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Product Description: Nearly every family in Uganda is affected by poverty, HIV/AIDS, abduction, and brutal war. These horrors rage indiscriminately, and the innocence of childhood is not spared. The children of Uganda have been witnesses to much trauma that children should not experience...read more

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9781595722133 | Star Bright Books, September 30, 2009, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Nearly every family in Uganda is affected by poverty, HIV/AIDS, abduction, and brutal war.

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Product Description: In 1966, as the largely nonviolent Civil Rights movement swept through America, Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale founded the legendary Black Panther Party in Oakland, California. Revered by some and vilified by others, the party burst onto the scene with a militant vision for social change and the empowerment of African-Americans...read more
By Charles E. Jones, Bobby Seale (foreword by) and Stephen Shames (photographer)

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9781597110242 | Aperture, October 15, 2006, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: In 1966, as the largely nonviolent Civil Rights movement swept through America, Huey P.

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Product Description: An uplifting series of photographs by American teens living in neighborhoods of renewalImagine presents inspiring photographs by forty teenagers living in four communities that are part of government antipoverty programs-in Lowell, Massachusetts; Baltimore, Maryland; the Rio Grande Valley in Texas; and Chicago, Illinois-offering a rare view of community renewal from the inside out...read more

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9780893819248 | Aperture, October 1, 2000, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: An uplifting series of photographs by American teens living in neighborhoods of renewalImagine presents inspiring photographs by forty teenagers living in four communities that are part of government antipoverty programs-in Lowell, Massachusetts; Baltimore, Maryland; the Rio Grande Valley in Texas; and Chicago, Illinois-offering a rare view of community renewal from the inside out.

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Product Description: How and why do some disadvantaged American families manage to stay together and become self-reliant despite the grip of overwhelming poverty?"I have wandered the nether world of poverty for the past thirty years," writes Stephen Shames in his introduction to this book...read more

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9780893817572 | Aperture, September 1, 1997, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: How and why do some disadvantaged American families manage to stay together and become self-reliant despite the grip of overwhelming poverty?

Documents 30 community-based family support programs that are successfully helping poor families become self-sufficient. (view table of contents)

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9780893817282 | Aperture, September 1, 1997, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Documents 30 community-based family support programs that are successfully helping poor families become self-sufficient.

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Depicts the dangers children face from poverty, drugs, and violence

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9780893814755 | Aperture, May 1, 1991, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Depicts the dangers children face from poverty, drugs, and violence

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9780893814687 | Aperture, May 1, 1991, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Depicts the dangers children face from poverty, drugs, and violence

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