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Models and Measurement of Welfare and Inequality
ISBN: 9783642790393 / Angielski / Miękka / 1018 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The literature on economic problems connected with measuring and modelling of welfare and inequality has grown rapidly within the last decade. Since this literature is scattered throughout a great number of journals on economics, economic theory, econometrics, and statisties, it is difficult to get an adequate picture of the present state of the art. Therefore books should appear from time to time, which offer a representative cross-section of the latest results of research on: the subject. This book offers such material. It contains 54 articles by 84 authors from four of the five continents....
The literature on economic problems connected with measuring and modelling of welfare and inequality has grown rapidly within the last decade. Since t...
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402,53 |
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Guilty of Indigence: The Urban Poor in China, 1900-1953
ISBN: 9780691161952 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the early twentieth century, a time of political fragmentation and social upheaval in China, poverty became the focus of an anguished national conversation about the future of the country. Investigating the lives of the urban poor in China during this critical era, Guilty of Indigence examines the solutions implemented by a nation attempting to deal with "society's most fundamental problem." Interweaving analysis of shifting social viewpoints, the evolution of poor relief institutions, and the lived experiences of the urban poor, Janet Chen explores the development of Chinese... In the early twentieth century, a time of political fragmentation and social upheaval in China, poverty became the focus of an anguished national c... |
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137,14 |
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Industrial Colonialism in Latin America: The Third Stage
ISBN: 9789004259003 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book confronts critical problems being experienced by Latin America in its quest for development. Special attention is paid to the living conditions of the popular sectors over the last half-century under "industrial colonialism." The author's framework of analysis weaves together key structural variables including the neoliberal mode of knowledge creation for material production in order to unveil the actual mechanisms of the reproduction of this system. The decisive role of science in the development of the productive forces forms the basis of explicating the "state development...
This book confronts critical problems being experienced by Latin America in its quest for development. Special attention is paid to the living conditi...
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548,16 |
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Antioxidants and Functional Components in Aquatic Foods
ISBN: 9780813813677 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Antioxidants and Functional Components in Aquatic Foods compiles for the first time the past and present research done on pro and antioxidants in aquatic animals. The book addresses an area of extreme importance for aquatic foods, since lipid oxidation leads to such a large number of quality problems. Many of these problems are also seen in other muscle based foods, but are exaggerated in aquatic foods, so the book's contents will be of great use and interest to other fields. Written by top researchers in the field, the book offers not only general overviews of lipid oxidation in...
Antioxidants and Functional Components in Aquatic Foods compiles for the first time the past and present research done on pro and antioxidants ...
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922,57 |
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Slum Insider - Mathare, Nairobi
ISBN: 9781940291086 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sluminsider is a choral narrative that attempts to reveal the complexity of the slum of Mathare, one of the biggest shantytowns in Nairobi. The project of expansion of a street school, the Why Not Junior Academy, and the process of environmental improvement of the surrounding area, where a community agriculture initiative has been set up to replace an unauthorized dump, is the starting point from which to combine experiences and identities from very different disciplines, including architecture, design, agriculture, photography and video. This project is one of the case studies used for...
Sluminsider is a choral narrative that attempts to reveal the complexity of the slum of Mathare, one of the biggest shantytowns in Nairobi. The projec...
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138,54 |
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Reading Groups, Libraries and Social Inclusion: Experiences of Blind and Partially Sighted People
ISBN: 9781409447986 / Angielski / Twarda / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reading groups have grown rapidly in popularity and continue to be a significant cultural phenomenon. Reading groups in public libraries, linked to the learning and social inclusion agenda, have expanded to include a wide range of groups within society, including people with visual impairments (VIPs). This under-researched area is the focus of this book. Library-based VIP reading groups are interesting on many levels. Given that these groups predominantly use audio versions of the text (rather than print), this links to debates about the changing nature of reading in a multi-modal age. This...
Reading groups have grown rapidly in popularity and continue to be a significant cultural phenomenon. Reading groups in public libraries, linked to th...
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734,66 |
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Public Health in Appalachia: Essays from the Clinic and the Field
ISBN: 9780786494149 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Appalachian region of the United States sees hunger, poverty, disability, preventable illness and premature death in disproportionally high numbers. Yet, Appalachia also knows the quiet strength of people working together to lift one another up as a community. In this collection of essays, health professionals explore how clinics and communities address the barriers to healthcare that continue to plague this underserved region and discuss theoretical perspectives about Appalachian healthcare. Topics include regional dental care, cancer and diabetes treatment, the integration of primary...
