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Enough: Why the World's Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty
ISBN: 9781586488185 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For more than thirty years, humankind has known how to grow enough food to end chronic hunger worldwide. Yet in Africa, more than 9 million people every year die of hunger, malnutrition, and related diseases every yearmost of them children. In this powerful investigative narrative, "Wall Street Journal" reporters Kilman & Thurow show exactly how, in the past few decades, Western policies conspired to keep Africa hungry and unable to feed itself. "Enough" is essential reading on a humanitarian issue of utmost urgency."
For more than thirty years, humankind has known how to grow enough food to end chronic hunger worldwide. Yet in Africa, more than 9 million people eve...
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Child Poverty, Evidence and Policy: Mainstreaming Children in International Development
ISBN: 9781847424464 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Recent studies suggest that current policy approaches to tackling childhood poverty have had limited efficacy. In the developing world, the problem is more challenging still, as highlighted by the large number of countries that are off track in meeting the child-related Millennium Development Goals. This timely book highlights the importance of integrating children's voices into the debate, bringing together a theoretical discussion of childhoods, children's experiences of poverty and development discourses, as well as empirical case studies from the developing world. Weaving together theory...
Recent studies suggest that current policy approaches to tackling childhood poverty have had limited efficacy. In the developing world, the problem is...
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Beyond the Primary Commodity Trap: Essays on Politics and Poverty in Africa
ISBN: 9781906704261 / Angielski / Miękka / 118 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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106,43 |
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Explaining Global Poverty : A Critical Realist Approach
ISBN: 9780415568692 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gruffydd Jones' approach brings a book of real relevance for inequality in the modern world and gives an important platform from which to move forwards in the fight against poverty.
Gruffydd Jones' approach brings a book of real relevance for inequality in the modern world and gives an important platform from which to move forward...
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222,96 |
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Where Have All the Homeless Gone?: The Making and Unmaking of a Crisis
ISBN: 9781845451011 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. " . . . provides a rare and well-documented view inside the world of under-housed men in New York City . . . It] is an interesting and convincing book." - H-Urban For a decade, from 1983 to 1993, homelessness was a major concern in the United States. In 19994, this public concern suddenly disappeared, without any significant reduction in the number of people without proper housing. By examining the making and unmaking of a homeless crisis, this book explores how public understandings of what constitutes a social crisis are shaped. Drawing on five years of ethnographic research in New York...
" . . . provides a rare and well-documented view inside the world of under-housed men in New York City . . . It] is an interesting and convincing boo...
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116,11 |
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Living in Poverty: Developmental Poetics of Cultural Realities (PB)
ISBN: 9781607523178 / Angielski / Miękka / 476 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A volume in Advances in Cultural Psychology Series Editor: Jaan Valsiner, Clark University This book covers the results of investigation of social realities and their public representation in Brazilian poor communities, with a particular emphasis on the use of cultural tools to survive and create psychological and social novelty under conditions of severe poverty. A relevant part of it brings together the multi-faceted evidence of a decade of research concentrated in two particular low-income areas in the city of Salvador da Bahia, Brazil. Other studies conducted in other Brazilian areas and...
A volume in Advances in Cultural Psychology Series Editor: Jaan Valsiner, Clark University This book covers the results of investigation of social rea...
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255,15 |
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How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York
ISBN: 9780674049321 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since 1959 The John Harvard Library has been instrumental in publishing essential American writings in authoritative editions. Jacob Riis's pioneering work of photojournalism takes its title from Rabelais's Pantagruel: "One half of the world knoweth not how the other half liveth; considering that no one has yet written of that Country." An anatomy of New York City's slums in the 1880s, it vividly brought home to its first readers through the powerful combination of text and images the squalid living conditions of "the other half," who might well have inhabited another country. The... Since 1959 The John Harvard Library has been instrumental in publishing essential American writings in authoritative editions. Jacob Riis's p... |
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Lost in Space: The Criminalization, Globalization and Urban Ecology of Homelessness
ISBN: 9781593322977 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Amster explores the historical and contemporary implications of homelessness as a social and spatial problem, drawing upon academic disciplines and policy concerns ranging from urban geography to legal advocacy.
Amster explores the historical and contemporary implications of homelessness as a social and spatial problem, drawing upon academic disciplines and po...
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Both Hands Tied: Welfare Reform and the Race to the Bottom in the Low-Wage Labor Market
ISBN: 9780226114064 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Both Hands Tied studies the working poor in the United States, focusing in particular on the relation between welfare and low-wage earnings among working mothers. Grounded in the experience of thirty-three women living in Milwaukee and Racine, Wisconsin, it tells the story of their struggle to balance child care and wage-earning in poorly paying and often state-funded jobs with inflexible schedules and the moments when these jobs failed them and they turned to the state for additional aid. Jane L. Collins and Victoria Mayer here examine the situations of these women in light... Both Hands Tied studies the working poor in the United States, focusing in particular on the relation between welfare and low-wage earnings ... |
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Perspectives in Poverty Alleviation
ISBN: 9783825894580 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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106,91 |
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Have Not: Genesis, Nature of Poverty and the Way Out
ISBN: 9781847485762 / Angielski / Miękka / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Have Not: Genesis, Nature of Poverty and the Way Out is rooted in economics, but it also draws on insights from sociological and historical studies of poverty. It constructs a coherent and absorbing narrative for lay readers. It eschews empirical support and emphasises simplicity of exposition. At the same time, it will appeal to specialists because of its focus on core ideas and breadth of coverage. The book is divided into two parts. Part one deals with the nature and evolution of poverty and its measurement. Part two covers different ways of coping with poverty. Although its central case...
Have Not: Genesis, Nature of Poverty and the Way Out is rooted in economics, but it also draws on insights from sociological and historical studies of...
