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  • The Missing Class

    Portraits of the Near Poor in America

    by Katherine Newman, Victor Tan Chen ...
    Fifty-seven million Americans-including 21 percent of the nation's children-live a notch above the poverty line, and yet the challenges they face are largely ignored. While government programs assist the poor, and politicians woo the more fortunate, the "Missing Class" is largely invisible and left to fend for itself.Missing Class parents often work at a breakneck pace to preserve the progress ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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    The Stepmother

    A totally gripping psychological thriller with a twist you won’t see coming

    by Sheila Bugler ...
    Narrated by Katherine Newman ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 26 min

    It is a day like any other when Sarah arrives at the school gate to pick up her two stepchildren, Izzy and Patrick.But when the twins don't run out to meet her like normal, Sarah knows something must be wrong.Sarah can't believe what she's hearing when the teacher informs her that their father, Mike, removed them from school earlier in the day. All of Sarah's calls to Mike go to voicemail.Worse is ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • No Shame in My Game

    The Working Poor in the Inner City

    by Katherine S. Newman ...
    "Powerful and poignant.... Newman's message is clear and timely." --The Philadelphia InquirerIn No Shame in My Game, Harvard anthropologist Katherine Newman gives voice to a population for whom work, family, and self-esteem are top priorities despite all the factors that make earning a living next to impossible--minimum wage, lack of child care and health care, and a desperate shortage of even low ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • The Accordion Family

    Boomerang Kids, Anxious Parents, and the Private Toll of Global Competition

    by Katherine S. Newman ...
    Why are adults in their twenties and thirties stuck in their parents’ homes in the world’s wealthiest countries?There’s no question that globalization has drastically changed the cultural landscape across the world. The cost of living is rising, and high unemployment rates have created an untenable economic climate that has severely compromised the path to adulthood for young people in their ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • Ending Poverty in America

    How to Restore the American Dream

    by Michael S. Barr, Jared Bernstein, Anita Brown-Graham, Carol Mendez Cassell, Martin Eakes, Michael Ferber, Richard B. Freeman, Jacob S. Hacker, Harry J. Holzer, Jack F. Kemp, Sara McLanahan, Ronald B. Mincy, Katherine S. Newman, Melvin L. Oliver, Peter Orszag, Dennis K. Orthner, Hillard Pouncy, Hugh B. Price, John Karl Scholz, Ruston Seaman, Thomas M. Shapiro, Michael Sherraden, David K. Shipler, Beth Shulman, David Spickard, Michael A. Stegman, Elizabeth Warren, William Julius Wilson ...
    An " engrossing collection of rigorously researched articles" from Elizabeth Warren, Jared Bernstein, William Julius Wilson, and more ( Publishers Weekly).Can the wealthiest nation in the world do anything to combat the steadily rising numbers of Americans living in poverty—or the tens of millions of Americans living in "near poverty"? In this book, some of the country's most prominent scholars, ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rampage

    The Social Roots of School Shootings

    by Katherine S. Newman, Cybelle Fox, David Harding, Jal Mehta, Wendy Roth ...
    In the last decade, school shootings have decimated communities and terrified parents, teachers, and children in even the most "family friendly" American towns and suburbs. These tragedies appear to be the spontaneous acts of troubled, disconnected teens, but this important book argues that the roots of violence are deeply entwined in the communities themselves. Rampage challenges the "loner ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • After Freedom

    The Rise of the Post-Apartheid Generation in Democratic South Africa

    by Katherine S. Newman, Ariane De Lannoy ...
    Twenty years after the end of apartheid, a new generation is building a multiracial democracy in South Africa but remains mired in economic inequality and political conflict.The death of Nelson Mandela in 2013 arrived just short of the twentieth anniversary of South Africa’s first free election, reminding the world of the promise he represented as the nation’s first Black president. Despite ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Moving the Needle

    What Tight Labor Markets Do for the Poor

    by Katherine S. Newman, Elisabeth S. Jacobs ...
    This timely investigation reveals how sustained tight labor markets improve the job prospects and life chances of America’s most vulnerable households.Most research on poverty focuses on the damage caused by persistent unemployment. But what happens when jobs are plentiful and workers are hard to come by? Moving the Needle examines how very low unemployment boosts wages at the bottom, improves ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Reskilling America

    Learning to Labor in the Twenty-First Century

    by Katherine S. Newman, Hella Winston ...
    From Katherine Newman, award-winning author of No Shame in My Game, and sociologist Hella Winston, a sharp and irrefutable call to reenergize this nation's long-neglected system of vocational trainingAfter decades of off-shoring and downsizing that have left blue collar workers obsolete and stranded, the United States is now on the verge of an industrial renaissance. Companies like Apple, BMW, ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

  • Taxing the Poor

    Doing Damage to the Truly Disadvantaged

    by Katherine S. Newman, Rourke O'Brien ...
    Series Book 7 - Wildavsky Forum Series
    This book looks at the way we tax the poor in the United States, particularly in the American South, where poor families are often subject to income taxes, and where regressive sales taxes apply even to food for home consumption. Katherine S. Newman and Rourke L. O’Brien argue that these policies contribute in unrecognized ways to poverty-related problems like obesity, early mortality, the high ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Bernard J. Newman 1877 to 1941

    by Katherine K. Newman, James B. Newman ...
    Biography, correspondence and summaries of professional materials of Bernard Joseph Newman. Raised in Hoosick Falls NY, Newman learned the machinist trade. He graduated from Meadville Theological School in 1901 and served briefly as Unitarian minister. He became head of the Willow Place Chapel, a settlement program in Brooklyn, before becoming executive of the Philadelphia Housing Commission in ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD

  • One Allen, Selleck, and Pollock Family , Volume I: History

    by Katherine K. Newman, James B. Newman ...
    Biographical sketches, descent information, and references for the forebears, siblings, and cousins of Roda Selleck (1877–1970) and her husband, James Barkley Pollock (1863–1934). Includes families of Henry Selleck of Bay City, Michigan (1851–1907); Franklin Selleck of Utica, Michigan (1811–87); John Harlow Allen of Ann Arbor, Michigan (1832–1902); Elijah Allen (1794–1865), died Lodi Twp., ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD