Poverty & Homelessness

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Helen Bernstein Book Award 1999.Book InformationISBN 9780375753824Author William FinneganFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Random House IncPublisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781605207353Author Henry MayhewFormat PaperbackPage Count 546Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 757gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm...

Robert Walker provides a critical examination of the promise and reality of SDG1, the United Nations' Social Development Goal designed, among other things, to eradicate extreme poverty by 2030. The author's message is stark: there is little chance of...

Young homeless people are ordinary young people trapped in an extraordinary situation. This accessible guide provides information and advice on how to understand the needs of these young people, and how to ensure they are supported effectively. It...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Street Literature Book Award Medal (Slbam) (Nonfiction) 2004.Book InformationISBN 9780743254434Author Adrian Nicole LeBlancFormat PaperbackPage Count...

The Autonomous City is the first popular history of squatting as practised in Europe and North America. Alex Vasudevan retraces the struggle for housing in Amsterdam, Berlin, Copenhagen, Detroit, Hamburg, London, Madrid, Milan, New York, and Vancouver...

"Enthralling; it is well worth the trip." --New York Journal of Books Conceived as the most modern, humane incarceration facility the world had ever seen, New York's Blackwell's Island, site of a lunatic asylum, two prisons, an almshouse, and a number of...

Understanding poverty and what to do about it, is perhaps the central concern of all of economics. Yet the lay public almost never gets to hear what leading professional economists have to say about it. This volume brings together twenty-eight essays by...

About 1.5 million households filed bankruptcy in the last year, making bankruptcy as common as college graduation and divorce. The recession has pushed more and more families into financial collapse-with unemployment, declines in retirement wealth, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936192311Author Hyman P MinskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Center for Curatorial Studies/Bard CollegePublisher Center for Curatorial...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849025942Author George OrwellFormat HardbackPage Count 198Imprint Benediction ClassicsPublisher Benediction ClassicsWeight(grams) 464gDimensions(mm)...

Footwork is an original street-corner ethnography drawing on the themes of urban regeneration, lost space and the 24-hour city. From the rough sleeping homeless to street drinkers and sex workers, it shows how urban modernisation, development and...

A deconstruction of the neoliberal placations about global capitalism, exposing the inequalities of global poverty "We're making headway on global poverty," trills Bill Gates. "Decline of Global Extreme Poverty Continues," reports the World Bank. "How...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815702825Author Jessica CohenFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781525554148Author Iain de JongFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 18mm

The Fair Trade Scandal takes aim at the Fair Trade consumer movement which many assume to be entirely benign. Through a razor-sharp analysis based on insider knowledge, Ndongo Sylla shows that there is a big gap between the rhetoric of Fair Trade and its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633912700Author Max J SkidmoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint Westphalia PressPublisher Westphalia PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604860702Author Tuen VoetenFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 475g

In the world's most affluent and food secure societies, why is it now publicly acceptable to feed donated surplus food, dependent on corporate food waste, to millions of hungry people? While recognizing the moral imperative to feed hungry people, this...

Despite remarkable economic advances in many societies during the latter half of the twentieth century, poverty remains a global issue of enduring concern. Poverty is present in some form in every society in the world, and has serious implications for...

'A mesmerising book, full of story, truth, pain, lyricism, humour and astonishment: the stuff of a difficult life, fully lived, and masterfully transformed into art' SALMAN RUSHDIE'Intimate and wise, poignant and compassionate, redemptive and raw. You...

The recent radical cutbacks of the welfare state in the UK have meant that poverty and income management continue to be of great importance for intellectual, public and policy discourse. Written by leading authors in the field, the central interest of...

Often portrayed as an apolitical space, this book demonstrates that home is in fact a highly political concept, with a range of groups in society excluded from a 'right to home' under current UK policies. Drawing on resident interviews and analysis of...

A compelling look at the historical roots of poverty and homelessness, the "worthy" and "unworthy" poor, and the role of charity health care and public policy in the United States.Home to over 730,000 people, with close to four million people living in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551528038Author Patrick Saint-PaulFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Arsenal Pulp PressPublisher Arsenal Pulp Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143134114Author Raynor WinnFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 135mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780932914873Author Abraham KuyperFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Dordt College PressPublisher Dordt College PressWeight(grams) 162g

Sociologist Neil Gong explains why mental health treatment in Los Angeles rarely succeeds, for the rich, the poor, and everyone in between.   In 2022, Los Angeles became the US county with the largest population of unhoused people, drawing a stark...

Howard Williamson's 'Five Years' was a ground-breaking study of youth, poverty and crime in the 1970s. At its close, the boys he interviewed were left with few prospects and bleak futures. Twenty-five years later, Williamson returns to find out the sort...

Argues that the struggle over income, wealth, status and privilege-inequality-has been the principal, defining issue in human history and provides a novel framework for understanding inequality today Whereas President Barack Obama declared inequality...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of American Bar Association Silver Gavel Award 2017 and Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction 2017 and Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Award...

A CLASSIC THAT WILL IGNITE THE NEXT ECONOMIC REVOLUTION Hailed as "the guide to capitalism," the New York Times bestseller Wealth and Poverty by George F. Gilder is one of the most famous economic books of all time and has sold more than one million...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781955668682Author Peggy WillmsFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint Wellness Book EndeavorsPublisher Wellness Book EndeavorsWeight(grams)...

Poverty, it seems, is a constant in today's news, usually the result of famine, exclusion or conflict. In Blaming the Victim, Jairo Lugo-Ocando sets out to deconstruct and reconsider the variety of ways in which the global news media misrepresent and...

"A powerful story, skillfully told." -Booklist A new portrait of Robert Kennedy, a politician who, for all his faults, had the uncommon courage to stand up to a president from his own party and shine a light on America's shortcomings In early 1968,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541645721Author Thomas AbtFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 239mm * 155mm * 30mm

Originally published in 1987, this book provides a comprehensive history of housing policy in Britain from the beginning of the twentieth century to the end of the 1970s. For every period the author gives a detailed account of the housing situation in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375708213Author David K. ShiplerFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Robert F. Kennedy Book Award 2000 and Sidney Hillman Prize 2000.Book InformationISBN 9780375703799Author Katherine S. NewmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint...

The economic depression of the interwar period marks a fundamental turning-point in Welsh history, and in particular the history of south Wales, when decades of breakneck industrialisation, urbanisation and in-migration came to an end and were followed...