The New Poverty Studies

A comprehensive biblical theology of the Christian attitude to poverty, wealth and material possessionsPublisher: Inter-Varsity PressAuthor(s): Cra...

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...

What does it mean to be poor? An ambitious visual anthropology of diet and poverty in 36 case studies across the worldTo demonstrate what it means ...

Sub-Saharan Africa is on the verge of an energy boom. New discoveries off the East and West coasts have raised hopes of significant revenues that c...

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 ...

This book explores and challenges the relationship between tourism and development and establishes a conceptual link between the discrete yet inter...

Explores new, yet less explored space of urban poverty - rehabilitation housing that houses the displaced poor and increasingly dots the peripherie...

Reducere. Give me neither poverty nor riches, but give me only my daily bread. (Proverbs 30: 8) One of the most difficult questions facing Christians today i...

"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...

This study offers a critical interpretation of literary representations of urban poverty and the sustained trauma associated with exploitation, hom...

Reducere. In the late 1960s, the American city found itself in steep decline. An urban crisis fueled by federal policy wreaked destruction and displacement o...

Reducere. Should babies sleep alone in cribs, or in bed with parents? Is talking to babies useful, or a waste of time? A World of Babies provides different a...

The New York Times bestseller from the founders of WE Charity--a human rights organization that has lifted over 1 million people from poverty globa...

DescriptionWhen a young child finds her great-great grandfather Wilhelm's journal detailing his voyage across the Atlantic as an emigrant sailing f...

The burgeoning terrain of Martin Luther King Jr. studies is leading to a new appreciation of his thought and its meaningfulness for the emergence a...

Many books have been written about how to build cigar box guitars and other unique hand-made instruments... but few have touched on why. This book ...

Reducere. How globalization is undermining sustainable social environments for children This book uses the ecological model of child development together wit...

Mary Paik Lee left her native country in 1905, traveling with her parents as a political refugee after Japan imposed control over Korea. Her father...

Globalization is speeding up our world, extending our relationships globally and bringing us closer together in positive and not-so-positive ways. ...

Reducere. Gigi Gryce was a saxophonist and composer who worked with some of the best-known names in jazz during the 1950s, including Dizzy Gillespie, Theloni...