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Scarcity_ Why Having Too Little Means So Much - Sendhil Mullainathan & Eldar Sharif
Why can we never seem to keep on top of our workload, social diary or chores? Why does poverty persist around the world? Why do successful people do things at the last minute in... -
Life You Can Save_ Acting Now to End World Poverty, The - Peter Singer
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Evicted - Matthew_Desmond
<b>From Harvard sociologist Matthew Desmond, a landmark work of scholarship and reportage that will forever change the way we look at poverty in America</b><br> <i> </i><br> In thi... -
The Poor Mouth_ A Bad Story Abo - Flann O'Brien; Patrick C. Power
The Poor Mouth relates the story of one Bonaparte O'Coonassa, born in a cabin in a fictitious village called Corkadoragha in western Ireland equally renowned for its beauty and the... -
The Monks of War - Desmond Seward
The Templars, the Hospitallers, the Tuetonic Knights and the Knights of the Spanish and Portuguese orders were 'noblemen vowed to poverty, chastity and obedience, living a monas... -
The Giver - Lois Lowry
Amazon.com ReviewIn a world with no poverty, no crime, no sickness and no unemployment, and where every family is happy, 12-year-old Jonas is chosen to be the community's Receiver ... -
One Day the Soldiers Came_ Voic - Charles London
Today, in violence-torn regions across the globe, 20 million children have been uprooted, orphaned, or injured by war, famine, and poverty. This is their story . . . and ours. In t... -
Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe; Virginia Woolf
SUMMARY: Written in a time when criminal biographies enjoyed great success, Daniel Defoe’s Moll Flanders details the life of the irresistible Moll and her struggles through poverty... -
Mao's Last Dancer - Li Cunxin
At the age of eleven, Li Cunxin was one of the privileged few selected to serve in Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution by studying at the Beijing Dance Academy. Having known bitter ... -
Love, Poverty, and War_ Journey - Christopher Hitchens
From BooklistAgree or disagree with polemicist Hitchens, there is no denying the clarity of his thinking, the depth of his reading, the thoroughness of his inquiries, the independe...