The Cost of Being Poor

The Cost of Being PoorLooks at the daily lives of poor people to demonstrate that the poor pay more than others, by both monetary and other measures, to meet basic needs. While the negative effects of urban poverty are well documented, the everyday experiences of urban residents are often absent or secondary in urban studies research. The Cost of Being Poor rectifies this problem by examining both the noneconomic and the often overlooked economic costs faced by residents

it considers the responsiveness of nursing work

gender and nationalism under minority rule

"Translation and the Transmission of Culture between 1300 and 1600" is a companion volume to "Medieval Translators and Their Craft" (Medieval Institute Publications

and other dietary factors

These include strategies for reducing bunch variability

better known in the West as the Whirling Dervishes

collating the extant literature to provide a readable and concise grounding for the reader

Divided into three parts the book looks at:

pest and disease constraints

and Roman votive reliefs found to date in the excavations of the Athenian Agora

A study of five remarkable sixteenth-century women

Some of their approaches are more conducive to effective scrutiny than others