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Poverty and Exclusion in North and South: Essays on Social Policy and Global Poverty Reduction
ISBN: 9781138811232 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over the past decade there has been an increase in poverty in the industrialised countries of the 'North', while many of the developing countries in the 'South' have experienced some improvement. This collection argues that there are a number of likenesses between the predicaments of the North and South.
Over the past decade there has been an increase in poverty in the industrialised countries of the 'North', while many of the developing countries in t...
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The Road Out: A Teacher's Odyssey in Poor America
ISBN: 9780520283916 / Angielski / Miękka / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Can one teacher truly make a difference in her students lives when everything is working against them? Can a love for literature and learning save the most vulnerable of youth from a life of poverty? The Road Out is a gripping account of one teacher s journey of hope and discovery with her studentsgirls growing up poor in a neighborhood that was once home to white Appalachian workers, and is now a ghetto. Deborah Hicks, set out to give one group of girls something she never had: a first-rate education, and a chance to live their dreams. A contemporary tragedy is brought to life as she...
Can one teacher truly make a difference in her students lives when everything is working against them? Can a love for literature and learning save the...
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128,89 |
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Shaped by Fire: My Escape from Poverty's Pit
ISBN: 9780990379607 / Angielski / Miękka / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Growing up in East St. Louis, Illinois isnt easy. For a long time, it has been one of Americas poorest and deadliest cities. Many residents turn to drugs, crime, and other vices. Most struggle to make ends meet, and relatively few become successful. Despite overwhelming odds, Courtney R. Logan escaped, becoming a prominent litigation attorney, professor, and family man.
In these chilling and transformational pages, Logan describes his humble beginnings, setbacks, and incredible journey. Shaped by Fire will inspire others to hold onto hope and become something greater than just another... Growing up in East St. Louis, Illinois isnt easy. For a long time, it has been one of Americas poorest and deadliest cities. Many residents turn to dr...
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86,28 |
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New Strategies for Social Innovation: Market-Based Approaches for Assisting the Poor
ISBN: 9780231159227 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Market-based development strategies designed to help the world's poor receive significant support from advocates, academics, governments, and the media, yet frequently the perceived success of these programs rests on carefully selected examples and one-sided, enthusiastic accounts. In practice, these approaches are often poorly defined and executed, with little balanced, comparative analysis of their true strengths and weaknesses. This book is the first to assess emerging market-based social change approaches comparatively, focusing specifically on social entrepreneurship, corporate...
Market-based development strategies designed to help the world's poor receive significant support from advocates, academics, governments, and the medi...
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707,64 |
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New Strategies for Social Innovation: Market-Based Approaches for Assisting the Poor
ISBN: 9780231159234 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Market-based development strategies designed to help the world's poor receive significant support from advocates, academics, governments, and the media, yet frequently the perceived success of these programs rests on carefully selected examples and one-sided, enthusiastic accounts. In practice, these approaches are often poorly defined and executed, with little balanced, comparative analysis of their true strengths and weaknesses. This book is the first to assess emerging market-based social change approaches comparatively, focusing specifically on social entrepreneurship, corporate...
Market-based development strategies designed to help the world's poor receive significant support from advocates, academics, governments, and the medi...
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180,44 |
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First World Hunger Revisited: Food Charity or the Right to Food?
ISBN: 9781137298720 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First World Hunger Revisited exposes the hidden functions and limits of food charity and corporately sponsored food banks as primary responses to widespread domestic hunger and income poverty in twelve rich 'food-secure' societies and emerging economies: Australia, Brazil, Canada, Estonia, Finland, Hong Kong, New Zealand, South Africa, Spain, Turkey, the UK and the USA. Who wins, who loses when governments violate their Right to Food obligations under international law to ensure the food security of their vulnerable populations? It challenges the effectiveness of food aid and argues for...
First World Hunger Revisited exposes the hidden functions and limits of food charity and corporately sponsored food banks as primary responses to wide...
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201,24 |
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Worlds Apart: Poverty and Politics in Rural America
ISBN: 9780300196597 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1999, Worlds Apart examined the nature of poverty through the stories of real people in three remote rural areas of the United States: New England, Appalachia, and the Mississippi Delta. In this new edition, Duncan returns to her original research, interviewing some of the same people as well as some new key informants. Duncan provides powerful new insights into the dynamics of poverty, politics, and community change.
