An extraordinary meditation on experience, writing, and space, My Two Worlds is about a writer lost in an unfamiliar Brazilian city, searching for a park.
This richly textured social history recovers the voices and experiences of poor Egyptians--beggars, foundlings, the sick and maimed--giving them a history for the first time.
The renowned FreewayBlogger, aka Patrick Randall, tells the story of one of his earliest decision to take direct actionhe hears a report of poverty in Mexico, loads up his trusty old VW bus and hits the road with half a ton of clothes, no map, some good tunes and a sense of adventure.
The strengths and abilities children develop from infancy through adolescence are crucial for their physical, emotional, and cognitive growth, which in turn help them to achieve success in school and to become responsible, economically self-sufficient, and healthy adults.
En el marco del compromiso universitario con la comunidad, subyace la obligación de estudiar y mostrar las causas que influyen en el crecimiento de la pobreza, la falta de agua potable, la educación insuficiente e inadecuada, la destrucción del ambiente, tala indiscriminada de los bosques nativos y las fumigaciones con agrotóxicos, que son, entre otros, elementos que han contribuido al incremento de la desnutrición, enfermedades, contaminación de los ríos, y en definitiva, a que existan más seres humanos excluidos de los derechos esenciales.
Robert Walker provides a critical examination of the promise and reality of SDG1, the United Nations' Social Development Goal designed, among other things, to eradicate extreme poverty by 2030.
Robert Walker provides a critical examination of the promise and reality of SDG1, the United Nations' Social Development Goal designed, among other things, to eradicate extreme poverty by 2030.
This report explains how rising climate and disaster risk is set to increase the vulnerability of Asia and the Pacific region's urban poor and identifies how to engender systemic change to strengthen their resilience.
Queer Precarity in Higher Education looks at queer scholars pushing against institutional structures, and the queer knowledge that gets pushed out by universities.
Queer Precarity in Higher Education looks at queer scholars pushing against institutional structures, and the queer knowledge that gets pushed out by universities.
A Brookings Institution Press and the Center for Global Development publicationThe plight of the poorest around the world has been pushed to the forefront of America's international agenda for the first time in many years by the war on terrorism and the formidable challenges presented by the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
Despite the recent success of welfare reform in moving people off public assistance and into jobs, most of America's working poor are still unable to accumulate even the most minimal of assets.
A Brookings Institution Press and Yale Center for the Study of Globalization and Sciences-Po, Paris publicationThis thoughtful volume assesses the likely impact of reformed trade policies on the poorest of the poorthose on the bottom economic rungs in developing nations.
Die fiktive Welt, in der "Alice im Wunderland" angesiedelt ist, spielt so mit Logik, dass sich die Erzählung unter Mathematikern und Kindern gleichermaßen großer Beliebtheit erfreut.
Der siebenjährige Cedric lebt mit seiner verwitweten Mutter in New York in ärmlichen Verhältnissen, als sich das Leben des Jungen schlagartig ändert: Er soll ein Lord werden!
KINDER AUS ÖSTERREICH - ARBEITER IN DEUTSCHLAND Wanderung, Leben, Arbeit der "Tiroler Hütekinder" anhand genauer Quellenstudien und mündlicher Berichte noch lebender ZeitzeugenIm 19.
This issue explores how Pacific developing member countries can strengthen their post-pandemic social protection systems to help address long-standing development concerns and boost resilience to further shocks.
Knut Hamsun: Hunger Vollständige, ungekürzte deutsche Ausgabe; neu editiert | Ein junger Mann, Schriftsteller will er werden, zieht durch die Straßen Kristianias, dem heutigen Oslo.
