Poverty and precarity

Krise: Wie Nationen an Herausforderungen wachsen und Hoffnung für die Zukunft schaffenIn seinem bisher persönlichsten Buch zeigt der Pulitzer-Preisträger Jared Diamond, wie Nationen erfolgreich mit den gegenwärtigen Krisen wie Klimawandel, sozialer Ungleichheit und gesellschaftlicher Polarisierung umgehen können.

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.

In this rich cultural history, Pamela Roberston Wojcik examines Americas ambivalent and shifting attitude toward homelessness.

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.

"e;This is a book ripped from the headlines, from Black Lives Matter to recently thriving downtowns stripped of office workers and service workers.

A vivid and enlightening oral account of homelessness in the Las Vegas storm drains and the hard work of re-entering mainstream society.

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.

In Break the Caste, George Gerharz unmasks common American misperceptions of poverty, inequality, and social mobility.

"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.

This book provides unique insights into the challenges and potential solutions to alleviate poverty in western China.

798 pages, 466 images, with 44 contributorsVolume three of Chadwick’s Child Maltreatment provides an overview of topics ranging from the risks of the Internet, family abduction, the legal and forensic aspects of child maltreatment cases, and the roles of physicians, nurses, social workers, and multidisciplinary teams.

456 pages, 350 images, with 36 contributorsVolume two in the fourth edition of Chadwick’s Child Maltreatment series provides an overview of the signs and effects of sexual abuse and psychological maltreatment toward children.

600 pages, 1177 images, with 32 contributorsThe first volume in the fourth edition of Chadwick’s Child Maltreatment provides an overview of the signs and effects of physical abuse and neglect toward children.

132 pages, 56 images, 17 contributors
Advanced-Level Adolescent and Adult Sexual Assault Assessment builds on the skills demonstrated through completion of the Entry- Level and Intermediate-Level books.

128 pages, 56 images, 17 contributors
Intermediate-Level Adolescent and Adult Sexual Assault Assessment presents students with more complex case histories, including different forms of drug facilitated sexual assault scenarios, and are introduced to additional anatomic terms compared to the Entry-Level Assessment.

112 pages, 44 images, 16 contributors
Entry-Level Adolescent and Adult Sexual Assault Assessment allows students to have the opportunity to identify and appropriately label anatomical structures and injuries using objective terminology.

660 pages, 95 images, 53 contributorsSexual Assault Victimization Across the Life Span: A Clinical Guide offers a broad array of information for sexual assault intervention, from the fundamentals of physical evaluation and investigation to in-depth guides to the unique challenges presented by cases of sexual assault.

440 pages, 603 images, with 31 contributorsMedical Response to Child Sexual Abuse: A Resource for Professionals Working with Children and Families features a completely pediatric focus as a part of the Sexual Assault line and adds an illustrative multimedia component.

400 pages, 150 images, 77 contributors
Child Fatality Review Quick Reference features the best practices in the investigation of child death.

"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.

Craig Smith was good looking, charismatic, outgoing a gifted musician whose songs were recorded by some of the biggest names in entertainment.

Growing up in a prosperous neighborhood, B.

Eleven-year-old Lisa becomes her mother's primary support when they face the prospect of homelessness.

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.

The nadir of Zimbabwe,s political and economic crisis in 2008 coincided with the implementation of a baseline household food security survey in Harare by AFSUN.

Effective and transparent government budgeting is vital to any democracy.

In a poverty-stricken neighbourhood wedged between the city and the sea, a father and son struggle to keep their heads above water.

'There are children in Holbeck without crayons.