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NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 15, 2011
ARMED HUMANITARIANS: THE RISE OF THE NATION BUILDERS
by Nathan Hodge
"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." Read full book review >
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NONFICTION
Released: Jan. 5, 2010
THE VALUE OF NOTHING: HOW TO RESHAPE MARKET SOCIETY AND REDEFINE DEMOCRACY
by Raj Patel
"A pleasing invitation to act on our most benign impulses to create a sustainable future."
A social scientist and activist makes a case for setting limits on our free-market society. Read full book review >
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NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 1, 2008
Kirkus Star AN IMPERFECT OFFERING: HUMANITARIAN ACTION FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
by James Orbinski
"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. Read full book review >
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NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 18, 2006
MAKING GLOBALIZATION WORK
by Joseph E. Stiglitz
"A thoughtful essay that ought to provoke discussion in certain well-appointed offices, to say nothing of development and aid circles."
If the free market is the answer to the world's woes, then why is so much of the world getting poorer? Nobel Prize–winning economist Stiglitz (The Roaring Nineties, 2003) ventures some persuasive answers. Read full book review >
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NONFICTION
Released: March 20, 2006
THE WHITE MAN’S BURDEN: WHY THE WEST’S EFFORTS TO AID THE REST HAVE DONE SO MUCH ILL AND SO LITTLE GOOD
by William Easterly
"Easterly's is not the only recent portrayal of humanitarianism in crisis (see David Rieff's A Bed for the Night, 2002), but it is unusual in suggesting solutions as well. "
A contrarian argument that humanitarian assistance seldom produces the desired results--and may even further poverty and hunger. Read full book review >
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NONFICTION
Released: March 21, 2005
THE END OF POVERTY: ECONOMIC POSSIBILITIES FOR OUR TIME
by Jeffrey D. Sachs
"A solid, reasonable argument in which the dismal science offers a brightening prospect for the world's poor."
Must the poor be with us always? Probably. But there are degrees of have-notness, and, argues UN special advisor Sachs, "extreme poverty can be ended not in the time of our grandchildren, but in our time." Read full book review >