, Poverty and Race : Normative and Empirical Points of View
ISBN: 9789042033948 / Angielski / Miękka / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A clear understanding of social justice requires complex rather than simple answers. It requires comfort with ambiguity rather than absolute answers. This is counter to viewing right versus wrong, just vs. unjust, or good vs. evil as dichotomies. This book provides many examples of where and how to begin to view these as continuums rather than dichotomies.
A clear understanding of social justice requires complex rather than simple answers. It requires comfort with ambiguity rather than absolute answers. ...
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The Migration Experience in Africa
ISBN: 9789171063663 / Angielski / Miękka / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this book different authors investigates the range of the migration experience in Africa. Because of the variety and complexity of the reasons which surround and underpin why African populations are so mobile, this volume adopts an eclectic approach which illustrates the diversity of theoretical positions, as well as methodological and analytical trends. Examples of the great breadth and richness of empirical insights into human migrations in the contemporary African context are also given.
In this book different authors investigates the range of the migration experience in Africa. Because of the variety and complexity of the reasons whic...
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Make Poverty Business : Increase Profits and Reduce Risks by Engaging with the Poor
ISBN: 9781874719960 / Angielski / Twarda / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Poor people in developing countries could make excellent suppliers, employees and customers but are often ignored by major businesses. This omission leads to increased risk, higher costs and lower sales. Meanwhile, businesses are asked by governments and poverty activists to do more for economic development, but their exhortations are rarely based on a proper business case. Make Poverty Business bridges the gap by constructing a rigorous profit-making argument for multinational corporations to do more business with the poor. It takes economic development out of the corporate social...
Poor people in developing countries could make excellent suppliers, employees and customers but are often ignored by major businesses. This omission l...
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Demanding the Land: Urban Popular Movements in Peru and Ecuador, 1990-2005
ISBN: 9780271037080 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the latter half of the twentieth century, millions of impoverished people all over Latin America participated in illegal seizures of urban land. As many cities became saturated with squatter settlements by the 1980s, it was expected that such invasions would wane. But the increased economic vulnerability and expansion of informal labor activity brought about by neoliberal government policies spurred yet more invasions. Their goals remained the same: reliable electricity, potable water, sewer drainage, and legal title to illegally acquired land. But changes in the economic and political... In the latter half of the twentieth century, millions of impoverished people all over Latin America participated in illegal seizures of urban land.... |
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Getting Better: Why Global Development Is Succeeding--And How We Can Improve the World Even More
ISBN: 9780465031030 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As the income gap between developed and developing nations grows, so grows the cacophony of voices claiming that the quest to find a simple recipe for economic growth has failed. Getting Better, in sharp contrast, reports the good news about global progress. Economist Charles Kenny argues against development naysayers by pointing to the evidence of widespread improvements in health, education, peace, liberty--and even happiness.
Kenny shows how the spread of cheap technologies, such as vaccines and bed nets, and ideas, such as political rights, has transformed the world. He also... As the income gap between developed and developing nations grows, so grows the cacophony of voices claiming that the quest to find a simple recipe for...
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The Haves and the Have-Nots: A Brief and Idiosyncratic History of Global Inequality
ISBN: 9780465031412 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Who is the richest person in the world, ever? Does where you were born affect how much money you'll earn over a lifetime? How would we know? Why--beyond the idle curiosity--do these questions even matter? In The Haves and the Have-Nots, Branko Milanovic, one of the world's leading experts on wealth, poverty, and the gap that separates them, explains these and other mysteries of how wealth is unevenly spread throughout our world, now and through time. Milanovic uses history, literature and stories straight out of today's newspapers, to discuss one of the major divisions in our social...
Who is the richest person in the world, ever? Does where you were born affect how much money you'll earn over a lifetime? How would we know? Why--beyo...
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Braving the Street: The Anthropology of Homelessness
ISBN: 9781571810960 / Angielski / Twarda / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ""This slim, useful book ... is suitable for students ... The fairly tight North American focus allows for great accuracy and detail, and the Canadian material is especially interesting, because Canadian social policy is less well known than that of the United States, and seems far more progressive on homelessness."" - The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
"" The authors] present key themes from the available literature in a way that affords policy makers and other practitioners access to what it is that anthropology has to offer in thinking about and responding to... ""This slim, useful book ... is suitable for students ... The fairly tight North American focus allows for great accuracy and detail, and the Canadian...