"What stories Mil Duncan has to tell In this new edition of her classic Worlds Apart, she offers sage advice about how to begin to... First published in 1999, Worlds Apart examined the nature of poverty through the stories of real people in three remote rural areas of the Unit...
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Cinephemera: Archives, Ephemeral Cinema, and New Screen Histories in Canada
ISBN: 9780773544468 / Angielski / Twarda / 414 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What do digital platforms mean for cinema studies in Canada? In an era when digital media are proliferating and thousands upon thousands of clips are available online, it seems counter-intuitive to say that audio-visual history is quickly disappearing. But the two processes are actually happening in tandem. Adopting a media-archaeological approach to the history of cinema, contributors to Cinephemera cover a wide range of pressing issues relating to Canadian cinema's ephemerality, including neglected or overlooked histories, the work of found footage filmmakers, questions about access and...
What do digital platforms mean for cinema studies in Canada? In an era when digital media are proliferating and thousands upon thousands of clips are ...
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489,77 |
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Urban Risk Communication in India: A Study on Risk Construction and Governance in Ahmedabad
ISBN: 9783643102546 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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164,98 |
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Universal Health Coverage for Inclusive and Sustainable Development: A Synthesis of 11 Country Case Studies
ISBN: 9781464802973 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The goals of universal health coverage (UHC) are to ensure that all people can access quality health services, to safeguard all people from public health risks, and to protect all people from impoverishment due to illness, whether from out-of-pocket payments for health care or loss of income when a household member falls sick. Countries as diverse as Brazil, France, Japan, Thailand, and Turkey have shown how UHC can serve as vital mechanisms for improving the health and welfare of their citizens, and lay the foundation for economic growth and competitiveness grounded in the principles of...
The goals of universal health coverage (UHC) are to ensure that all people can access quality health services, to safeguard all people from public hea...
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102,81 |
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Trade Policy and Food Security: Improving Access to Food in Developing Countries in the Wake of High World Prices
ISBN: 9781464803055 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on forecasts of global population growth, food security will remain an important economic development issue over the next several decades. In addition, real food prices have risen in recent years after decades of decline, bringing the issue of food security even further into the public spotlight. However, there is no global food shortage: the problem is one of moving food, often across borders, from surplus production areas to deficit ones at prices that low-income consumers in developing countries can afford. Trade can be an excellent buffer for domestic fluctuations in food supply....
Based on forecasts of global population growth, food security will remain an important economic development issue over the next several decades. In ad...
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Expanding Opportunities for the Next Generation: Early Childhood Development in the Middle East and North Africa
ISBN: 9781464803239 / Angielski / Miękka / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Early childhood is the most important stage of human development. In the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), there is little research and inadequate investment in this crucial stage of life. This book assesses the state of early childhood development (ECD) in MENA from before birth through age five, examining multiple dimensions of early development including health, nutrition, socio-emotional development, early learning, and early work. The book begins with a discussion of the importance of ECD as a critical foundation for later development, and also as a stage of life when inequality and...
Early childhood is the most important stage of human development. In the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), there is little research and inadequate ...
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Welfare, Modernity, and the Weimar State
ISBN: 9780691601021 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first comprehensive study of the turbulent relationship among state, society, and church in the making of the modern German welfare system during the Weimar Republic. Young-Sun Hong examines the competing conceptions of poverty, citizenship, family, and authority held by the state bureaucracy, socialists, bourgeois feminists, and the major religious and humanitarian welfare organizations. She shows how these conceptions reflected and generated bitter conflict in German society. And she argues that this conflict undermined parliamentary government within the welfare sector in a... This is the first comprehensive study of the turbulent relationship among state, society, and church in the making of the modern German welfare sys... |
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First World Hunger Revisited: Food Charity or the Right to Food?
ISBN: 9781137298713 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Is food aid the way of the future? What are the prospects for integrated public policies informed by the right to food? First World Hunger Revisited investigates the rise of food charity and corporately sponsored food banks as effective and sustainable responses to increasing hunger and food poverty in twelve rich 'food-secure' societies.
Is food aid the way of the future? What are the prospects for integrated public policies informed by the right to food? First World Hunger Revisited i...
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201,24 |
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The Capability Approach: From Theory to Practice
ISBN: 9781137001443 / Angielski / Twarda / 273 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How can human capabilities be articulated and promoted in practice? How can the challenges encountered in its application be addressed? This volume answers these research questions through nine country case studies from the Global North and the Global South.
How can human capabilities be articulated and promoted in practice? How can the challenges encountered in its application be addressed? This volume an...
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201,24 |
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Penury into Plenty: Dearth and the Making of Knowledge in Early Modern England
ISBN: 9781138811164 / Angielski / Twarda / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Penury into Plenty: Dearth and the Making of Knowledge in Early Modern England is an original examination of cultural meanings of dearth and famine in England at the turn of the sixteenth century. It focuses on the socio-economic and ecological crises of the 1590s, investigating the effects of widespread fears of famine on mundane activities and knowledge making by analyzing the remedial measures undertaken by the early modern English to illustrate their commitment to resource management. The activities, theories, and publications of the prolific 'dearth scientist' Sir Hugh Platt... Penury into Plenty: Dearth and the Making of Knowledge in Early Modern England is an original examination of cultural meanings of dearth a... |
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Poverty and Poor Law Reform in Nineteenth-Century Britain, 1834-1914: From Chadwick to Booth
ISBN: 9781138836600 / Angielski / Twarda / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 is one of the most important pieces of social legislation ever enacted. Its principles and the workhouse system dominated attitudes to welfare provision for the next 80 years. This new Seminar Study explores the changing ideas to poverty over this period and assesses current debates on Victorian attitudes to the poor. David Englander reviews the old system of poor relief; he considers how the New Poor Law was enacted and received and looks at how it worked in practice. The chapter on the Scottish experience will be particularly welcomed, as will Dr... The Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 is one of the most important pieces of social legislation ever enacted. Its principles and the workhouse system ... |
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759,15 |
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Forgotten People: Poverty, Risk and Social Security in Indonesia: The Case of the Madurese
ISBN: 9789004282506 / Angielski / Twarda / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Forgotten People deals with people living at the fringes of the Indonesian society. It describes and analyses their livelihoods and styles of making a living from an insider perspective. While Indonesia has experienced steady economic growth for more than a decade, the livelihoods and lifestyles of poor people and migrants confronted with poverty and insecurity have received less attention. This book describes and analyses diversity in livelihood strategies, risk-taking and local forms of social security (social welfare) of people living below or close to the Indonesian poverty line....
Forgotten People deals with people living at the fringes of the Indonesian society. It describes and analyses their livelihoods and styles of m...
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565,16 |
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London Lives
ISBN: 9781107639942 / Angielski / Miękka / 475 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. London Lives is a fascinating new study which exposes, for the first time, the lesser-known experiences of eighteenth-century thieves, paupers, prostitutes and highwaymen. It charts the experiences of hundreds of thousands of Londoners who found themselves submerged in poverty or prosecuted for crime, and surveys their responses to illustrate the extent to which plebeian Londoners influenced the pace and direction of social policy. Calling upon a new body of evidence, the book illuminates the lives of prison escapees, expert manipulators of the poor relief system, celebrity highwaymen, lone...
London Lives is a fascinating new study which exposes, for the first time, the lesser-known experiences of eighteenth-century thieves, paupers, prosti...
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192,60 |
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Global Gentrifications: Uneven Development and Displacement
ISBN: 9781447313489 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Under contemporary capitalism the extraction of value from the built environment has escalated, a phenomenon working in tandem with other urban processes to lay the foundations for the exploitative processes of gentrification worldwide. Global Gentrifications critically assesses and tests the meaning and significance of gentrification in places outside the usual suspects of the Global North. Informed by a rich array of case studies from cities in Asia, Latin America, Africa, Southern Europe, and beyond, the book illuminates both the geographical generalities and specificities...
Under contemporary capitalism the extraction of value from the built environment has escalated, a phenomenon working in tandem with other urban proces...
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164,92 |
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