The Appalachian region of the United States sees hunger, poverty, disability, preventable illness and premature death in disproportionally high number...
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195,12 |
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Chatsworth: The Making of a South African Township
ISBN: 9781869142551 / Angielski / Twarda / 546 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1960, apartheid's planners created the 'Indian' township of Chatsworth, evicting people from established neighbourhoods around Durban and forcibly settling them into the grid of a modern racial ghetto. Making home within this architecture of exclusion, along streets without names, tens of thousands of new residents began building new lives and new communities, developing an urban space with a unique cultural vibrancy born of creativity and economic struggle. With the dismantling of group areas legislation from 1990, and within South Africa's continually changing political landscape,...
In 1960, apartheid's planners created the 'Indian' township of Chatsworth, evicting people from established neighbourhoods around Durban and forcibly ...
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200,80 |
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Trapped in America's Safety Net: One Family's Struggle
ISBN: 9780226140445 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When Andrea Louise Campbell's sister-in-law, Marcella Wagner, was run off the freeway by a hit-and-run driver, she was seven-and-a-half months pregnant. She survived--and, miraculously, the baby was born healthy. But that's where the good news ends. Marcella was left paralyzed from the chest down. This accident was much more than just a physical and emotional tragedy. Like so many Americans--50 million, or one-sixth of the country's population--neither Marcella nor her husband, Dave, who works for a small business, had health insurance. On the day of the accident, she was on her way to class...
When Andrea Louise Campbell's sister-in-law, Marcella Wagner, was run off the freeway by a hit-and-run driver, she was seven-and-a-half months pregnan...
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77,33 |
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The Church and the Slums: The Victorian Anglican Church and Its Mission to Liverpool's Poor
ISBN: 9781443854214 / Angielski / Twarda / 253 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Organised religion played such a central part in Victorian life that it is impossible to understand this era without some reference to it. Yet the question, which worried the Victorians, still remains, how religious was the mass of Victorian society? Recent scholarship has challenged the orthodoxy that the working classes, and the working classes of large urban centres in particular, were irreligious. Yet Liverpool, with its large migratory population, including Roman Catholics from Ireland and Nonconformists from Wales and Scotland, appeared to offer unpromising ground for the Anglican...
Organised religion played such a central part in Victorian life that it is impossible to understand this era without some reference to it. Yet the que...
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231,95 |
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Spaces of the Poor: Perspectives of Cultural Sciences on Urban Slum Areas and Their Inhabitants
ISBN: 9783837624731 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What do we know about the urban impoverished areas of the world and the living environment of its inhabitants? How did the urban poor cope with their surroundings? How did they interpret and adopt urban space in order to fight against their position at the periphery of society? This volume takes up these questions and investigates how far approaches of cultural sciences can contribute to overcome the exotification of the ghetto (Loic Wacquant) and instead to look at the heterogeneity and individuality behind the facades. It opens new perspectives for the research of poverty and inequalities...
What do we know about the urban impoverished areas of the world and the living environment of its inhabitants? How did the urban poor cope with their ...
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175,23 |
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The Street or Me: A New York Story
ISBN: 9780983459552 / Angielski / Miękka / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Book and author featured in Nexos, an American Airlines' inflight magazine *** Free ebook with print purchase. Click on "MatchBook on Kindle site for details.** The Street or Me is the true story of Judith Glynn, a divorcee who can barely make ends meet in New York City. Judith is drawn to befriend Michelle, a homeless drunk in her neighborhood. Previously a beauty queen in Italy, Michelle had come to the states when an American photographer convinced her that fame awaited. Drugs and alcohol got in the way of that dream. Putting her life aside and risking her own safety, Judith is determined...
Book and author featured in Nexos, an American Airlines' inflight magazine *** Free ebook with print purchase. Click on "MatchBook on Kindle site for ...
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The Routledge Handbook of Poverty in the United States
ISBN: 9780415673440 / Angielski / Twarda / 633 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the United States, the causes and even the meanings of poverty are disconnected from the causes and meanings of global poverty. The "Routledge Handbook of Poverty in the United States" provides an authoritative overview of the relationship of poverty with the rise of neoliberal capitalism in the context of globalization. Reorienting its national economy towards a global logic, US domestic policies have promoted a market-based strategy of economic development and growth as the obvious solution to alleviating poverty, affecting approaches to the problem discursively, politically,... In the United States, the causes and even the meanings of poverty are disconnected from the causes and meanings of global poverty. The "Routledge H... |
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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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103,06 |
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