Catálogo de libros: Pobreza y desempleo

622 Catálogo de libros: Pobreza y desempleo

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  • Poverty in American Popular Culture
    Wylie Lenz
    In 1964, President Lyndon Johnson declared an 'unconditional war' on poverty in the form of sweeping federal programs to assist millions of Americans. Two decades later, President Reagan drastically cut such programs, claiming that welfare encouraged dependency and famously quipping, 'Some years ago, the federal government declared war on poverty, and poverty won.' These opp...
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    79,21 €

  • Uplift and Empower
    Danielle Hawa Tarigha
    Did you know that over 700 million people live on less than $2 a day?Nearly 10% of the global population struggles to survive 24 hours at a time. Eradicating extreme poverty may seem like a simple issue, but in reality, it’s very complex. In Uplift and Empower: A Guide to Understanding Extreme Poverty and Poverty Alleviation you’ll learn about: The history and context of povert...
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    12,44 €

  • Good Work Done Better
    Sam Watts
    Is it possible that the organizations that serve the most vulnerable people in our communities are merely applying temporary patches? Why are most North American cities unable to deal with the root causes of the social challenges they are addressing? Why are most funding models for community-based non-profits built around sustaining programs rather than creating measurable soc...
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    42,10 €

  • Reshaping Social Policy to Combat Poverty and Inequality
    Augustine Nduka Eneanya
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    202,76 €

  • Created in Freedom
    Phillip Fletcher
    We were created in freedom. Human beings across the globe possess a common thread of human dignity and a desire to express this dignity in a multitude of ways absent of obstacles and restrictions. Created in Freedom is the first in a series of books exploring in essay form the ideas of human dignity, freedom, and productivity.In this first publication, Created in Freedom: Pover...
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    2,76 €

  • End Homelessness Now! - The Road to a Solution.
    J. M. Montgomery
    End Homelessness Now! - The Road to A Solution.The Home Giveaway Program Initiative.This work discusses several solutions to reduce those issues associated with chronic homelessness in the United States and possibly for the rest of the world. One such solution is a theoretical program that the author designed is called 'The Home Giveaway Program Initiative' (Home Gap). This res...
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    65,42 €

  • A Genre Analysis of Social Change
    Diana Wegner
    A Genre Analysis of Social Change contributes to current scholarship in rhetorical genre studies and discourse analysis in contexts of social change. Diana Wegner explores the ways that historical genre systems can be transformed through the process of discursive uptake across genres and their spheres of activity. In this study such cross-genre uptake is pursued from its beginn...
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    21,73 €

  • The Cultural and Economic Context of Maternal Infanticide
    Martha Smithey
    This book examines the social, economic and cultural conditions and stressors under which mothers commit infanticide, and shows how these conditions affect the ability to meet societal and self-perceived expectations of ’good’mothering. ...
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    53,32 €

  • Street Images
    Michael A. Susko / Michael ASusko
    Those on the periphery of society are not necessarily culturally or spiritually poor. "Street persons" can harbor a rich life-story and genuine philosophic concerns. This work seeks to make public this hidden cultural wealth. We invited persons with hardship to create fiction or, in recounting an experience, to offer an image of hope.. From Clem who writes as he recovers from f...
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    4,79 €

  • Homeless Footsteps
    Kina Nicole Jones
    Growing up without biological parents is life-altering and even worse when those same parents are drug users. It is not long before you are figuring out the world on your own making many avoidable mistakes, learning lessons along the way.  Homeless Footsteps addresses the emotional behavior and social problems of children born to drug-addicted parents. The main character Kina i...
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    18,72 €

  • Little Dorrit
    Charles Dickens / G. K. Chesterton
    Originally published as a serial from 1855 to 1857, Dickens’s novel “Little Dorrit” tells the story of Amy Dorrit, the youngest child of her family born and raised in a debtors prison whose life is changed when she meets Arthur Clennam, returning home from a 20-year absence. “Little Dorrit” heavily criticises societal shortcomings of the time, in particular the existence of de...
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    42,98 €

  • Our Mutual Friend
    Charles Dickens / G. K. Chesterton
    Charles Dickens’s last completed novel, “Our Mutual Friend” is the story of “Noddy” Boffin, a common clerk who becomes “the Golden Dustman” after he inherits a dust-heap where the aristocracy throw their refuge. A brutal satire and social analysis, “Our Mutual Friend” is a masterpiece that explores the allure and curse of money while demonstrating all the themes the author is...
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    32,61 €

  • Reshaping Social Policy to Combat Poverty and Inequality
    Augustine Nduka Eneanya
    The gap between various social classes occurs due to inequality in various social categories arising from lack of opportunities and exclusion from resource distribution due to various attributes of these societal classifications. The social problems of poverty and inequality created by economic uncertainty become a compelling force for states to introduce welfare programs. Resh...
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    268,61 €

  • Mean Streets
    Don Mitchell
    The problem of homelessness in America underpins the definition of an American city: what it is, who it is for, what it does, and why it matters. And the problem of the American city is epitomized in public space. Mean Streets offers, in a single, sustained argument, a theory of the social and economic logic behind the historical development, evolution, and especially the persi...
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    128,36 €

  • Mean Streets
    Don Mitchell
    The problem of homelessness in America underpins the definition of an American city: what it is, who it is for, what it does, and why it matters. And the problem of the American city is epitomized in public space. Mean Streets offers, in a single, sustained argument, a theory of the social and economic logic behind the historical development, evolution, and especially the persi...
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    26,05 €

  • The Ladder Out of Poverty
    James T Moodey
    The problem of poverty is complicated; however, the author’s study takes a creative approach to devise a solution. The approach is to divide poverty into transient and chronic. Chronic poverty consists of people who are trapped in poverty.A surprising finding of the study was that chronic poverty nearly always has a single cause. This means, if we identify the cause, the proble...
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    17,77 €