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Free : Adventures on the margins of a wasteful society
ISBN: 9780091932732 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Work, shops, home, bed, work: for many, the daily grind can feel like a trap. But what would happen if one day you just jacked it all in to survive on next to nothing? Katharine Hibbert decided to find out if it was possible to live with no job, no rented flat, no shopping, no debit card and no travel pass.
Work, shops, home, bed, work: for many, the daily grind can feel like a trap. But what would happen if one day you just jacked it all in to survive on...
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Living on the Edge in Suburbia: From Welfare to Workfare
ISBN: 9780826516992 / Angielski / Twarda / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Westchester County, New York, is thought of as suburban and affluent, but welfare reform hit hard here, too. The radical 1996 legislation created a temporary assistance program for poor families with harsher provisions than the program it replaced. It mandates -workfare, - meaning that recipients must work as a condition of benefit receipt. But the work parents obtain in the so-called flexible labor market--jobs like home health care aide--are inflexible for them. One sick child can mean the loss of a job.
In contrast to accounts of inner-city poor families, these suburban parents'... Westchester County, New York, is thought of as suburban and affluent, but welfare reform hit hard here, too. The radical 1996 legislation created a te...
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Living on the Edge in Suburbia: From Welfare to Workfare
ISBN: 9780826517005 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Westchester County, New York, is thought of as suburban and affluent, but welfare reform hit hard here, too. The radical 1996 legislation created a temporary assistance program for poor families with harsher provisions than the program it replaced. It mandates -workfare, - meaning that recipients must work as a condition of benefit receipt. But the work parents obtain in the so-called flexible labor market--jobs like home health care aide--are inflexible for them. One sick child can mean the loss of a job.
In contrast to accounts of inner-city poor families, these suburban parents'... Westchester County, New York, is thought of as suburban and affluent, but welfare reform hit hard here, too. The radical 1996 legislation created a te...
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218,89 |
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The Invisible Poor: A Portrait of Rural Poverty in Argentina
ISBN: 9780821382073 / Angielski / Miękka / 135 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'The Invisible Poor' seeks to raise the profile of the rural poor in Argentina, promote dialogue on rural poverty issues, provide the best currently available information about rural poverty, and offer a basis for discussions on how to expand household survey data collection to rural areas. Most previous work has been based on case studies or one-time surveys in a few provinces and consequently has been of limited use for drawing conclusions about rural conditions overall in Argentina. Largely because of data limitations, profound gaps exist in the understanding of rural poverty in Argentina....
'The Invisible Poor' seeks to raise the profile of the rural poor in Argentina, promote dialogue on rural poverty issues, provide the best currently a...
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101,76 |
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Tunnel People
ISBN: 9781604860702 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Following the homeless Manhattanites who, in the mid-1990s, chose to start a new life in the tunnel systems of the city, this record tells the stories of a variety of tunnel dwellers from the perspective of an award-winning, European photojournalist wholived and worked with them for 5 months. Photographs and personal accounts detail the struggles and pleasuresincluding the government s eviction of the tunnel people and Amtrak s offering them alternative housingof Vietnam veterans, macrobiotic hippies, crack addicts, Cuban refugees, convicted killers, computer programmers, philosophical...
Following the homeless Manhattanites who, in the mid-1990s, chose to start a new life in the tunnel systems of the city, this record tells the stories...
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Hobos, Hustlers, and Backsliders: Homeless in San Francisco
ISBN: 9780816669677 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of the 2011 Robert Park Award for the Best Book in Community and Urban Sociology, American Sociological Association, 2011 Co-winner of the 2011 Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book in the Sociology of Culture, American Sociological Association, 2011 When homelessness reemerged in American cities during the 1980s at levels not seen since the Great Depression, it initially provoked shock and outrage. Within a few years, however, what had been perceived as a national crisis came to be seen as a nuisance, with early sympathies for the plight of the homeless giving way to...Winner of the 2011 Robert Park Award for the Best Book in Community and Urban Sociology, American Sociological Association, 2011 Co-winner... |
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Hobos, Hustlers, and Backsliders : Homeless in San Francisco
ISBN: 9780816648696 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of the 2011 Robert Park Award for the Best Book in Community and Urban Sociology, American Sociological Association, 2011 Co-winner of the 2011 Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book in the Sociology of Culture, American Sociological Association, 2011 When homelessness reemerged in American cities during the 1980s at levels not seen since the Great Depression, it initially provoked shock and outrage. Within a few years, however, what had been perceived as a national crisis came to be seen as a nuisance, with early sympathies for the plight of the homeless giving way to...Winner of the 2011 Robert Park Award for the Best Book in Community and Urban Sociology, American Sociological Association, 2011 Co-winner... |
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Separate Societies: Poverty and Inequality in U.S. Cities
ISBN: 9781439902912 / Angielski / Twarda / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. OC Economic and political forces no longer combat povertyOCothey generate poverty exclaim William Goldsmith and Edward Blakely in their report on the plight of American's urban poor. In this revised and updated edition of their 1992 book "Separate Societies," " "the authors present a compelling examination of the damaging divisions that isolate poor city minority residents from the middle-class suburban majority. They pay special attention to how the needs of the permanently poor have been unmet through the alternating years of promises and neglect, and propose a progressive turn away... OC Economic and political forces no longer combat povertyOCothey generate poverty exclaim William Goldsmith and Edward Blakely in their report on ... |
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Separate Societies: Poverty and Inequality in U.S. Cities
ISBN: 9781439902929 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examines the damaging divisions that isolate poor city minority residents from the middle-class suburban majority. This title focuses on how the needs of the permanently poor have been unmet through the alternating years of promises and neglect.
Examines the damaging divisions that isolate poor city minority residents from the middle-class suburban majority. This title focuses on how the needs...
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