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Bestsellers
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Hillbilly Elegy
- A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
- De: J. D. Vance
- Narrado por: J. D. Vance
- Duración: 6 h y 49 m
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Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis - that of white working-class Americans....
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In Mamaw's Contradictions Lay Great Wisdom
- De Cynthia en 11-20-16
De: J. D. Vance
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Poverty, by America
- De: Matthew Desmond
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
- Duración: 5 h y 40 m
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The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy....
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A testimonial based on facts and witness
- De Alonzo Nightjar en 03-27-23
De: Matthew Desmond
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Hillbilly-Elegie
- Die Geschichte meiner Familie und einer Gesellschaft in der Krise
- De: J. D. Vance
- Narrado por: Dominic Kolb
- Duración: 9 h y 11 m
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J. D. Vance erzählt die Geschichte seiner Familie - eine Geschichte vom gescheiterten Aufstieg und von der Resignation einer ganzen Bevölkerungsschicht...
De: J. D. Vance
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Evicted
- Poverty and Profit in the American City
- De: Matthew Desmond
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
- Duración: 11 h y 3 m
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In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur “Genius” Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they each struggle to keep a roof over their heads....
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Former Property Manager
- De Charla en 05-18-16
De: Matthew Desmond
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White Poverty
- How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy
- De: Reverend Dr. William Barber II, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove - contributor
- Narrado por: Bill Andrew Quinn
- Duración: 6 h y 54 m
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A generational work with far-ranging social and political implications, White Poverty promises to be one of the most influential books in recent years.
De: Reverend Dr. William Barber II, y otros
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When Helping Hurts
- How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor...and Yourself
- De: Steve Corbett, Brian Fikkert
- Narrado por: Brendan Hunter
- Duración: 9 h y 13 m
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Poverty is much more than simply a lack of material resources, and it takes much more than donations and handouts to solve it....
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A must read
- De Diana Kamidi en 07-31-21
De: Steve Corbett, y otros
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Hillbilly Elegy
- A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
- De: J. D. Vance
- Narrado por: J. D. Vance
- Duración: 6 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis - that of white working-class Americans....
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In Mamaw's Contradictions Lay Great Wisdom
- De Cynthia en 11-20-16
De: J. D. Vance
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Poverty, by America
- De: Matthew Desmond
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
- Duración: 5 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy....
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A testimonial based on facts and witness
- De Alonzo Nightjar en 03-27-23
De: Matthew Desmond
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Hillbilly-Elegie
- Die Geschichte meiner Familie und einer Gesellschaft in der Krise
- De: J. D. Vance
- Narrado por: Dominic Kolb
- Duración: 9 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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J. D. Vance erzählt die Geschichte seiner Familie - eine Geschichte vom gescheiterten Aufstieg und von der Resignation einer ganzen Bevölkerungsschicht...
De: J. D. Vance
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Evicted
- Poverty and Profit in the American City
- De: Matthew Desmond
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
- Duración: 11 h y 3 m
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In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur “Genius” Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they each struggle to keep a roof over their heads....
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Former Property Manager
- De Charla en 05-18-16
De: Matthew Desmond
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White Poverty
- How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy
- De: Reverend Dr. William Barber II, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove - contributor
- Narrado por: Bill Andrew Quinn
- Duración: 6 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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A generational work with far-ranging social and political implications, White Poverty promises to be one of the most influential books in recent years.
De: Reverend Dr. William Barber II, y otros
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When Helping Hurts
- How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor...and Yourself
- De: Steve Corbett, Brian Fikkert
- Narrado por: Brendan Hunter
- Duración: 9 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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Poverty is much more than simply a lack of material resources, and it takes much more than donations and handouts to solve it....
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A must read
- De Diana Kamidi en 07-31-21
De: Steve Corbett, y otros
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Random Family
- Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
- De: Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
- Narrado por: Roxana Ortega
- Duración: 20 h y 7 m
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In her extraordinary best seller, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc immerses listeners in the intricacies of the ghetto, revealing the true sagas lurking behind the headlines of gangsta glamour….
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The narrator ruined this book.
- De Ryan Martin en 10-21-18
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Rough Sleepers
- Dr. Jim O’Connell’s Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People
- De: Tracy Kidder
- Narrado por: Tracy Kidder
- Duración: 8 h y 41 m
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After Jim O’Connell graduated from Harvard Medical School and was nearing the end of his residency at Massachusetts General, the hospital’s chief of medicine made a proposal....
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The honesty
- De jim d metzker en 05-17-24
De: Tracy Kidder
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The Great Displacement
- Climate Change and the Next American Migration
- De: Jake Bittle
- Narrado por: Matt Godfrey
- Duración: 10 h y 26 m
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Even as climate change dominates the headlines, many of us still think about it in the future tense—we imagine that as global warming worsens over the coming decades, millions of people will scatter around the world, fleeing famine and rising seas.
