| The No-Nonsense Guide to World Poverty Contributor(s): Seabrook, Jeremy (Author) |
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ISBN: 1904456669 ISBN-13: 9781904456667 Publisher: New Internationalist OUR PRICE: $12.56 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2007 Annotation: This guide questions conventional thinking about wealth and poverty-is the opposite of poverty really wealth, or is it safety and sufficiency? Drawing on experience of poor people all over the world, the author gives voice to those whose views are rarely sought and shows how we all need to live more modestly to make poverty history. Jeremy Seabrook has written more than thirty books (including Travels in the Skin Trade and Children of Other Worlds), and has worked as a teacher, social worker, journalist, lecturer, and playwright. He has contributed to many magazines, including the New Statesman and The Ecologist. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Poverty & Homelessness - Political Science | Political Economy - History | Latin America - General |
| Dewey: 339.46 |
| Series: No-Nonsense Guides |
| Physical Information: 0.42" H x 4.46" W x 7.12" (0.35 lbs) 144 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This guide questions conventional thinking about wealth and poverty--is the opposite of poverty really wealth, or is it safety and sufficiency? Drawing on experience of poor people all over the world, the author gives voice to those whose views are rarely sought and shows how we all need to live more modestly to make poverty history. Jeremy Seabrook has written more than thirty books (including Travels in the Skin Trade and Children of Other Worlds), and has worked as a teacher, social worker, journalist, lecturer, and playwright. He has contributed to many magazines, including the New Statesman and The Ecologist. |