The End of Poverty

The landmark exploration of economic prosperity and how the world can escape from extreme poverty for the world's poorest citizens, from one of the...

Reducere. Grievers is the 1st book in the Grievers Series. A tale of what happens when we can no longer ignore what has been lost in this world. Grievers is ...

Poverty in Rural America: The Story of Yates County Home and Farm from 1830 to 1950 describes the development of poorhouses in New York State, prov...

Description 50 years ago, World Bank President Robert McNamara promised to end poverty. Alleviation was to rely on economic growth, resulting in hi...

Reducere. When first-generation Muslim-American Fatema Z. Sumar was given the chance to serve and lead across the US government, she seized it. Traveling mor...

DescriptionProhibition in the United StatesFor thirteen years, from 1920 to 1933, the transportation and sale of alcoholic beverages were prohibite...

The pioneering researchers of the largest ever study of poverty in the UK paint a devastating picture of the reality of poverty today and its cause...

Across Europe, politicians and economists remain locked into micromanaging the welfare state established post-war, tweaking it here and tweaking it...

Reducere. It's the end of World War II. FDR's New Deal has redefined American politics. Taxes are at an all-time high. The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ...

This book argues that an end to poverty can only be achieved by prioritising human dignity. Compelling and engaging, with a wide range of recommend...

America's Growing Inequality presents the links between racism and poverty in the United States, highlighting the work of social justice organizati...

A moving examination of poverty, its root causes, and how to end it through movement-building by a leading philanthropy executive For the past two ...

The Road to Nab End is a marvelously evocative account of growing up poor in a British mill town. From William Woodruff's birth in 1916 until he ra...

Reducere. In this Tenth Anniversary Edition of The Life You Can Save, Peter Singer brings his landmark book up to date. In addition to restating his compelli...

Jeffrey Sachs draws on his remarkable 25 years' experience to offer a thrilling and inspiring vision of the keys to economic success in the world t...

In this concise text, the distinguished American philosopher John Dewey compiled excerpts from the massive Progress and Poverty to provide those un...

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...

A Poverty of Rights is an investigation of the knotty ties between citizenship and inequality during the years when the legal and institutional bas...

Reducere. Although Hyman P. Minsky is best known for his ideas about financial instability, he was equally concerned with the question of how to create a sta...

Reducere. A Family Torn Apart is a heart-wrenching true story of an eleven-year-old boy seeing and experiencing his family being torn apart. The mother and f...

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...

Using case studies from Kazakhstan, Swaziland, Himalayan India and Brazil, this book discusses how poverty is recognized and defined, and how polit...

This title is a synthesis of the thought of economist Amartya Sen, who views economic development as a means to extending freedoms rather than an e...

A fascinating slice of East End life in postwar London, from the bestselling author of }Call The Midwife{. Worth, who was a midwife working in the ...

Since the end of the Cold war, the international security agenda has become increasingly important. This Very Short Introduction considers traditio...

Reducere. "An End to Suffering" tells of Pankaj Mishra's search to understand the Buddha's relevance in today's world, where religious violence, poverty and ...

A chance acquaintance brings together the prosperous bourgeois Wilcox family and the clever, cultured and idealistic Schlegel sisters. As clear-eye...

Reducere. Foreword by Nan Roman, President and CEO of the National Alliance to End Homelessness This book explains how to end the U.S. homelessness crisis by...

Reducere. Alex and Deion were born in the projects of Atlanta. Their mutual determination to escape their poverty stricken existence fueled a friendship that...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jack LondonIllustrated in this edition by more than thirty of Jack London's own photographs, 'The People of the Abyss' docu...

DescriptionA New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceShortlisted for the 2018 FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award A brilliantly reporte...

Drawing on two decades of ethnographic research in Sulawesi, Indonesia, Tania Murray Li offers an intimate account of the emergence of capitalist r...

Does oil wealth lead to political poverty? It often looks that way, but Carbon Democracy tells a more complex story. In this magisterial study, Tim...

Maya Angelou's seven volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world, she als...

DescriptionThe remarkable story of one gutsy contractor's determination to end poverty in Africa Grant Smith is not a visionary or an enthusiastic ...

A journalist's raw, first-person account of what his family endured after his eldest brother killed a man and was sentenced to life in prison. At t...

Reducere. Tales of success, betrayals, and failures are all under God's watchful eye and end with surprising results. Because Desire Nana was born into pover...

