Juvenile Violence in a Winner-Loser Culture: Socio-Economic and Familial Origins of the Rise of Violence against the Person -- by Oliver James (Author) (Book)
Using their own official statistics, author Oliver James demonstrates that Home Office claims that violence has not been growing are false. Public debates about violence tend to centre on single-cause...
All Ages
Age groups: Adulthood (22+)
There's No Place Like Home: Anthropological Perspectives on Housing and Homelessness in the United States -- by Anna Lou Dehavenon (Author) (Book)
" This collection of essays addresses the lack of shelter--one of the most basic elements of human adaptation--now experienced by many Americans. Based on the presupposition that shelter is a basic...
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Age groups: Adulthood (22+)
America's Housing Crisis -- by Bertha Davis (Author) (Book)
"Surveys the topic of housing in modern America, examining such aspects as the low-income rental housing crisis, public housing, and the question of renting versus buying a home."--Annotation...
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Age groups: Adulthood (22+)
The Endless Steppe -- by Esther Hautzig (Author) (Book - Child)
Ten-year-old Esther Rudomin movingly describes 'the end of my lovely world' when her family is arrested in 1941 and taken from their home and exiled to Siberia." From Publishers Weekly
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Age groups: School Age (6-12)
Kids without Homes -- by Joan Johnson (Author) (Book)
"Examines homelessness in today's society as it affects our nation's youth, their education, upbringing, opportunities for employment, enmeshment with crime, and prospects for ameliorating their...
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Age groups: School Age (6-12), Adolescence (13-21)
Housing in Rural America: Building Affordable and Inclusive Communities -- by Robert Wiener, Joseph Belden (Authors) (Book)
"Combining work by academic housing specialists, researchers for nonprofit housing organizations, and housing practitioners, this collection emanated from a Fannie Mae Office of Housing Research...
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Age groups: Adulthood (22+)
Rental Housing: Is There a Crisis? -- by John Weicher, Kevin Villani, Elizabeth Roistacher (Authors) (Book)
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Age groups: Adulthood (22+)
Heck Superhero -- by Martine Leavitt (Author) (Book - Parent/Child)
Product Description "Thirteen-year-old Heck is a pretty normal kid with some artistic talent and a distinctive, hyperactive imagination. Life with his mother has been hand-to-mouth but not...
Ages 9 years - 12 years.
Just Generosity: A New Vision for Overcoming Poverty in America -- by John DiIulio, Ronald Sider, Eugene Rivers (Authors) (Book)
Evangelical theologian and activist Sider gets down to specifics in this book about American social programs, which at points reads like a policy wonk's textbook. But it is not written so much for...
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Age groups: Adulthood (22+)
More than Housing: Lifeboats for Women and Children -- by Joan Sprague (Author) (Book)
"Today, 40 percent of the homeless are single mothers and children; their numbers are increasing. More Than Housing is the first book focusing on a new housing type that responds to this growing...
All Ages
Age groups: Adulthood (22+)