The Ingenuity Gap: Facing the Economic, Environmental, ...
 As the world becomes more complex, so do its problems--and the solutions to these problems become tougher to grasp, writes University of Toronto professor Thomas Homer-Dixon in The Ingenuity Gap. "As we strive to maintain or increase our prosperity ... [... more]
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Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet
Thirty years after Frances Lappe's Diet for a Small Planet changed eating habits around the world, she and her daughter Anna bring us a new round of iconoclastic recommendations that break overwhelming issues down to a simple matter of personal choice. ... [... more]
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Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the ...
For more than thirty years, Kevin Phillips' insight into American politics and economics has helped to make history as well as record it. His bestselling books, including The Emerging Republican Majority (1969) and The Politics of Rich and Poor (1990), ... [... more]
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Essayist and cultural critic Barbara Ehrenreich has always specialized in turning received wisdom on its head with intelligence, clarity, and verve. With some 12 million women being pushed into the labor market by welfare reform, she decided to do some ... [... more]
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The Working Poor: Invisible in America
"Most of the people I write about in this book do not have the luxury of rage. They are caught in exhausting struggles. Their wages do not lift them far enough from poverty to improve their lives, and their lives, in turn, hold them back. The term ... [... more]
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Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation
An opinion on merits and demerits of Entitlement Approach Poverty and Famines: An essay on Entitlement and Deprivation The Nobel Laureate (1998) Amartya Sen needs no introduction. But poverty and starvation are better known than he is. Better still, the ... [... more]
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World Poverty and Human Rights: Cosmopolitan ...
Interesting argument, but too "Ivory Tower" for practicality In a collection of essays on so broad a scope as Pogge's World Poverty and Human Rights it's difficult to narrow topics of possible discussion down to effectively address all aspects ... [... more]
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American Dreams in Mississippi: Consumers, Poverty, and ...
The dreams of abundance, choice, and novelty that have fueled the growth of consumer culture in the United States would seem to have little place in the history of Mississippi—a state long associated with poverty, inequality, and rural life. But as Ted ... [... more]
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Health and Social Justice: Politics, Ideology, and ...
Health and Social Justice draws on the growing body of recent literature to offer a comprehensive collection of articles written by a panel of expert contributors who represent a broad range of fields?sociology, epidemiology, public health, ecology, ... [... more]
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Effort and Excellence in Urban Classrooms: Expecting, ...
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In the Deep Heart's Core
In the fall of 1997, Michael Johnston went to the rural Mississippi Delta - the "deep heart's core" of the South - as a member of the Teach for America program, to become an English teacher in one of the poorest districts in the nation. At ... [... more]
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Street Crazy : America's Mental Health Tragedy
STREET CRAZY recounts one psychiatrist's experience with the mentally ill, who have often become homeless because of their disease. Using clear, straight-forward language, Dr. Stephen B. Seager explains brain disease, tells the often disturbing history ... [... more]
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