Reducere. DescriptionA profound and moving piece of investigative journalism, Jack London's study of the London underworld remains, a century after it was wr...

Reducere. Detective Sergeant Harry Challenor is undoubtedly one of the most controversial policeman of all time. Born into grinding poverty in 1922, Challeno...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Buchi EmechetaThe story of a young Jamaican girl, Gwendolen Brillianton, who is born into poverty and deserted by her paren...

Reducere. The People of the Abyss (1903) is a work of nonfiction by American writer Jack London. Written after the author spent three months living in London...

Reducere. In this work, Kropotkin points out what he considers to be the defects of the economic systems of feudalism and capitalism, and how he believes the...

Reducere. Discover the ultimate manga experience with the Moriarty the Patriot Series! The untold story of Sherlock Holmes' greatest rival, Moriarty! Before ...

Reducere. The End of Social Work: A Defense of the Social Worker in Times of Transformation explores the deeply flawed status quo of the social work professi...

"How the Other Half Lives" is a chronicle of the conditions of abject poverty that the residents of the slums of New York at the end of the 19th ce...

Reducere. Read about the cruelty of the industrial ageThe definitive editionFeatures an extended biography of the life and experiences of Charles DickensLarg...

Reducere. Read about the cruelty of the industrial ageThe definitive editionFeatures an extended biography of the life and experiences of Charles DickensLarg...

Reducere. The Circular Staircase, Mary Roberts Rinehart's classic tale of murder and intrigue in a pre-World War I mansion, is evocative yet strangely modern...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Phyllis LaneWith: Rodrigo CoelhoIllustrator: Phyllis LaneWe tend to only see the end result when we watch masters in action...

Reducere. DescriptionGerman New York City celebrates the rich cultural heritage of the hundreds of thousands of German immigrants who left the poverty and tu...

Is Wealth Only for People Who Were Born Rich?Or Can You Create a Life of Abundance? The good news is that the difference between wealth and poverty...

Reducere. Who really runs the global economy? Who benefits most from it? The answer is a triad of 'governance institutions' - The IMF, the World Bank and the...

Reducere. Grievers is the story of a city so plagued by grief that it can no longer function. Dune's mother is patient zero of a mysterious illness that stop...

Reducere. Maya Angelou's seven volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world, she als...

Reducere. At the cross Christ made possible a "divine exchange" for everyone who believes in him. What is this exchange? Because Jesus endured all the evil d...

Reducere. In an ancient village, young Sophie ran from her station in life, a life without hope. The endless poverty along with bitterness at her life's real...

In this increasingly flattened world, learning to think critically about global affairs is of utmost importance. Students need to learn how local a...

Reducere. Christians of all denominations are looking today to the ancient discipline of a rule of life to strengthen their sense of living in Christ and par...

Reducere. In The Environment and the People in American Cities, Dorceta E. Taylor provides an in-depth examination of the development of urban environments, ...

Reducere. W. E. B. Du Bois's groundbreaking social study of black Americans living in Philadelphia at the end of the 1800s remains an outstanding and thoroug...

Description Following heroic victories on the battlefield, a former soldier faces his greatest challenge from the enemy within. Yu Erlong, a vetera...

Reducere. Vern Sneider's A Pail of Oysters is the most important English-language novel ever written about Taiwan. Yet despite critical acclaim, this excitin...

Description2018 Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Award (Nonfiction) FinalistA timely indictment of the corporate takeover of education and ...

Reducere. Acclaimed around the world and a national best-seller, this is the definitive work on Che Guevara, the dashing rebel whose epic dream was to end po...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Peter MoskosWhen Harvard-trained sociologist Peter Moskos left the classroom to become a cop in Baltimore's Eastern Distric...

DescriptionBorn into privilege at the end of the 1300s in an age of turmoil, Cosimo de' Medici, heir to the Medici banking fortune, grew up surroun...

Reducere. Since the end of colonization Africa has struggled with socioeconomic and political problems. This has attracted wealthy donors from western nation...

Contributor(s): Author: Beth E. RichieBlack women in marginalized communities are uniquely at risk of battering, rape, sexual harassment, stalking ...

DescriptionMost famous for his twenty-volume dissection of nineteenth-century French mores and society, the Rougon-Macquart novels, Zola was also a...

Reducere. Hailed as "invaluable...a substantial work of political thought, " (New Statesman) in a groundbreaking report, based on years of reporting, David R...