Poverty

Homelessness is a perennial topic of concern at libraries. In fact, staff at public libraries interact with almost as many homeless individuals as staff at...

The Author Of The National Bestseller Apocalypse Never Examines The Problems Plaguing America's Most Liberal Cities. San Francisco Was Once Widely Viewed As...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF TIME’STEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE“Inspiring . . . extraordinary ....

Global inequality doesn’t just exist; it has been created. More than four billion people―some 60 percent of humanity―live in debilitating poverty, on...

A Memoir Of A City, An Industry, And A Dynasty In Decline, And The Story Of A Young Artist's Struggle To Find Her Way Out Of The Ruins. Frances Stroh's Earl...

meet Denver, A Man Raised Under Plantation-style Slavery In Louisiana In The 1960s; A Man Who Escaped, Hopping A Train To Wander, Homeless, For Eighteen Y...

The sequel to Jennifer Worth's New York Times bestselling memoir and the basis for the PBS series Call the Midwife When twenty-two-year-old Jennifer Worth...

'It's a very short trip from the limousine seat to the curb.' Jim Mann never missed a payroll for the dozen men who worked for his flourishing landscaping ...

Persistant poverty has long been one of America's most pressing and intractable problems. According to some estimates, by 2003, almost twenty-five percent o...

This is the second edition of the immensely successful international text Poverty and Development in the 1990s. Each chapter introduces the student to a k...

"This is an angry and a hopeful book, and, like everything Dr. Farmer has written, it has both passion and authority. Pathologies of Power is an eloquent ...

Deborah Dundas is a journalist who grew up poor and almost didn't make it to university. In On Class, she talks to writers, activists, those who work with...

Global Poverty, Economist Collier Points Out, Is Actually Falling Quite Rapidly For About 80% Of The World. The Real Crisis Lies In A Group Of About 50 Fail...

The sad, tender, and extremely funny memoir of a boyhood few thought he would survive, including the unforgettable mother and hilarious grandmother who rais...

How To Become A Great Leader People Are Yearning To Make An Impact And Create Much Needed Change. Building A Business, Starting A Movement, Generating A New...

In This Era Of Increasingly Complex Problems And Shrinking Resources, Can We Find Meaningful And Enduring Solutions To The Challenges We Face Today As Indiv...

This book continues where my first book left off-with forty photographs and stories of people experiencing homelessness. It is a part of my ongoing mission,...

New York Times Best Seller "A deft and uniquely credible exploration of rural America, and of other left-behind pockets of our country. One of the most imp...

the Blue Sweater Is The Inspiring Story Of A Woman Who Left A Career In International Banking To Spend Her Life On A Quest To Understand Global Poverty An...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning culture critic for Time magazine comes the tremendously controversial, yet highly persuasive, argument that our devotion ...

New Thoughts And Reflections From The Authors Of The Inspirational New York Times Bestseller Same Kind Of Different As Me. The More Than Four Hundred Thousa...

In 2001, when Jacqueline Novogratz founded Acumen, a global community of socially and environmentally responsible partners dedicated to changing the way the...

*finalist For The National Book Award* *finalist For The Kirkus Prize* *instant New York Times Bestseller* *named A Best Book Of The Year By Npr, New York P...

How does poverty impact learning, work habits and decision-making? People in poverty face challenges virtually unknown to those in middle class or wealth-c...

It has been called one of the greatest tragedies of our time. In an age of prosperity and plenty, hundreds of thousands of people continue to find themselv...

Society is broken. We can design our way to a better one.In our interconnected world, self-interest and social-interest are rapidly becoming indistinguisha...

Meet Denver, a man raised under plantation-style slavery in Louisiana in the 1960s; a man who escaped, hopping a train to wander, homeless, for eighteen y...

"Nickel and Dimed for the Amazon age," (Salon) the bitingly funny, eye-opening story of finding work in the automated and time-starved world of hourly low-...

“Funny, touching, tragic….A remarkable tale of corruption, child trafficking and civil war in a far away land—and one man’s extraordinary quest to ...

Poverty ended for Angie Peter's family in one generation because of the intervention of ordinary people who cared. Just Act is an inspirational guide for pe...