Catálogo de libros: Pobreza y desempleo

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  • 40 Years of China’s War on Poverty
    Chao Peng / Xinkai Zhu / Yu Muhong
    China’s anti-poverty campaign has liberated hundreds of millions of citizens from absolute poverty, offering a compelling model for other developing countries around the world. This book demonstrates the path of China’s poverty alleviation and explores the approach and the theory underlying the country’s experience. The authors elucidate four important stages of poverty allevia...
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    132,03 €

  • 'Broke'
    Edwin A. Brown
    NEW PRINT WITH PROFESSIONAL TYPE-SET IN CONTRAST TO SCANNED PRINTS OFFERED BY OTHERS'Broke': The Man Without The DimeThis book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature.In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards:1. Type-setting & Reformatting: ...
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    15,35 €

  • The Unheard Voices of Mundhwa
    Empathetic Humans
    Have you ever seen homeless humans staying on the footpath? Have you ever bought garbage bags on signal? Have you ever eaten PaniPuri from the roadside? Have you ever bought bangles, flowers, balloons, or toys from the roadside? Have you ever given your sandals to the roadside cobbler to fix? If you have, then have you ever thought about how they survive and how they reached wh...
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    17,88 €

  • The Least of These
    Kenneth Loughney
    Poverty. What does scripture have to say about God’s heart for the poor? We do well in teaching and practicing most of our disciplines. There are thousands of Bible study helps, hundreds of commentaries, and many different Bible translations. Bookstore shelves full of Christian self-help books. Plenty of books sitting on shelves teaching us how to worship and pray. ...
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    38,58 €

  • The Poor and Their Possessions
    David Peter Seccombe
    Of all the New Testament writings Luke-Acts focuses particular attention on rich and poor, possessions and poverty. The Poor and Their Possessions is a new edition of a Cambridge doctoral dissertation that has long been out of print. The author’s exploration of Luke’s thinking is of special importance for Christian preachers, so much effort has gone into making it accessible an...
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    38,08 €

  • The Poor and Their Possessions
    David Peter Seccombe
    Of all the New Testament writings Luke-Acts focuses particular attention on rich and poor, possessions and poverty. The Poor and Their Possessions is a new edition of a Cambridge doctoral dissertation that has long been out of print. The author’s exploration of Luke’s thinking is of special importance for Christian preachers, so much effort has gone into making it accessible an...
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    55,17 €

  • Biography of Foot The know how of pedestrians
    Jimmy Gupta Gunjan
    70 percent of the world’s population is a pedestrian, whether they drive or take public transit. However, for the last forty years, Indian planning has prioritized automotive use over pedestrian movement. This approach has created a car-dependent society where walking is difficult and dangerous. However, when constructing towns and streets, pedestrians should be considered. Peo...
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    23,68 €

  • Reducing Inter-generational Ethnic Poverty
    Greg Clydesdale
    This book looks at human capital development and provides explanation for why cognitive development varies among ethnic groups. The book provides a strong thesis to counter explanations based on racial and genetic superiority. ...
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    73,83 €

  • Chinese Agricultural Technology Aid in Africa
    Jixia Lu / Lixia Tang / Xiaoyun Li
    The book presents findings of anthropological studies conducted by researchers from Agricultural Technology Demonstration Center in a number of African countries, including Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Mozambique. The aim of these ethnological studies is to understand the Center’s experience in these countries as well as the way it works in terms of institutional arrangeme...
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    64,59 €

  • Systems of Suffering
    Jonathan Darling
    Of the many state-enacted cruelties to which refugees and asylum seekers are subjected, detention and deportation loom largest in popular consciousness. But there is a third practice, perpetrating a slower violence, that remains hidden: dispersal. Jonathan Darling provides the first detailed account of how dispersal - the system of accommodation and support for asylum seekers a...
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    126,99 €

  • The United Nations and Sustainable Development Goals
    The book is a collection of analyses on country-specific and universal efforts, programmes and projects from Africa and beyond, aimed at realising the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Specifically, the chapters focus on the achievements and challenges that can potentially aid countries of the world and the United Nations in achieving the 17 SDGs. The chapters focus more on...
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    147,07 €

  • A Common Good Approach to Development
    This edited collection proposes a common good approach to development theory and practice. Rather than focusing on the outcomes or conditions of development, the contributors concentrate on the quality of development processes, suggesting that a common good dynamic is key in order to trigger development. Resulting from more than three years of research by an international group...
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    49,78 €

  • A Common Good Approach to Development
    This edited collection proposes a common good approach to development theory and practice. Rather than focusing on the outcomes or conditions of development, the contributors concentrate on the quality of development processes, suggesting that a common good dynamic is key in order to trigger development. Resulting from more than three years of research by an international group...
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    68,03 €

  • Homelessness and Housing Advocacy
    Curtis Smith
    This book explores the housing process through the in the field perspective of social service workers, documenting in illuminating detail the structural barriers workers encounter, as well as the creative methods they employ to circumvent regulations in order to assertively advocate for and support their clients. ...
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    66,79 €

  • How the other half lives
    How the other half lives interrogates contemporary social and spatial inequalities in housing, urban design, place-making, austerity, notions of deservedness and transnational mobility. ...
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    157,40 €

