Selected as One of the Best Books of the 21st Century by The New York Times Set amid the havoc of the War on Drugs, this New York Times bestseller is an "astonishingly intimate" (New York magazine) chronicle of one family’s triumphs and ...

Original publication and copyright date: 2005.

In 1890, when the book was published, the Lower East Side was a landscape of teeming streets and filthy tenements crowded with immigrants living in dreadful conditions.

Examines the economic underworld of migrant farm workers, the aged, minority groups, and other economically underprivileged groups.

Words and photographs describe the daily lives of typical sharecropper families in the American South.

This book innovatively and usefully describes the permutations of an ancient tradition as it exists in this modern day and age.

Debunking the current model of international aid promoted by both Hollywood celebrities and policy makers, Moyo offers a bold new road map for financing development of the world's poorest countries.

In order to earn money for college, fourteen-year-old LaVaughn babysits for a teenage mother.

"This volume is an excellent overview of the dimensions and sources of American poverty.

Annotation Reports Nightingale's accomplishments in developing a public heath care system based on disease prevention. Includes papers, letters and "Notes on Nursing for the Labouring Classes."