(Hardback)
By: Susan Eva Eckstein
ISBN: 9780691633305
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Susan Eva Eckstein
ISBN: 9780691604107
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Stephen Armstrong
ISBN: 9781780336916
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2012
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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A searing exploration of social injustice, inequality and the state of the nation published to co-incide with the 75th anniversary of the original publication of The Road to Wigan Pier.
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By: Herbert J. Gans
ISBN: 9780465019915
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 1996
Publisher: Basic Books
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"In his withering dissection of the origins and misuse of the term "underclass" to stereotype and stigmatize the poor, Herbert J. Gans shows how this ubiquitous label has relegated a wide variety of pe"
(Paperback)
By: James Jennings
ISBN: 9780275949846
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 1994
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book is designed to help readers navigate through the vast and rapidly growing literature on poverty in urban America.
(Hardback)
By: James Jennings
ISBN: 9780275949532
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 1994
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book is designed to help readers navigate through the vast and rapidly growing literature on poverty in urban America.
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By: Brian L. Fife
ISBN: 9798765134467
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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Applying lessons from history to the reality of poverty today in the United Statesthe most affluent country in the worldthis book analyzes contributing factors to poverty and proposes steps to relieve people affected by it.
(Hardback)
By: Brian L. Fife
ISBN: 9781440832819
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Applying lessons from history to the reality of poverty today in the United Statesthe most affluent country in the worldthis book analyzes contributing factors to poverty and proposes steps to relieve people affected by it.
American history is replete with efforts to alleviate poverty.
(Hardback)
By: Geoffrey Gilbert
ISBN: 9781851095520
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2004
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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World Poverty provides an authoritative and balanced examination of the many facets of world poverty and the policy issues surrounding it.
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By: Joseph F. Stepanek
ISBN: 9780275965051
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 1999
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Poverty is not a state of nature, but, as Stepanek shows, can be ascribed to manmade institutions that reflect self-serving and self-indulgent ideologies, poorly tested theories and policies, weak governments, and poverty alleviation programs that are questionably designed and poorly administered.
(Hardback)
By: Peter Apps
ISBN: 9781836430360
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2026
UK Publication Date: 25th September 2025
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
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What - and who - is a city for
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By: Muhammad Yunus
ISBN: 9781925322477
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2017
Publisher: Scribe Publications
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(Paperback)
By: Jonathan Boston
ISBN: 9781927247860
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 2014
Publisher: Bridget Williams Books
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Between 130,000 and 285,000 New Zealand children live in poverty: these alarming figures are widely discussed, yet often poorly understood. Jonathan Boston and Simon Chapple look hard at the questions, and identify some real options for action.
(Hardback)
By: Li Di
ISBN: 9781913491949
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2025
Publisher: Unicorn Publishing Group
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The Poverty Alleviation Series Volume One - Eighteen Stories in Shibadong Village
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By: Darren McGarvey
ISBN: 9781529006346
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2018
UK Publication Date: 9th August 2018
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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Winner of the Orwell Prize 2018.
(Hardback)
By: Song Wang
ISBN: 9781913491963
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2025
Publisher: Unicorn Publishing Group
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The Poverty Alleviation Series Volume Three - Red, Red Azalea
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By: Monica Potts
ISBN: 9780241320525
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2023
UK Publication Date: 27th April 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Gary Rivlin
ISBN: 9780061733208
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2011
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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From the author of the New York Times Notable Book of the Year Drive By comes a unique and riveting exploration of one of America s largest and fastest-growing industries the business of poverty. Broke, USA is a Fast Food Nation for the poverty industry that will also appeal to readers of Barbara Ehrenreich (Nickel and Dimed) and David Shipler (The Working Poor)."
(Paperback)
By: Adrian Jackson
ISBN: 9781786826527
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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True stories (and wild speculations) about the lives and deaths of homeless people, uncovered by the UKs leading homelessness theatre company.
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By: Elizabeth Carpenter-Song
ISBN: 9780262546188
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2023
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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"Follows the experiences of families who have experienced homelessness in New England, tracing their struggles to maintain stable housing and their engagements with mental health and social services"--
(Hardback)
By: Alison Owings
ISBN: 9780807020579
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
Publisher: Beacon Press
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(Paperback)
By: Alison Owings
ISBN: 9780807021477
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2025
Publisher: Beacon Press
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(Paperback)
By: Jacqueline Novogratz
ISBN: 9781605294766
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2018
Publisher: Rodale Press
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Eleven years after donating her blue sweater to Goodwill, Novogratz spotted a young boy in Africa wearing that very sweater. In that moment, she realizes how all people are connected, which sets the author on a lifelong course to fight poverty worldwide.
(Paperback)
By: Jeffrey Sachs
ISBN: 9780141018669
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2005
UK Publication Date: 7th April 2005
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Marrying vivid storytelling with acute analysis, he sets the stage by drawing a conceptual map of the world economy and explains why, over the past 200 years, wealth and poverty have diverged and evolved across the planet, and why the poorest nations have been so markedly unable to escape the trap of poverty.
