| 1. |  | Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America
from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Price: $16.34
Customer Review:
Everyone should read this book. I suggest listening to the 30 minute radio story before reading. Search for "This American Life" series from National Public Radio. The episode that contains this story is "Going Big" which aired late September, 2008. | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 2. |  | The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It
from Oxford University Press, USA
Price: $10.85
Customer Review:
Collier loves his research. He also loves the research of people who have studied under him. Finally, he loves the research of people he works with.
While I have no doubt that his research has produced some fruitful insights into poverty, I don't think his book is the amazing must-read... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 3. |  | Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
from Holt Paperbacks
Price: $11.20
Customer Review:
"On (Not) Getting By in America"; this sentence itself, incorporates the whole sense of the author's precious experience, and prospects to the potential reader a prompt sense of discomfort. Or at least, cues the awareness that somebody in this country is not indeed "living large".
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| 4. |  | The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time
from Penguin (Non-Classics)
Price: $11.05
Customer Review:
If you are like me, you may often worry about the poor and the underprivileged across the world. You may wonder what it would take to help them achieve sustainable livelihoods which is the first step to ending poverty for them. You may even be wondering what role you could play in ending poverty in... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 5. |  | A Framework for Understanding Poverty
from aha Process, Inc.
Price: $21.56
Customer Review:
A very bigoted book that blames the poor for not following the rules she has decided are essential. | 3.5 / 5.0
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| 6. |  | Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression
from Pantheon
Customer Review:
I wouldn't know. I was sent an Email on 11/19/08 that said that my order had been shipped. It is now 12/22/08, and I have NOT received it. I sent 2 Emails saying that I had not received it, but still have not. | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 7. |  | Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle against World Poverty
from Blackstone Audio Inc.
Price: $14.96
Customer Review:
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R9DQ0HQRQAFU Mitch Hiatt's review was made as part of a critical review assignment for the Fall 2008 Economics of Entrepreneurship seminar at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, taught by Art... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 8. |  | Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life
from University of California Press
Price: $14.93
Customer Review:
This book offers a thoughtful, in-depth exploration of how parenting strategies differ between middle class and working class families, and how these differences embody both strengths and weaknesses. Lareau argues that whereas the "concerted cultivation" approach in middle class parenting means that... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 9. |  | The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good
from Penguin (Non-Classics)
Price: $10.40
Customer Review:
Well researched and very well written critique of foreign development aid. Very useful in challenging the conventional wisdom of much strategic aid policy | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 10. |  | Angela's Ashes: A Memoir of a Childhood
from HarperCollins Audio
Customer Review:
I read this story for a book club, and that sense of accountability was the main reason that I finished it.
The McCourt family's life did not have to be so bad, and the children did not have to be malnourished.
I know we have no right to judge others, but how could the parents keep... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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