Helen Plum Library

Según la ONU, más de mil millones de personas viven en ciudades miseria, en favelas, cerros, chabolas, cantegriles, campamentos y barriadas del Sur global. En este ambicioso y brillante libro, Mike Davis explora el futuro de una desigualdad radical y de una inestabilidad a punto de estallar. Davis retrata la realidad de un vasto y horrendo almacén de seres humanos desterrados de la economía mundial en ciudades pobres hiperdegradadas. Desde la...

When Alan Emmins met a homeless French girl dancing on a makeshift dance floor in the Freedom Tunnel, she challenged him to try homelessness himself to better understand what he was writing about. He took up the challenge. Alan spent 31 days living homeless in New York to capture portraits of a society full of surprises. The people he met were many and varied. Whether happy or angry, suspicious or protective, or just enjoying some company, their openness...

Microfinance-providing low-interest loans and other financial services to help the poorest people lift themselves out of poverty-was pioneered by the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh. In 2006, the bank and its founder, Muhammad Yunus, were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and microfinance has since gone on to serve over 100 million people-mostly women-on five continents. First published in 1996, Small Loans, Big Dreams is the classic account of the...

This title examines one of the world's critical issues, poverty. Readers will learn the historical background of the issue, leading up to its current and future impact on society. Discussed in detail are the causes of poverty as well as the effects of poverty, including homelessness, poor education, and poor mental and physical health. Also covered is stigma surrounding poverty, as well as U.S. programs such as welfare and other initiatives developed...

What comes to mind when you hear the word homeless? It's their choice to be on the street? They're lazy and unwilling to work? They're mentally ill, alcoholics, or addicted to drugs, and dangerous? Many homeless people have difficulty finding affordable housing and keeping jobs without a permanent address or transportation. While some have mental health or substance abuse problems, most do not. Dangerous? They actually live in constant fear for...

Peek inside the mind one of Contemporary India's most influential poets Inside this book you'll find Dr. Ramesh Chandra Mukhopadhyaya, one of the most erudite philosopher-critics of India, brilliantly evaluating his compatriot English poet K.V. Dominic. Among the contemporary English poets of India, Dr. K.V. Dominic has established an unchallengeable position of his own. Through his poetry collections Winged Reason, Write Son, Write, Multicultural...

Brad Bondhus is a degreed Mechanical Engineer who began his career in 1978 with Westinghouse Electric Corporation. As a result of the economic cycles of the next 43 years, Brad's work varied from synthetic fuels to airborne optical systems, from submarine electronics to satellite failure analysis and included mail sorting equipment for the USPS. His career high point occurred in the early 1990s as part of a team developing a new and novel power electronics....

In Homeless But Not Forgotten, you will meet and learn how some people overcame street life to move on to complete victory. You will also be introduced to others who exist and etch out their lives alone and destitute on the streets. Their experiences will illuminate their real-life stories as you discover the situations that led them to the streets. Come and explore the underbelly of homelessness. You will meet adults who, before they were even...

May this testimony inspire all who will read it to understand you are not alone nor are you invisible - you are seen and heard. Having traveled from the Midwest to California in search of a better lifestyle for her and her then drug-addict husband, Cornelia Elmore was put into an adventure by God that would literally transform her into the mirror image of Christ-likeness. I Grew Where I Was Planted is her story of being a Midwesterner transplanted...

Seventeen-year-old Angela Carter intended to pick out prom dresses with her best friend and fill out college applications during her senior year. But after her father abandons the family and her addict mother kicks her out, the now-pregnant teen's new normal is keeping her pressure cooker older boyfriend, Dale, from erupting. When an intoxicated Dale loses control of her car one night, Angela fears she'll never hold her unborn child. But something...