The End of Poverty

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

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

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

Reducere. The Definitive Biography of John Brown "John Brown's life was filled with drama, and Oates tells his story in a manner so engrossing that the book ...

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

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. 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...

Reducere. Known around the world simply as Lula, Luis Inacio Lula da Silva was born in 1945 to illiterate parents who migrated to industrializing Sao Paulo. ...

Reducere. Lyndon Johnson's secretly recorded tapes offer us the only chance we are ever likely to have to eavesdrop on an American President from his first m...

Asia has been the greatest show on earth since Japan's rise from the ashes of World War II, accompanied in successive decades with the emergence of...

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. The Definitive Biography of John Brown "John Brown's life was filled with drama, and Oates tells his story in a manner so engrossing that the book ...

Reducere. I grew up in Jamaica in the district of Burnt Savannah, St. Elizabeth, between Lacovia and Mountainside. That's about a twenty-minute drive from Sa...

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

Reducere. This book develops an understanding of prayer from a liberation-theological perspective. "Praying with" offers a distinctive way of praying that ca...

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...

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

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

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

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

Reducere. This urgent and eye-opening book makes the case that protecting humanity's future is the central challenge of our time. If all goes well, human his...

Reducere. Our experiences of dying have been shaped by ancient ideas about death and social responsibility at the end of life. From Stone Age ideas about dyi...

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

DescriptionMartin Eden (1909) by Jack London is a semi-autobiographical novel, the quintessential and shocking story of a struggling writer. And as...

Senator Tim Scott knows adversity. As the son of a single mother from North Charleston, South Carolina, he struggled to get through school and had ...

When Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down by pro-Russian rebels in July 2014, the world wondered if a cure for HIV had fallen from the sky a...

Contributor(s): Author: Fred MagdoffAuthor: Chris WilliamsSickened by the contamination of their water, their air, of the Earth itself, more and mo...

Reducere. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "This is a book people will be talking about forever." --Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author of U...

The story of the notorious Jewish gangster who ascended from impoverished beginnings to the glittering Las Vegas strip "Fast-paced and absorbing. ....

DescriptionThe remarkable story of a T-shirt company that sparked a global movement to aid people living in poverty. All his life, Derek Evans felt...

Reducere. Thorium energy can help check CO2 and global warming, cut deadly air pollution, provide inexhaustible energy, and increase human prosperity. Our wo...

Reducere. DescriptionAnn Patchett, the New York Times bestselling author of Commonwealth and State of Wonder, returns with her most powerful novel to date: a...

Reducere. From tomato fields to suburban shopping malls, an acclaimed journalist's devastating expose about how sexual assault affects our country's most inv...

Reducere. The book of psalm is filled with power, deliverance, prosperity, success, breakthrough, healing and God's word. Any Christian facing depression, pa...

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...

DescriptionFrancis of Assisi is, after Mary of Nazareth, perhaps the greatest saint in the Christian calendar, and one of the most influential men ...

Reducere. Born into a poor immigrant family, Charles works diligently to rise out of poverty. Because of this determination, he graduates from a university. ...

Reducere. The de facto how-to manual of the international Food Not Bombs movement, which provides free food to the homeless and hungry and has branches in co...

Reducere. Two of America's leading national security experts offer a definitive account of the global impact of COVID-19 and the political shock waves it wil...

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 ...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

Reducere. When you eat soup every night, thoughts of bread get you through. "Ghostbread" makes real for us the shifting homes and unending hunger that shape ...

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...

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

Reducere. D Blessed with a delectable body and a cute face, ZIVIAL, aka TINY, could've been a fashion model or some other respected professional, had she not...

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...

Reducere. In a land where being the fairest maiden is a curse . . .A young queen trying to stay alive until she comes of age to rule, and a prince turned int...

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

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 ...

Reducere. This urgent and eye-opening book makes the case that protecting humanity's future is the central challenge of our time. If all goes well, human his...

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...

Reducere. Chicago Tribune Notable Book of 2019 Kirkus 2019 Best Fiction Booklist Best New Book Vogue.com Best Book Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Bo...

Reducere. "The reigning queen of historical fiction" -- Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue The New York Times and US...

Praise For Zero Limits "This riveting book can awaken humanity. It reveals the simple power of four phrases to transform your life. It's all based ...

Reducere. "A rousing, funny, feminist workplace fantasy that also takes a frank look at modern poverty." - KirkusMoxie meets A Knight's Tale as Kit Sweetly s...

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

Reducere. Description"We had much rather be all alone in the right than with the whole world in the wrong." So wrote Jeremiah Hacker in 1862. He was the main...

Reducere. With a new preface by the author The Pulitzer Prize finalist's powerful examination of the hidden stories of workers overlooked by #MeToo Apple orc...

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...