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Released: Oct. 1, 2012
"A bold argument based mostly on experiences and observations rather than statistical support. "
In her debut memoir, filmmaker and activist Hogan examines the problems with international aid efforts in Africa.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 28, 2012
"An absorbing memoir in which the author learns to combat deadly diseases and maneuver in the international political scene."
London School of Tropical Medicine director Piot gives a boots-on-the-ground account of the global struggle to contain two potentially devastating pandemics: Ebola hemorrhagic fever and AIDS.
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NONFICTION
Released: June 21, 2011
"A moving message from a courageous humanitarian, and more timely than ever."
"For the cost of one [American] bombing run," the author writes in this hard-hitting debut memoir, "I doubtless could have fed and clothed and cared for those 100,000 displaced Afghan refugees.
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NONFICTION
Released: April 15, 2011
"An intimate, welcome first-person account of a portion of South African history that remains foggy to many American readers."
Anti-apartheid political prisoner Kathrada examines his actions and the aftermath that resulted in 30 years of imprisonment.
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NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 15, 2011
"For a civilian readership increasingly alienated from the culture of its military, Hodge provides an important guide to what the reformers have wrought."
A journalist specializing in military matters reports on the war on terror's transformation into "a campaign of armed social work."
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NONFICTION
Released: June 14, 2010
"A slowly unfolding, moving journey of turning beliefs into actions."
A chronicle of the humanitarian efforts by a Ugandan native schooled in the West, addressing poverty and the ravages of AIDS in Africa.
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NONFICTION
Released: Nov. 20, 2008
"Filled with tough criticism of Western governments' interventionist foreign policies and challenging questions for supporters of humanitarian aid."
NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 1, 2008
"An important, consciousness-raising work."
A doctor who has witnessed the worst forms of inhumanity in hot spots around the globe takes an unflinching look at the political and economic forces that provoke human suffering and offers a moving meditation on the nature of humanitarianism.
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NONFICTION
Released: Aug. 20, 2008
"Historical precedents shed timely light on ways "to keep a bright line between empire and humanity.""
Cogent, reasoned analysis of 19th-century humanitarian intervention, especially as practiced in Victorian Britain.
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