Category - Social Science
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • One of the most acclaime...
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE“Inspiring . . . extraordinar...
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The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy
PaperbackOriginal price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /Renowned American sociologist William Julius Wilson takes a look at the social transformation of inner city ghettos, offering a sharp evaluation of...
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Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00Original price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A "vivid and devastating" (The New York Times) portrait of an indomitable girl--from acclaimed journa...
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A Place on the Corner
PaperbackOriginal price $33.00 - Original price $33.00Original price $33.00$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /This paperback edition of A Place on the Corner marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of Elijah Anderson's sociological classic, a study of street cor...
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Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /New York Times bestselling author Paul Tough's Whatever It Takes is "one of the best books ever written about how poverty influences learning, an...
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The Rich and the Rest of Us: A Poverty Manifesto
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Record unemployment and rampant corporate avarice, empty houses but homeless families, dwindling opportunities in an increasingly paralyzed nation-...
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He Didn't Die Easy: The Search for Hope Amid Poverty, War, and Genocide
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A poignant and absorbing book of prose and poetry, He Didn't Die Easy details both the world's suffering and its eternal promise as observed by a j...
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Dear Self: A Year in the Life of a Welfare Mother
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /This book is a valuable resource for all of those seeking to understand the reality faced by millions of Americans whose plight rarely finds an inf...
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Motherland: A Memoir
HardcoverOriginal price $28.99Original price $28.99 - Original price $28.99Original price $28.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /From Venezuelan reporter Paula Ramón comes a powerful memoir about one woman's complicated relationship with her family as her beloved homeland col...
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Motherland: A Memoir
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /From Venezuelan reporter Paula Ramón comes a powerful memoir about one woman's complicated relationship with her family as her beloved homeland col...
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A Runaway Teenager: Who Found Freedom
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /What is freedom worth to you?At 14 years old, Quyen (Quin) Ha risked everything for a chance for a better life. Living under the communist regime i...
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A Runaway Teenager: Who Found Freedom
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /What is freedom worth to you?At 14 years old, Quyen (Quin) Ha risked everything for a chance for a better life. Living under the communist regime i...
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The Girl Who Taught Herself to Fly
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Kwan Kew Lai met her first Punjabi woman doctor while lying in a hospital bed with a severe kidney infection at the age of fourteen. Watching the w...
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Poverty, by America
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Notes From Your BooksellerNearly forty million in the wealthiest democracy on the planet "live" at or below the poverty line, crushed by it. Pove...
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High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Joining the ranks of Evicted, The Warmth of Other Sons, and classic works of literary non-fiction by Alex Kotlowitz and J. Anthony Lukas, High-Ri...
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Who Killed My Father
PaperbackOriginal price $12.95 - Original price $12.95Original price $12.95$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /Now in paperback, this bracing book by the young superstar Édouard Louis is both a searing j’accuse of the viciously entrenched French class syst...
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Downeast: Five Maine Girls and the Unseen Story of Rural America
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /In Downeast, Gigi Georges follows five girls as they come of age in one of the most challenging and geographically isolated regions on the Easter...
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Manifesto for a Moral Revolution: Practices to Build a Better World
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /"An instant classic." —Arianna Huffington"Will inspire people from across the political spectrum." —Jonathan HaidtLonglisted for the Porchlight B...
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Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /NATIONAL BESTSELLER • With stark poignancy and political dispassion Tightrope addresses the crisis in working-class America while focusing on sol...
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On the Clock: What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /"Nickel and Dimed for the Amazon age," (Salon) the bitingly funny, eye-opening story of finding work in the automated and time-starved world of h...
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In the Midst of Plenty: Homelessness and What To Do About It / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Foreword by Nan Roman, President and CEO of the National Alliance to End Homelessness This book explains how to end the U.S. homelessness crisis ...
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This Brilliant Darkness: A Book of Strangers
HardcoverOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /A visionary work of radical empathy. Known for immersion journalism that is more immersed than most people are willing to go, and for a prose sty...
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When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor . . . and Yourself
PaperbackOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /With more than 450,000 copies in print, When Helping Hurts is a paradigm-forming contemporary classic on the subject of poverty alleviation. Pove...
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