Poverty & unemployment books

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GoFailMe: The Unfulfilled Promise of Digital Crowdfunding

GoFailMe: The Unfulfilled Promise of Digital Crowdfunding...

Author: Erik Schneiderhan ,  Martin Lukk
ISBN: 9781503636927
Format: Paperback
$48.99

The gaping holes in the U.S. and Canadian social safety nets mean that many people live in a state of financial...  Read More >>

GoFailMe: The Unfulfilled Promise of Digital Crowdfunding

GoFailMe: The Unfulfilled Promise of Digital Crowdfunding...

Author: Erik Schneiderhan ,  Martin Lukk
ISBN: 9781503609044
Format: Hardback
$174.99

The gaping holes in the U.S. and Canadian social safety nets mean that many people live in a state of financial...  Read More >>

Migration, Poverty and Socioeconomic Inequality

Migration, Poverty and Socioeconomic Inequality

Author: Charlotte Evans
ISBN: 9781647254148
Format: Hardback
$443.52

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Inclusive Development and Poverty Reduction

Inclusive Development and Poverty Reduction

Author: Raye Phillip
ISBN: 9781647266301
Format: Hardback
$440.75

Inclusive development refers to the idea that every human being, irrespective of their individuality, can play an...  Read More >>

From Hardship to Hope

From Hardship to Hope

Author: Judith Gwinn Adrian ,  Jaylin M Stueber
ISBN: 9781595989604
Format: Paperback
$50.03

From Hardship to Hope invites us to walk into the complexities of two women's parallel universes. It is a fictionalized,...  Read More >>

On the Edge: Feeling Precarious in China

On the Edge: Feeling Precarious in China

Author: Margaret Hillenbrand
ISBN: 9780231212151
Format: Paperback
$57.95

On the Edge probes precarity in contemporary China through the lens of the dark and angry cultural forms that chronic...  Read More >>

On the Edge: Feeling Precarious in China

On the Edge: Feeling Precarious in China

Author: Margaret Hillenbrand
ISBN: 9780231212144
Format: Hardback
$232.95

On the Edge probes precarity in contemporary China through the lens of the dark and angry cultural forms that chronic...  Read More >>

The Escape from Poverty: Breaking the Vicious Cycles Perpetuating Disadvantage

The Escape from Poverty: Breaking the Vicious Cycles...

Author: Olivier De Schutter (UCLouvain, Belgium and UN Special Rapporteur) ,  Hugh Frazer (Maynooth University, Ireland)
ISBN: 9781447370604
Format: Hardback
$99.99

The perpetuation of poverty across generations damages lives. Drawing on a wide variety of sources and academic...  Read More >>

Avoiding Governors: Federalism, Democracy, and Poverty Alleviation in Brazil and Argentina

Avoiding Governors: Federalism, Democracy, and Poverty...

Author: Tracy Beck Fenwick
ISBN: 9780268070595
Format: Hardback
$264.00

Fenwick analyzes poverty alleviation strategies in Brazil and Argentina to show how federalism affects the ability...  Read More >>

Carceral Recovery: Prisons, Drug Markets, and the New Pharmaceutical Self

Carceral Recovery: Prisons, Drug Markets, and the New...

Author: Sanaullah Khan
ISBN: 9781666929096
Format: Hardback
$178.00

Carceral Recovery is a medical anthropologist’s account of demoralizing disciplinary and punitive approaches that...  Read More >>

The Meth Lunches: Food and Longing in an American City

The Meth Lunches: Food and Longing in an American City...