  • From Changing Diapers to Changing the World
    Cynthia Changyit Levin
    Cynthia Changyit Levin cared deeply about global poverty and hunger even before becoming a parent. But mothering her own children toughened her resolve to stand up for her values and work to become a better world for all kids. In this inspirational book 'From Changing Diapers to Changing the World:  Why Moms Make Great Advocates and How to Get Started,' Levin offers step-by-ste...
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    24,33 €

  • Heaven’s Window
    Bill Selvitelle
    It’s the mid-fifties in Boston, and the world is slowly changing. Jobs are disappearing, friends have moved on. Life is becoming a struggle. Just when things seem the darkest, one man finds his faith.Heaven’s Window is a story of one man’s journey from surviving the war in the Pacific to coming home to a life he becomes lost in. Along the way, he finds his best friend, a stray ...
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    12,06 €

  • A Theological Understanding of Power for Poverty Alleviation in the Philippines
    Yohan Hong
    This book calls attention to the sense of powerlessness of everyday people in the Philippines, and to the missional agency of US-based Filipino Protestants. Through a variety of sociological-theological-missiological perspectives, this book guides you to a journey of discovering what kind of power is in play, how the fallen powers can be named and made visible, and then ultimat...
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    23,70 €

  • A Theological Understanding of Power for Poverty Alleviation in the Philippines
    Yohan Hong
    This book calls attention to the sense of powerlessness of everyday people in the Philippines, and to the missional agency of US-based Filipino Protestants. Through a variety of sociological-theological-missiological perspectives, this book guides you to a journey of discovering what kind of power is in play, how the fallen powers can be named and made visible, and then ultimat...
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    37,47 €

  • Homelessness in America
    Michele Wakin
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    81,99 €

  • Factors Excite Householder Consumption
    John Lok
     I write this book aims to give my opinions to indicate whether what factors can influence householder resource , such as, gas, electricity energy behavior at  home as well as what factors influence householder rent or house purchase choice at housing market in any countries as well as to explain why and how what factors can cause householder food and energy waste behaviors and...
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    15,62 €

  • At Home In The World
    John Hill
    Part of the Zurich Lecture Series and previously published by Spring Journal, this work offers a profound philosophical and psychological exploration of the multi-dimensional significance of home and the interwoven themes of homelessness and homesickness and contemporary global culture. Home is a particular dwelling place, as a cultural or national identity, as a safe temenos i...
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    36,70 €

  • At Home In The World
    John Hill
    Part of the Zurich Lecture Series and previously published by Spring Journal, this work offers a profound philosophical and psychological exploration of the multi-dimensional significance of home and the interwoven themes of homelessness and homesickness and contemporary global culture. Home is a particular dwelling place, as a cultural or national identity, as a safe temenos i...
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    36,70 €

  • Homelessness
    S. P. K. Jena
    This book provides insights into the experiences of ’homelessness’, while exploring its psychological and socio-economic dimensions. Hunger, addiction, and disability, which often accompany homelessness, are brought into focus and discussed within the frameworks of promoting social welfare and enabling human capability in this volume. ...
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    73,32 €

  • How the Other Half Lives
    Jacob A. Riis / Jacob ARiis
    Jacob Riis’s classic is an open window into a world unknown to most. Originally published in 1890, this classic inditement of slum life remains an outstanding example of the value of investigative journalism and its potential to change the world for the better. Riis was one of the earliest 'muck-rakers,' which President Theodore Roosevelt defined as, 'taking the rake to uncover...
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    10,31 €

  • Sides of the Same Coin
    Keith Canty
    The book Sides of the Same Coin is the true story of a one-time social service worker, who lost employment and moved into his mother’s home to help care for her amidst mental deterioration and aging. After a major disagreement between siblings, this once-proud worker, who had serviced clients within all walks of the social service realm, was unceremoniously evicted by people wh...
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    7,90 €

  • Hopeless in Seattle
    Daniel J. Simms / Daniel JSimms
    In this explosive coming of age true story, the reader uncovers the foster care to prison pipeline firsthand. The story follows Daniel as he is abandoned, placed in a foster home, group home, and viciously abused therein. Unable to endure the pain, Daniel repeatedly runs away, living on the streets of Seattle, sleeping in newspaper bins, stolen cars, and wherever else he can la...
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    18,42 €

  • Building Resilience of the Urban Poor in Indonesia
    Asian Development Bank
    This report identifies climate resilience solutions for urban poor in Indonesia and their enabling factors, building on national policies and programs and taking into account the priority sectors for climate-resilient development.Climate risk threatens Indonesia’s socioeconomic development, and it is likely to exacerbate the plight of Indonesians living below and close to the p...
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    40,04 €

  • NO LONGER HOMELESS
    David Wagner
    This is a first-time study of formerly homeless people showing how people become and then leave the state of homelessness. Using a sample of people from across the nation and of different sexes, races, and ethnicities, Wagner suggests the key variables in ending homelessness for individuals as well ascommunities. ...
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    15,41 €

  • Multidimensional Approach to Local Development and Poverty
    The phenomenon of poverty, despite being aggravated by the COVID-19 pandemic, is recurrent and very harmful in peripheral countries. There seems to be no single solution, as each country faces its specificities, requiring an immersion into its causes and consequences. Multidimensional Approach to Local Development and Poverty: Causes, Consequences, and Challenges Post COVID-19 ...
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    282,13 €


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