The Fundamental Institution. Poverty, Social Welfare, and Agriculture in American Poor Farms, Paperback - Megan Birk

Publisher: University of Illinois PressAuthor(s): Megan BirkIllustration(s): 23 black & white photographs, 1 tableNumber of pages: 300Publication d...

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. Contributor(s): Author: Walter I. TrattnerOver twenty-five years and through five editions, Walter I. Trattner's From Poor Law to Welfare State has...

This comprehensive volume demonstrates that the question of how to care for the poor has had significant implications for German history throughout...

DescriptionIn Ensuring Poverty, Felicia Kornbluh and Gwendolyn Mink assess the gendered history of welfare reform. They foreground arguments advanc...

DescriptionWinner of a special Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, the book that Evicted author Matthew Desmond calls "a powerful investigation into the ...

Reducere. This text provides abridged, easily read Supreme Court cases designed to provide an overview of constitutional issues in American criminal justice....

Reducere. DescriptionResearch shows that the majority of public school students in the United States qualify as poor, but you have the power to change their ...

This paper takes stock of the number of farms worldwide, their distribution and that of farmland, based on agricultural censuses and survey data. I...

Publisher: Practical Action PublishingIllustration(s): 10 black & white line drawingsNumber of pages: 300Publication date: 2010Dimensions: 156 x 23...

Reducere. Fires, floods, hurricanes, drought and extended periods of heat - extreme, 'once in a lifetime' weather events now happen frequently and over prolo...

In Materializing Poverty, anthropologist Erin Taylor explores how residents of a squatter settlement in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, use thei...

Examination of welfare during the last years of the Poor Law, bringing out the impact of poverty on particular sections of society - the lone mothe...

The Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 is one of the most important pieces of social legislation ever enacted. Its principles and the workhouse system ...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Monique (Professor and Chair in Ethics and Global Social Change Philosophy, Professor and Chair in...

Updated, practical, comprehensive guide to academic writing online and traditionally.

Reducere. Why do the poor borrow to save? Why do they miss out on free life-saving immunizations, but pay for unnecessary drugs? In Poor Economics, Abhijit V...

Contributor(s): Author: Hal BrandsLooking beyond the headlines to address the enduring grand strategic questions facing the United States todayAmer...

Contrary to popular belief, the problem with US higher education is not too much politics but too little. Far from being bastions of liberal bias, ...

Changes in ideas about social welfare have required caring professions to adapt their practices in ways which have challenged their underlying valu...

Addressing the rapidly shifting politics of the minimum wage in six English-speaking countries, Shaun Wilson analyses minimum wage policies within ...

The long pilgrimage of LeRoy Chatfield weaves its way through multiple collective projects designed to better the condition of the marginalized and...

A rich, original study of the social and bureaucratic life of organic quality that challenges assumptions of what organic means

Reducere. The Upside of Fear allows reader to experience the harsh reality of a criminal life and creates a riveting portrait of true crime at its fundamenta...

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 ...

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...

Drawing on interviews with 115 families, the authors look at how parents plan to use this annual cash windfall to build up savings, go back to scho...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Gregory Jones-KatzNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 152 x 226 x 33Cover ty...

DescriptionYou have your farms of cactus, wheat, melons, and sugarcane. You have some decent armor and a nice base. Now you need more. More blaze r...

Publisher: Melville House PublishingAuthor(s): Patrick StricklandNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 151 x 217 x 29Cover type: Ha...

Reducere. Combining historical, exegetical, and theological interests, Bruce Longenecker here dispels the widespread notion that Paul had little or no concer...

Updated, practical, comprehensive guide to academic writing online and traditionally.Publisher: SAGE Publications LtdAuthor(s): Megan PooreNumber o...

Reducere. The riveting, unforgettable story of a girl whose indomitable spirit is tested by homelessness, poverty, and racism in an unequal America--from Pul...

Reducere. The riveting, unforgettable story of a girl whose indomitable spirit is tested by homelessness, poverty, and racism in an unequal America--from Pul...

The US Constitution says nothing about a presidential cabinet, yet this institution has grown powerful. Lindsay M. Chervinsky tells the story of Ge...