فقر

تُشكّل الحقائق الاقتصادية القاسية والحواجز المنهجية الصراعات اليومية لمليارات البشر حول العالم الذين يعيشون على هامش المجتمع. من خلال البحث الدقيق والمنظورات الشعبية والحلول المبتكرة، تتناول هذه الكتب الجذور المعقدة للفقر العالمي والمسارات التحويلية نحو تغيير دائم.

فقر ملخصات الكتب

One World

بقلم Peter Singer • 2002

Borders do not contain carbon, missiles, or pandemics. They should not contain your conscience.

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🌍 Global Ethics 🏛️ Cosmopolitanism 💡 Effective Altruism 🧮 Utilitarianism 🌡️ Climate Ethics

One World

Borders do not contain carbon, missiles, or pandemics. They should not contain your conscience.

بقلم Peter Singer 2002 272 صفحة

3.72

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🌍 Global Ethics 🏛️ Cosmopolitanism 💡 Effective Altruism 🧮 Utilitarianism 🌡️ Climate Ethics

Fist Stick Knife Gun

بقلم Geoffrey Canada • 1995

Respect was won with fists on Union Avenue. Then guns came and rewrote the rules for everyone.

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🏙️ Urban Violence 🧱 Street Culture 🌱 Youth Mentorship 🔫 Gun Violence 💊 Drug Trade

Fist Stick Knife Gun

Respect was won with fists on Union Avenue. Then guns came and rewrote the rules for everyone.

بقلم Geoffrey Canada 1995 179 صفحة

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🏙️ Urban Violence 🧱 Street Culture 🌱 Youth Mentorship 🔫 Gun Violence 💊 Drug Trade

Same Kind of Different as Me

بقلم Ron Hall • 2006

An art dealer, a homeless man, and the woman who bound them together. Then cancer came.

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👥 Dual Memoir ⛪ Faith Testimony 🤝 Interracial Friendship 🏚️ Homelessness Narratives ⛓️ Modern-Day Slavery

Same Kind of Different as Me

An art dealer, a homeless man, and the woman who bound them together. Then cancer came.

بقلم Ron Hall 2006 237 صفحة

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👥 Dual Memoir ⛪ Faith Testimony 🤝 Interracial Friendship 🏚️ Homelessness Narratives ⛓️ Modern-Day Slavery

Stones Into Schools

بقلم Greg Mortenson • 2009

What actually defeats the Taliban: girls' schools in places helicopters can't reach.

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🎓 Girls' Education 🌱 Social Entrepreneurship 🏥 Humanitarian Work 🏘️ Community Development 🌍 Sustainable Aid

Stones Into Schools

What actually defeats the Taliban: girls' schools in places helicopters can't reach.

بقلم Greg Mortenson 2009 420 صفحة

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🎓 Girls' Education 🌱 Social Entrepreneurship 🏥 Humanitarian Work 🏘️ Community Development 🌍 Sustainable Aid

The Looting Machine

بقلم Tom Burgis • 2015

Your phone links you to a hidden network that turns Africa's oil and minerals into poverty.

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⛓️ Resource Curse 🌍 African Politics ⛏️ Extractive Industries 🏛️ Crony Capitalism 💸 Illicit Finance

The Looting Machine

Your phone links you to a hidden network that turns Africa's oil and minerals into poverty.

بقلم Tom Burgis 2015 352 صفحة

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⛓️ Resource Curse 🌍 African Politics ⛏️ Extractive Industries 🏛️ Crony Capitalism 💸 Illicit Finance

Never Stop Walking

بقلم Christina Rickardsson • 2016

Adoption carried her from Brazilian caves to Sweden at eight. Learning the cost took decades.

3.98

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🧳 Transnational Adoption 🏚️ Street Survival 💔 Childhood Trauma 🎭 Dual Identity 🗣️ Adoptee Voices

Never Stop Walking

Adoption carried her from Brazilian caves to Sweden at eight. Learning the cost took decades.

