Not a Crime to Be Poor: The Criminalization of Poverty in America, Paperback - Peter Edelman

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Reducere. Muhammad Yunus is that rare thing: a bona fide visionary. His dream is the total eradication of poverty from the world. In 1983, against the advice...

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Winner of the 2011 PASS (Prevention for a Safer Society) Award from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency A groundbreaking work that turns ...

Reducere. DescriptionRecently, I became poor.It's disgusting, and it means God loves me less than he loves you. I know my tragic penury won't last forever--b...

Argues that poverty has been denied its due as a critical and ideological framework in its own right, despite interest in representations of the lo...

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Let Adam Brandon, one of America's leading activists, explain the past, the present, and the future of American conservatism, and offer advice from...

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The Perpetual Migrant is story of a spirit constantly on the move. Inspired as a memoir primarily for his grandchildren, family, and friends, this ...

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