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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
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Evicted

By Matthew Desmond ,

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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
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Mountains Beyond Mountains

By Tracy Kidder , Michael French ,

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Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth
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Heartland

By Sarah Smarsh ,

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Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
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Poor Economics

By Abhijit V. Banerjee , Esther Duflo ,

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Lowborn
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Lowborn

By Kerry Hudson ,

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Everybody Loves a Good Drought
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Everybody Loves a Good Drought

By P. Sainath ,

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Through the Barricades
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Through the Barricades

By Denise Deegan , Aimee Alexander ,

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The Haves and the Have-Nots: A Brief and Idiosyncratic History of Global Inequality
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The Haves and the Have-Nots

By Branko Milanovic ,

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Expelling the Poor: Atlantic Seaboard States and the Nineteenth-Century Origins of American Immigration Policy
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Expelling the Poor

By Hidetaka Hirota ,

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Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt
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Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt

By Joe Sacco , Chris Hedges ,

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Charles Booth's London Poverty Maps: A Landmark Reassessment of Booth's Social Survey
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Charles Booth's London Poverty Maps

By Mary S. Morgan ,

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Partner to the Poor: A Paul Farmer Reader
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Partner to the Poor

By Paul Farmer ,

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Kyland (Sign of Love)
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Kyland (Sign of Love)

By Mia Sheridan ,

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I Yam a Donkey!
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I Yam a Donkey!

By Cece Bell ,

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The Billionaire Raj: A Journey Through India's New Gilded Age
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The Billionaire Raj

By James Crabtree ,

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The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex
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The Revolution Will Not Be Funded

By INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence ,

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Rethinking the Welfare Rights Movement
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Rethinking the Welfare Rights Movement

By Premilla Nadasen ,

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Patients of the State: The Politics of Waiting in Argentina
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Patients of the State

By Javier Auyero ,

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$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America
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$2.00 a Day

By Kathryn J. Edin , H. Luke Shaefer ,

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Chained
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Chained

By Lynne Kelly ,

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Adrian Simcox Does Not Have a Horse
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Adrian Simcox Does Not Have a Horse

By Marcy Campbell , Corinna Luyken (illustrator) ,

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Greenville
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Greenville

By Dale Peck ,

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Once You Know This
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Once You Know This

By Emily Blejwas ,

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The People of the Abyss
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The People of the Abyss

By Jack London ,

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The Winter King
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The Winter King

By Christine Cohen ,

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The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty
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The Life You Can Save

By Peter Singer ,

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Roam
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Roam

By C. H. Armstrong ,

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The Great Surge: The Ascent of the Developing World
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The Great Surge

By Steven Radelet ,

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The Moral Economy: Poverty, Credit, and Trust in Early Modern Europe
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The Moral Economy

By Laurence Fontaine ,

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Trade and Poverty: When the Third World Fell Behind
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Trade and Poverty

By Jeffrey G. Williamson ,

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Red Tape: Bureaucracy, Structural Violence, and Poverty in India
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Red Tape

By Akhil Gupta ,

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Give a Man a Fish: Reflections on the New Politics of Distribution
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Give a Man a Fish

By James Ferguson ,

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Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
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Automating Inequality

By Virginia Eubanks ,

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The New War on the Poor: The Production of Insecurity in Latin America
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The New War on the Poor

By John Gledhill ,

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Favela: Four Decades of Living on the Edge in Rio de Janeiro
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Favela

By Janice Perlman ,

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Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
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Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor

By Rob Nixon ,

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Inequality: What Can Be Done?
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Inequality

By Anthony B. Atkinson ,

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The Specter of "the People": Urban Poverty in Northeast China
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The Specter of "the People"

By Mun Young Cho ,

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The Undeserving Poor: America's Enduring Confrontation with Poverty
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The Undeserving Poor

By Michael B. Katz ,

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On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City
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On the Run

By Alice Goffman ,

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Social Impact Investing: New Agenda In Fighting Poverty
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Social Impact Investing

By Kim Tan , Brian Griffiths ,

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How Will Capitalism End?: Essays on a Failing System
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How Will Capitalism End?

By Wolfgang Streeck ,

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Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System
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Stuffed and Starved

By Raj Patel ,

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Letters of the Catholic Poor: Poverty in Independent Ireland, 1920-1940
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Letters of the Catholic Poor

By Lindsey Earner-Byrne ,

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Teeth
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Teeth

By Mary Otto ,

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