What We're Reading

-In Print

Confronting Suburban Poverty in America, by Elizabeth Kneebone & Alan Berube. Brookings, 2013.

Getting to Scale: How to bring Development Solutions to Millions of Poor People, edited by Laurence Chandy...et al. Brookings, 2013

The True Cost of Low Prices: The Violence of Globalization, by Jeffry Korgen & Vincent Gallagher. Orbis Press, 2013

Just Politics: A Guide for Christian Engagement, by Ronald J. Sider. BrazosPress, 2012.

The True Cost of Low Prices: The Violence of Globalization, by Jeffry O. Korgen & Vincent A. Gallagher. Orbis Books, 2013

Behind the Kitchen Door, by Saru Jayaraman.  Cornell University Press, 2013.

The Great Divergence: America's Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do About It, by Tomothy Noah. Bloomsbury Press, 2012.

The Price of Inequality, by Joseph Stiglitz. WW Norton, 2012.

Immigration and the Bible: A Guide for Radical Welcome, by Joan Maruskin. United Methodist Women; Zondervan, 2012.

A People's Guide to the Federal Budget. National Priorities Project, 2012.

From Poverty to Power: How Active Citizens and Effective States Can Change the World, 2nd edition, by Duncan Green. Oxfam GB : Practical Action Publishing, 2012.

The Global Farms Race: Land Grabs, Agricultural Investment, and the Scramble for Food Security, edited by Michael Kugelman and Susan Levenstein. Island Press, 2013.

One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World? by Gordon Conway. Cornell University Pres, 2012.

Pedagogy of the Poor: Building the Movement to End Poverty, by Willie Baptist and Jan Rehmann. Columbia University, 2011.

Just Politics: A Guide for Christian Engagement, by Ronald J. Sider. Brazos Press, 2012.

Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity, by Lester Brown. Earth Policy Institute; WW Norton, 2012.

Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty, by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson. Crown Business, 2012.

So Rich, So Poor: Why It's So Hard to End Poverty in America, by Peter Edelman. New Press, 2012.

The Last Hunger Season: A Year In an African Farm Community on the Brink of Change, by Roger Thurow. Public Affairs, 2012.

Serving God Globally: Finding Your Place in International Development, by Roland Hoksbergen. Baker Academic, 2012.

Fixing the Moral Deficit: A Balanced Way to Balance the Budget, by Ronald Sider.  InterVarsity Press, 2012.

The Hungry Continent: African Agriculture and Food Insecurity, by Megan Quitkin.  The Howard G. Buffett Foundation, 2011.

The Big Handout: How Government Subsidies and Corporate Welfare Corrupt the World We Live In and Wreak Havoc On Our Food Bills, by Thomas M. Kostigen.  Rodale, 2011.

Endless Appetites: How the Commodities Casino Creates Hunger and Unrest, by Alan Bjerga.  Wiley & Sons, 2011.

Tomatoland:  How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit, by Barry Estabrook.  Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2011.

Catalyzing Development:  A New Vision for Aid, edited by Homi Kharas.  Brookings Institution, 2011.

Christians and the Common Good:  How Faith Intersects with Public Life, by Charles Gutenson.  Brazos Press (Baker), 2011.

Poor Economics:  A Radical Thinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty, by Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo.  Public Affairs, 2011.

Getting Better:  Why Global Development Is Succeeding -- and How We Can Improve the World Even More, by Charles Kenny.  Basic Books, 2011.

American Grace:  How Religion Divides and Unites Us, by Robert D. Putnam and David E. Campbell.  Simon & Schuster, 2010.