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Where we're headed
- De Dr. Stuart A. Blair en 03-09-23
De: Jake Bittle
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Uneven Ground
- Appalachia Since 1945
- De: Ronald D Eller Ph.D.
- Narrado por: Neil Holmes
- Duración: 11 h y 22 m
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Appalachia has played a complex and often contradictory role in the unfolding of American history....
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A Solid Silver Medal
- De Marc L en 04-02-19
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers
- Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
- De: Katherine Boo
- Narrado por: Sunil Malhotra
- Duración: 8 h y 16 m
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In this breathtaking book by Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human through the dramatic story of families striving toward a better life in Annawadi, a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels....
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An Antidote for Shantaram
- De Dr. en 06-14-12
De: Katherine Boo
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Maid
- Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
- De: Stephanie Land, Barbara Ehrenreich - foreword
- Narrado por: Stephanie Land
- Duración: 8 h y 34 m
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At 28, Stephanie Land's dreams of attending a university and becoming a writer quickly dissolved when a summer fling turned into an unplanned pregnancy. Before long, she found herself a single mother, scraping by as a housekeeper to make ends meet....
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Very engaging
- De NMwritergal en 01-24-19
De: Stephanie Land, y otros
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A Framework for Understanding Poverty
- A Cognitive Approach (Sixth Edition)
- De: Ruby K. Payne PhD
- Narrado por: Ruby K. Payne
- Duración: 6 h y 12 m
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With a view through an economic lens that has only become sharper and more focused since its initial publication in 1995, the premise owned by A Framework for Understanding Poverty is unchanged....
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Understanding your Community.
- De bigronald8 en 10-07-19
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Invisible Child
- Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
- De: Andrea Elliott
- Narrado por: Adenrele Ojo
- Duración: 21 h y 10 m
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Andrea Elliott follows eight dramatic years in the life of Dasani, a girl whose imagination is as soaring as the skyscrapers near her Brooklyn shelter, weaving the story of her childhood with the history of her ancestors, tracing their passage from slavery to the Great Migration north....
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Narration is completely over the top
- De Heather en 10-14-21
De: Andrea Elliott
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Same Kind of Different as Me
- A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together
- De: Ron Hall, Denver Moore, Lynn Vincent - contributor
- Narrado por: Daniel Butler, Barry Scott
- Duración: 9 h y 59 m
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A critically acclaimed #1 New York Times bestseller with more than one million copies in print and a major motion picture! Gritty with pain, betrayal, and brutality, this incredible true story also shines with an unexpected, life-changing love....
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Stays with me...
- De Rebekah Sue Carolla en 09-23-18
De: Ron Hall, y otros
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The Divide
- American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap
- De: Matt Taibbi
- Narrado por: Ray Porter
- Duración: 14 h y 1 m
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Over the last two decades, America has been falling deeper and deeper into a statistical mystery: Poverty goes up. Crime goes down. The prison population doubles. Fraud by the rich wipes out 40 percent of the world’s wealth. The rich get massively richer. No one goes to jail....
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But still it seems no-one will act
- De TM en 05-14-14
De: Matt Taibbi
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Homelessness Is a Housing Problem
- How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
- De: Gregg Colburn, Clayton Page Aldern
- Narrado por: Adam Verner
- Duración: 6 h y 22 m
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Colburn and Aldern seek to explain the substantial regional variation in rates of homelessness in cities across the United States. In a departure from many analytical approaches, the authors shift their focus from the individual experiencing homelessness to the metropolitan area....
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NO PDF! NO CHARTS!
- De P. Dean en 06-02-23
De: Gregg Colburn, y otros
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Broke in America
- Seeing, Understanding, and Ending U.S. Poverty
- De: Joanne Samuel Goldblum, Colleen Shaddox, Bomani Jones - foreword
- Narrado por: Joanne Samuel Goldblum, Colleen Shaddox, JD Jackson
- Duración: 10 h y 45 m
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Water. Food. Housing. The most basic and crucial needs for survival, yet 40 percent of people in the United States don't have the resources to get them. With key policy changes, we could eradicate poverty in this country within our lifetime - but we need to get started now....
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very left leaning
- De Bert Sloan en 09-06-22
De: Joanne Samuel Goldblum, y otros
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Trust First
- A True Story About the Power of Giving People Second Chances
- De: Bruce Deel, Sara Grace
- Narrado por: Bruce Deel, Simon Sinek
- Duración: 6 h y 2 m
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When Pastor Bruce Deel took over the Mission Church in the 30314 zip code of Atlanta, he had orders to shut it down. The church was old and decrepit, and its neighborhood - known as "Better Leave, You Effing Fool", or "the Bluff", for short - had the highest rates of crime....
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Listen. To. This. Book. "TRUST" me!