بقلم Christina Rickardsson 2016 256 صفحة

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🧳 Transnational Adoption 🏚️ Street Survival 💔 Childhood Trauma 🎭 Dual Identity 🗣️ Adoptee Voices

English Journey

بقلم J.B. Priestley • 1934

Factories silent, towns hollow, but the people Priestley met in 1933 refused to vanish.

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🏭 Industrial Decline 📉 Depression Era 👷 Working Class Life ⚖️ Economic Inequality 💪 Community Resilience

English Journey

Factories silent, towns hollow, but the people Priestley met in 1933 refused to vanish.

بقلم J.B. Priestley 1934 384 صفحة

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🏭 Industrial Decline 📉 Depression Era 👷 Working Class Life ⚖️ Economic Inequality 💪 Community Resilience

The New Human Rights Movement

بقلم Peter Joseph • 2017

The economy is a well-oiled system of oppression. The case for rebuilding it, not fixing it.

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🏛️ Political Economy ⚖️ Structural Inequality 🔗 Systems Thinking 💔 Structural Violence 🤖 Technological Unemployment

The New Human Rights Movement

The economy is a well-oiled system of oppression. The case for rebuilding it, not fixing it.

بقلم Peter Joseph 2017 266 صفحة

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🏛️ Political Economy ⚖️ Structural Inequality 🔗 Systems Thinking 💔 Structural Violence 🤖 Technological Unemployment

شجرة تنمو في بروكلين

بقلم بيتي سميث • 1943

A bookish tenement girl clings to reading while her charming father drinks and her mother scrubs.

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🗽 Immigrant Family Saga 🍺 Alcoholic Father 📚 Bookish Heroine 💪 Resilient Mother 💔 First Heartbreak

شجرة تنمو في بروكلين

A bookish tenement girl clings to reading while her charming father drinks and her mother scrubs.

بقلم بيتي سميث 1943 496 صفحة

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🗽 Immigrant Family Saga 🍺 Alcoholic Father 📚 Bookish Heroine 💪 Resilient Mother 💔 First Heartbreak

Shattered Nation

بقلم Danny Dorling • 2023

Beneath every British crisis lies a map of inequality decades in the making.

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🗺️ Regional Inequality 📉 Austerity Politics 🏚️ Welfare State Erosion 🏠 Housing Crisis 💰 Wealth Inequality

Shattered Nation

Beneath every British crisis lies a map of inequality decades in the making.

بقلم Danny Dorling 2023 288 صفحة

3.97

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🗺️ Regional Inequality 📉 Austerity Politics 🏚️ Welfare State Erosion 🏠 Housing Crisis 💰 Wealth Inequality

The Big Truck that Went By

بقلم Jonathan M. Katz • 2013

When the world rushed to save Haiti, it brought a cholera epidemic with it.

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🆘 Disaster Relief 💰 Foreign Aid Critique 🇭🇹 Haitian History 📚 Postcolonial Critique 🏚️ Post-Disaster Recovery

The Big Truck that Went By

When the world rushed to save Haiti, it brought a cholera epidemic with it.

بقلم Jonathan M. Katz 2013 320 صفحة

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🆘 Disaster Relief 💰 Foreign Aid Critique 🇭🇹 Haitian History 📚 Postcolonial Critique 🏚️ Post-Disaster Recovery

From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation

بقلم Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor • 2016

Police violence won't end with reform. The problem is the economic system behind the badge.

4.47

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🧱 Structural Racism ⛓️ Mass Incarceration 👮🏿 Police Violence 🫥 Colorblind Ideology 🏦 Capitalism And Racism

From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation

Police violence won't end with reform. The problem is the economic system behind the badge.

بقلم Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor 2016 270 صفحة

4.47

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🧱 Structural Racism ⛓️ Mass Incarceration 👮🏿 Police Violence 🫥 Colorblind Ideology 🏦 Capitalism And Racism

Take This Bread

بقلم Sara Miles • 2007

An atheist war reporter walked into a church for communion and came out a food-pantry revolutionary.

