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Dancing with Broken Bones

Poverty, Race, and Spirit-filled Dying in the Inner City
David Wendell Moller
$39.99
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Paperback,  Mar 2012 ISBN13: 9780199760138ISBN10: 0199760136 Now in a revised edition, this book gives voice and face to a vulnerable and disempowered population whose stories often remain untold.
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Counting the Poor

New Thinking About European Poverty Measures and Lessons for the United States
Douglas J. Besharov, Kenneth A. Couch
$74.99
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Hardback,  May 2012 ISBN13: 9780199860586ISBN10: 0199860580 With contributions from the world's foremost authorities on social measurement, this volume promises to be the definitive reference for poverty researchers and policymakers seeking to disengage politics from measurement.

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