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1) Poor Folk
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Financial difficulties resulting from an extravagant lifestyle and excessive gambling led Fyodor Dostoevsky to pen his first novel "Poor Folk". First published in 1846, "Poor Folk" is the story of impoverished cousins Varvara Dobroselova and Makar Devushkin. The two live in run-down apartments across the street from each other in St. Petersburg. Through a series of letters to each other we learn of the suffering, humiliation, and isolation that results...
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Based on his twenty-five years of experience, Paul Polak explodes what he calls the "Three Great Poverty Eradication Myths": that we can donate people out of poverty; that national economic growth will end poverty; and that big business, operating as it does now, will end poverty.
Polak shows that programs based on these ideas have utterly failed-in fact, in sub-Saharan Africa, poverty rates have actually gone up. These failed top-down efforts contrast...
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What does it mean to be poor? For decades, the dominant narrative in the UK and US has been that it is caused by personal flaws or 'bad life decisions'. People are 'lazy', 'dependent' and 'irresponsible'. This 'story' has become embedded in the public consciousness with serious ramifications for how financially vulnerable people are seen, spoken about and treated. Drawing on a two-year story-telling project and her own experience of childhood poverty,...
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El texto tiene el propósito de ayudar a los lectores a entender y a reflexionar sobre la situación social en América Latina, a partir del análisis de los trabajos realizados por investigadores y estudiosos de las diferentes áreas en las que se enmarca la gerencia social, estos aportes constituyen fuentes documentales muy valiosas para abordar la problemática de la pobreza en el contexto latinoamericano.
6) Color hollín
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No sabemos exactamente a qué tono corresponde el "color de la miseria" como se llama en las primeras páginas de esta novela al color hollín. Solemos asociar el hollín a la suciedad, a la pobreza, a algo gastado, a una tonalidad que se aleja de aquello digno de contemplación, como el paisaje natural de un campo, una playa, o un jardín con flores. Este colorido, el del hollín, será uno que guíe la descripción del entorno de esta novela, en...
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Summary of Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance | Includes Analysis Preview: Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by JD Vance is an account of the struggles of white working-class Americans in the post-industrial United States. The author offers a message of hope by telling the story of how he went from growing up poor in Ohio's Rust Belt to graduating from Yale Law School. James David (JD) Vance's family is of Scots-Irish descent....
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For fifteen years, Jerome Gold worked as a rehabilitation counselor in a prison for juveniles in Washington state. Throughout his time there, he kept a journal of his experiences with youths who had been incarcerated for murder, kidnap, assault, rape and other sex offenses, auto theft, burglary, and selling drugs. What started as a journal designed to relieve stress turned into the evocation of one man's nuanced perspective on a unique group of young...
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Summary of Evicted by Matthew Desmond | Includes Analysis Preview: Matthew Desmond's Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City is a sociological study of evictions, housing, and homelessness in Milwaukee. The book follows the lives of a number of tenants and landlords in order to examine how access to housing affects the poor. Desmond also includes historical background, statistics, and research findings to provide context for his narratives....
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Are our strategies working to ensure all New Zealand children have the chance to thrive? Or are we wasting time, effort, and children's lives on solutions that make us feel good, yet fail to achieve lasting benefits for our most disadvantaged families? In Pennies from Heaven we seek to uncover the most potent ways to give all children in Aotearoa a "fair go". Why in New Zealand, a country in which concepts of fairness and equality are deeply embedded...
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This book offers a holistic view of Julio Boltvinik's vast and important work on poverty conceptualisation and measurement. While well known to Spanish-speaking audiences, this volume brings these works together to offer access for English-speaking audiences for the first time. The book provides the foundations, application and empirical examples of Boltvinik's Integrated Poverty Measurement Method, which could potentially transform poverty narratives...
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Kim Hopper has dedicated his career to trying to correct the problem of homelessness in the United States. In his powerful book, he draws upon his dual strengths as anthropologist and advocate to provide a deeper understanding of the roots of homelessness. He also investigates the complex attitudes brought to bear on the issue since his pioneering fieldwork with Ellen Baxter twenty years ago helped put homelessness on the public agenda.
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13) In Other Hands
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In search of stimulating stories, George Thomas Clark interviewed prostitutes in Madrid, Mexico City, Havana, and Managua and on many boulevards in the United States, and talked to detectives and rode the rough roads of social workers who deal with human trafficking, which is contemporary slavery, and toured the tattered, handmade shelters of the homeless and also interviewed them on the streets and in shelters, and conversed with the poor in the...
14) Ser Pobre
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Cada párrafo de Ser pobre es una perla obtenida en un lugar inaccesible.
Con un pie en las universidades de élite del Reino Unido y otro en el restaurante de techo de chapa de Cândida, en el altiplano angoleño. Solo así puede uno aproximarse a un fenómeno complejo y multidimensional como es la pobreza.
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A gripping and powerful story about survival on the streets. This is a true account, in descriptive and sometimes graphic detail, of what it was like to survive homelessness. It is the story of one person's struggle to come to terms with what can only be described as a real-life disaster. More than just a good read, A Homeless Panic provides a profound and moving account of what it's like to be homeless in America. Our society doesn't look favorably...
16) Urban Injustice
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David Hilfiker has committed his life, both as a writer and a doctor, to people in need, writing about the urban poor with whom he's spent all his days for the last two decades. In Urban Injustice, he explains in beautiful and simple language how the myth that the urban poor siphon off precious government resources is contradicted by the facts, and how most programs help some of the people some of the time but are almost never sufficiently orchestrated...
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In this persuasive study, social welfare and policy expert Paul Spicker makes a case for a relational view of poverty. Poverty is much more than a lack of resources. It involves a complex set of social relationships, such as economic disadvantage, insecurity or a lack of rights. These relational elements tell us what poverty is — what it consists of, what poor people are experiencing, and what problems need to be addressed. This book examines poverty...
18) Dark and Light
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The famous Sistine Chapel painting by Michelangelo illustrates God separating light from dark in the creation of our world as described in Genesis. That is the cover graphic for Dark and Light. The subtle message of that painting is FAR deeper and more profound to our lives than most could ever imagine.
"Dark and Light" takes you on a thought-provoking journey that exposes the incredible, unseen powers of our universe that govern our lives, our...
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The newest book by Joel Berg-an internationally recognized leader and media spokesman in the fields of hunger, poverty, food systems, and U.S. politics, and the director of Hunger Free America-America We Need to Talk: A Self-Help Book for the Nation is both a parody of relationship and self-help books and a serious analysis of the nation's political and economic dysfunction. Explaining that the most serious-and most broken-relationship is the one...
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L'itinérance est une question fort complexe. Sa compréhension, en tant que problème social, repose sur une exploration des différentes facettes qui la composent : le quotidien de la vie à la rue, les mécanismes d'exclusion, les formes de violence rencontrées, la dégradation de l'état de santé, la réduction des capacités d'agir, les différentes ruptures vécues, le développement des réponses sociales, etc. L'itinérance en questions...
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