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Kinderarmut in der Kita ist ein Thema, das viel Fingerspitzengefühl erfordert. Vielleicht sind Sie sich nicht ganz sicher, ob ein Kind Unterstützung benötigt? Oder Sie wissen von einem Fall in Ihrer Einrichtung, aber haben Berührungsängste und Kommunikationsschwierigkeiten. Dann ist dieses kleine Hörbuch ein idealer Türöffner. Es enthält wichtige Informationen, Tipps und Empfehlungen, wie Sie in Ihrer Rolle als Erzieher/-in mit Kinderarmut in der Kita angemessen umgehen können.

“Readers will come away infuriated, with a greater understanding of the systemic causes of homelessness, and with more compassion for their homeless neighbors. Essential reading for any community affected by homelessness (which is all of them).” —Booklist, Starred Review For readers of...

Así no es desmitifica conceptos equivocados y devela verdades incómodas que demasiados mexicanos creen, pero que son falsas. Ideas que asumimos sobre meritocracia, clase media, clasismo, salarios e impuestos, pero que son escandalosamente erradas. Burdas mentiras que sirven para justificar las más grandes injusticias de México.

Los textos que se reúnen en este libro dan cuenta de un continuo en escenarios distintos: niños pobres, huachos, los hijos de Rosaria hacia 1845, los hijos de Gregorio Ruiz hacia 1912, juan Machuca, de 14 años, hacia el 2000; todos ellos de laguna manera toman aquí la palabra para hablar de su cotidiano, de la suerte de sus padres, de su trabajo con ellos, de su soledad, de sus anhelos. Y al escucharlos sabemos que el futuro -el que les pertenecía y les pertenece- ha sido incierto para ellos, y, la mayoría de las veces, implacable en la discriminación y marginación.

Violinist Vijay Gupta’s searing memoir of prodigy, ambition, collapse, and renewal reveals how music is not just performance but also survival, a lifeline of human connection—for readers of Jeremy Denk's Every Good Boy Does Fine, Hua Hsu's Stay True, and Patrick Bringley’s All the Beauty...

The Economics of Poverty reviews critically past and present debates on poverty, spanning both rich and poor countries. The book provides an accessible new synthesis of current economic thinking on key questions: How is poverty measured? How much poverty is there? Why does poverty exist, and is it inevitable? What can be done to reduce poverty? Can it even be eliminated? The book does not assume that listeners know economics already.

The Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller. Winner of the Orwell Prize. Named the most 'Rebellious Read of the 21st Century' in a Scottish Book Trust poll. Brutally honest and fearless, Poverty Safari is an unforgettable insight into modern Britain, and will change how you think about poverty. Darren...

While free markets have brought positive change, traditional capitalism cannot solve problems of inequality and poverty because of its view of people as solely profit-driven. In fact, humans have other drives and passions, including spiritual, social, and altruistic.

What would charity look like if we, instead, measured it by its ability to alleviate poverty and needs? That is the question at the heart of Charity Detox. Drawing on his many decades of experience, Lupton outlines how to structure programs that actually improve the quality of life of the poor and disenfranchised. He introduces many strategies that are revolutionizing what we do with our charity dollars, and offers numerous examples of organizations that have successfully adopted these groundbreaking new models. 

يحاول البروفسور فيليب جيفرسون، الاقتصادي الأمريكي وعضو مجلس الاحتياطـي الفيدرالـي الأمريكـي، في هذا الكتاب الإجابةَ عن أسئلةِ ما الفقر؟ وكيف واجهناه في الماضي؟ وكيف نقيسه؟ وكيف نواجهه اليوم؟ ويضع مقدمةً مركَّزة ومكثفة عن الفقر وقياسه ومواجهته في العصر الحالي. يدرُس جيفرسون في الكتاب مَن هم الفقراء، وكيف يعيشون، وما العوائق التي يواجهونها، ويدرُس تاريخَ الفقر وانتقاله من جيل إلى جيل، والعواملَ الحاكمة لهذا الانتقال. وكذلك ينظر في التفاوت العالمي في توزيع الثروات والأسباب التي أدَّت إليه، ويستكشف الجهودَ العملية والتحليلية التي بُذلت، ولا تزال، لمحوِ الفقر، ويناقش الجهودَ العالمية والمبادرات المحلية التي تهدُف إلى تقليصه. ويدرُس بعمقٍ البنى الاجتماعية والاقتصادية والسياسية التي تؤثِّر على الفقراء وتشكِّل حياتهم

Who is the richest person in the world, ever? Does where you were born affect how much money you'll earn over a lifetime? How would we know? Why, beyond the idle curiosity, do these questions even matter? In The Haves and the Have-Nots, Branko Milanovic, one of the world's leading experts on wealth, poverty, and the gap that separates them, explains these and other mysteries of how wealth is unevenly spread throughout our world, now and through time.

Step inside the American housing crisis where displaced families battle soaring evictions and systemic corporate greed. Perfect for your daily commute, this urgent, empathetic narrative transforms abstract economic policies into deeply personal stories of survival. You will walk alongside gig...

In this riveting true crime thriller, New York Times bestselling author Johann Hari hunts the serial killers stalking Las Vegas—and finds a larger story about the disintegration of the American Dream. This is the strangest serial killer story ever told: Hidden in the tunnels beneath the Las...

The discovery of a forgotten graveyard upends a multi-million-dollar Manhattan real estate deal in this richly drawn exploration of the crisis of urban homelessness and its intersection with history In late 2019, the Bowery Residents’ Committee (BRC) put a $1 million nonrefundable downpayment...

London, 1857: Two teenage girls holding a sign that says "Fugitive Slaves" ask for money on the corner of Blackman Street. After a constable accosts them and charges them with begging, they end up in court, where newspapers pick up their story. Are the girls truly escaped slaves from Kentucky? Or will the city's dystopian Mendicity Society catch them in a lie, exposing them as born-and-raised Londoners and endangering their safety? With its many accounts of people like these who lived and made their living on the streets, Vagabonds forms a moving picture of London's most compelling period.

Nobody who works hard should be poor in America, writes Pulitzer Prize-winner David Shipler. Clear-headed, rigorous, and compassionate, he journeys deeply into the lives of individual store clerks and factory workers, farm laborers and sweat-shop seamstresses, illegal immigrants in menial jobs and Americans saddled with immense student loans and paltry wages. They are known as the working poor.

A Quill & Quire Fall 2026 Nonfiction Pick In Edgelands, Somali-Canadian writer Mohamed Abdulkarim Ali, author of Angry Queer Somali Boy, explores what it means to live life on the margins, in the city and beyond, and offers a unique perspective on the way we live now. “Edgelands will break you...

Hailed as "the guide to capitalism", the New York Times best seller Wealth and Poverty is one of the most influential economics books of all time and has sold more than one million copies since its first release. In this modern classic, Gilder affirms the moral superiority of free-market capitalism and explains why supply-side economics is more effective at decreasing poverty than government-regulated markets. Now, in a completely updated edition of Wealth and Poverty, Gilder compares America’s current economic challenges with its past economic problems.

Brought to you by Penguin. George Orwell's searing account of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s, The Road to Wigan Pier is a brilliant and bitter polemic that has lost none of its political impact over time Orwell's graphically...

Winner of the 2024 American Legacy Book Award in Autobiography/Memoir The heartwarming sequel to Same Kind of Different As Me! After Miss Debbie's death in 2000, her husband, Ron formed an even stronger bond with Denver, a homeless ex-con. Ron's touching memoir chronicles how their shared...