poverty

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.

Examines the causes of poverty around the world, and describes how globalization is having a major effect on the way poverty is defined.

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.

Contains information and statistics on topics related to world poverty, providing a definition of poverty, and covering its types, causes, consequences, and efforts to find remedies.

Ruth Ann Boatwright, a South Carolina bastard, tells her life with her family and the emotional and physical violence she experiences.

Explores the issues of poverty in the United States through real-life stories of poor people and the agencies and organizations available to help them.

Presents thirty opposing arguments on the issue of poverty in the U.S. and worldwide, covering its causes, severity, and potential solutions, and includes an introduction, discussion questions, periodical and book bibliographies, and an annotated list of organizations.

In nineteenth-century Scotland, following the death of his mother during surgery, Robbie decides to take revenge on the surgeon who performed the operation, Dr. Robert Knox, and in the process, makes a gruesome discovery about the lengths the medical profession will go to advance its knowledge of anatomy.

A look at some of the historical causes of poverty, the effects of living in poverty, and what is being done to reduce poverty and its effects.