4.00

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🥖 Food And Faith ⛪ Progressive Christianity 🚪 Radical Hospitality 🍞 Sacramental Living ✨ Conversion Stories

Take This Bread

An atheist war reporter walked into a church for communion and came out a food-pantry revolutionary.

بقلم Sara Miles 2007 297 صفحة

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🥖 Food And Faith ⛪ Progressive Christianity 🚪 Radical Hospitality 🍞 Sacramental Living ✨ Conversion Stories

Leaving Microsoft to Change the World

بقلم John Wood • 2006

A trekking trip, an empty library: why a Microsoft exec quit to build schools across Asia.

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🚀 Social Entrepreneurship 🌍 Global Development 📖 Founder Memoir 🏘️ Community Development 👧 Girls' Education

Leaving Microsoft to Change the World

A trekking trip, an empty library: why a Microsoft exec quit to build schools across Asia.

بقلم John Wood 2006 272 صفحة

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🚀 Social Entrepreneurship 🌍 Global Development 📖 Founder Memoir 🏘️ Community Development 👧 Girls' Education

Capital City

بقلم Samuel Stein • 2019

Gentrification is not a market outcome. It is policy, written by the real estate industry.

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🏙️ Urban Political Economy 🏗️ Gentrification Studies 🚚 Urban Displacement 📖 Marxist Urban Theory 🏠 Housing Justice

Capital City

Gentrification is not a market outcome. It is policy, written by the real estate industry.

بقلم Samuel Stein 2019 202 صفحة

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🏙️ Urban Political Economy 🏗️ Gentrification Studies 🚚 Urban Displacement 📖 Marxist Urban Theory 🏠 Housing Justice

In Our Hands

بقلم Charles Murray • 2006

Eliminate every welfare program. Send every adult one check. It costs less and ends poverty.

3.74

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🏦 Universal Basic Income 📋 Welfare Reform 🏘️ Civil Society 🗽 Libertarian Economics 🛡️ Social Insurance

In Our Hands

Eliminate every welfare program. Send every adult one check. It costs less and ends poverty.

بقلم Charles Murray 2006 152 صفحة

3.74

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🏦 Universal Basic Income 📋 Welfare Reform 🏘️ Civil Society 🗽 Libertarian Economics 🛡️ Social Insurance

Below Stairs

بقلم Margaret Powell • 1968

She cooked their banquets in early 1900s England, and they forgot she existed.

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🧹 Domestic Service 👷 Working Class Memoir 🇬🇧 British Social History 🕰️ Early 1900s Britain 🍳 Cooking Memoir

Below Stairs

She cooked their banquets in early 1900s England, and they forgot she existed.

بقلم Margaret Powell 1968 288 صفحة

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🧹 Domestic Service 👷 Working Class Memoir 🇬🇧 British Social History 🕰️ Early 1900s Britain 🍳 Cooking Memoir

The Water Is Wide

بقلم Pat Conroy • 1972

The island kids couldn't tell time. Their teacher drove them to Washington.

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📚 Teaching Memoir ⚖️ School Inequality 🌴 American South 🧑‍🏫 Progressive Education 🏛️ Teacher Vs Bureaucracy

The Water Is Wide

The island kids couldn't tell time. Their teacher drove them to Washington.

بقلم Pat Conroy 1972 260 صفحة

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📚 Teaching Memoir ⚖️ School Inequality 🌴 American South 🧑‍🏫 Progressive Education 🏛️ Teacher Vs Bureaucracy

Class

بقلم Stephanie Land • 2023

To afford college, she scrubbed toilets. The welfare office told her to drop out instead.

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👩‍👧 Single Motherhood 💔 Domestic Abuse Survival 👩‍🎓 Poverty And Education ⚖️ Systemic Inequality 🏭 Working Class Memoirs

Class

To afford college, she scrubbed toilets. The welfare office told her to drop out instead.

