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  • V6A

    Writing from Vancouvers Downtown Eastside

    An anthology that refracts the experience of writers, new and established, who have been part of Vancouver’s notorious Downtown Eastside in some way. Their work reappropriates the coding of the area and recasts the neighborhood as a site of creative energy and human dignity. ... Leer más

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  • The Price of Civilization: Reawakening American Virtue and Prosperity

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY“Succinct, humane, and politically astute . . . Sachs lays out a detailed path to reform, regulation, and recovery.”—The American ProspectIn this forceful and impassioned book, Jeffrey D. Sachs offers a searing and incisive diagnosis of our country’s economic ills, and an urgent call for ... Leer más

    Antes $14.99 USD Ahora $7.99 USD

  • Brazil's Dance with the Devil

    The World Cup, The Olympics, and the Struggle for Democracy

    de Dave Zirin ...
    One of the Boston Globe's Best Sports Books of the Year: "Incisive, heartbreaking, important and even funny" (Jeremy Schaap, New York Times–bestselling author of Cinderella Man).The people of Brazil celebrated when it was announced that they were hosting the World Cup—the world's most-viewed athletic tournament—in 2014 and the 2016 Summer Olympics. But as the events were approaching, ordinary ... Leer más

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  • The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor

    Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor

    "Readers cannot but be provoked and stimulated by this splendidly iconoclastic and refreshing book."—Andrew Porter, New York Times Book ReviewThe Wealth and Poverty of Nations is David S. Landes's acclaimed, best-selling exploration of one of the most contentious and hotly debated questions of our time: Why do some nations achieve economic success while others remain mired in poverty? The answer, ... Leer más

    $17.09 USD

  • $2.00 A Day

    Living on Almost Nothing in America

    A New York Times Notable Book of the YearThe story of a kind of poverty in America so deep that we, as a country, don’t even think exists—from a leading national poverty expert who "defies convention." (The New York Times)Jessica Compton’s family of four would have no income if she didn’t donate plasma twice a week at her local donation center in Tennessee. Modonna Harris and her teenage daughter, ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • All God's Children

    de Rene Denfeld ...
    James Daniel Nelson first hit the streets as a teenager in 1992. He joined a clutch of runaways and misfits who camped out together in a squat under a Portland bridge. Within a few months the group -- they called themselves a "family" -- was arrested for a string of violent murders.While Nelson sat in prison, the society he had helped form grew into a national phenomenon. Street families spread to ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Let's Explore Canada (Most Famous Attractions in Canada)

    Canada Travel Guide

    Series series Children's Explore the World Books
    This picture book features amazing Canada. It is a wonderful tourism material that is highly educational and fun to go over too. Do you know that picture books may have only about 500 words but are effective in language development? That's right! They break language down by using evocative pictures that are highly engaging. Go, grab a copy today! ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • Blaming the Victim

    de 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 ... Leer más

    Antes $6.99 USD Ahora $5.99 USD

  • Ten Canadian Writers in Context

    Series series Robert Kroetsch Series
    Ten years, ten authors, ten critics. The Canadian Literature Centre/Centre de littérature canadienne reaches into its ten-year archive of Brown Bag Lunch readings to sample some of the most diverse and powerful voices in contemporary Canadian literature. This anthology offers readers samples from some of Canada’s most exciting writers of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Each selection is ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Vancouver Book of Everything

    Everything You Wanted to Know About Vancouver and Were Going to Ask Anyway

    The go-to book on Canada's west coast gem—from affordable activities to crime and punishment, slang to weather, people to politics, and much more.From "Gassy" Jack Deighton and the Klondike Gold Rush to the Chinese Head Tax to Japanese Internment, the Strathcona Protest, Vancouver Canucks and the 2010 Olympic Winter Games to profiles of the original "Dominic Da Vinci," Larry Campbell, famed author ... Leer más

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  • In Their Own Hands

    How Savings Groups Are Revolutionizing Development

    Two and a half billion people worldwide, most of them desperately poor villagers, need a better way to save and to borrow. Even the most innovative banking institutions can’t reach them; savings groups can.In savings groups, members save what they can in a communal pot and loan their growing fund to each other for their short-term needs. Jeffrey Ashe and Kyla Neilan illustrate how these savings ... Leer más

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  • Preventing the Future

    Why was Ireland so poor for so long?

    de Tom Garvin ...
    Between the years of the mid-thirties through to 1960, independent Ireland suffered from economic stagnation, and also went through a period of intense cultural and psychological repression. While external circumstances account for much of the stagnation – especially the depression of the thirties and the Second World War – Preventing the Future argues that the situation was aggravated by internal ... Leer más

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