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Global Poverty: Global governance and poor people in the Post-2015 Era
ISBN: 9781138826816 / Angielski / Twarda / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Around 1.4 billion people presently live in extreme poverty, and yet despite this vast scale, the issue of global poverty had a relatively low international profile until the end of the 20th century. In this important new work, Hulme charts the rise of global poverty as a priority global issue, and its subsequent marginalisation as old themes edged it aside (trade policy and peace-making in regions of geo-political importance) and new issues were added (terrorism, global climate change and access to natural resources). Key updates for the new edition:
Around 1.4 billion people presently live in extreme poverty, and yet despite this vast scale, the issue of global poverty had a relatively low inte... |
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857,10 |
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Global Poverty: Global Governance and Poor People in the Post-2015 Era
ISBN: 9781138826823 / Angielski / Miękka / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Around 1.4 billion people presently live in extreme poverty, and yet despite this vast scale, the issue of global poverty had a relatively low international profile until the end of the 20th century. In this important new work, Hulme charts the rise of global poverty as a priority global issue, and its subsequent marginalisation as old themes edged it aside (trade policy and peace-making in regions of geo-political importance) and new issues were added (terrorism, global climate change and access to natural resources). Key updates for the new edition:
Around 1.4 billion people presently live in extreme poverty, and yet despite this vast scale, the issue of global poverty had a relatively low inte... |
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244,84 |
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Global Gentrifications: Uneven Development and Displacement
ISBN: 9781447313472 / Angielski / Twarda / 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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489,77 |
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Diversity and the Processes of Marginalisation: A European Perspective
ISBN: 9781861770868 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This edited social work collection offers diverse perspectives on the broad theme of marginalization and social inclusion in Europe. Chapter contributions have been drawn from both established academics and students of social work and sociology presenting at the 2013 SocNet (Erasmus European Network in Social Work) international symposium. This collection forms a companion piece to the first SocNet edited volume Active Ageing? Perspectives from Europe on a vaunted topic, editors Maria Lusia Gomez Jimenez and Jonathan Parker."
This edited social work collection offers diverse perspectives on the broad theme of marginalization and social inclusion in Europe. Chapter contribut...
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181,27 |
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From Dependence to Dignity: How to Alleviate Poverty Through Church-Centered Microfinance
ISBN: 9780310518129 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The church of Jesus Christ finds itself at a very unique moment in history. The average Christian living in the "economically advanced countries" enjoys a level of prosperity that has been unimaginable for most of human history. At the same time, over 2.5 billion people in the Majority World (Africa, Asia, and Latin America) live on less than $2 per day, with many of these people being Christians. Ironically, it is amongst the "least of these" in the Global South that the global church is experiencing the most rapid growth. All of this raises profound challenges to the global church.... The church of Jesus Christ finds itself at a very unique moment in history. The average Christian living in the "economically advanced countries" e... |
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104,00 |
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London Lives
ISBN: 9781107025271 / Angielski / Twarda / 478 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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447,10 |
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Development as Freedom in a Digital Age
ISBN: 9781464804205 / Angielski / Miękka / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Under what conditions can new technologies enhance the well-being of poor communities? The study designs an alternative evaluation framework (AEF) that applies Amartya Sen's capability approach to the study of information and communications technologies (ICTs) in order to place people's well-being, rather than technology, at the center of the study. The AEF develops an impact chain that examines the mechanisms by which access to, and meaningful use of, ICTs can enhance people's "informational capabilities" and improve people's human and social capabilities. This approach thus uses people's...
Under what conditions can new technologies enhance the well-being of poor communities? The study designs an alternative evaluation framework (AEF) tha...
