books about: slums     books:     Slums      The Gospel of Father Joe: Revolutions and Revelations in the Slums of Bangkok Greg Barrett Jossey-Bass, 2008 A truthful and moving description of life in the Bangkok slums As a Retired Fire Captain, I can be quite skeptical. I spent my life working among men and women who many people would consider "heroes," but I never met anyone who deserves the title of hero more than Father Joe. Four years ago, my wife and I were accepted as ...             The Classic Slum: Salford Life in the First Quarter of the Century Robert Roberts Penguin (Non-Classics), 1990 Great English History This book looks back to Edwardian English society. The author happens to have grown up during this time and gives a vivid account of the "Working Class" society in which he lived. A must read for someone who is interested in British history.             Street Corner Society: The Social Structure of an Italian Slum William Foote Whyte University Of Chicago Press, 1993 ground breaking work I read this book eight years ago on rainy Saturday--I was a student at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, and I decided to pass the afternoon in the Center's library. I picked this volume off the shelves because the title sounded interesting. At the time, I ...             Animal's People: A Novel Indra Sinha Simon & Schuster, 2008 You cannot remain untouched by Animal The central character, who is also the narrator of this story, is the force which gives the novel its incredible emotional power. Animal, so named because his twisted back forces him must walk on all fours, was the victim of a toxic gas leak from a foreign-owned ...             Maggie: A Girl of the Streets: and Other Tales of New York (Penguin Classics) Stephen Crane Penguin Classics, 2000 Brilliant Writing! I am amazed at the fact that Stephen Crane was only twenty-one when he wrote this story "Maggie: A Girl of the Streets". I found it to be a genuine effort to tell a story from the inside-out instead of the usual outside-in. I also found Crane's style very addictive. ...             Dispossessed: Life in Our World's Urban Slums Mark Kramer Orbis Books, 2006 Eager to read more.. I particularly liked the mix of personal encounter, eye-witness description and factual research. We're reading this book in our JustFaith program;it offered rich ground for discussion without handing us conclusions.The local speaker we invited on the topic of ...             Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American City (Politics and Culture in Modern America) Colin Gordon University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008 Once a thriving metropolis on the banks of the Mississippi, St. Louis, Missouri, is now a ghostly landscape of vacant houses, boarded-up storefronts, and abandoned factories. The Gateway City is, by any measure, one of the most depopulated, deindustrialized, and deeply segregated examples of American urban decay. "Not a typical city," as one ...             Planet of Slums Mike Davis Verso, 2007 All SAPed Out What a tremendous work. I've got two chapters left to go, and thus far it's easily the most informative and scholarly book I've yet to read in 2008. Planet of Slums is all about how the Third World's major cities are growing at what seems like an almost ...             The Slum (Library of Latin America) Aluisio Azevedo Oxford University Press, USA, 2000 A Masterpiece This book is a masterpiece for several reasons. It is filled with complex and interesting characters, none especially likable but all interesting. Some of the passages, including the scene where Jeronimo stands, hypnotized, watching Rita Baiana dance for the first ...             Maggie, a Girl of the Streets and Other New York Writings (Modern Library Classics) Stephen Crane Modern Library, 2001 This harrowing tale of a young girl in the slums is a searing portrayal of turn-of-the-century New York, and Stephen Crane's most innovative work. Published in 1893, when the author was just twenty-one, it broke new ground with its vivid characters, its brutal naturalism, and its empathic rendering of the lives of the poor. It remains both ...             Shut Those Thick Lips: A Study of Slum School Failure Gerry Rosenfeld Waveland Press, 1983 The realities of prejudice and denied opportunity! Ethnographically focused on the urban black community of Harlem in New York City, this study gives the reader a clear idea of what it means to go to a slum school and to be a black child, as well as why the achievement of minority children is low. A realistic assessment of the interaction between ...             Welcome to the Bangkok Slaughterhouse: The Battle for Human Dignity in Bangkok's Bleakest Slums Joe Maier Periplus Editions, 2005 A Revealing Look Downstream This collection of Bangkok Post columns from Father Joe Maier, aka the Father Teresa of Bangkok's squatter slums, reveals in intimate detail the collateral damage and consequences of the world's gaping economic divide. But it doesn't beat us over the head with stories ...             The Battle with the Slum Jacob A. Riis Dover Publications, 1998 Lower East Side battlefield What sets THE BATTLE WITH THE SLUM apart from Jacob Riis' classic, HOW THE OTHER HALF LIVES, is this book's more active response to the conditions of the poor and disenfranchised in New York City's slums. HOW THE OTHER HALF LIVES was a breakthrough in reporting. The ...             The Challenge of Slums: Global Report on Human Settlements 2003 UN-HABITAT Earthscan Publications Ltd., 2003 * The most authoritative and up-to-date review of the development of the world's cities and other human settlements * The first global assessment of urban slums, the challenges they present and the ways to improve the lives of slum dwellers * Statistical annexes provide essential information on demographic, spatial & economic, housing, and ...             Five Points: The Nineteenth-Century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections and ... Tyler Anbinder Free Press, 2001 What a Find ! ! I read this book about a year ago after "finding" it at a warehouse sale.I had not heard of it before;but was taken by the dust jacket and a quick glance.What a surprise,I almost couldn't belive how much I enjoyed it.As I said, I'd not heard of it or for that ...          products you might be interested in search for books dispossessed, neighborhood, nineteenth-century, revolutions, settlements, slaughterhouse      toavi.com    web we recommend You cannot remain untouched by Animal randomly chosen book: Digital Mantras: The Language of Abstract and Virtual Worlds