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Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
xxiii, 209 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 21 cm.
Description
A middle-grade adapted version of the New York Times bestseller about humanitarianism and providing Muslim children around the world with an education is enhanced with photos, maps, illustrations, and a special afterword by the author's daughter who worked with him as an advocate for the Pennies for Peace program.
Publisher
Palm Pictures
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (89 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A look at the family members of the late Bob Marley, as they travel for the first time to Ethiopia in 2005, for the annual Africa Unite concert. This landmark event is to inspire the young generations of Africa to unite for the future of their continent.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
544 pages
Description
"The Good American is a story about courage, intense loneliness, and the State Department's golden age during the late Cold War and post-Cold War. It is also a celebration of ground level reporting and getting a worm's eye view of crisis zones. Robert Gersony, a high-school dropout later awarded a bronze star in Vietnam, spent over four decades on the ground in virtually every war and natural disaster zone in the world. Interviewing hundreds of refugees...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
xxiii, 420 p., [16] p. plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Description
In this dramatic first-person narrative, Greg Mortenson picks up where "Three Cups of Tea" left off in 2003, recounting his relentless, ongoing efforts to establish schools for girls in Afghanistan; his extensive work in Azad Kashmir and Pakistan after a massive earthquake hit the region in 2005; and the unique ways he has built relationships with Islamic clerics, militia commanders, and tribal leaders even as he was dodging shootouts with feuding...
Author
Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
75 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm.
Description
Argues that author and humanitarian Greg Mortenson, noted for his campaign to open schools for girls in Pakistan and Afghanistan, has not been truthful about his past, his reasons for opening schools, or his abduction by the Taliban.
Author
Publisher
William Collins
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
310 pages, 16 pages of plates : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
"In 1992, Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow was enjoying a pint with his brother when he got an idea that would change his life, and radically change the lives of others. After watching a news bulletin about war-torn Bosnia, the two brothers agreed to take a week's hiatus from work to help. What neither of them expected is that what began as a one-time road trip in a beaten-up Landrover rapidly grew to become Magnus's life's work, leading him to leave his...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
309 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Description
The author describes how, after working as a humanitarian around the world, he realized that he could do nothing to stop violence or prevent people from becoming refugees and soon joined the elite Navy SEALs, where he drew on his humanitarian training as he battled injustice.
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Formats
Description
"Rachel Linden's contemporary women's fiction story speaks to the universal struggle of what it means to live a meaningful life where the passions we have meet the needs of the world. From the slums of Mumbai to a Hungarian border camp during the refugee crisis, Mia experiences the euphoria, disillusionment, and heartbreaking reality of humanitarian work abroad"--
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
9 CDs (ca. 665 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In a moving and inspiring memoir told with genuine humility, Eric Greitens offers something new in the history of military memoirs. A warrior who wanted to be strong to be good, only to discover that he had to be good to be strong. Throughout his SEAL training and deployments in Kenya, Thailand, Afghanistan, and Iraq, the lessons of his humanitarian work bore fruit. The result is a lesson for all.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
316 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
"A woman's quest for a new life in Africa in the wake of World War II -- and a heroic career that hid a secret past. Over the span of fifty years, Dr. Anne Spoerry, French by birth, treated hundreds of thousands of individuals across rural Kenya. A member of the renowned Flying Doctors Service, Spoerry earned the cherished nickname "Mama Daktari"--"Mother Doctor"--from the people of Kenya. Yet few knew what drove her from post-World War II Europe...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
xii, 429 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Description
"On January 12, 2010 a massive earthquake laid waste to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, killing hundreds of thousands of people. Within three days, Dr. Paul Farmer arrived in the Haitian capital, along with a team of volunteers, to lend his services to the injured. In this vivid narrative, Farmer describes the incredible suffering--and resilience--that he encountered in Haiti. Having worked in the country for nearly thirty years, he skillfully explores the...
14) Întregalde
Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In a gripping tale of best intentions gone wrong, leading Romanian filmmaker Radu Muntean follows a trio of well-meaning aid workers from Bucharest on a food delivery mission to the rural hinterlands of the Întregalde area of Transylvania. Guided off the beaten path by an elderly villager looking for a local sawmill, they find themselves trapped in an unfamiliar, dangerous place and facing the outer limits of their goodwill for each other and strangers....
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