The Book Company: New Products - Poverty & Homelessness

The Routledge Handbook of Poverty in the United States

Sat, 12 Sep 2026 17:06:13 +0000

This Handbook provides an authoritative overview of the relationship of poverty in the US with the rise of neoliberal capitalism and globalization. Key issues examined include: income distribution, employment, health, hunger, housing, social justice and human rights frameworks and the ..

Price: $350.00

Leaving Breezy Street (A Memoir)

Tue, 08 Sep 2026 04:39:54 +0000

Told in an inimitable voice, Leaving Breezy Street is the stunning account of Brenda Myers-Powell’s brutal and beautiful life.

“Careful—don’t think prostitution is just about money. It’s never just the money. It’s about slipping in at all the wrong places. Getting into d..

Price: $19.99

The Routledge Handbook of Precarious Housing

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 17:38:06 +0000

The Routledge Handbook of Precarious Housing offers the first comprehensive, interdisciplinary examination of one of today’s most urgent global challenges: the growing normalization of insecure, unaffordable, and uninhabitable housing.

Price: $350.00

Research on the Governance Value of Poverty Reduction in China

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 05:57:36 +0000

Research on the Governance Value of Poverty Reduction in China offers an in-depth exploration of how poverty alleviation efforts have reshaped governance structures, economic policies, and social development in China. Written by Professor Wang Hongyan, a leading expert in governance studies, this ..
Price: $130.00

Understanding Global Poverty (Causes, Solutions, and Capabilities)

Thu, 03 Sep 2026 17:56:10 +0000

This book introduces students to the study and analysis of poverty. Perfect as an introductory textbook for students across sociology, global development, political science, anthropology, public health and economics.
Price: $233.99

A Sourcebook for Poverty Reduction Strategies

Thu, 03 Sep 2026 08:11:05 +0000

'A Sourcebook for Poverty Reduction Strategies' is a guide intended to help low-income countries with the development and strengthening of their poverty reduction strategies. This book has been designed as a resource for analysis and discourse on poverty reduction policies and programs at the coun..
Price: $125.00

Unaffordable (Legal Aid and the Grassroots Fight of Tenants and Homeowners for Housing Justice and Democratic Power)

Tue, 01 Sep 2026 13:45:08 +0000

Both a field guide to organizing and a character-driven nonfiction history, Unaffordable shows how tenants built durable coalitions, won rent control in more than one hundred New Jersey and helped spark a national tenant movement in the 1970s.
Price: $60.99

Human Capital or Cultural Capital? (Ethnicity and Poverty Groups in an Urban School District)

Mon, 31 Aug 2026 15:14:28 +0000

This study seeks to reorient our understanding of the early educational determinants of social stratification outcomes
Price: $68.99

Vice, Crime, and Poverty (How the Western Imagination Invented the Underworld)

Wed, 26 Aug 2026 22:50:19 +0000

Beggars, outcasts, urchins, waifs, prostitutes, criminals, convicts, madmen, fallen women, lunatics, degenerates—part reality, part fantasy, these are the grotesque faces that populate the underworld, the dark inverse of our everyday world. Lurking in the mirror that we hold up to our society, ..
Price: $32.00

Planet Plutocracy (How Global Capital Captured Power and How to Take it Back)

Wed, 26 Aug 2026 08:14:00 +0000

For decades, a small elite of financial and corporate barons has secured towering personal fortunes by hijacking the process of wealth creation. This wealth and power grab has turned large parts of the economy into mechanisms of personal enrichment with profound consequences: Britain is now a c..
Price: $22.95