Urban Poverty

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    • Auteur(s): Sophie Bienvenu
    • Narrateur(s): Maxime Mailloux
    • Durée: 2 h et 52 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-08-14
    • Langue: Français
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 74 évaluations
    • Mathieu vit dans la rue. Il l’a choisi. Ce n’est pas un aventurier, et ça n’a rien à voir avec la liberté. Est-ce qu’il s’autodétruit? Est-ce ainsi qu’il se préserve? Peu importe....

    Prix courant: 9,25$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 9,25$ ou 1 crédit

    • A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood
    • Auteur(s): David Simon, Edward Burns
    • Narrateur(s): Dion Graham, David Simon
    • Durée: 25 h et 28 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-10-06
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10 évaluations
    • The crime-infested intersection of West Fayette and Monroe Streets is well-known - and cautiously avoided - by most of Baltimore. But this notorious corner's 24-hour open-air drug market provides the economic fuel for a dying neighborhood....

    Prix courant: 37,88$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
    • Auteur(s): Katherine Boo
    • Narrateur(s): Sunil Malhotra
    • Durée: 8 h et 16 min
    • Date de publication: 2012-02-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 évaluations
    • In this breathtaking book by Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human through the dramatic story of families striving toward a better life in Annawadi, a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels....

    Prix courant: 20,40$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Poverty and Profit in the American City
    • Auteur(s): Matthew Desmond
    • Narrateur(s): Dion Graham
    • Durée: 11 h et 3 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-03-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 78 évaluations
    • In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur “Genius” Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they each struggle to keep a roof over their heads....

    Prix courant: 29,14$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 29,14$ ou 1 crédit

  • Prix courant: 37,32$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 37,32$ ou 1 crédit

    • Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
    • Auteur(s): Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
    • Narrateur(s): Roxana Ortega
    • Durée: 20 h et 7 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-10-18
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • In her extraordinary best seller, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc immerses listeners in the intricacies of the ghetto, revealing the true sagas lurking behind the headlines of gangsta glamour….

    Prix courant: 50,94$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 50,94$ ou 1 crédit

    • Auteur(s): Una LaMarche
    • Narrateur(s): Adenrele Ojo
    • Durée: 9 h et 1 min
    • Date de publication: 2015-09-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • What if the last hope to save your family is the person who broke it up to begin with? Michelle and her little siblings Cass and Denny are African-American and living on the poverty line in urban Baltimore, struggling to keep it together with their mom in jail....

    Prix courant: 29,14$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 29,14$ ou 1 crédit

    • Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City
    • Auteur(s): Jennifer Toth
    • Narrateur(s): Tanya Eby
    • Durée: 7 h et 55 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-10-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 évaluations
    • Thousands of people live in the subway, railroad, and sewage tunnels that form the bowels of New York City. This audiobook is about them, the so-called mole people....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    • The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
    • Auteur(s): Elizabeth Hinton
    • Narrateur(s): Josh Bloomberg
    • Durée: 13 h et 9 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-12-06
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • How did the "land of the free" become the home of the world's largest prison system? Challenging the belief that America's prison problem originated with the Reagan administration....

    Prix courant: 22,82$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 22,82$ ou 1 crédit

    • 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
    • Pas de évaluations
    • 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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    • 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
    • Pas de évaluations
    • 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

    Prix réduit: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

    • Auteur(s): Mike Davis
    • Narrateur(s): Mike Lenz
    • Durée: 7 h et 45 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-06-23
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • The classic, brilliant, best-selling account of the rise of the world's slums, where, according to the United Nations, one billion people now live....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Functions of Public Welfare
    • Auteur(s): Cloward Fox Piven
    • Narrateur(s): Karen Chilton
    • Durée: 14 h et 32 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-01-06
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Piven and Cloward have updated their classic work on the history and function of welfare to cover the American welfare state's massive erosion during the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton years....

    Prix courant: 31,26$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 31,26$ ou 1 crédit

    • Raising Kane
    • Auteur(s): Darrien Lee
    • Narrateur(s): Ryan Nikko
    • Série: Denim Diaries Series, Livre 5
    • Durée: 3 h et 15 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-02-23
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Fifteen-year-old Kane Alexander is growing up in a single-parent home after her mother abandons the family. Her father is forced to take on two jobs to support his family, and the responsibility of caring for her two younger siblings is placed on Kane....

    Prix courant: 15,10$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 15,10$ ou 1 crédit

    • How Modern Intellectuals Misshape Our Society
    • Auteur(s): Heather MacDonald
    • Narrateur(s): Anna Fields
    • Durée: 9 h et 37 min
    • Date de publication: 2005-02-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • In closely reported stories from the streets of New York to the seats of intellectual power, MacDonald shows how bad ideas get started and then acquire a life of their own....

    Prix courant: 20,40$ ou 1 crédit

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    • 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

    • 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
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    • 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

    • 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

    • A New Mother's Search for Home
    • Auteur(s): Lauren Sandler
    • Narrateur(s): Lauren Sandler
    • Durée: 10 h et 4 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-04-28
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • From an award-winning journalist Lauren Sandler, This Is All I Got is a poignant and gripping immersion in the life of a young, homeless single mother amid her quest to find stability and shelter in the richest city in America....

    Prix courant: 23,31$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 23,31$ 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