بقلم Stephanie Land 2023 288 صفحة

3.61

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👩‍👧 Single Motherhood 💔 Domestic Abuse Survival 👩‍🎓 Poverty And Education ⚖️ Systemic Inequality 🏭 Working Class Memoirs

The Color of Money

بقلم Mehrsa Baradaran • 2017

Why Black-owned banks, born from exclusion, could never close the gap they were meant to fix.

4.47

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🏦 Racial Wealth Gap 🏛️ Banking History ⚖️ Structural Inequality 🏠 Redlining 🌾 Jim Crow Economy

The Color of Money

Why Black-owned banks, born from exclusion, could never close the gap they were meant to fix.

بقلم Mehrsa Baradaran 2017 371 صفحة

4.47

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🏦 Racial Wealth Gap 🏛️ Banking History ⚖️ Structural Inequality 🏠 Redlining 🌾 Jim Crow Economy

Canary in the Coal Mine

بقلم William Cooke • 2021

When HIV tore through an Indiana town, one doctor fought for syringes, compassion, and the truth.

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💊 Opioid Epidemic 💉 Harm Reduction 🏥 Rural Healthcare 🩹 Addiction Recovery 🧠 Trauma Informed Care

Canary in the Coal Mine

When HIV tore through an Indiana town, one doctor fought for syringes, compassion, and the truth.

بقلم William Cooke 2021 320 صفحة

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💊 Opioid Epidemic 💉 Harm Reduction 🏥 Rural Healthcare 🩹 Addiction Recovery 🧠 Trauma Informed Care

No Greater Love

بقلم Mother Teresa • 1997

Radical love is a thousand tiny gestures. It starts at home, and anyone can do it.

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🙏 Catholic Spirituality ✝️ Christian Living 🫴 Voluntary Poverty 🍞 Serving The Poor 💀 Death With Dignity

No Greater Love

Radical love is a thousand tiny gestures. It starts at home, and anyone can do it.

بقلم Mother Teresa 1997 224 صفحة

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🙏 Catholic Spirituality ✝️ Christian Living 🫴 Voluntary Poverty 🍞 Serving The Poor 💀 Death With Dignity

Never Far from Home

بقلم Bruce Jackson • 2023

Amsterdam Houses to Microsoft: a Black lawyer's climb through music, race, and two worlds.

4.12

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🪜 Upward Mobility 🚧 Racial Barriers 🎓 First-Gen Professionals 💻 Diversity In Tech 🎵 Music Industry

Never Far from Home

Amsterdam Houses to Microsoft: a Black lawyer's climb through music, race, and two worlds.

بقلم Bruce Jackson 2023 272 صفحة

4.12

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🪜 Upward Mobility 🚧 Racial Barriers 🎓 First-Gen Professionals 💻 Diversity In Tech 🎵 Music Industry

Not for Sale

بقلم David Batstone • 2007

Slavery never ended. Thirty million people are still in chains, in the country next door.

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💔 Human Trafficking 🧒 Child Soldiers 🔍 Investigative Journalism 🕸️ Criminal Networks 💸 Poverty And Exploitation

Not for Sale

Slavery never ended. Thirty million people are still in chains, in the country next door.

بقلم David Batstone 2007 304 صفحة

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💔 Human Trafficking 🧒 Child Soldiers 🔍 Investigative Journalism 🕸️ Criminal Networks 💸 Poverty And Exploitation

The Bridge Home

بقلم Padma Venkatraman • 2019

Protecting her disabled sister, Viji flees their father and builds a family on a Chennai bridge.

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🫂 Found Family 🌆 Street Children 👧 Sibling Caretaker 💙 Disability In Family ✉️ Epistolary Novel

The Bridge Home

Protecting her disabled sister, Viji flees their father and builds a family on a Chennai bridge.

بقلم Padma Venkatraman 2019 208 صفحة

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🫂 Found Family 🌆 Street Children 👧 Sibling Caretaker 💙 Disability In Family ✉️ Epistolary Novel

The Years That Matter Most

بقلم Paul Tough • 2019

Getting into an elite college depends more on your parents’ income than your SAT score.

