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  • Poverty and Social Exclusion in the UK

    Volume 1 - The Nature and Extent of the Problem

    by Maria Gannon, Nick Bailey, Mike Tomlinson, Eric Emerson, Pauline Heslop, Marco Pomati, Jonathan Bradshaw, Saffron Karlsen, Christiana Pantazis, Demi Patsios, Eldin Fahmy, David Gordon ...
    Series series Studies in Poverty, Inequality and Social Exclusion
    The largest UK research study on poverty and social exclusion ever conducted reveals startling levels of deprivation. 18m people are unable to afford adequate housing; 14m can’t afford essential household goods; and nearly half the population have some form of financial insecurity.Defining poverty as those whose lack of resources forces them to live below a publicly agreed minimum standard, this ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

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  • Breaking Night

    A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard

    by Liz Murray ...
    This memoir of a young woman's indomitable spirit to survive and prevail, against all odds, reveals her journey from homelessness to Harvard.Liz Murray was born to loving but drug-addicted parents in the Bronx. In school she was taunted for her dirty clothing and lice-infested hair, eventually skipping so many classes that she was put into a girls' home. At age fifteen, Liz found herself on the ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • The Divide

    American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap

    by Matt Taibbi ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST, NPR, AND KIRKUS REVIEWSA scathing portrait of an urgent new American crisis**Over the last two decades, America has been falling deeper and deeper into a statistical mystery:Poverty goes up. Crime goes down. The prison population doubles.Fraud by the rich wipes out 40 percent of the world’s wealth. The ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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  • Poor People

    by William T. Vollmann ...
    "Vollman explores, sometimes sensitively, often provocatively, the emotional, psychological, and physical dimensions of poverty" ( Chicago Tribune )."Few writing today can handle writing about the underclasses of the world like Vollman . . .a writer who writes not only beautifully but also responsibly and morally." — San Francisco Chronicle"Why are you poor?" That was the ... ... Read more

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  • The Choice

    by Philly McMahon ...
    When Dublin footballer Philly McMahon lost his older brother John in 2012, it brought to an end a painful decade, during which John had slipped from the family circle into a deteriorating cycle of addiction. The effects were personally devastating, but amidst the loss there was a glimmer of hope, of opportunity, and what ultimately became the starting point for a journey of remarkable self ... Read more

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  • Poverty and Compassion

    The Moral Imagination of the Late Victorians

    by Gertrude Himmelfarb ...
    In a provocative study that bristles with contemporary relevance, Himmelfarb demonstrates that the material and moral dimensions of poverty were inseparable in the minds of late Victorians, be they radical or conservative. ... Read more

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  • Out of Poverty

    And Into Something More Comfortable

    by John Stackhouse ...
    From East Timor to Timbuktu, John Stackhouse has met and lived with hundreds of the world's poor. When he set out on this journey in 1991, he was certain that the new age of global markets and economic reforms would end decades of extreme hardship in the developing world. But as the nineties rolled on, he found poverty still entrenched in dozens of countries -- except where people had some control ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Summary and Analysis of White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

    Based on the Book by Nancy Isenberg

    by Worth Books ...
    Series series Smart Summaries
    So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of White Trash tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Nancy Isenberg's book.Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader.This short summary and analysis of White Trash includes:Historical contextChapter-by-chapter overviewsProfiles of the ... Read more

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  • Living through Crises: How the Food, Fuel, and Financial Shocks Affect the Poor

    by Rasmus Heltberg, Naomi Hossain, Anna Reva ...
    What did the global food, fuel, and financial crises of 2008-11 mean to people living in the developing world? How did people cope with the crisis and how effective were they at averting major impacts? These are the questions addressed by this book, which emerged out of qualitative crisis monitoring initiatives carried out by IDS and the World Bank. As such, this is not a book about the causes of ... Read more

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  • Not Quite White

    White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness

    by Matt Wray ...
    White trash. The phrase conjures up images of dirty rural folk who are poor, ignorant, violent, and incestuous. But where did this stigmatizing phrase come from? And why do these stereotypes persist? Matt Wray answers these and other questions by delving into the long history behind this term of abuse and others like it. Ranging from the early 1700s to the early 1900s, Not Quite White documents ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • The Reckoning

    by Randall Robinson ...
    In The Reckoning, Randall Robinson examines the crime and poverty that grips much of urban America and urges black Americans to speak out and reach back to ensure their social and economic success in this country. With insight, compassion, and unflinching honesty, Robinson explores the twin blights of crime and poverty—the former often a symptom of the latter—and asks questions that are critical ... Read more

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  • From Dependence to Dignity

    How to Alleviate Poverty through Church-Centered Microfinance

    by Brian Fikkert, Russell Mask ...
    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. ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD