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“andrea hetling”

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  • Home Safe Home

    Housing Solutions for Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence

    by Hilary Botein, Andrea Hetling ...
    Series series Violence Against Women and Children
    Housing matters for everyone, as it provides shelter, security, privacy, and stability. For survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV), housing takes on an additional meaning; it is the key to establishing a new life, free from abuse. IPV survivors often face such inadequate housing options, however, that they must make excruciating choices between cycling through temporary shelters, becoming ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

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  • Not Without My Sister

    The True Story of Three Girls Violated and Betrayed by Those They Trusted

    by Kristina Jones, Celeste Jones, Juliana Buhring ...
    The bestselling, devastating account of three sisters torn apart, abused and exploited at the hands of a community that robbed them of their childhood. It reveals three lives, separate but entwined, that have experienced unspeakable horror, unrelenting loyalty and unforgettable courage.From as early as three years old, Juliana, Celeste and Kristina were separated from their parents and physically ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Paid For – My Journey through Prostitution

    Surviving a Life of Prostitution and Drug Addiction on Dublin's Streets

    by Rachel Moran ...
    When you are 15 years old and destitute, too unskilled to work and too young to claim unemployment benefit, your body is all you have left to sell.'THE BEST WORK BY ANYONE ON PROSTUTION EVER.' Catherine A. MacKinnonRachel Moran came from a troubled family background. Taken into state care at 14, she became homeless and got involved in prostitution aged 15, ending up isolated, drug-addicted, ... Read more

    $6.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Portfolios of the Poor

    How the World's Poor Live on $2 a Day

    by Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch, Stuart Rutherford, Orlanda Ruthven ...
    Nearly forty percent of humanity lives on an average of two dollars a day or less. If you've never had to survive on an income so small, it is hard to imagine. How would you put food on the table, afford a home, and educate your children? How would you handle emergencies and old age? Every day, more than a billion people around the world must answer these questions. Portfolios of the Poor is the ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Honour Killing

    Stories of Men Who Killed

    by Ayse Onal ...
    Honour killing persists across the Middle East, where regimes refrain from tackling primitive traditions for fear of sparking unrest. Ayse Onal interviewed imprisoned men in Turkey convicted of killing their mothers, sisters and daughters. The result is a revealing and ultimately tragic account of ruined lives - both the victims' and the killers' - in a country where state and religion conspire to ... Read more

    $12.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Perceptual Coherence

    Hearing and Seeing

    by Stephen Handel ...
    The job of any sensory system is to create objects in the world out of the incoming proximal stimulus energy. The energy is neutral; it does not specify the objects itself. Thus, sensory systems must abstract the energy that does specify objects and differentiate it from the noise energy. The perceptual variables that specify objects for both listening and looking become those of contrast and ... Read more

    $66.59 USD

  • Sweet Charity?

    Emergency Food and the End of Entitlement

    by Janet Poppendieck ...
    How the drive to end poverty has taken a wrong turn with thousands of well-meaning volunteers on boardIn this era of eroding commitment to government sponsored welfare programs, voluntarism and private charity have become the popular, optimistic solutions to poverty and hunger. The resurgence of charity has to be a good thing, doesn't it? No, says sociologist Janet Poppendieck, not when stopgap ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Grangegorman Murders

    Dean Lyons, Mark Nash and the Story behind the Grangegorman Murders

    by Alan Bailey ...
    On the morning of 7 March 1997, the bodies of two elderly female patients were discovered in their sheltered accommodation at Grangegorman Psychiatric Hospital in Dublin.It would be a further 16 years before Mark Nash was convicted of the notorious Grangegorman murders, but not before Dean Lyons, an innocent man, spent months in prison for a crime he did not commit, only to tragically die of a ... Read more

    $6.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Flat Broke with Children

    Women in the Age of Welfare Reform

    by Sharon Hays ...
    Hailed as a great success, welfare reform resulted in a dramatic decline in the welfare rolls--from 4.4 million families in 1996 to 2 million in 2003. But what does this "success" look like to the welfare mothers and welfare caseworkers who experienced it? In Flat Broke With Children, Sharon Hays tells us the story of welfare reform from inside the welfare office and inside the lives of welfare ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Walking Prey

    How America's Youth Are Vulnerable to Sex Slavery

    by Holly Austin Smith ...
    Today, two cultural forces are converging to make America's youth easy targets for sex traffickers. Younger and younger girls are engaging in adult sexual attitudes and practices, and the pressure to conform means thousands have little self-worth and are vulnerable to exploitation. At the same time, thanks to social media, texting, and chatting services, predators are able to ferret out their ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • In Plain Sight

    Reflections on Life in Downtown Eastside Vancouver

    Edited by Dara Culhane, Leslie Robertson ...
    News stories of the less fortunate, the socio-economically disenfranchised in North America are too often presented to fascinate or horrify their consumers with a construct of stereotypes which commodify and intentionally erase the real lives of people “covered” by the popular media.In compiling this collection of seven life stories from Vancouver’s “Downtown Eastside,” the editors set out to ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Making Volunteers

    Civic Life after Welfare's End

    by Nina Eliasoph ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology
    An inside look at how community service organizations really workVolunteering improves inner character, builds community, cures poverty, and prevents crime. We've all heard this kind of empowerment talk from nonprofit and government-sponsored civic programs. But what do these programs really accomplish? In Making Volunteers, Nina Eliasoph offers an in-depth, humorous, wrenching, and at times ... Read more

    $51.89 USD