- De THix. en 04-13-22
De: Bruce Deel, y otros
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Amazing Grace
- The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation
- De: Jonathan Kozol
- Narrado por: Dick Hill
- Duración: 9 h y 19 m
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Amazing Grace is a book about about the hearts of children who grow up in the South Bronx - the poorest congressional district of our nation....
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The Roots of Change are in Education
- De T. C. Pile en 06-05-20
De: Jonathan Kozol
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High-Risers
- Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing
- De: Ben Austen
- Narrado por: Ron Butler
- Duración: 13 h y 33 m
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High-Risers braids personal narratives, city politics, and national history to tell the timely and epic story of Chicago's Cabrini-Green, America's most iconic public housing project....
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Little mention of accountability of the people getting the housing
- De Steve D Renz en 05-15-18
De: Ben Austen
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Thirst
- A Story of Redemption, Compassion, and a Mission to Bring Clean Water to the World
- De: Scott Harrison, Lisa Sweetingham - contributor
- Narrado por: Scott Harrison
- Duración: 10 h y 14 m
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An inspiring personal story of redemption, second chances, and the transformative power within us all, from the founder and CEO of the nonprofit charity: water....
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Inspiring!
- De April Ackroyd en 10-07-18
De: Scott Harrison, y otros
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Poor
- Grit, Courage, and the Life-Changing Value of Self-Belief
- De: Katriona O'Sullivan
- Narrado por: Katriona O'Sullivan
- Duración: 6 h y 48 m
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As the middle of five kids growing up in dire poverty, the odds were low on Katriona O'Sullivan making anything of her life. Poor is the extraordinary story - moving, funny, brave, and sometimes startling - of how Katriona turned her life around....
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Great listen
- De Anonymous User en 08-21-23
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A Paradise of Small Houses
- The Evolution, Devolution, and Potential Rebirth of Urban Housing
- De: Max Podemski
- Narrado por: Rob Greenbaum
- Duración: 10 h y 16 m
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From the Haitian-style “shotgun” houses of the 19th century to the lavish high-rises of the 21st century, a walk through the streets of America’s neighborhoods that reveals the rich history—and future—of urban housing.
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meh nothing that great
- De TDNYNJFL en 07-13-24
De: Max Podemski
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London Labour and the London Poor
- De: Henry Mayhew
- Narrado por: David Timson
- Duración: 27 h y 14 m
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London Labour and the London Poor is a rare and fascinating insight into the lives and struggles of the 19th-century poor. Written by journalist and reformer Henry Mayhew, it collects hundreds of testimonials from the lower strata of Victorian society....
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THE BEST BOOK ON VICTORIAN LONDON
- De Count B en 06-06-20
De: Henry Mayhew
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Masterless Men
- Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South
- De: Keri Leigh Merritt
- Narrado por: Keri Leigh Merritt
- Duración: 17 h y 32 m
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With the rising global demand for cotton - and thus, slaves - in the 1840s and 1850s, the need for white laborers in the American South was drastically reduced, creating a large underclass who were unemployed or underemployed....
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A Story Seldom Told
- De Tigerron Wells en 05-04-20
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Downeast
- Five Maine Girls and the Unseen Story of Rural America
- De: Gigi Georges
- Narrado por: Lisa Flanagan
- Duración: 6 h y 20 m
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In this captivating and empathetic book, Gigi Georges follows five girls as they come of age in one of the most challenging and geographically isolated regions on the Eastern seaboard....
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Well Written, Mispronunciations
- De K. McIntosh en 06-08-21
De: Gigi Georges
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A Place Called Home
- A Memoir
- De: David Ambroz
- Narrado por: David Ambroz
- Duración: 12 h y 8 m
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There are millions of homeless children in America today and in A Place Called Home, award-winning child welfare advocate David Ambroz writes about growing up homeless in New York for eleven years and his subsequent years in foster care....
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Very heart wrenching read, BUT
- De Everest Mom en 01-14-23
De: David Ambroz
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When We Walk By
- Forgotten Humanity, Broken Systems, and the Role We Can Each Play in Ending Homelessness in America
- De: Kevin F. Adler, Donald W. Burnes, Amanda Banh - contributor, y otros
- Narrado por: Kevin F. Adler
- Duración: 9 h y 17 m
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When We Walk By takes an urgent look at homelessness in America, showing us what we lose—in ourselves and as a society—when we choose to walk past and ignore our neighbors in shelters, insecure housing, or on the streets....
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Comprehensive examination of homelessness
- De Theodore en 06-17-24
De: Kevin F. Adler, y otros
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Tightrope
- Americans Reaching for Hope
- De: Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn
- Narrado por: Jennifer Garner, Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn
- Duración: 9 h y 43 m
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With stark poignancy and political dispassion, Tightrope draws us deep into an "other America". The authors tell this story, in part, through the lives of some of the children with whom Kristof grew up in rural Yamhill, Oregon....
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Conservatives hate liberals will love
- De vic en 02-03-20
De: Nicholas D. Kristof, y otros