The Poverty Industry

DescriptionThe shocking truth about how state governments and their private industry partners are profiting from the social safety netGovernment ai...

DescriptionHave you ever stopped and wondered where your jeans came from? Who made them and where? Ever wondered where they end up after you donate...

The Victorian era saw huge technological advances in civil engineering and transport, mass urbanisation and social change, as well as still-treasur...

Reducere. An ardent activist, champion of political reform, novelist, and progressive journalist, Upton Sinclair is perhaps best known today for The Jungle -...

Reducere. An ardent activist, champion of political reform, novelist, and progressive journalist, Upton Sinclair is perhaps best known today for The Jungle -...

DescriptionAn ardent activist, champion of political reform, novelist, and progressive journalist, Upton Sinclair is perhaps best known today for T...

DescriptionMost people in jail have not been convicted of a crime. Instead, they have been accused of a crime and cannot afford to post the bail am...

Reducere. In this unprecedented and chilling monologue, a repentant Mexican hitman tells the unvarnished truth about the war on drugs on the American. El Sic...

The book depicts working class poverty, the lack of social supports, harsh and unpleasant living and working conditions and a hopelessness among ma...

Reducere. DescriptionThe book depicts working class poverty, the lack of social supports, harsh and unpleasant living and working conditions and a hopelessne...

Reducere. Rent Girl is the illustrated saga of one broke baby dyke trying to make a buck in the surreal world of the sex industry. Avoiding the stereotypes o...

Reducere. Once an almost impenetrable landscape of dunes, marshes, and woodlands hugging the southern shore of Lake Michigan, the land comprising what would ...

Reducere. Deep within the heart of the New Jersey Pine Barrens, the Piney people have built a vibrant culture and industry from working the natural landscape...

Western aid is in decline. Non-traditional development actors from the developing countries and elsewhere are in the ascendant. A new set of global...

Reducere. Curtis Mayfield was one of the seminal vocalists and most talented guitarists of his era, and his music played a vital role in the civil rights mov...

Following the recent global housing boom, tract housing development became a billion-dollar industry in Mexico. At the national level, neoliberal h...

Reducere. HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED WHAT IT TAKES TO BE A PROFESSIONAL HEALER? This book is a deep dive into the world of energy healing for those wishing to be...

Reducere. He has recorded with the biggest stars in the music business. He wrote many of the hits that made Sean "Puffy" Combs one of the richest men alive. ...

Planting a seed is just the beginning.Committed carnivores and veggie lovers alike will more intimately understand and appreciate the locavore food...

Psychoanalyst, teacher, and scholar, Heinz Kohut was one of the twentieth century's most important intellectuals. A rebel according to many mainstr...

Reducere. We know racism is entrenched in our systems and institutions, but what about our cities and public spaces?In The Diaspora of Belonging, author Jay ...

Reducere. DescriptionStillbirth of A Nation is the story of America's birth as a slave nation. Among the author's startling claims are: -Slavery in the Engli...

Never Stop is the wrenching memoir of Simba Sana, the cofounder and former leader of Karibu Books, a major indie-bookselling phenomenon and perhaps...

Reducere. Harlem Shadows (1922) is a poetry collection by Claude McKay. Published at the height of the Harlem Renaissance, Harlem Shadows earned praise from ...

Oil pulses through our daily lives. It is the plastic we touch, the food we eat, and the way we move. Oil politics in the twentieth century was abo...

Interest in citizenship has never been higher. Politicians of all stripes stress its importance, as do church leaders, captains of industry and eve...

DescriptionLois Weber (1879-1939) was one of early Hollywood's most successful screenwriter-directors. A one-time Church Army worker who preached f...

Reducere. "A hopeful narrative about a continent on the rise." --New York Times Book Review "For anyone who wants to understand how the African economy reall...

Reducere. This inspiring book explains exactly why micro money transfers matter, how they impact billions of lives, and the importance of transparency in an ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: David BellamyAuthor: Howard BellamyWith: Michael Kosser"THE INCREDIBLE STORY OF COUNTRY MUSIC'S GREATEST INTERNATIONAL AMBA...

Reducere. It has never been shown that human emissions of the gas of life drive global warming. Large bodies of science that don't fit the narrative have bee...

Reducere. The Jungle portrays the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities. The b...

Reducere. Ole Hanson served as Seattle's mayor at a pivotal time: communists infiltrated the city's labour unions, and within months staged a general strike ...

From the moment motion pictures were invented, fearless entrepreneurs, poverty row profiteers and money-grabbing grifters gave cinemagoers what the...

Reducere. Joyce Meyer is not satisfied with the status quo. She believes that we each need to become a revolutionary and practice love every day. And if Joyc...

Reducere. Oklahoma Book Award1926. Gas is 17 a gallon. Haircuts are 25 cents. And U.S. Route 66--two thousand miles of road and concrete--connects Chicago wi...

Reducere. A historical novel based on a true story about an amazing early twentieth-century woman. She stood out in a crowd of friends and relatives from Cas...

Reducere. DescriptionThe social sector is undergoing a major transformation. We are witnessing an explosion in efforts to deliver social change, a burgeoning...

Reducere. Becoming Jimi Hendrix traces "Jimmy's" early musical roots, from a harrowing, hand-to-mouth upbringing in a poverty-stricken, broken Seattle home t...