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186,11 |
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In Harm's Way: The Dynamics of Urban Violence
ISBN: 9780691164779 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Arquitecto Tucci, a neighborhood in Buenos Aires, is a place where crushing poverty and violent crime are everyday realities. Homicides--often involving young people--continue to skyrocket, and in the emergency room there, victims of shootings or knifings are an all-too-common sight. In Harm's Way takes a harrowing look at daily life in Arquitecto Tucci, examining the sources, uses, and forms of interpersonal violence among the urban poor at the very margins of Argentine society. Drawing on more than two years of immersive fieldwork, sociologist Javier Auyero and Maria Berti,... Arquitecto Tucci, a neighborhood in Buenos Aires, is a place where crushing poverty and violent crime are everyday realities. Homicides--often invo... |
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186,11 |
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Techniciens de l'Organisation Sociale: La Réorganisation de l'Assistance Catholique Privée À Montréal (1930-1974) Volume 29
ISBN: 9780773544826 / Francuski / Twarda / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Early in the Great Depression, English and French business leaders in Montreal presided over the reorganization and rationalization of Catholic charities in their communities with the blessing, but not the active participation, of the Church. Thus started a decades-long transition from religious charity to public welfare, from largely volunteer work to professional social work, from charity provided by alms to private assistance financed by centralized, large-scale campaigns. Focusing on the Federation des uvres de charite canadiennes-francaises and the Federation of Catholic Charities,...
Early in the Great Depression, English and French business leaders in Montreal presided over the reorganization and rationalization of Catholic charit...
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489,77 |
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Designing Fictions: Literature Confronts Advertising
ISBN: 9780773545359 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Advertising, long a controlling force in industrial society, has provoked an important body of imaginative work by English language writers. Michael Ross's Designing Fictions is the first study to investigate this symbiotic relationship on a broad scale. In view of the appreciable overlap between literary and promotional writing, Ross asks whether imaginative fiction has the latitude to critique advertising as an industry and as a literary form, and finds that intended critiques, time and again, turn out to be shot through with ambivalence. The texts considered include a wide range of books...
Advertising, long a controlling force in industrial society, has provoked an important body of imaginative work by English language writers. Michael R...
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Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger: Moving from Affluence to Generosity
ISBN: 9780718037048 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Do you want to make a true difference in the world? Dr. Ron Sider does. He has, since before he first published Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger in 1978. Despite a dramatic reduction in world hunger since then, 34,000 children still die daily of starvation and preventable disease, and 1.3 billion people, worldwide, remain in abject poverty. So, the professor of theology went back to re-examine the issues by twenty-first century standards. Finding that Conservatives blame morally reprehensible individual choices, and Liberals blame constrictive social and economic policy, Dr.... Do you want to make a true difference in the world? Dr. Ron Sider does. He has, since before he first published Rich Christians in an Age of Hu... |
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77,03 |
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Base of the Pyramid 3.0: Sustainable Development Through Innovation and Entrepreneurship
ISBN: 9781783532018 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The annual income of well over 4 billion people--approximately 60% of all humanity--is less than $1,500. The term Base of the Pyramid was first coined by Stuart L. Hart and C.K. Prahalad in 2002 and has become synonymous with both the method by which we can more effectively address poverty and the opportunity that exists in a multi-trillion dollar market. A whole new lexicon has emerged to describe this phenomenon, including new buzzwords and catch phrases like inclusive business, opportunities for the majority, sustainable livelihoods, pro-poor business, and social business and thousands of...
The annual income of well over 4 billion people--approximately 60% of all humanity--is less than $1,500. The term Base of the Pyramid was first coined...
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563,24 |
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Base of the Pyramid 3.0: Sustainable Development Through Innovation and Entrepreneurship
ISBN: 9781783532032 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The annual income of well over 4 billion people--approximately 60% of all humanity--is less than $1,500. The term Base of the Pyramid was first coined by Stuart L. Hart and C.K. Prahalad in 2002 and has become synonymous with both the method by which we can more effectively address poverty and the opportunity that exists in a multi-trillion dollar market. A whole new lexicon has emerged to describe this phenomenon, including new buzzwords and catch phrases like inclusive business, opportunities for the majority, sustainable livelihoods, pro-poor business, and social business and thousands of...
The annual income of well over 4 billion people--approximately 60% of all humanity--is less than $1,500. The term Base of the Pyramid was first coined...
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195,86 |
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The City in Urban Poverty
ISBN: 9781137367426 / Angielski / Twarda / 239 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The contributors respond to the absence of critical debate surrounding the ways in which spaces of the city do not merely contain, but also constitute, urban poverty. The volume explores how the spaces of the city actively produce and reproduce urban poverty.
The contributors respond to the absence of critical debate surrounding the ways in which spaces of the city do not merely contain, but also constitute...
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201,24 |
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Mi Rincóncito En El Cielo
ISBN: 9780761865483 / Angielski / Miękka / 92 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mi Rinconcito en el Cielo (My Little Corner of the Sky) tells the remarkable story of Alberto "Beto" Gonzales, who overcame a childhood of poverty, addiction, bigotry, and violence and went on to change the lives of thousands of children and adults as a mentor and gang prevention specialist. The book explores themes of family relationships, neighborhood segregation, the impacts of drug abuse and crime, and the racism and bigotry that children endure without the benefits of adult protectors. Beto's story is one of pain, recovery, and hope, and one that has the power to change lives.
Mi Rinconcito en el Cielo (My Little Corner of the Sky) tells the remarkable story of Alberto "Beto" Gonzales, who overcame a childhood of poverty, ad...
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Post-Orientalism: Knowledge & Power in a Time of Terror
ISBN: 9781412855808 / Angielski / Miękka / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Post-Orientalism is a sustained record of Hamid Dabashi's reflections over many years on the question of authority and power. Who gets to represent whom and by what authority? Dabashi's work picks up where Edward Said's Orientalism left off. Said traced the origin of the power of representation and the normative agency that it entails to the colonial hubris that carried a militant band of mercenary merchants, military officers, Christian missionaries, and European Orientalists around the globe. This hubris enabled them to write and represent the people they sought to... Post-Orientalism is a sustained record of Hamid Dabashi's reflections over many years on the question of authority and power. Who gets to ... |
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The Craft of Criminology: Selected Papers
ISBN: 9781412855860 / Angielski / Miękka / 382 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Travis Hirschi is one of the most cited criminologists of the twentieth century. His work has provoked controversy and heated debates about the causes of crime, proper research methods, and the most effective policies to prevent and control crime. Known as a spokesperson for social control theory, Hirschi always ties his ideas to the mode of investigation and the mode of investigation to substantive concerns. Theoretical contributions and research methodology have been twin driving forces throughout his career. This book contains representative selections of Hirshi's work over many... Travis Hirschi is one of the most cited criminologists of the twentieth century. His work has provoked controversy and heated debates about the cau... |
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252,57 |
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What the Three Main Parties Are Not Telling You: A Radical Way Out of Stagnation and Inequality
ISBN: 9781907720130 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The driving force behind this set of contributions on the general theme of a way out of endless austerity and ballooning inequality is the urgency of demonstrating that such a path is necessary, practical and affordable when all the political parties in the UK, and with few exceptions across the Eurozone too, are arguing that there is no alternative to continuing spending cuts into the indefinite future. This has now become the key issue in the Western world, the central canard of our times, and as evidence of secular stagnation grows ever wider, it is high time that this totemic error is...
The driving force behind this set of contributions on the general theme of a way out of endless austerity and ballooning inequality is the urgency of ...
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66,58 |
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Rosa Lee: A Generational Tale of Poverty and Survival in Urban America
ISBN: 9780465055883 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on a heart-rending and much discussed series in the Washington Post, this is the story of one woman and her family living in the projects in Washington, D.C. A transcendent piece of writing, it won the Pulitzer Prize and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award.For four years Leon Dash of the Washington Post followed the lives of Rosa Lee Cunningham, her children, and five of her grandchildren, in an effort to understand the persistence of poverty and pathology within America's black underclass. Rosa Lee's life story spans a half century of hardship in the slums and housing...
Based on a heart-rending and much discussed series in the Washington Post, this is the story of one woman and her family living in the project...
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113,37 |
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The Limits of Marriage: Why Getting Everyone Married Won't Solve All Our Problems
ISBN: 9781498512923 / Angielski / Twarda / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book documents and explains the remarkable decline in the American marriage rate that began about 1970. This decline has occurred in spite of the fact that married people are better off than unmarried people in many ways. Many other attempts to explain the "retreat from marriage" blame it on culture change involving a devaluation of marriage, and/or on ignorance of the benefits of marriage among the unmarried population. In turn, because unmarried adults and single-parent families are poorer than others, poverty and its associated problems are attributed to the failure to marry. The...
This book documents and explains the remarkable decline in the American marriage rate that began about 1970. This decline has occurred in spite of the...
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