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  • Better Must Come

    Exiting Homelessness in Two Global Cities

    by Matthew D. Marr ...
    In Better Must Come**, Matthew D. Marr reveals how social contexts at various levels combine and interact to shape the experiences of transitional housing program users in two of the most prosperous cities of the global economy, Los Angeles and Tokyo.** Marr, who has conducted fieldwork in U.S. and Japanese cities for over two decades, followed the experiences of thirty-four people as they made ... Read more

    $28.79 CAD

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    From Zero to $50 A Day

    The No-Work, No-Stress Income Blueprint

    by Gerry Marrs Publications ...
    Narrated by Alec Matthews ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 47 min

    Dear Listener,Have you ever dreamed of earning money effortlessly—without quitting your job, giving up your free time, or dealing with unnecessary stress? Here’s the truth: you don’t need a degree, years of experience, or genius-level smarts to start making money today.Forget the grind and false "get-rich-quick" promises. This audiobook reveals a real, step-by-step blueprint to turn your spare ... Read more

    $9.61 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Politics of Age and Disability in Contemporary Spanish Film

    Plus Ultra Pluralism

    by Matthew J. Marr ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Film Studies
    The Politics of Age and Disability in Contemporary Spanish Film examines the onscreen construction of adolescent, elderly, and disabled subjects in Spanish cinema from 1992 to the present. Applying a dual lens of film analysis and theory drawn from the allied fields of youth, age, and disability studies, this study is set both within and against a conversation on cultural diversity—with respect to ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Consequential Art

    Comics Culture in Contemporary Spain

    Edited by Samuel Amago, Matthew J. Marr ...
    Series series Toronto Iberic
    Spanish comics have attracted considerable critical attention internationally: dissertations have been written, monographs have been published, and an array of cultural institutions in Spain (the media, publishing houses, bookstores, museums, and archives) have increasingly promoted the pleasures, pertinence, and power of graphic narrative to an ever-expanding readership – all in an area of ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD

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  • The Unmaking of Man

    Disability and the Holocaust

    by Simon Duffy ...
    The Unmaking of Man is a series of four essays by Dr Simon Duffy exploring the lessons of the Holocaust for people with disabilities. Few people know that people with disabilities not only made up a large number of the victims of the Holocaust but they were the first victims, marked out for destruction at a very early stage. Doctors argued that people with disabilities lived lives not worth living ... Read more

    $9.20 CAD

  • The Senior Cohousing Handbook

    A Community Approach to Independent Living

    by Charles Durrett, William H. Thomas ...
    How to make your senior years healthy, safe, social, and stimulating."Architect and author Chuck Durrett's recently released book Senior Cohousing Handbook comes at a time of high interest in greening, sustainable housing and affordable living concerns. Durrett's new book is a comprehensive guide for baby boomers wishing to continue vibrant, active lifestyles." - EPR Real Estate News"Make your ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What's Wrong with the World

    by G.K. Chesterton ...
    An enduring collection of moral and social commentary from one of the twentieth century's most original thinkersThis groundbreaking work epitomizes why G. K. Chesterton is considered one of the pithiest and most versatile philosophers of his era. An anthology of his early writings, What's Wrong with the World takes on such thorny subjects as public education, jingoism, feminism, imperialism, ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A World of Three Zeros

    The New Economics of Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment, and Zero Net Carbon Emissions

    by Muhammad Yunus ...
    From Nobel Prize winner and bestselling author of Banker to the Poor, a vision of an emerging new economic system that can save humankind and the planetMuhammad Yunus is one of the modern world’s most trenchant social critics. In A World of Three Zeros, he declare it’s time to admit that the capitalist engine has failed most people – that in its current form it inevitably leads to rampant ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • Amazing Grace

    The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation

    by Jonathan Kozol ...
    The author of Savage Inequalities, a New York Times best-seller, and Rachel and Her Children, winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, tells the stories of a handful of children who have--through the love and support of their families and dedicated community leaders--not yet lost their battle with the perils of life in America's most hopeless, helpless, and dangerous neighborhoods. ... Read more

    Was $14.99 CAD Now $10.99 CAD

  • So Rich, So Poor

    Why It's so Hard to End Poverty in America

    by Peter Edelman ...
    "A competent, thorough assessment from a veteran expert in the field." — Kirkus ReviewsIncome disparities in our wealthy nation are wider than at any point since the Great Depression. The structure of today's economy has stultified wage growth for half of America's workers—with even worse results at the bottom and for people of color—while bestowing billions on the few at the very top.In this ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Child Poverty in New Zealand

    by Jonathan Boston ...
    Jonathan Boston and Simon Chapple have written the definitive book on child poverty in New Zealand. Dr Russell Wills, Children’s CommissionerBetween 130,000 and 285,000 New Zealand children live in poverty, depending on the measure used. These disturbing figures are widely discussed, yet often poorly understood. If New Zealand does not have ‘third world poverty’, what are these children actually ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Blaming the Victim

    by William Ryan ...
    The classic work that refutes the lies we tell ourselves about race, poverty and the poor.Here are three myths about poverty in America:– Minority children perform poorly in school because they are “culturally deprived.”– African-Americans are handicapped by a family structure that is typically unstable and matriarchal.– Poor people suffer from bad health because of ignorance and lack of interest ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD