Social Poverty

Liste de produits
    • Invisible in America
    • Auteur(s): David K. Shipler
    • Narrateur(s): Peter Ganim
    • Durée: 15 h et 13 min
    • Date de publication: 2011-04-19
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Nobody who works hard should be poor in America, writes Pulitzer Prize-winner David Shipler....

    Prix courant: 33,29$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 33,29$ ou 1 crédit

    • History, Measurement, and Policy
    • Auteur(s): Martin Ravallion
    • Narrateur(s): Bruce Mann
    • Durée: 32 h et 25 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-02-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • The Economics of Poverty reviews critically past and present debates on poverty, spanning both rich and poor countries.

    Prix courant: 33,40$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 33,40$ ou 1 crédit

    • Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America
    • Auteur(s): Kathryn J. Edin, H. Luke Shaefer, Timothy J. Nelson
    • Narrateur(s): Janina Edwards
    • Durée: 9 h et 55 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-08-08
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Three of the nation’s top scholars ­– known for tackling key mysteries about poverty in America – turn their attention from the country’s poorest people to its poorest places....

    Prix courant: 32,62$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 32,62$ ou 1 crédit

    • One Family and the Fracturing of America
    • Auteur(s): Eliza Griswold
    • Narrateur(s): Tavia Gilbert
    • Durée: 10 h et 34 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-06-12
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 évaluations
    • Prize-winning poet and journalist Eliza Griswold’s Amity and Prosperity is an expose on how fracking shattered a rural Pennsylvania town, and how one lifelong resident brought the story into the national spotlight. This is an incredible true account of investigative journalism....

    Prix courant: 26,21$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 26,21$ ou 1 crédit

    • Our Future in Smarter, Simpler, Happier Housing
    • Auteur(s): Diana Lind
    • Narrateur(s): Janina Edwards
    • Durée: 6 h et 45 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-10-13
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • A smart, provocative look at how the American dream of single-family homes, white picket fences, and two-car garages became a lonely, overpriced nightmare, and how new trends in housing can help us live better....

    Prix courant: 25,24$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 25,24$ ou 1 crédit

    • Americans Reaching for Hope
    • Auteur(s): Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn
    • Narrateur(s): Jennifer Garner, Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn
    • Durée: 9 h et 43 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-01-14
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 évaluations
    • With stark poignancy and political dispassion, Tightrope draws us deep into an "other America". The authors tell this story, in part, through the lives of some of the children with whom Kristof grew up in rural Yamhill, Oregon....

    Prix courant: 23,31$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 23,31$ ou 1 crédit

    • A True Story of Refugee Twin Sisters and Their Triumph over War, Poverty, and Heartbreak
    • Auteur(s): Argita Zalli, Detina Zalli
    • Narrateur(s): Allyson Voller
    • Durée: 8 h et 27 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-06-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Born in poverty-stricken Albania, twin sisters Argita and Detina Zalli always dreamed of becoming doctors. Their parents scrimped and sacrificed, committed to giving them a better life. But then the unthinkable happened....

    Prix courant: 21,92$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 21,92$ ou 1 crédit

    • How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World
    • Auteur(s): Annie Lowrey
    • Narrateur(s): Annie Lowrey
    • Durée: 7 h et 11 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-07-10
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 18 évaluations
    • Imagine if every month the government deposited $1,000 into your bank account, with nothing expected in return. It sounds crazy. But it has become one of the most influential and hotly debated policy ideas of our time....

    Prix courant: 20,40$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 20,40$ ou 1 crédit

    • What Charity Would Look Like If We Cared About Results
    • Auteur(s): Robert D. Lupton
    • Narrateur(s): Mike Lenz
    • Durée: 5 h et 8 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-01-31
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • The veteran urban activist and author of the revolutionary Toxic Charity returns with a headline-making book that offers proven, results-oriented ideas for transforming our system of giving....

    Prix courant: 17,81$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 17,81$ ou 1 crédit

    • Auteur(s): Jennifer Richard Jacobson
    • Narrateur(s): William Dufris
    • Durée: 5 h et 5 min
    • Date de publication: 2011-03-08
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • When 11-year-old Jack Martel crawls out of his pup tent on the first morning of his camping trip with his mom in Acadia National Park, he notices right away that something isn’t right....

