Punishing the Poor

The punitive turn of penal policy in the United States after the acme of the Civil Rights movement responds not to rising criminal insecurity but t...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Jessica T. SimesIllustration(s): 7 b-w maps, 23 b-w charts and 8 tablesNumber of pages: 252Publ...

Reducere. For Danielle Allen, punishment is more a window onto democratic Athens' fundamental values than simply a set of official practices. From imprisonme...

Reducere. DUPA CE TRAIM, MURIM. IAR APOI? Un roman extrem de imaginativ despre un om care a trecut prin zece mii de reincarnari pentru a fi impreuna cu adeva...

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. The United States introduced the earned income tax credit (EITC) in 1975, where it remains the most significant earnings-based refundable credit in...

The Prince and the Poor Boy - Mark Twain

Reducere. Polishing God's Monuments is the true story of a young woman and her devoted husband who face it all (and then some) as a baffling, mind-boggling i...

From random security checks at airports to the use of risk assessment in sentencing, actuarial methods are being used more than ever to determine w...

Reducere. Stressing culture, community and choice, this book outlines a therapy for the new poor, a people poor more because they have lost their spirit than...

Reducere. 1. Down On The Corner2: 452. It Came Out Of The Sky2: 553. Cotton Fields2: 574. Poorboy Shuffle2: 245. Feelin' Blue5: 056. Fortunate Son2: 207. Don...

Reducere. A maverick economist explains how protectionism makes nations rich, free trade keeps them poor---and how rich countries make sure to keep it that w...

The San Quentin Project collects a largely unseen visual record of daily life inside one of America's oldest and largest prisons, demonstrating how...

How Rich Countries Got Rich buries the economic orthodoxy once and for all and shows why freetrade is not he best answer for our hopes of worldwide...

Reducere. An examination of the relationship between art and cybernetics and their intersections, with works that use the powerlessness of art. Cybernetics o...

Reducere. From the award-winning author of The Order of the Day, a powerful account of the German Peasants' War (1524-25) that shows striking parallels to cl...

Reducere. Pod, Homily, and Arrietty Clock's huge adventures have been thrilling children young and old for fifty years--and their appeal is as strong as ever...

Reducere. Blood of the Poor (originally Le Sang du pauvre), by Catholic writer Léon Bloy, is perhaps the hardest to read of Léon Bloyʼs writings, as it goes ...

Seasons of Hunger. Fighting Cycles of Starvation Among the World's Rural Poor - Stephen Devereux

Un roman extrem de imaginativ despre un om care a trecut prin zece mii de reincarnari pentru a fi impreuna cu adevarata lui iubire - Moartea insasi...

Contributor(s): Author: Rob NixonThe violence wrought by climate change, toxic drift, deforestation, oil spills, and the environmental aftermath of...

Reducere. Cry of the Earth, Cry of the Poor, Paperback

A short, brutal tale by the author of The Order of The Day: the story of a moment in Europe's history when the poor rose up and banded together beh...

This volume describes Hassan Fathy's plan for building the village of New Gourna, near Luxor, Egypt, without the use of more modern and expensive m...

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Dansul reincarnarii - Michael Poore

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...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. In this "bracingly iconoclastic" book (New York Times Book Review), a renowned economics scholar breaks down the fight to end global poverty and th...

The Poor PoetThis collection of poems is meant to be read haphazardly. Pick a chapter that fits your mood. Find a poem that will make you laugh, th...

Reducere. Intended originally for the political Right, The Poor Mans James Bond is now geared for use by the Civil Authorities. It embodies all the practical...

A short, brutal tale by the author of The Order of The Day: the story of a moment in Europe's history when the poor rose up and banded together beh...

With a special focus on strategic purchasing and contracting of services from nongovernmental providers, this title reviews ways to make public spe...

Reducere. Poverty reduction is a worldwide concern, yet if the church is to play an effective role in its alleviation, an approach that is both biblical and ...

DescriptionFrom the mid-eighteenth century to the early nineteenth century, the English Old Poor Law was waning, soon to be replaced by the New Poo...

Reducere. This book combines a critique of more than a century of housing reform policies, including public and other subsidized housing as well as exclusion...

An ethnography of Uruguayan waste-pickers that reconceptualizes rubbish as a form of modern-day commonsPublisher: Pluto PressAuthor(s): Patrick O'H...

A leading biblical scholar places charity back at the heart of the Judeo-Christian tradition, arguing for its biblical roots It has long been ackno...

Reducere. The Poor (Os Pobres, 1906), by Portuguese author Raul Brandao is a powerful tribute to the underclasses. Innovative thematically and stylistically,...

"I have been prompted to the work proposed in the title page, from a humble hope, that under the blessing of God the Holy Ghost; it may be rendered...

A major new work that charts the historical development of a postcolonial settlement that has given rise to a racialized distintion between the "de...