In the ongoing global pursuit for a fairer and more equitable world, the battle against poverty stands as a cornerstone.......more

Understanding the complex dimensions of global poverty is crucial for tackling its diverse challenges. While poverty man......more

A prizewinning historian uncovers one of the earliest instances of reparations in America--ironically, though perhaps no......more

Can one city’s solutions to homelessness help the United States face the issue nationally? The United States grapples wi......more

Uncovering a little-known system of bound labor in the post-Reconstruction South  After the constitutional end to slave......more

Uncovering a little-known system of bound labor in the post-Reconstruction South After the constitutional end to slavery......more

India, despite being largely rural, has struggled to maintain an adequate social infrastructure in its rural regions due......more

This open access book explores epistemic justice in mental healthcare, bringing together perspectives from psychologists......more

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This book examines slavery in India from the Turkish conquest of North India to the centuries of Mughal rule. It focuses......more

Pretreatment Across Multiple Fields of Practice: Trauma Informed Approach to Homelessness and Beyond Jay and Louise Levy......more

Inaccessible Access ethnographically addresses barriers to inclusion within knowledge-making. It focuses on the social, ......more

Pretreatment Across Multiple Fields of Practice: Trauma Informed Approach to Homelessness and Beyond Jay and Louise Levy......more

Domestic Work in Postcolonial Tanzania examines the dynamics of learning domestic and care work within affluent expatria......more

Capitalism and its many manifestations have a marked impact on the way care and compassion are defined and experienced i......more

The Story of What Is Broken Is Whole collects for the first time fifty years of writing by Puerto Rican Jewish feminist ......more

The Story of What Is Broken Is Whole collects for the first time fifty years of writing by Puerto Rican Jewish feminist ......more

Freedom’s Mirage traces the exceptional life of Virgil Bennehan, born in bondage in 1808 in Piedmont North Carolina, who......more

Departing from more conscribed definitions, this book argues for an expansion of the concept of ’Creolization’ in terms ......more

’Utterly, utterly brilliant. Fizzing with energy, wit and insight’ - Tracy Borman, bestselling historian Biggest books t......more

For readers of Andrea Elliott and Matthew Desmond, the former CEO of the Coalition for the Homeless breaks through the h......more

Offering readers an insightful exploration of the challenges faced by leaders in higher education as they navigate the c......more

Offering readers an insightful exploration of the challenges faced by leaders in higher education as they navigate the c......more

This handbook provides an extensive overview of the links between quality of life and social change as pursued in not on......more

A profound exploration into the spiritual beliefs and practices of Seattle’s unhoused youth Soul Woundedness is an intim......more

A profound exploration into the spiritual beliefs and practices of Seattle’s unhoused youth Soul Woundedness is an intim......more

The House With All The Lights On is a lyrical exploration of family, identity and history, and what it is to be a member......more

In Extravagance and Misery: The Emotional Regime of Market Societies, Alan Thomas, Alfred Archer, and Bart Engelen inves......more

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Multifaceted study of Pennsylvania’s coal miners during the post-World War One era....more

Education is considered central to social mobility and, following a drive to raise learners’ aspirations, an ’aspiration......more

Critical approaches to public archaeology have been in use since the 1980s, however only recently have archaeologists be......more

At a Texas Hill Country ranch, Melody V. Escobar and her young son meet Bo, the retired racehorse that becomes his "go-t......more

Throughout its history, evangelicalism has neglected to consider the spiritual lives of people with profound intellectua......more

Slavery’s Fugitives and the Making of the United States Constitution unearths a long-hidden factor that led to the Const......more

Our divided politics, unable to solve the challenges we face concerning society’s hierarchies of injustice, poverty, end......more

Explore the modern-day impact of slavery and colonialism in this panoramic Black history for anti-racist readers of 1619......more

The compelling story of a talented potter, enslaved by the author’s ancestors, who became one of the singular artists of......more

The history of the modern United States is the history of coal--and of coal miners. Trish Kahle reveals miners as forger......more

The history of the modern United States is the history of coal--and of coal miners. Trish Kahle reveals miners as forger......more

Florida Book Awards, Silver Medal for Florida Nonfiction Florida Historical Society Charlton Tebeau Award Florida Histor......more

When you think of a person with dwarfism, what image springs to mind? Now, hold onto that image and consider how you are......more

The rich and the poor in the UK are subject to radically different legislative approaches. While the behaviours of the p......more

The rich and the poor in the UK are subject to radically different legislative approaches. While the behaviours of the p......more

In the past, most studies on Pre-Roman societies in Italy (1st millennium BCE) focused on the elites, their representati......more

This book bridges the fields of critical youth studies, community psychology, and sociology to offer a transdisciplinary......more

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Standstill takes us on a journey through Ohio’s two-thousand-year-old Hopewell Earthworks, which include the largest geo......more

Winner of the 2022 Phillis Wheatley Book Award, Historical-Academic Nonfiction In Chained to History, Steven J. Brady ce......more

A brilliant blueprint for a free society by one of anarchism’s most famous theorists. The Conquest of Bread is Peter Kro......more

How can we build more accessible cities? Living Disability brings together vibrant perspectives on disability justice an......more

A Hudson Valley Reckoning tells the long-ignored story of slavery’s history in upstate New York through Debra Bruno’s ab......more

A sweeping narrative history of the Atlantic slave trade and slavery in the Americas. During the era of the Atlantic sla......more

The book presents a critical and radical analysis of factors that have kept Nepal in a state of underdevelopment and pov......more

Taking the theme of ’abolition’ as its point of departure, this book builds on the significant growth in scholarship on ......more

This book introduces the critical term ’midgetism’, which the author has coined, to demonstrate that the socio-cultural ......more

"World War I created thousands of blinded American veterans--and unleashed a metaphorical tug of war over the meanings o......more

Unpacking inequality in Australia by renowned economist and MP Andrew Leigh Is Australia fair enough? And why does inequ......more

4 stories of resilience, mutual aid, and radical rebellion that will transform how we understand the Great Depression Dr......more

"The ’Anti-Ableist Manifesto’ defines ableism as discrimination in favor of non-disabled people and helps readers unders......more

For nearly twenty years, Glasgow has been coined Europe’s murder capital, and identified as having the continent’s highe......more

A sweeping intellectual history of the welfare state’s policy-in-waiting. The idea of a government paying its citizens t......more

One beautiful, surprisingly warm spring morning on the isolated islands of Haida Gwaii, an insight smacked Dulcie McCall......more

One beautiful, surprisingly warm spring morning on the isolated islands of Haida Gwaii, an insight smacked Dulcie McCall......more

Keith M. Finley’s From Slavery to Segregation explores the key features shaping southern politics during the nineteenth ......more

Society disables us more than autism ever could We have a choice about who we want to be as a society. Do we provide car......more

This book examines the impact of the African slave trade and colonialism on political, civil, economic, social, and envi......more

A wide-ranging cultural history centered around the concepts of real estate, the family home, and the American dream, an......more

This book examines the impact of the African slave trade and colonialism on political, civil, economic, social, and envi......more

How medieval-inspired racial feudalism reigned in early America and was challenged by Black liberal thinkers Though the ......more

Australia’s most trusted financial journalist on Australia’s housing crisis. ’One of the best long reads on housing and ......more

It’s getting harder and harder to get by. Inflation. Stagnant wages. Spiraling costs of living. Even in the world’s weal......more

First published in 1988, the book presents a vivid account of the reality of life with chronic illness--from perspective......more

This book demonstrates how the various legal efforts employed to eradicate global urban poverty also play a significant ......more