  • Handbook of Research on Leadership and Advocacy for Children and Families in Rural Poverty
    Rural poverty encompasses a distinctive deprivation in quality of life related to a lack of educational support and resources as well as unique issues related to geographical, cultural, community, and social isolation. While there have been many studies and accommodations made for the impoverished in urban environments, those impoverished in rural settings have been largely ove...
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    387,28 €

  • Raining Down from Heaven White-Light Curveballs
    Glenn Primm / Jane Engleman / S. A. Weisberg / SAWeisberg
    S.A. Weisberg writes a rainstorm flood in a celebration of baseball, spirituality and hope. A resident on Spring Street, Downtown L.A., he greets every morning and every person he meets with the joy of '...the soft velvet touch of a baby’s cheek, the cry of a lobster boiling in a pot of bubbly water, a woman’s stretching sigh.''This first book of Sandy Weisberg’s poems reminds ...
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    20,49 €

  • Little Dorrit
    Charles Dickens / G. K. Chesterton
    Originally published as a serial from 1855 to 1857, Dickens’s novel 'Little Dorrit' tells the story of Amy Dorrit, the youngest child of her family born and raised in a debtors prison whose life is changed when she meets Arthur Clennam, returning home from a 20-year absence. 'Little Dorrit' heavily criticises societal shortcomings of the time, in particular the existence of de...
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    43,87 €

  • Our Mutual Friend
    Charles Dickens / G. K. Chesterton
    Charles Dickens’s last completed novel, 'Our Mutual Friend' is the story of 'Noddy' Boffin, a common clerk who becomes 'the Golden Dustman' after he inherits a dust-heap where the aristocracy throw their refuge. A brutal satire and social analysis, 'Our Mutual Friend' is a masterpiece that explores the allure and curse of money while demonstrating all the themes the author is...
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    43,87 €

  • Life on the Streets
    Kim O'Brien-Williams / Kim O’Brien-Williams
    Life on the Streets tells the stories of the homeless or those working on the streets. Learn why people end up homeless or have turned to prostitution.While writing this book, I said to a friend that for me to really write a good book about being homeless, I needed to be homeless, not thinking for a minute that this would happen to me.However, my life took a bad turn and I was ...
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    8,49 €

  • War on Poverty in Mississippi
    Emma J Folwell
    President Lyndon B. Johnson's war on poverty instigated a ferocious backlash in Mississippi. Federally funded programs--the embodiment of 1960s liberalism--directly clashed with Mississippi's closed society. From 1965 to 1973, opposing forces transformed the state.In this state-level history of the war on poverty, Emma J. Folwell traces the attempts of white and black M...
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    158,04 €

  • War on Poverty in Mississippi
    Emma J Folwell
    President Lyndon B. Johnson's war on poverty instigated a ferocious backlash in Mississippi. Federally funded programs--the embodiment of 1960s liberalism--directly clashed with Mississippi's closed society. From 1965 to 1973, opposing forces transformed the state.In this state-level history of the war on poverty, Emma J. Folwell traces the attempts of white and black M...
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    49,89 €

  • CHINESE SOCIETY IN THE XI JINPING ERA
    LITAO ZHAO & DONGTAO QI
    As China has become the world's second largest economy and risen rapidly amid various internal and external challenges, its profound social transformation and changing social policies are seemingly receiving inadequate attention from both academic and policy communities, especially in the Xi Jinping era since 2013. After decades of development, new social values, behaviours...
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    93,77 €

  • No Longer Homeless
    David Wagner
    No Longer Homeless is a powerful look at a group of people we rarely hear about—those who have formerly been on the streets—sharing the details of their lives to help individuals, organizations, and communities learn to better support the ongoing challenges of homelessness. ...
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    33,83 €

  • Postcards from Lonnie
    Lisa Johnson
    It all started on Christmas Day 1993. Lisa and Lonnie were sitting on their mom’s rickety yard swing, when Lisa’s curiosity took over. She asked Lonnie questions about his life on the street, about being homeless.  To her surprise, he answered honestly, humorously, and thoughtfully.That conversation continued throughout the next four years as Lisa wrote questions on postcards a...
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    12,64 €

  • FastPrayGive
    Andy Morris
    Chronic malnourishment affects 821 million people in our world today. We grow enough food for everyone. Ours is the first generation on our planet that can end this horrific and intolerable situation. When we involve God and practice means of Grace to align our lives and resources we can deliver compassion and justice to help those persons in need.The World Methodist Council pa...
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    13,26 €

  • Gaudy Baubles and Fartworms
    Terry R. Smith / Terry RSmith
    Welfare is not what you think it is. Many states ignore federal work requirements for welfare parents. At the same time children on welfare face eviction and hunger every month. Quality child care is outside the price reach of low income children. Food Stamps is throwing billions down the outhouse floor that don’t lead to feeding hungry Americans and--insult to injury--some sta...
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    24,25 €

  • Poverty and Welfare in Modern German History
    Lutz Raphael
    For many, the history of German social policy is defined primarily by that nation's postwar emergence as a model of the European welfare state. As this comprehensive volume demonstrates, however, the question of how to care for the poor has had significant implications for German history throughout the modern era. Here, eight leading historians provide essential case studie...
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    44,46 €

  • Poverty and Charity in Aix-En-Provence, 1640-1789
    Cissie C Fairchilds
    Originally published in 1976. This book is a study of the charitable institutions of one French town, Aix-en-Provence. It begins with their foundation during the Counter-Reformation and ends with their dissolution during the Revolution. It details the impulses behind their foundation and describes how they were financed and administered. It also explores the lives of the people...
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    40,99 €


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