Social Issues & Processes

Foreword by Amartya Sen (Nobel Prize for Economics, 1998) Afterword by Kailash Satyarthi (Nobel Peace Prize, 2014)In 2005, Nick Danziger began to c...

From the Man Booker shortlisted author of Harvest.Alfred Busi, famed in his town for his music and songs, is mourning the recent death of his wife ...

This book on counting sheltered homeless persons is part of HUD''''s larger technical assistance effort to help Continuums of Care (CoCs) prepare a...

The ongoing problems in the U.S. housing market continue to impede the economic recovery. House prices have fallen an average of about 33 percent f...

This book provides background information on government policy on tackling statutory homelessness (ie: those households for whom local authorities,...

Trauma-Informed Care for Women Veterans Experiencing Homelessness was commissioned by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) Women''''s Bureau (WB) as ...

'An illuminating portrait of Baltimore ... Readers will be enthralled' Publishers Weekly A kaleidoscopic account of five days in the life of a city...

From the bottom to the top of our economy, capitalism is too blunt an instrument to tackle Britain's epidemic of inequality. Soaring rents, unfair...

'A triumphant family memoir' Hallie Rubenhold'Powerfully told...an impressive work' The Times'Gives a voice to the voiceless' Australian Book Revie...

Touching, insightful and human this book demands a social and, above all, a political response Jon SnowTamsen Courtenay spent two months speaking ...

Who Dares Lives consists of three parts: Part I: The first part tells the story of an eleven-year-old boy as he begins to turn into a man. Lenord h...

The Targeted Poverty Alleviation programme was proposed by President Xi in 2013 and aims to give poor people the resources to lift themselves out o...

In this seminal book, Krumer-Nevo introduces the Poverty-Aware Paradigm: a radical new framework for social workers and professionals working with ...

¿Y SI NOS ESTAMOS EQUIVOCANDO EN NUESTRAS PREGUNTAS SOBRE LA POBREZA? Este relato nace de una pregunta que nunca nos hemos planteado: ?quien es due...

Child poverty is rising across affluent Western societies; how it is measured is vital to how governments act to prevent, alleviate or eliminate it...

This book addresses key issues related to teaching pupils from disadvantaged and impoverished backgrounds and provides a valuable reference and ped...

Community development both a collective effort and an achievement driven by individual facilitators with the aim of lifting a community out of pove...