Guides and Tutorials: Homelessness: Books on Homelessness

Searching for Books in the Alemany Library

Tips for Finding Books on Homelessness

Use the following to search for books on Homelessness:

Alemany Library Catalog - Search Dominican library, Camino (library network).
WorldCat -Search the collections of libraries in your community and thousands more around the world. (You may also search WorldCat from within Alemany's catalog via the dropdown.)

1. Try using the following Keyword brainstorming tools to develop search terms:

TwinWord LSI Graph on "Homelessness" - Based on text analysis technologies, Twinword Ideas helps you find the right keywords faster. Click on any term to reconfigure visual graph.
Credo Visual Concepts "Mind-Map" - A graphic tool that can be used to visualize and clarify thoughts or ideas, and develop search terms. Click on any term to reconfigure graph.

2. Try also using the following Subject Terms in the Alemany Catalog:

Homelessness -- Government policy -- United States; Homeless persons -- Health and hygiene -- United States; Homeless persons -- Housing -- United States; Political Science -- Public Policy -- Social Security; Political Science -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare; Homeless persons -- Health and hygiene; Homeless persons -- Housing; Homelessness -- Government policy; Homeless Persons; Housing.

Selected Book Titles Available in Alemany Library

Find below a selection of titles on homelessness in the Alemany Library. These books are written from a variety of perspectives. It is always a good idea to check the bibliography at the back of a book you find relevant to your topic. This list is only a small selection from available titles in teh Library collection. Please see above for how best to search for relevant and useful titles.

Homelessness by Greenhaven Press Editors (Editor); Tamara Thompson (Editor)
ISBN: 9780737759396
Publication Date: 2012-03-05
Presents essays with opposing viewpoints on issues surrounding homelessness.
Beside one's self : homelessness felt and lived by Catherine Robinson
ISBN: 0815632525
Publication Date: 2011-05-24
What is it to feel homeless? How does it feel to be without the orienting geography of home? Going beyond homelessness as a housing issue, this book explores the embodied, emotional experiences of homelessness. Examines responses, in community perceptions, and in the ways in which homelessness most often becomes visible as a problem for policy makers. Argues that the emotional dimension of displacement must be central to contemporary practices of researching, understanding, writing, and responding to homelessness. Situates the issue of homelessness at the nexus of important, broader intellectual and methodological developments that take bodily and spatial experience as their starting point.
Healing home : health and homelessness in the life stories of young women by Vanessa Oliver
ISBN: 1442645318
Publication Date: 2013-02-27
Applying a strong, articulate, and systemic analysis to on-the-ground narratives, Oliver is able to offer fresh, incisive recommendations for health and social service providers with the potential to effect real-world change for this marginalized population.
Homelessness, Housing, and Mental Illness by Russell K. Schutt; Stephen M. Goldfinger
ISBN: 9780674051010
Publication Date: 2011-02-28
Homelessness, Housing, and Mental Illness describes a carefully designed large-scale study to assess how well these people do when attempts are made to reduce their social isolation and integrate them into society.
Cast Out by A. L. Beier (Editor); Paul Ocobock (Editor)
ISBN: 0896802620
Publication Date: 2008-11-29
Considers the shared global heritage of vagrancy laws, homelessness, and the historical processes they accompanied.