    Prix courant: 26,00$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 26,00$ ou 1 crédit

    • Classes of Political Economy
    • Auteur(s): Henry George
    • Narrateur(s): Peter Lerman
    • Durée: 8 h et 50 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-07-18
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • This landmark treatise by the great economist Henry George was first published in 1879. George's work became the seminal analysis of the political economy which inspired most, if not all, the prominent thinkers of the Progressive Movement and many others of great influence....

    Prix courant: 23,25$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 23,25$ ou 1 crédit

    • Coming Up Close to Homelessness
    • Auteur(s): Cathy A. Small, Jason Kordosky - contributor, Ross Moore - contributor
    • Narrateur(s): Karen White
    • Durée: 6 h et 16 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-04-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • The Man in the Dog Park offers the listener a rare window into homeless life. Spurred by a personal relationship with a homeless man who became her coauthor, Cathy A. Small takes a compelling look at what it means and what it takes to be homeless....

    Prix courant: 17,51$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 17,51$ ou 1 crédit

    • The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation
    • Auteur(s): Jonathan Kozol
    • Narrateur(s): Dick Hill
    • Durée: 9 h et 19 min
    • Date de publication: 2010-02-19
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Amazing Grace is a book about about the hearts of children who grow up in the South Bronx - the poorest congressional district of our nation....

    Prix courant: 26,00$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 26,00$ ou 1 crédit

    • Selected Reporting Pieces
    • Auteur(s): Ian Frazier
    • Narrateur(s): Ian Frazier
    • Durée: 12 h et 28 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-06-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Part muckraker, part adventurer, and part raconteur, Frazier beholds, captures, and occasionally reimagines the spirit of the American experience....

    Prix courant: 26,21$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 26,21$ ou 1 crédit

    • A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music
    • Auteur(s): Steve Lopez
    • Narrateur(s): William Hughes
    • Durée: 6 h et 42 min
    • Date de publication: 2008-04-17
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • A moving story of a remarkable bond between a journalist in search of a story and a homeless, classically trained musician....

    Prix courant: 18,47$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 18,47$ ou 1 crédit

    • Auteur(s): Lindsay Lackey
    • Narrateur(s): Samantha Desz
    • Durée: 7 h et 16 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-09-03
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Red’s inexplicable power over the wind comes from her mother. Whenever Ruby "Red" Byrd is scared or angry, the wind picks up. And being placed in foster care, moving from family to family, tends to keep her skies stormy....

    Prix courant: 19,42$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 19,42$ ou 1 crédit

    • Growing Food, Jobs, and Hope on the Urban Frontier
    • Auteur(s): Michael Ableman
    • Narrateur(s): Michael Canaan
    • Durée: 6 h et 47 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-10-12
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • During the past seven years, Sole Food Street Farms, North America's largest urban farm project, has transformed acres of vacant urban land into street farms....

    Prix courant: 25,24$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 25,24$ ou 1 crédit

    • Hunger and Hope in the Twenty-First Century
    • Auteur(s): Jean-Martin Bauer
    • Narrateur(s): Jean-Martin Bauer
    • Durée: 7 h et 37 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-06-25
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • A humanitarian leader with more than two decades of experience working for the United Nations takes aim at the global food crisis—revealing how hunger anywhere affects lives everywhere and what steps we can take to change course....

    Prix courant: 20,40$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 20,40$ ou 1 crédit

    • On the Frontier of Health and Homelessness in an American City
    • Auteur(s): Josephine Ensign
    • Narrateur(s): Holly Adams
    • Durée: 8 h et 43 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-08-17
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • In Skid Road, Josephine Ensign digs through layers of Seattle history - past its leaders and prominent citizens, respectable or not - to reveal the stories of overlooked and long-silenced people who live on the margins of society....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

    • Auteur(s): Christopher L. Smith
    • Narrateur(s): Timothy French
    • Durée: 6 h et 34 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-03-09
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Despite the terrible nights, I still woke up, got dressed, and went to my only refuge, my high school. This was my life, often alone, cold, sad, and hungry. My youth was different than most, but this was my reality....

    Prix courant: 25,00$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 25,00$ ou 1 crédit