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1	Framework for Understanding Poverty more books like this by Ruby K Payne, PhD add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.49!
2	The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done about It more books like this by Paul Collier add to wishlist Global poverty is falling rapidly, but in around fifty failing states, the world's poorest people face a tragedy that is growing inexorably worse. This bottom billion live on less than a dollar a day and while the rest of the world moves steadily forward, this forgotten billion is left further and further behind with potentially serious ... see all copies from $8.00! new only from $9.59! \| first editions \| SVS
3	The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good more books like this by William Easterly add to wishlist A professor of economics pens an informed and excoriating attack on the tragic waste, futility, and hubris of the West's efforts to date to improve the lot of the so-called developing world, and provides constructive suggestions on how to move forward. see all copies from $6.47! new only from $7.49! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America more books like this by Barbara Ehrenreich add to wishlist In this study of America's minimum wage workers, the author explains how she went under cover several times, taking on different low-wage positions, to determine how adults who lack higher education survive. After working at Wal-Mart and as a waitress, she concluded that the working poor should be afforded more health care, housing assistance, and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.03! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World more books like this by Jacqueline Novogratz add to wishlist Eleven years after donating her blue sweater to Goodwill, Novogratz spotted a young boy in Africa wearing that very sweater. In that moment, she realized how all people are connected, which set the author on a lifelong course to fight poverty worldwide. see all copies from $11.71! new only from $12.98! \| SVS
6	Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx more books like this by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc add to wishlist The result of over ten years of immersion reporting, "Random Family" charts a tumultuous decade in which girls become mothers, mothers become grandmothers, boys become criminals, and hope struggles against deprivation. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.16! \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Working Poor: Invisible in America more books like this by David K Shipler add to wishlist From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Arab and Jew" comes a new book that presents a searing, intimate portrait of working American families struggling against insurmountable odds to escape poverty. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.51! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism more books like this by Muhammad Yunus, Dr. Karl Weber add to wishlist The winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize outlines his vision for a new business model that combines the power of free markets with the quest for a more humane world - and tells the inspiring stories of companies that are doing this work today. Over the last two decades, free markets have swept the globe, bringing with them enormous potential for ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor more books like this by David S Landes add to wishlist An economic historian examines reasons for the economic success of some nations over others. While acknowledging the role of geography, he falls on the side of culture as a determining factor. Landes focuses on the Industrial Revolution and the primacy of the West in this study. see all copies from $4.59! new only from $8.72! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America more books like this by Paul Tough add to wishlist Geoffrey Canada is a driven, brilliant crusader for children who argues that to change the lives of poor children, everything has to change--their schools, their families, their neighborhoods--all at once. Tough offers a behind-the-scenes look at Canada's Harlem Children's Zone organization. see all copies from $8.89! new only from $8.89! \| first editions \| SVS
11	Scratch Beginnings: Me, $25, and the Search for the American Dream more books like this by Adam Shepard add to wishlist Shepard offers a compelling and inspiring work of investigative journalism in which the author, in a sort of anti-"Nickel and Dimed" experiment, sets out to see if someone who starts with nothing can still achieve the American Dream. see all copies from $4.22! new only from $5.82! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Class: A Guide Through the American Status System more books like this by Paul Fussell add to wishlist This book describes the living-room artifacts, clothing styles, and intellectual proclivities of American classes from top to bottom. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.96! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Esperanza Rising more books like this by Pam Munoz Ryan add to wishlist Set in 1930, this is the story of Esperanza and her mother as they immigrate to the United States from Mexico following the death of Esperanza's father. As the pair travel they must deal with the racism and classism that confront many immigrants. Named one of the Best Children's Books 2000 by Publishers Weekly. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.25! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics more books like this by William Easterly add to wishlist Since the end of World War II, economists have tried to figure out how poor countries in the tropics could attain standards of living approaching those of countries in Europe and North America. Attempted remedies have included providing foreign aid, investing in machines, fostering education, controlling population growth, and making aid loans as ... see all copies from $6.73! new only from $18.85! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Portfolios of the Poor: How the World's Poor Live on $2 a Day more books like this by Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch, Stuart Rutherford add to wishlist About forty percent of the world's people live on incomes of two dollars a day or less. If you've never had to survive on an income so small, it is hard to imagine. How would you put food on the table, afford a home, and educate your children? How would you handle emergencies and old age? Every day, more than a billion people around the world must ... see all copies from $27.56! new only from $27.56! \| SVS
16 view cover	The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty more books like this by Professor Peter Singer add to wishlist For the first time in history, it is within our reach to eradicate world poverty and the suffering it brings. A billion people struggle to live each day on less than many of us pay for a bottle of water. Nearly ten million children die each year from poverty-related causes. Our current response to world poverty is not only insufficient but ... see all copies from $11.38! new only from $12.67! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Bastard Out of Carolina more books like this by Dorothy Allison add to wishlist Ruth Anne Boatwright ("Bone"), growing up in a close-knit extended family of Southern poor whites, is molested by her violent stepfather. Allison's powerful--and highly autobiographical--novel of family dysfunction and individual survival was a best-seller when it appeared in 1992. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System more books like this by Raj Patel add to wishlist How can starving people also be obese? Why does everything have soy in it? How do petrochemicals and biofuels control the price of food? It's a perverse fact of modern life: There are more starving people in the world than ever before (800 million) while there are also more people overweight (1 billion). To find out how we got to this point and ... see all copies from $10.00! new only from $11.93! \| first editions
19	Bridges Out of Poverty: Strategies for Professionals and Communities more books like this by Ruby K Payne, PhD add to wishlist see all copies from $18.90! new only from $27.00! \| first editions
20 view cover	People of the Owl more books like this by Kathleen O'Neal Gear, W Michael Gear add to wishlist Recounts the story of the trading empire of Poverty Port, Louisiana, of 3500 years ago, during which warrior and shaman, Salamander, experiences a vision that shapes the destiny of his people. 50,000 first printing. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism more books like this by Richard Howard Robbins add to wishlist This award-winning text explores one of the most successful cultures and society the world has ever seen-capitalism. From capitalism's European roots more than 500 years ago to the present, this widely acclaimed text examines the problems caused by its expansion, inequality, environmental destruction, and social unrest. Global Problems and the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $18.99! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America more books like this by Jonathan Kozol add to wishlist "Important and compelling . . .cking facts and figures with the affecting, even tragic stories and voices of homeless families . . . read this book".--USA Today. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.36! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	How the Other Half Lives more books like this by Jacob A Riis add to wishlist Published in 1890, "How The Other Half Lives" was an instant best seller in the United States. This critical edition is based on the 1901 edition of the work, provided by The Jacob A. Riis Collection of the Museum of the City of New York. 'Contexts' includes a section on Riis in his own words in addition to his contemporaries' reaction to the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.00! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Down & Out in Paris & London more books like this by George Orwell add to wishlist 'You have talked so often of going to the dogs - and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them'. George Orwell's vivid memoir of his time among the desperately poor and destitute in London and Paris is a moving tour of the underworld of society. Here he painstakingly documents a world of unrelenting drudgery and squalor - sleeping in bug ... see all copies from $2.93! new only from $4.72! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	The other America; poverty in the United States more books like this by Michael Harrington add to wishlist IN see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.40! \| first editions \| SVS

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