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Looks at the architecture program at Auburn University, known as the Rural Studio, and shows how director Samuel Mockbee has honored his belief that architecture should be an ethically responsible profession by putting students to work creating homes for the poor in Alabama.

Twelve-year-old Rox and her grandmother Mimi sell at a flea market every weekend to supplement the family's only income, that of construction worker and college student, cousin John Martin.

Traces the history and evolution of poverty in the United States from colonial times to the early twenty-first century, and includes chronologies, eyewitness testimony, photographs and illustrations, maps, brief biographies of notable people, and excerpts from primary source documents.

Presents a collection of essays that examine the issues related to poverty.

The author describes the diverse poverty around the world through a collection of interviews with impoverished people who attempt to justify or explain their present circumstances.

Reconstructs the events surrounding the murder of a young boy in London in 1831 and investigates the trade in human corpses carried out by body snatchers who would rob graves or commit murder to supply medical colleges with fresh cadavers.

Drawn from the letters and oral histories of three thousand men and women to tell the story of the boxcar boys and girls who left home during the Great Depression in search of jobs or adventure.

Presents a collection of sixteen essays that address the issues of poverty in America, and covers such topics as the homeless, low-wage labor, poverty among immigrants, helping the poor, and more.

Young Francie Nolan experiences the problems of growing up in a Brooklyn, New York slum.

Chronicles the life of Paul Farmer, focusing on his efforts to diagnose and cure infectious diseases and to bring modern medicine to the countries and people who need them most.