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Heath Henderson
Poor Relief

It is widely believed that distributing cash to people in poverty is the best way to help them while avoiding paternalism. Heath Henderson pushes back, arguing that a markets-know-best model is itself pat…

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Vijay Kolinjivadi, Aaron Vansintjan
The Sustainability Class

"A sustainability apartheid is emerging. More than ever, urban residents want to be green, yet to cater to their interests, a green-tech service economy has sprung up, co-opting well-intentioned conc…

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Henrique Tahan Novaes, João Henrique Souza Pires
Destructive Production, Agroecology and Schools of Agroecology in Brazil

This urgent and timely book traces peasant resistance to the advance of destructive capitalist agriculture in Brazil.As debates about "sustainable development", ecosocialism, agroecology, and th…

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Peter Sutoris, Uma Pradhan
Reimagining Development

Can development remake itself for today's world?

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Inequality Around the World

This authoritative two-volume set explores and explains the extent and roots of socioeconomic inequality both within and across nations. Both volumes focus on examining factors that shape the dimensions a…

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Mike Davis, Kelly Mayhew, Jim Miller
Under the Perfect Sun

Three muckraking essays on the underside of San Diego cover the city's historically recent turn from red to blue while highlighting a new cast of villains and tenacious activists fighting for social justi…

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Japonica Brown-Saracino
The Death and Life of Gentrification

A provocative account of what is gained and what is lost when a word that once narrowly referred to neighborhood change takes on a life all its ownSociologist Ruth Glass coined the term gentrification in …

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Mardi Reardon-Smith
Making Do

Cape York is a remote and biodiverse peninsula in northeastern Australia that has been inhabited by Aboriginal communities for thousands of years. Since colonization, much of the peninsula has been used f…

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Mardi Reardon-Smith
Making Do

Cape York is a remote and biodiverse peninsula in northeastern Australia that has been inhabited by Aboriginal communities for thousands of years. Since colonization, much of the peninsula has been used f…

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Bernadette Atuahene
Plundered

Follows the lives of two Detroit grandfathers--one Black, the other white--and their grandchildren, while uncovering the effects of racist policies on their lives, how those policies take root, why they f…

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Naveed Ahmed
The Impact of International Financial Institutions in Pakistan

Naveed Ahmed examines the impact of structural reform strategies of International Financial Institutions (IFIs) on the rule of law, good governance and development in Pakistan.The World Bank, the IMF and …

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Jay Belsky
The Nature of Nurture

From a leading expert on child development, a radical evolutionary perspective on how childhood experiences shape later life.Children who grow up in troubled circumstances-experiencing deprivation or inst…

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Joel Zeff
Make the Right Choice

PRAISE FOR MAKE THE RIGHT CHOICE"Joel's work has been a revelation for our team, infusing our agency with fresh perspectives and renewed passion. Through his insightful approach, he has masterfully h…

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Maria Jouste, Ravi Kanbur, Jukka Pirttilä, Pia Rattenhuber
Poor Protection

An open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.This b…

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Manissa Maharawal
Anti-Eviction

A galvanizing story of how everyday people built a powerful anti-eviction movement in gentrified San Francisco.In the early 2010s, San Francisco experienced a tech boom that created both great wealth and …

lieferbar ab 14.4.2026.

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Michele Wakin
Homelessness in America

A one-stop resource for understanding the crisis of homelessness in the United States, this book covers risk factors for homelessness, societal attitudes about the homeless, and public and private resourc…

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Evelyn D Ravuri
Displacing the "Ordinary" City

For decades, gentrification research has predominantly focused on large cities. Arguing that gentrification has occurred throughout the urban hierarchy, Ravuri fills this gap in the literature by analyzin…

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Carol Anne Hilton
The Rise of Indigenous Economic Power

The Indigenous economy is surging, but full Indigenous economic participation is still lacking, thwarted by the colonial and racist policies of Canada's Indian Act. The Rise of Indigenous Economic Powerde…

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Messy Cities

Can messiness make our cities more liveable, lively, and inclusive?Crowded streets, sidewalk vendors, jumbled architecture, constant clamour, graffitied walls, parks gone wild: are these signs of a poorly…

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Ugo Gentilini
Timely Cash

This book provides a historical overview of the 2,500-year history of cash transfers to better understand the roots of contemporary debates on whether and how such assistance should be provided.

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