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Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.70 — 8,416 ratings — published 2009
The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 5,706 ratings — published 2006
Emergency Sex (And Other Desperate Measures) : True Stories from a War Zone
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avg rating 4.09 — 4,731 ratings — published 2004
Lords of Poverty (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 397 ratings — published 1994
Gray Mountain (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.69 — 112,308 ratings — published 2014
Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 8,121 ratings — published 2015
The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 8,075 ratings — published 2007
Chasing Chaos: My Decade In and Out of Humanitarian Aid (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 3,156 ratings — published 2013
The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.61 — 4,247 ratings — published 2017
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 90,614 ratings — published 2003
Darfur: A Short History of a Long War (African Arguments)
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avg rating 3.77 — 246 ratings — published 2005
A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.72 — 443 ratings — published 2002
Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 10,511 ratings — published 1991
Reinventing Foreign Aid (Mit Press)
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avg rating 3.80 — 44 ratings — published 2008
War Games: The Story Of Aid And War In Modern Times (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 310 ratings — published 2010
The Road to Hell (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 384 ratings — published 1997
The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.81 — 2,500 ratings — published 2013
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.27 — 25,261 ratings — published 2011
The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically (Castle Lectures in Ethics, Politics, and Economics)
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avg rating 3.79 — 3,912 ratings — published 2015
The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 7,070 ratings — published 2009
An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action in the Twenty-first Century (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 2,306 ratings — published 2008
When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty without Hurting the Poor...and Yourself (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 14,283 ratings — published 2009
Aid and Other Dirty Business: How Good Intentions Have Failed the World's Poor (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.75 — 245 ratings — published 2007
Does Foreign Aid Really Work? (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.85 — 81 ratings — published 2007
Wilderness First Responder: How to Recognize, Treat, and Prevent Emergencies in the Backcountry (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 96 ratings — published 1998
Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 4,249 ratings — published 1891
The Negative Trait Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Character Flaws (Writers Helping Writers, #2)
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avg rating 4.59 — 1,936 ratings — published 2013
The Positive Trait Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Character Attributes (Writers Helping Writers, #3)
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avg rating 4.62 — 1,644 ratings — published 2013
The Emotional Wound Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Psychological Trauma (Writers Helping Writers, #6)
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avg rating 4.68 — 1,313 ratings — published 2017
The Emotion Amplifier Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Character Stress and Volatility, Second Edition (Writers Helping Writers, #10)
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avg rating 4.80 — 91 ratings — published 2014
The Last Sweet Bite: Stories and Recipes of Culinary Heritage Lost and Found (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.34 — 382 ratings — published
Band-Aid for a Broken Leg (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 1,586 ratings — published 2012
Clawing Back: Redistribution In Precarious Times (Culture and Economic Life)
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avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published
Give a Man a Fish: Reflections on the New Politics of Distribution (The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures)
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avg rating 4.15 — 159 ratings — published 2015
Making Aid Work: Kueling With Dictators and Warlords in the Middle East and North Africa (Hardcover)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Humanitarianism, War, and Politics: Solferino to Syria and Beyond (New Millennium Books in International Studies)
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avg rating 3.67 — 6 ratings — published
Elastic Empire: Refashioning War through Aid in Palestine (Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures)
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avg rating 4.72 — 18 ratings — published
Humanitarian Fictions: Africa, Altruism, and the Narrative Imagination (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 3,996 ratings — published 2020
Full Spectrum Resistance, Volume Two: Actions and Strategies for Change (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.51 — 45 ratings — published
Abolitionist Intimacies (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.59 — 222 ratings — published 2022
The Emergency Survival Manual: 294 Life-Saving Skills (Outdoor Life)
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avg rating 4.07 — 54 ratings — published 2015
Why Africa is Poor: And What Africans Can Do About It (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.63 — 95 ratings — published 2010
Advocacy in Conflict: Critical Perspectives on Transnational Activism (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.78 — 9 ratings — published 2015
Undermining Development: The Absence of Power Among Local NGOs in Africa (Hardcover)
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avg rating 2.00 — 1 rating — published 2004
Decolonising the University (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.04 — 110 ratings — published
The Event of Postcolonial Shame (Translation/Transnation)
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avg rating 4.12 — 24 ratings — published 2010
Decolonizing Academia: Poverty, Oppression and Pain (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 95 ratings — published
“I have learned that I, we, are a dollar-a-day people (which is terrible, they say, because a cow in Japan is worth $9 a day). This means that a Japanese cow would be a middle class Kenyan... a $9-a-day cow from Japan could very well head a humanitarian NGO in Kenya. Massages are very cheap in Nairobi, so the cow would be comfortable.”
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“Nobody knows how many North Koreans have died or are dying in the famine—some estimates by foreign-aid groups run as high as three million in the period from 1995 to 1998 alone—but the rotund, jowly face of Kim Il Sung still beams down contentedly from every wall, and the 58-year-old son looks as chubby as ever, even as his slenderized subjects are mustered to applaud him.”
― Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
― Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