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🎓 Higher Education 📝 College Admissions 📈 Social Mobility ⚖️ Educational Inequality 🏛️ Meritocracy Critique

The Years That Matter Most

Getting into an elite college depends more on your parents’ income than your SAT score.

بقلم Paul Tough 2019 400 صفحة

4.39

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🎓 Higher Education 📝 College Admissions 📈 Social Mobility ⚖️ Educational Inequality 🏛️ Meritocracy Critique

Wine to Water

بقلم Doc Hendley • 2012

From pouring drinks to drilling wells in Darfur: a bartender's unlikely path into humanitarian work.

3.96

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🎗️ Humanitarian Memoir 💧 Global Water Crisis ⚠️ Conflict Zone Aid 👐 Everyday Activism 💪 Local Empowerment

Wine to Water

From pouring drinks to drilling wells in Darfur: a bartender's unlikely path into humanitarian work.

بقلم Doc Hendley 2012 308 صفحة

3.96

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🎗️ Humanitarian Memoir 💧 Global Water Crisis ⚠️ Conflict Zone Aid 👐 Everyday Activism 💪 Local Empowerment

How the Other Half Banks

بقلم Mehrsa Baradaran • 2015

Banks get public support but exclude the poor. The public option that restores the social contract.

4.09

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🏦 Banking History 📜 Financial Regulation 🇺🇸 Us Economic Policy 🎣 Predatory Lending 🚫 Financial Exclusion

How the Other Half Banks

Banks get public support but exclude the poor. The public option that restores the social contract.

بقلم Mehrsa Baradaran 2015 336 صفحة

4.09

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🏦 Banking History 📜 Financial Regulation 🇺🇸 Us Economic Policy 🎣 Predatory Lending 🚫 Financial Exclusion

Engaging Students with Poverty in Mind

بقلم Eric Jensen • 2013

The classroom moves that overcome poverty's grip on learning, even when motivation is scarce.

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💸 Poverty And Education 🎒 Student Engagement 🏃 Active Learning ❤️ Social-Emotional Learning 🧠 Brain-Based Teaching

Engaging Students with Poverty in Mind

The classroom moves that overcome poverty's grip on learning, even when motivation is scarce.

بقلم Eric Jensen 2013 299 صفحة

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💸 Poverty And Education 🎒 Student Engagement 🏃 Active Learning ❤️ Social-Emotional Learning 🧠 Brain-Based Teaching

America

بقلم Chris Hedges • 2018

Addiction, casinos, and the death of work: the symptoms of late capitalism's terminal stage.

4.23

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🛒 Late Capitalism 🇺🇸 American Decline 💊 Opioid Crisis ⚙️ Working Class Erosion 📕 Marxist Critique

America

Addiction, casinos, and the death of work: the symptoms of late capitalism's terminal stage.

بقلم Chris Hedges 2018 400 صفحة

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🛒 Late Capitalism 🇺🇸 American Decline 💊 Opioid Crisis ⚙️ Working Class Erosion 📕 Marxist Critique

The Social Determinants of Health

بقلم Kathryn Strother Ratcliff • 2017

What if America's worst health problems can't be cured in a hospital?

4.19

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🏥 Public Health 🏗️ Structural Inequality 🏢 Corporate Power 🌎 Environmental Health ⚖️ Health Disparities

The Social Determinants of Health

What if America's worst health problems can't be cured in a hospital?

بقلم Kathryn Strother Ratcliff 2017 256 صفحة

4.19

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🏥 Public Health 🏗️ Structural Inequality 🏢 Corporate Power 🌎 Environmental Health ⚖️ Health Disparities

Now I Am Known

بقلم Peter Mutabazi • 2022

A stranger asked a street kid his name. He grew up to become a foster father.

4.75

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🏠 Foster Care 💔 Childhood Trauma 🕊️ Forgiveness 🌍 African Memoir 🌆 Street Children

Now I Am Known

A stranger asked a street kid his name. He grew up to become a foster father.

