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"The only career series designed expressly to turn passions into paychecks! These inspiring books let career explorers look at...

Poverty is one of the most persistant and long-standing problems facing governments and populations all over the world. This book...

This is an invaluable guide to making the most of helping relationships. It concentrates on the practicalities and explores how...

"Care Work" is a collection of original essays on the meaning of providing care. These essays address not only the...

Reaching beyond statistics and prevalent assumptions, Uninsured in America goes to the heart of why more than forty million Americans...

In a remarkably concise, readable, and accessible format, John Iceland provides a comprehensive picture of poverty in America, He shows...

Demographic change and increasingly international markets are putting severe pressure on developed welfare states in the OECD countries. The contributors...

Between 1900 and 2000 an unprecedented American effort to use state regulation to guarantee health, opportunity, and security to the...

The poor seem easy to identify: those who do not have enough money or enough of the things money can...

In this book, Daniel Shapiro argues that the dominant positions in contemporary political philosophy - egalitarianism, positive rights theory, communitarianism,...

How should we deal with societal ills such as crime, poverty, pollution, terrorism, and corruption? The Character of Harms argues...

This book presents the first comprehensive history of the interplay of public and private provision that made the Swiss 'three-pillar'...

Assuming that "marginal" citizens cannot govern their own lives, proponents of the therapeutic state urge casework intervention to reshape the...

Why, alone among industrial democracies, does the United States not have national health insurance? While many books have addressed this...

Black Americans continue to lag behind on many measures of social and economic well-being. Conventional wisdom holds that these inequalities...

The world confronts major challenges in rural development as it enters the 21st century. Most of the world's poverty is...

The Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Debt Initiative, a major innovation in development finance, was designed to relieve the high...

Most community financing schemes have evolved in the context of severe economic constraints, political instability, and lack of good governance....

Bolivia has made significant progress in health status and equity in the last decade, due to the implementation of a...

HIV/AIDS is generating a major humanitarian crisis for families in Sub-Saharan Africa. The number of children who have lost one...