6 books in Current Affairs - Poverty
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No Shame in My Game
The Working Poor in the Inner City
Written by Katherine S. Newman
Format: eBook, 416 pages
On Sale: March 4, 2009
Price: $16.00
"Powerful and poignant... Newman's message is clear and timely." --The Philadelphia Inquirer
In No Shame in My Game, Harvard anthropologist Katherine Newman gives voice to a population for whom work, family, and self-esteem are top priorities despite all the factors that make earning a living next to impossible--minimum wage, lack of child... Read more >
The Working Poor in the Inner City
Written by Katherine S. Newman
Format: eBook, 416 pages
On Sale: March 4, 2009
Price: $16.00
"Powerful and poignant... Newman's message is clear and timely." --The Philadelphia Inquirer
In No Shame in My Game, Harvard anthropologist Katherine Newman gives voice to a population for whom work, family, and self-esteem are top priorities despite all the factors that make earning a living next to impossible--minimum wage, lack of child... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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I Live Here
Written by Mia Kirshner, J.B. MacKinnon, Paul Shoebridge and Michael Simons
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: October 14, 2008
Price: $29.95
I Live Here is a paper documentary–an intimate journey to humanitarian crises in four corners of the world: war in Chechnya, ethnic cleansing in Burma, globalization in Mexico, and AIDS in Malawi.
~THE BOOK~
I Live Here is a visually stunning narrative — told through journals, stories, images, and graphic novellas — in... Read more >
Written by Mia Kirshner, J.B. MacKinnon, Paul Shoebridge and Michael Simons
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: October 14, 2008
Price: $29.95
I Live Here is a paper documentary–an intimate journey to humanitarian crises in four corners of the world: war in Chechnya, ethnic cleansing in Burma, globalization in Mexico, and AIDS in Malawi.
~THE BOOK~
I Live Here is a visually stunning narrative — told through journals, stories, images, and graphic novellas — in... Read more >
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Deer Hunting with Jesus
Dispatches from America's Class War
Written by Joe Bageant
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: June 24, 2008
Price: $13.95
A raucous, truth-telling look at the white working poor-and why they hate liberalism.
Deer Hunting with Jesus is web columnist Joe Bageant’s report on what he learned when he moved back to his hometown of Winchester, Virginia, which-like countless American small towns-is fast becoming the bedrock of a permanent underclass. By turns... Read more >
Dispatches from America's Class War
Written by Joe Bageant
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: June 24, 2008
Price: $13.95
A raucous, truth-telling look at the white working poor-and why they hate liberalism.
Deer Hunting with Jesus is web columnist Joe Bageant’s report on what he learned when he moved back to his hometown of Winchester, Virginia, which-like countless American small towns-is fast becoming the bedrock of a permanent underclass. By turns... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Deer Hunting with Jesus
Dispatches from America's Class War
Written by Joe Bageant
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 24, 2008
Price: $13.95
After thirty years spent scratching together a middle-class life out of a “dirt-poor” childhood, Joe Bageant moved back to his hometown of Winchester, Virginia, where he realized that his family and neighbors were the very people who carried George W. Bush to victory. That was ironic, because Winchester, like countless American... Read more >
Dispatches from America's Class War
Written by Joe Bageant
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 24, 2008
Price: $13.95
After thirty years spent scratching together a middle-class life out of a “dirt-poor” childhood, Joe Bageant moved back to his hometown of Winchester, Virginia, where he realized that his family and neighbors were the very people who carried George W. Bush to victory. That was ironic, because Winchester, like countless American... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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El fin de la pobreza
Written by Jeffrey Sachs
Format: Trade Paperback, 552 pages
On Sale: December 5, 2006
Price: $18.95
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Written by Jeffrey Sachs
Format: Trade Paperback, 552 pages
On Sale: December 5, 2006
Price: $18.95
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No Shame in My Game
The Working Poor in the Inner City
Written by Katherine S. Newman
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: April 25, 2000
Price: $16.00
"Powerful and poignant... Newman's message is clear and timely." --The Philadelphia Inquirer
In No Shame in My Game, Harvard anthropologist Katherine Newman gives voice to a population for whom work, family, and self-esteem are top priorities despite all the factors that make earning a living next to impossible--minimum wage, lack of child... Read more >
The Working Poor in the Inner City
Written by Katherine S. Newman
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: April 25, 2000
Price: $16.00
"Powerful and poignant... Newman's message is clear and timely." --The Philadelphia Inquirer
In No Shame in My Game, Harvard anthropologist Katherine Newman gives voice to a population for whom work, family, and self-esteem are top priorities despite all the factors that make earning a living next to impossible--minimum wage, lack of child... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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