بقلم Peter Mutabazi 2022 226 صفحة

4.75

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🏠 Foster Care 💔 Childhood Trauma 🕊️ Forgiveness 🌍 African Memoir 🌆 Street Children

Glass House

بقلم Brian Alexander • 2017

Private equity bought a glass factory. By the time they were done, a town was destroyed.

3.91

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🏭 Deindustrialization 💰 Private Equity 💊 Opioid Epidemic 🏚️ Rust Belt 📰 Narrative Journalism

Glass House

Private equity bought a glass factory. By the time they were done, a town was destroyed.

بقلم Brian Alexander 2017 336 صفحة

3.91

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🏭 Deindustrialization 💰 Private Equity 💊 Opioid Epidemic 🏚️ Rust Belt 📰 Narrative Journalism

City of Women

بقلم Christine Stansell • 1986

In early New York, working-class women built a hidden city of mutual aid and sexual exchange.

3.89

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👩 Working-Class Women 👷 Labor History 🏚️ Urban Poverty 👥 Sex And Class 🏠 Cult Of Domesticity

City of Women

In early New York, working-class women built a hidden city of mutual aid and sexual exchange.

بقلم Christine Stansell 1986 320 صفحة

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👩 Working-Class Women 👷 Labor History 🏚️ Urban Poverty 👥 Sex And Class 🏠 Cult Of Domesticity

Aman

بقلم Virginia Lee Barnes • 1994

Famine. Circumcision. Child marriage. Aman survived all three before thirteen. Then came the choice.

3.78

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🐪 Somali Culture 🌍 East Africa 👧 Girlhood And Tradition 👩🏾 Somali Women's Lives 💍 Arranged Marriage

Aman

Famine. Circumcision. Child marriage. Aman survived all three before thirteen. Then came the choice.

بقلم Virginia Lee Barnes 1994 368 صفحة

3.78

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🐪 Somali Culture 🌍 East Africa 👧 Girlhood And Tradition 👩🏾 Somali Women's Lives 💍 Arranged Marriage

Join the Club

بقلم Tina Rosenberg • 2011

Peer pressure has toppled dictators and slowed epidemics. The case for aiming it deliberately.

3.49

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🫂 Peer Pressure ✊ Social Movements 🏥 Community Health 🌍 International Development 📚 Case Studies

Join the Club

Peer pressure has toppled dictators and slowed epidemics. The case for aiming it deliberately.

بقلم Tina Rosenberg 2011 432 صفحة

3.49

٣٤٠ تقييم

🫂 Peer Pressure ✊ Social Movements 🏥 Community Health 🌍 International Development 📚 Case Studies

Made in China

بقلم Anna Qu • 2021

At fourteen, she worked her parents' sweatshop. What the CPS file revealed decades later was worse.

3.85

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🧳 Immigrant Memoir 🏚️ Family Abuse Memoirs 🧬 Intergenerational Trauma 🪤 Labor Exploitation 🎓 Education As Escape

Made in China

At fourteen, she worked her parents' sweatshop. What the CPS file revealed decades later was worse.

بقلم Anna Qu 2021 224 صفحة

3.85

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🧳 Immigrant Memoir 🏚️ Family Abuse Memoirs 🧬 Intergenerational Trauma 🪤 Labor Exploitation 🎓 Education As Escape

White Poverty

بقلم William J. Barber II • 2024

America's poor are mostly white. The lie that says otherwise keeps the working class fractured.

4.28

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🏚️ Systemic Poverty 🔗 Racial Division 💭 Poverty Myths ✝️ Prophetic Tradition ✊ Civil Rights Legacy

White Poverty

America's poor are mostly white. The lie that says otherwise keeps the working class fractured.

بقلم William J. Barber II 2024 270 صفحة

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🏚️ Systemic Poverty 🔗 Racial Division 💭 Poverty Myths ✝️ Prophetic Tradition ✊ Civil Rights Legacy

The Other Side of Prospect

بقلم Nicholas Dawidoff • 2022

A murder in New Haven, a false confession, and the forces that made both inevitable.

