Search results for “[Subject: poverty-homelessness]”

• Author(s): Herbert J. Gans • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Poverty & HomelessnessIn his withering dissection of the origins and misuse of the term "underclass" to stereotype and stigmatize the poor, Herber...

• Author(s): Lawrence M. Mead • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: American Government - GeneralThirty years ago, the great national debate was how to help ordinary, workaday Americans achieve the good things in life...

• Author(s): David T. Ellwood • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: PovertyThe subject of a New York Times Magazine cover story of December 8, 1996, David Ellwood is one of the country's leading experts on poverty. In...

• Author(s): Michael B. Katz • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: PovertyAn examination of the origins of public and private social welfare, from the days of the colonial poorhouse through the current tragedy of the ...

• Author(s): Martha Shirk • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Sociology - Marriage & FamilyIn Lives on the Line, Martha Shirk, Neil G. Bennett, and J. Lawrence Aber meld affecting personal profiles with sophist...

• Author(s): Sharman Apt Russell • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: PovertyEvery day, we wake up hungry. Every day, we break our fast. Hunger explores the range of this primal experience. Sharman Apt Russell, the h...

• Author(s): Leon Dash • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - GeneralBased on a heart-rending and much discussed series in the Washington Post, this is the story of one woma...

• Author(s): Oscar Lewis | Ruth M. Lewis • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Anthropology - GeneralOne of the truly seminal works in modern cultural anthropology, Five Families is a dramatic and forceful account of ...