Nach den Bestsellern »Arm und Reich« und »Kollaps« zeigt der Pulitzer-Preisträger Jared Diamond in seinem neuen und bisher persönlichsten Buch, wie Nationen mit den gegenwärtigen Krisen – Klimawandel, soziale Ungleichheit, gesellschaftliche Polarisierung – erfolgreich umgehen können.
Plongée dans le quotidien disloqué de huit foyers des quartiers pauvres de Milwaukee, au Wisconsin, où chaque jour, des dizaines de ménages sont expulsés de leurs maisons.
Au cœur de cet essai, une question toute simple prédomine : nous est-il possible d’habiter des lieux précaires, des espaces qui nous condamnent à une mort lente ?
For nearly four decades, China's manufacturing boom has been powered by the labor of 287 million rural migrant workers, who travel seasonally between villages where they farm for subsistence and cities where they work.
Discover the inspirational and true story of Charles Mully, from his beginning as a poor abandoned six-year-old Kenyan boy who goes on to defeat all odds and grows up to become a successful, powerful and very rich entrepreneur.
A senior editor at Mother Jones dives into the lives of the extremely rich, showing the fascinating, otherworldly realm they inhabitand the insidious ways this realm harms us all.
Summary of Evicted by Michael Desmond | Includes Analysis Preview:Matthew Desmond s Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City is a sociological study of evictions, housing, and homelessness in Milwaukee.
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Tankard Book Award winner Weatherford Award winner, nonfiction The News Untold offers an important new perspective on media narratives about poverty in Appalachia.
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Tankard Book Award winner Weatherford Award winner, nonfiction The News Untold offers an important new perspective on media narratives about poverty in Appalachia.
"e;The poems in Copia are about what is and what is almost-gone, what is in limbo and what won't give way, what is almost at rock bottom but still and always brimming with the possibility of miracle.
"e;The poems in Copia are about what is and what is almost-gone, what is in limbo and what won't give way, what is almost at rock bottom but still and always brimming with the possibility of miracle.
"e;Early in Sergio Chejfec's The Dark, the nameless narrator describes his disorientation when looking over a landscape as 'the vertigo of simple things.
A 2013 Best Translated Book Award FinalistWhen he reads about a mysterious explosion in the distant countryside, the narrator's thoughts turn to his disappeared childhood friend, M, who was abducted from his home years ago, during a spasm of political violence in Buenos Aires in the early 1970s.
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.
In this mix of history, journalism, political analysis, and first-person accounts, former chief coroner and Vancouver mayor Larry Campbell, renowned criminologist Neil Boyd, and investigative journalist Lori Culbert, offer a portrait of one of North Americas poorest, most drug-challenged neighbourhoods: Vancouvers Downtown Eastside.
This report marks the first stage of AFSUN,s goal of expanding knowledge about urban food systems and experiences of household food insecurity in secondary African cities.
This report argues that it is essential to understand the dynamics of the informal food retail sector because of its vital role in ensuring greater access to food by the urban poor.