4.43

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🏚️ Urban Decay ⚖️ Criminal Justice Reform ⛓️ Wrongful Conviction 💬 False Confessions 🩸 Community Violence

The Other Side of Prospect

A murder in New Haven, a false confession, and the forces that made both inevitable.

بقلم Nicholas Dawidoff 2022 464 صفحة

4.43

٤٦٢ تقييم

🏚️ Urban Decay ⚖️ Criminal Justice Reform ⛓️ Wrongful Conviction 💬 False Confessions 🩸 Community Violence

How the Poor Can Save Capitalism

بقلم John Hope Bryant • 2014

The poor aren't a drain; they're an untapped engine. A blueprint for making capitalism include them.

3.99

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🧠 Financial Literacy 📈 Credit Repair 🏦 Community Banking 💸 Predatory Lending 💭 Poverty Psychology

How the Poor Can Save Capitalism

The poor aren't a drain; they're an untapped engine. A blueprint for making capitalism include them.

بقلم John Hope Bryant 2014 176 صفحة

3.99

٢١٠ تقييم

🧠 Financial Literacy 📈 Credit Repair 🏦 Community Banking 💸 Predatory Lending 💭 Poverty Psychology

Having Nothing, Possessing Everything

بقلم Michael Mather • 2018

A pastor stopped tallying what his poor neighborhood lacked. What he found rewrote his calling.

4.39

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🗺️ Asset-Based Community Development 🏙️ Urban Ministry 💰 Community Economics 🍽️ Radical Hospitality ✊ Faith-Based Organizing

Having Nothing, Possessing Everything

A pastor stopped tallying what his poor neighborhood lacked. What he found rewrote his calling.

بقلم Michael Mather 2018 160 صفحة

4.39

٢٤١ تقييم

🗺️ Asset-Based Community Development 🏙️ Urban Ministry 💰 Community Economics 🍽️ Radical Hospitality ✊ Faith-Based Organizing

Jackpot

بقلم Michael Mechanic • 2021

Extreme wealth corrodes character, isolates its owners, and rigs the economy against everyone else.

3.86

٥٠٠+

💸 Wealth Inequality ⚖️ Economic Justice 🧠 Psychology Of Wealth 🫧 Elite Bubbles 💰 Tax Avoidance

Jackpot

Extreme wealth corrodes character, isolates its owners, and rigs the economy against everyone else.

بقلم Michael Mechanic 2021 416 صفحة

3.86

٥٠٠+ تقييم

💸 Wealth Inequality ⚖️ Economic Justice 🧠 Psychology Of Wealth 🫧 Elite Bubbles 💰 Tax Avoidance

Justice at Work

بقلم Marc Doussard • 2022

How coalitions fuse racial and economic justice to win policy in cities.

5.00

🏙️ Urban Policy ✊ Labor Movements 🤝 Coalition Building ⚖️ Racial Justice 📢 Community Organizing

Justice at Work

How coalitions fuse racial and economic justice to win policy in cities.

بقلم Marc Doussard 2022 252 صفحة

5.00

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🏙️ Urban Policy ✊ Labor Movements 🤝 Coalition Building ⚖️ Racial Justice 📢 Community Organizing

Eating Tomorrow

بقلم Timothy A. Wise • 2019

Agribusiness starves farmers and the planet. Peasant-led farming is already fixing it.

3.78

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🍽️ Food Politics 🏢 Agribusiness Critique 🌾 Food Sovereignty 🏞️ Land Grabbing 🌱 Agro-Ecology

Eating Tomorrow

Agribusiness starves farmers and the planet. Peasant-led farming is already fixing it.