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Housing the Homeless
ISBN: 9781412847681 / Angielski / Miękka / 477 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Homelessness has become a lasting issue of vital social concern. As the number of the homeless has grown, the complexity of the issue has become increasingly clear to researchers and private and public service providers. The plight of the homeless raises many ethical, anthropological, political, sociological, and public health questions. The most serious and perplexing of these questions is what steps private, charitable, and public organizations can take to alleviate and eventually solve the problem. The concept of homelessness is difficult to define and measure. Generally, persons are...
Homelessness has become a lasting issue of vital social concern. As the number of the homeless has grown, the complexity of the issue has become incre...
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Adaptation, Poverty and Development: The Dynamics of Subjective Well-Being
ISBN: 9780230360563 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first book to examine in detail the ways in which people adapt their understanding and behaviors towards poverty as a direct result to their experiences of poverty in developing countries, including world-leading academics and case studies from China, India, Ethiopia and South Africa.
The first book to examine in detail the ways in which people adapt their understanding and behaviors towards poverty as a direct result to their exper...
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A Shangri-La Economy: Exploring Buddhist Bhutan
ISBN: 9781612330976 / Angielski / Miękka / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Analysing the status of agrarian justice and its relation with the national slogan of "gross national happiness"(GNH) in Bhutan, this monograph deals with food insecurity, resource asymmetry and growth in the political economy perspective. In this tiny Himalayan nation under absolute democratic monarchy, there are huge inequities in the ethos of general income and consumption poverty and a fundamental transformation in the political economy of this south Asian nation is in urgent need. Readers of this monograph would be mainly from Nepal, Bhutan and India, though those who have interest in...
Analysing the status of agrarian justice and its relation with the national slogan of "gross national happiness"(GNH) in Bhutan, this monograph deals ...
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La Bestia, la tragedia de migrantes centroamericanos en México
ISBN: 9781936885084 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Journalist, filmmaker, and author Ultreras makes use of the profuse material he produced during and after the shooting of his documentary "The Beast" and transfers it to a deeper dimension, narrating the adventures, the hazards, and the deeds lived by Central American migrants who travel through one of the most risky and violent routes in the world as they try to make it to the United States.
Journalist, filmmaker, and author Ultreras makes use of the profuse material he produced during and after the shooting of his documentary "The Beast" ...
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The Chronically Poor in Rural Bangladesh: Livelihood Constraints and Capabilities
ISBN: 9780415543156 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text examines rural poverty in Bangladesh. Based on detailed empirical research and surveys of households, it provides an accurate portrait of the everyday situations faced by the rural poor in Bangladesh today, covering all aspects of household behaviour.
This text examines rural poverty in Bangladesh. Based on detailed empirical research and surveys of households, it provides an accurate portrait of th...
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Integrating Human Rights Into Development: Donor Approaches, Experiences, and Challenges
ISBN: 9780821396216 / Angielski / Miękka / 269 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The past two decades have witnessed a convergence between human rights and development, particularly at the level of international political statements and policy commitments. This phenomenon is captured in milestones such as the 2007 OECD DAC Action Oriented Policy Paper on Human Rights and Development ("AOPP"), the 2010 UN World Summit Outcome Document, the commitments of the 2005 and 2011 High-Level For an Aid Effectiveness in Accra and Busan. The connections between rights violations, poverty, exclusion, environmental degradation, vulnerability and conflict continue to be explored and...
The past two decades have witnessed a convergence between human rights and development, particularly at the level of international political statement...
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141,98 |
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Almost Home: Helping Kids Move from Homelessness to Hope
ISBN: 9781118230473 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Inside the lives of homeless teens--moving stories of pain and hope from Covenant House
Almost Home tells the stories of six remarkable young people from across the United States and Canada as they confront life alone on the streets. Each eventually finds his or her way to Covenant House, the largest charity serving homeless and runaway youth in North America. From the son of a crack addict who fights his own descent into drug addiction to a teen mother reaching for a new life, their stories veer between devastating and inspiring as they each struggle to find a place called... Inside the lives of homeless teens--moving stories of pain and hope from Covenant House
Almost Home tells the stories of six remarkabl... |
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