Author: Kim Foster
ISBN: 9781250278777
Format: Hardback
$54.99

James Beard Award-winning author Kim Foster reveals a new portrait of hunger and humanity in America. Food is...  Read More >>

For a Liberatory Politics of Home

For a Liberatory Politics of Home

Author: Michele Lancione
ISBN: 9781478025306
Format: Paperback
$76.43

Michele Lancione questions the foundational notions of home and homelessness to offer a radical proposition: homelessness...  Read More >>

For a Liberatory Politics of Home

For a Liberatory Politics of Home

Author: Michele Lancione
ISBN: 9781478020523
Format: Hardback
$284.99

Michele Lancione questions the foundational notions of home and homelessness to offer a radical proposition: homelessness...  Read More >>

Going Down River Road

Going Down River Road

Author: Meja Mwangi
ISBN: 9781035900787
Format: Paperback
$38.79

After an exhausting day of hard labour, Ben finds oblivion in the seedy bars and clubs of River Road – anything...  Read More >>

Unfinished business: Essays on the psychologically informed environment

Unfinished business: Essays on the psychologically informed...

Author: Robin Johnson
ISBN: 9781739446505
Format: Paperback
$65.97

Here is another ground breaking new work on creating engaging and 'psychologically informed' environments (PIEs)...  Read More >>

Grassroots Change: Poverty Reduction

Grassroots Change: Poverty Reduction

Author: Azhar Ul Haque Sario
ISBN: 9798223088608
Format: Paperback
$26.37

"""Grassroots Change: Poverty Reduction"" is an insightful and critical study exploring the complexities and degrees...  Read More >>

Conservatorship: Inside California’s System of Coercion and Care for Mental Illness

Conservatorship: Inside California’s System of Coercion...

Author: Alex V. Barnard
ISBN: 9780231210256
Format: Paperback
$57.95

This book is an incisive and compelling portrait of the functioning—and failings—of California’s conservatorship...  Read More >>

Conservatorship: Inside California’s System of Coercion and Care for Mental Illness

Conservatorship: Inside California’s System of Coercion...

Author: Alex V. Barnard
ISBN: 9780231210249
Format: Hardback
$232.95

This book is an incisive and compelling portrait of the functioning—and failings—of California’s conservatorship...  Read More >>

The Vagabond in the South Asian Imagination: Resilience, Agency and Representation

The Vagabond in the South Asian Imagination: Resilience,...

Author: Avishek Ray (Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, National Institute of Technology, Silchar, Assam, India)
ISBN: 9781032040318
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book discusses the epistemic foundation of the heuristic construct ‘vagabond’ and the convergence between the...  Read More >>

Entrepreneurship as a Route out of Poverty: A Focus on Women and Minority Ethnic Groups

Entrepreneurship as a Route out of Poverty: A Focus...

Author: Tolu Olarewaju
ISBN: 9783031383588
Format: Hardback
$90.54

Firstly, it pays special attention to the nexus between the entrepreneur, resources, institutions, opportunities,...  Read More >>

Business, Entrepreneurship and Innovation Toward Poverty Reduction

Business, Entrepreneurship and Innovation Toward Poverty...

Author: Steven Si ,  David Ahlstrom
ISBN: 9781032008523
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book provides new and valuable analyses of poverty and business, entrepreneurship, and innovation in the current...  Read More >>

Lost Childhood: Unmasking the Lives of Street Children in Metropolitan India

Lost Childhood: Unmasking the Lives of Street Children...

Author: Kapil Dev ,  Dipendra Nath Das
ISBN: 9780367642006
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Lost Childhood explores the everyday lives of street children in India. It presents insights on their life on the...  Read More >>

Eugene Richards: The Day I Was Born

Eugene Richards: The Day I Was Born

Author: Eugene Richards
ISBN: 9780991218912
Format: Hardback
$171.60

A diaristic photographic portrait of the memory-laden Mississippi Delta of Arkansas Fifty years ago, New York–based...  Read More >>

Motherland: A Memoir

Motherland: A Memoir

Author: Paula Ramón ,  Ana Osorio
ISBN: 9798400144875
Format: Audio
$102.93

In the span of a generation, oil-rich Venezuela spiraled into a dire state of economic collapse. This is Venezuelan...  Read More >>

Motherland: A Memoir

Motherland: A Memoir

Author: Paula Ram�n ,  Ana Osorio
ISBN: 9798400144882
Format: Audio
$79.17

From Venezuelan reporter Paula Ram�n comes a powerful memoir about one woman's complicated relationship with her...  Read More >>

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