Housing and homelessness

Providing access to clean water continues to be a challenge for governments.

In 1964, President Lyndon Johnson declared an "e;unconditional war"e; on poverty in the form of sweeping federal programs to assist millions of Americans.

Professional grandmasters study the latest wrinkles of their favorite openings.

Chessplayers wishing to improve their performance typically seek to deepen their middlegame understanding or to increase their endgame knowledge.

This publication provides a standard compilation of supply and use tables (SUTs) for 19 economies in Asia and the Pacific to help them comply with the United Nations 2008 System of National Accounts (SNA) recommendations.

Homelessness in America's cities remains a growing problem.

They did it!

Grandmaster Alexander Panchenko (1953-2009) was one of the most successful chess trainers in the Soviet Union, and later in Russia.

As the tragedy of the Grenfell tower fire has slowly revealed a shadowy background of outsourcing, private finance initiatives and a council turning a blind eye to health and safety concerns, many questions need answers.

Is it possible to learn how to attack your opponent's king from a book?

The ways that social advocates organize to fight unaffordable housing and homelessness in Los Angeles, illuminated by a new conceptual framework for studying collective actionHow Civic Action Works renews the tradition of inquiry into collective, social problem solving.

Don't have the time to study opening theory, or to figure out where you're going wrong with your games?

The Basman-Sale Variation is a relatively unexplored weapon for Black in the Sicilian Defence.

Learn how to attack in the sharpest lines of the most widely played chess opening!

Nearly forty percent of humanity lives on an average of two dollars a day or less.

Today the United States has one of the highest poverty rates among the world's rich industrial democracies.

This book concerns the study of open-air accommodation facilities.

designing networks cities presents a sophisticated, multi-disciplinary, and multi-dimensional approach to urban design.

What kinds of experiences do we have with the poor and the oppressed around the world?

What does the Bible say about poverty and our responsibility toward the poor?

Mi Rinconcito en el Cielo (My Little Corner of the Sky) tells the remarkable story of Alberto "e;Beto"e; Gonzales, who overcame a childhood of poverty, addiction, bigotry, and violence and went on to change the lives of thousands of children and adults as a mentor and gang prevention specialist.

Housing bubbles burst, creating economic misery for millions.

The problem of homelessness in America underpins the definition of an American city: what it is, who it is for, what it does, and why it matters.

Modern Land Law is one of the most current and reliable textbooks available on land law today, offering a lively and thought-provoking account of a subject that remains at the heart of our legal system.

Modern Land Law is one of the most current and reliable textbooks available on land law today, offering a lively and thought-provoking account of a subject that remains at the heart of our legal system.

A pesar de inversiones significativas y el desarrollo de una amplia gama de políticas públicas durante más de siete décadas, la marginalidad urbana persiste en muchas ciudades latinoamericanas.

Acontecimientos recientes han puesto en evidencia que hoy más que nunca las políticas urbanas, en general, y las intervenciones (territorializadas) del Estado sobre la cuestión urbana definen un complejo rompecabezas para armar.

In Two Sports Myths and Why They're Wrong, authors Rodney Fort and Jason Winfree apply sharp economic analysis to bust a couple of the most widespread urban legends about professional athletics.

Ecofeminism is for those who desire to improve their understanding of the current crises of poverty, environmental destruction, violence, and human rights abuses, and their causes.

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The Poverty of Nations is a study about the status and trends in human well-being as it varies from nation to nation worldwide.

The Third World cities have been reinvented by the forces of globalization as the destinations of new investments, causing the migration of a teeming million to the major urban centers without any corresponding increase in the creation of new jobs and other basic amenities required for decent living.

Chess, the ancient strategy game, meets the latest, cutting-edge philosophy in this unique book.

What if you just trusted the whisper of calling placed on your heart?

This book uses the transformative innovation policy (TIP) as a lens to show how innovative processes, practices and systems could address critical challenges and facilitate the delivery of sustainable human settlements in South Africa.

A groundbreaking account of the early history of rent control Written by one of the country’s foremost urban historians, The Great Rent Wars tells the fascinating but little-known story of the battles between landlords and tenants in the nation’s largest city from 1917 through 1929.

What is it about the concept of “home” that makes its loss so profound and devastating, and how should the trauma of exile and alienation be approached theologically?

An intimate portrait of India’s child runaways, and the sociopolitical forces shaping their lives This intimate portrait examines the tracks, journeys, and experiences of child runaways in northern India.

Every child has the right to read.

Class counts.

In the context of contemporary economic, political, social and cultural transformations, this book brings together contributions from developed and emerging societies in Europe, the USA and East Asia in order to highlight the nature, extent and impact of these changes on the housing opportunities of women.

Originally published in 1995, as part of the Ethnoscapes: Current Challenges in the Environmental Social Sciences series, reissued now with a new series introduction, The Home: Words, Interpretations, Meanings and Environments, written by by leading theorists and empirical researchers offers an interdisciplinary and multi-cultural spectrum of viewpoints on the study of the home concept.

Many historical chess books focus on individual 19th century masters and tournaments yet little is written covering the full scope of competitive chess through the era.

The Economic and Opportunity Gap has a great deal of information, ideas and resources focused on children and families living in poverty.

In 1991, the Israeli government introduced emergency legislation canceling the general exit permit that allowed Palestinians to enter Israel.

Since the 2008 financial crisis, complex capital flows have ravaged everyday communities across the globe.

Here is a searing account-probably the best yet published-of life in the underclass and why it persists as it does.

Today's globalised world means offshore finance, airport boutiques and high-speed Internet for some people, against dollar-a-day wages, used t-shirts, and illiteracy for others.

Self-neglect and hoarding is present in 1 of 5 social work cases in mental health and older people's services.

Responding to the growing number of psychologically-informed services for people experiencing social exclusion and, in particular, homelessness, this book gives professionals the information and understanding they need to be fully informed in their practice with this client group.