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Our Day To End Poverty: 24 Ways You Can Make a Difference (07 Edition)
by Daley-harris
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Imagine ending poverty at home and around the globe in our own lifetimes. Imagine your actions combining with others; actions to make poverty history. With originality and imagination, this book invites us to look at our very ordinary days, from waking... ( read more)
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The Glass Castle: a Memoir
by Jeannette Walls
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Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary Walls had four children. In the beginning, they lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in... ( read more)
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PostSecret: Confessions on Life, Death, and God
by Frank Warren
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The author of the "New York Times"-bestselling PostSecret books addresses life's biggest questions, as he reveals the incredibly moving, personal postcards he's received that touch upon every aspect of spirituality.... ( read more)
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The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
by Robert A Caro
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One of the most acclaimed books of our time, winner of both the Pulitzer and the Francis Parkman prizes, The Power Broker tells the hidden story behind the shaping (and mis-shaping) of twentieth-century New York (city and state) and makes public what few... ( read more)
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Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says about Us) (Vintage)
by Tom Vanderbilt
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Abrilliant, lively, and eye-opening investigation that explains how traffic works (or sometimes doesn’t work) and why we drive the way we do. Tom Vanderbilt examines the perceptual limits and cognitive underpinnings that make us worse drivers than... ( read more)
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The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century
by James Howard Kunstler
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James Howard Kunstler's The Long Emergency was an underground hit, going into nine printings of the hardcover edition. His shocking vision for our post-oil future caught the attention of environmentalists and business leaders and was the subject of much... ( read more)
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Creating a World That Works for All
by Sharif Abdullah
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Exclusivity--the desire to stay separate from other people--is at the root of most of the world's problems, according to Abdullah, who then presents a unique blueprint for social justice.... ( read more)
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Regarding the Pain of Others (03 Edition)
by Susan Sontag
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Twenty-five years after her classic On Photography, Susan Sontag returns to the subject of visual representations of war and violence in our culture today. How does the spectacle of the sufferings of others (via television or newsprint) affect us? Are... ( read more)
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The Economy of Cities
by Jane Jacobs
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Jane Jacobs was the legendary author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities, a work that has never gone out of print and that has transformed the disciplines of urban planning and city architecture. Her other major works include The Economy of... ( read more)
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Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle against World Poverty
by Muhammad Yunus
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Muhammad Yunus is that rare thing: a bona fide visionary. His dream is the total eradication of poverty from the world. In 1983, against the advice of banking and government officials, Yunus established Grameen, a bank devoted to providing the poorest of... ( read more)
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No Shame in My Game: the Working Poor in the Inner City
by Katherine S. Newman
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" Powerful and poignant.... Newman's message is clear and timely." --"The Philadelphia Inquirer"
In No Shame in My Game, Harvard anthropologist Katherine Newman gives voice to a population for whom work, family, and self-esteem are... ( read more)
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Getting a Grip: Clarity, Creativity, and Courage in a World Gone Mad
by Frances Moore Lappe
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Getting a Grip: Clarity, Creativity and Courage in a World Gone Mad is a little book with a big message. Frances Moore Lappe — author of sixteen books, including three-million-copy bestseller Diet for a Small Planet — distills her world... ( read more)
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Postsecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives
by Frank Warren
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In the movie, In the Mood for Love, Tony Leung whispers his most secret thoughts into a hole in the ruined temple of Angkor Wat. In Bethlehem, pilgrims write out their prayers and wishes and stuff them into tiny cracks between the bricks at the Western... ( read more)
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Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class
by Barbara Ehrenreich
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A brilliant and insightful work that examines the insecurities of the middle class in an attempt to explain its turn to the right during the past two decades, Fear of Falling traces the myths about the middle class to their roots in the ambitions and... ( read more)
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9226 Kercheval: The Storefront That Did Not Burn, with a New Preface (Ann Arbor Paperbacks)
by Nancy Milio
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In honor of the thirtieth anniversary of its first publication, we are happy to reissue Nancy Milio's 9226 Kercheval, a groundbreaking book which analyzes the success of the Mom and Tots Center in urban Detroit in the late 1960s. At the time of its first... ( read more)
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Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor
by Paul Farmer
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Pathologies of Power uses harrowing stories of life--and death--in extreme situations to interrogate our understanding of human rights. Paul Farmer, a physician and anthropologist with twenty years of experience working in Haiti, Peru, and Russia, argues... ( read more)
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The Careless Society: Community and Its Counterfeits
by John Mcknight
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Amid all the hand-wringing about the loss of community in America these days, here is a book that celebrates the ability of neighborhoods to heal themselves from within. John McKnight shows how competent communities have been invaded and colonized by... ( read more)
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Doing Anti-Oppressive Practice: Building Transformative Politicized Social Work
by Donna Baines
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Rather than a book of theory, this collection of essays focuses on practical strategies for integrating antioppressive theory into politicized, transformative social work. Practice vignettes, personal experiences, and casework examples are provided... ( read more)
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City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
by Mike Davis
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To its official boosters, "Los Angeles brings it all together." To its detractors, it is "The Big Nowhere." No one has better captured L.A.'s bizarre role as both utopia and dystopia than Davis, the author of this mordantly elegant and wide-ranging work... ( read more)
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The Experience of Place
by Tony Hiss
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'The Experience of Place' offers an innovative and delightfully readable proposal for new ways of planning, building, and managing our most immediate and overlooked surroundings.... ( read more)
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