Sociology Poverty

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    • The Devastating Consequences of Urban Violence - and a Bold New Plan for Peace in the Streets
    • Auteur(s): Thomas Abt
    • Narrateur(s): Brad Raymond
    • Durée: 8 h et 34 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-06-25
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • Urban violence is one of the most divisive and allegedly intractable issues of our time. But as Harvard scholar Thomas Abt shows in Bleeding Out, we actually possess all the tools necessary to stem violence in our cities....

    Prix courant: 25,24$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth
    • Auteur(s): Sarah Smarsh
    • Narrateur(s): Sarah Smarsh
    • Durée: 9 h et 35 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-09-18
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 évaluations
    • During Sarah Smarsh’s turbulent childhood in Kansas in the 1980s and 1990s, the forces of cyclical poverty and the country’s changing economic policies solidified her family’s place among the working poor....

    Prix courant: 25,24$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit
    • Auteur(s): Thomas J. Sugrue
    • Narrateur(s): Adam Lofbomm
    • Durée: 13 h et 17 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-12-08
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Once America's "arsenal of democracy," Detroit is now the symbol of the American urban crisis. In this reappraisal of America's racial and economic inequalities, Thomas Sugrue asks why Detroit and other industrial cities have become the sites of persistent racialized poverty....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Economic Possibilities for Our Time
    • Auteur(s): Jeffrey Sachs
    • Narrateur(s): Malcolm Hilgartner
    • Durée: 13 h et 47 min
    • Date de publication: 2009-01-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • The landmark exploration of economic prosperity and how the world can escape from extreme poverty for the world's poorest citizens, from one of the world's most renowned economists....

    Prix courant: 27,97$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Strategies for Professionals and Communities
    • Auteur(s): Ruby K. Payne, Philip E. DeVol, Terie Dreussi-Smith
    • Narrateur(s): Stephen Begala
    • Durée: 7 h et 16 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-03-03
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Bridges Out of Poverty champions alliances of support, and helps individuals and communities that are ready to break free of poverty. Rather than creating reliance, Bridges' communities create new skills, resources, and motivation. Embraced by tens of thousands of people....

    Prix courant: 25,00$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Inner Life of the Middle Class
    • Auteur(s): Barbara Ehrenreich
    • Narrateur(s): Carmela Marner, Molly Parker Myers
    • Durée: 9 h et 37 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-01-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 évaluations
    • One of Barbara Ehrenreich's most classic and prophetic works, Fear of Falling closely examines the insecurities of the American middle class in an attempt to explain its turn to the right during the last two decades of the 20th century....

    Prix courant: 28,27$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
    • Auteur(s): Gregg Colburn, Clayton Page Aldern
    • Narrateur(s): Adam Verner
    • Durée: 6 h et 22 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-02-21
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Colburn and Aldern seek to explain the substantial regional variation in rates of homelessness in cities across the United States. In a departure from many analytical approaches, the authors shift their focus from the individual experiencing homelessness to the metropolitan area....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Dr. Jim O’Connell’s Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People
    • Auteur(s): Tracy Kidder
    • Narrateur(s): Tracy Kidder
    • Durée: 8 h et 41 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-01-17
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • After Jim O’Connell graduated from Harvard Medical School and was nearing the end of his residency at Massachusetts General, the hospital’s chief of medicine made a proposal....

    Prix courant: 26,22$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Field Notes, Book 6
    • Auteur(s): Deborah Dundas
    • Narrateur(s): Deborah Dundas
    • Série: Field Notes
    • Durée: 4 h et 16 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-07-30
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Deborah Dundas is a journalist who grew up poor and almost didn’t make it to university. In On Class, she talks to writers, activists, those who work with the poor and those who are poor about what happens when we don’t talk about poverty or class—and what will happen when we do....

    Prix courant: 14,03$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Memoir
    • Auteur(s): Brenda Myers-Powell, April Reynolds - contributor
    • Narrateur(s): Karen Chilton
    • Durée: 9 h et 8 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-06-29
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • When Breezy, as she came to call herself, hit the streets of Chicago as a prostitute in 1973 she was barely a teenager. But she was pretty and funny as hell, and determined to support her daughters and make a living....

    Prix courant: 19,42$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Rebuilding the Path to the Middle Class
    • Auteur(s): John Hope Bryant
    • Narrateur(s): J. D. Jackson
    • Durée: 4 h et 16 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-07-22
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • This is a free enterprise approach to solving the problem of poverty and raising up a new America....

    Prix courant: 21,00$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Killing on Bay Street
    • Auteur(s): Matt Taibbi
    • Narrateur(s): Dominic Hoffman
    • Durée: 12 h et 50 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-10-24
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 évaluations
    • A riveting work of literary journalism that explores the infamous police killing of Eric Garner - from the New York Times best-selling author of The Divide....

    Prix courant: 26,22$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Living in Bootstrap America
    • Auteur(s): Linda Tirado
    • Narrateur(s): Linda Tirado
    • Durée: 4 h et 24 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-10-02
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • We in America have certain ideas of what it means to be poor. Linda Tirado, in her signature brutally honest yet personable voice, takes all of these preconceived notions and smashes them to bits....

    Prix courant: 20,40$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How Inequality Kills
    • Auteur(s): David A. Ansell
    • Narrateur(s): Peter Berkrot
    • Durée: 7 h et 21 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-05-23
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • The poor die sooner. Blacks die sooner. And poor urban Blacks die sooner than almost all other Americans....

    Prix courant: 18,92$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Prosperity, the Periphery, and the Future of France
    • Auteur(s): Christophe Guilluy, Malcolm DeBevoise - Translated by
    • Narrateur(s): Roger Clark
    • Durée: 5 h et 46 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-05-14
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 2 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Christophe Guilluy, a French geographer, makes the case that France has become an "American society" - one that is both increasingly multicultural and increasingly unequal....

    Prix courant: 14,47$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Surviving the Las Vegas Storm Drains
    • Auteur(s): Matthew O'Brien
    • Narrateur(s): Stephen R. Thorne
    • Durée: 6 h et 2 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-11-17
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • A vivid and enlightening oral history of homelessness in the Las Vegas storm drains and the hard work of reentering mainstream society....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Race, Inequality, and the Testing of New Pharmaceuticals
    • Auteur(s): Jill A. Fisher
    • Narrateur(s): Diana Blue
    • Durée: 13 h
    • Date de publication: 2021-04-06
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • This book explores the hidden world of pharmaceutical testing on healthy volunteers. Drawing on two years of fieldwork in clinics across the country and 268 interviews with participants and staff, it illustrates how decisions to take part in such studies are often influenced by poverty....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Die Geschichte meiner Familie und einer Gesellschaft in der Krise
    • Auteur(s): J. D. Vance
    • Narrateur(s): Dominic Kolb
    • Durée: 9 h et 11 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-05-26
    • Langue: Allemand
    • Pas de évaluations
    • J. D. Vance erzählt die Geschichte seiner Familie - eine Geschichte vom gescheiterten Aufstieg und von der Resignation einer ganzen Bevölkerungsschicht...

    Prix courant: 31,88$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America
    • Auteur(s): Priya Fielding-Singh PhD
    • Narrateur(s): Priya Fielding-Singh PhD, York Whitaker
    • Durée: 11 h et 35 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-11-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Packed with lyrical storytelling and groundbreaking research, as well as Fielding-Singh’s personal experiences with food as a biracial, South Asian American woman, How the Other Half Eats illuminates exactly how inequality starts on the dinner plate....

    Prix courant: 28,27$ ou 1 crédit

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