بقلم Timothy A. Wise 2019 335 صفحة

3.78

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🍽️ Food Politics 🏢 Agribusiness Critique 🌾 Food Sovereignty 🏞️ Land Grabbing 🌱 Agro-Ecology

Bankrupting the Third World

بقلم James Morcan • 2015

The global poverty industry: why aid, loans, and conflict minerals ensure poor nations stay poor.

4.40

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🛢️ Resource Extraction 💰 Aid Critique ⛏️ Conflict Minerals 🌍 Economic Colonialism 💸 Debt And Dependency

Bankrupting the Third World

The global poverty industry: why aid, loans, and conflict minerals ensure poor nations stay poor.

بقلم James Morcan 2015 102 صفحة

4.40

٩٦ تقييم

🛢️ Resource Extraction 💰 Aid Critique ⛏️ Conflict Minerals 🌍 Economic Colonialism 💸 Debt And Dependency

The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman

بقلم Gennifer Choldenko • 2024

Abandoned with his baby sister, eleven-year-old Hank has nothing but one name on a school form.

4.46

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🏠 Foster Care 👦 Sibling Caretaker 🤝 Found Family 👤 Absent Parent 🍾 Parental Addiction

The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman

Abandoned with his baby sister, eleven-year-old Hank has nothing but one name on a school form.

بقلم Gennifer Choldenko 2024 320 صفحة

4.46

٣٬٠٠٠+ تقييم

🏠 Foster Care 👦 Sibling Caretaker 🤝 Found Family 👤 Absent Parent 🍾 Parental Addiction

Sidewalk

بقلم Mitchell Duneier • 1999

Some of the most disorderly figures on the sidewalk are also the ones preventing real crime.

4.15

١٬٠٠٠+

🛝 Urban Ethnography 💰 Informal Economies 🚨 Broken Windows Debate 👮 Police Discretion 🚶‍♀️ Street Harassment

Sidewalk

Some of the most disorderly figures on the sidewalk are also the ones preventing real crime.

بقلم Mitchell Duneier 1999 400 صفحة

4.15

١٬٠٠٠+ تقييم

🛝 Urban Ethnography 💰 Informal Economies 🚨 Broken Windows Debate 👮 Police Discretion 🚶‍♀️ Street Harassment

The Origins of the Urban Crisis

بقلم Thomas J. Sugrue • 1996

Detroit collapsed from job loss and housing segregation decades before the 1967 riot finished it.

4.24

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🏙️ Urban History ⚖️ Racial Inequality 🏭 Deindustrialization 🏠 Housing Segregation ✈️ White Flight

The Origins of the Urban Crisis

Detroit collapsed from job loss and housing segregation decades before the 1967 riot finished it.

بقلم Thomas J. Sugrue 1996 416 صفحة

4.24

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🏙️ Urban History ⚖️ Racial Inequality 🏭 Deindustrialization 🏠 Housing Segregation ✈️ White Flight

A Good Childhood

بقلم Judy Dunn • 2009

More stuff, sadder kids: how self-interest became a public health crisis for children.

3.67

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🧒 Child Development 👨‍👩‍👧 Authoritative Parenting 💝 Values Education 🧠 Emotional Intelligence 💚 Child Mental Health

A Good Childhood

More stuff, sadder kids: how self-interest became a public health crisis for children.

بقلم Judy Dunn 2009

3.67

٦١ تقييم

🧒 Child Development 👨‍👩‍👧 Authoritative Parenting 💝 Values Education 🧠 Emotional Intelligence 💚 Child Mental Health

Not Working

بقلم D.W. Gibson • 2012

What a paycheck conceals: Americans on the identity, health, and dignity that left with the job.

3.68

٦٠

🎙️ Oral History 💸 Economic Precarity 🔨 Work And Identity 📉 Great Recession 🔄 Career Transitions

Not Working

What a paycheck conceals: Americans on the identity, health, and dignity that left with the job.

بقلم D.W. Gibson 2012 479 صفحة

3.68

٦٠ تقييم

🎙️ Oral History 💸 Economic Precarity 🔨 Work And Identity 📉 Great Recession 🔄 Career Transitions

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