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Charities & Volunteering
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Search results: The best new books - Books about charities, charitable giving & volunteering
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Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
by Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn
Hardcover: Sep 2009
Paperback: 1 Jun 2010
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| From two of our most fiercely moral voices, a passionate call to arms against our era's most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women and girls in the developing world. |
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Airlift to America: How Barack Obama, Sr., John F. Kennedy, Tom Mboya, and 800 East African Students Changed Their World and Ours
by Tom Shachtman
Hardcover: 15 Sep 2009
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| This is the long-hidden saga of how a handful of Americans and Kenyans fought the British colonial government, the U.S. State Department, and segregation to "airlift" to U.S. universities, between 1959 and 1963, nearly 800 young East African men and women who would go on to change the world. |
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In Pursuit of the Common Good: Twenty-Five Years of Repairing the World, One Bottle of Salad Dressing at a Time
by A. E. Hotchner, Paul Newman
Hardcover: Nov 2003
Paperback: 16 Sep 2008
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| With rare glimpses into their zany style and their compassion for those less fortunate, Newman and Hotchner (founders of Newman's Own all-natural foods) have written the perfect non-management book, at once playful, informative, and inspirational. |
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The Promise: How One Woman Made Good on Her Extraordinary Pact to Send a Classroom of 1st Graders to College
by Oral Lee Brown, Caille Millner
Hardcover: Apr 2005
Paperback: 30 Dec 2007
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| The inspiring story of one woman's extraordinary promise and steely determination to make a difference in the world. |
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Unbowed: A Memoir
by Wangari Maathai
Hardcover: Oct 2006
Paperback: 7 Sep 2007
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| Hugely charismatic, humble, and possessed of preternatural luminosity of spirit, Wangari Maathai, recounts her extraordinary life as a political activist, feminist, and environmentalist in Kenya. |
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There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Her Country's Children
by Melissa Fay Greene
Hardcover: Sep 2006
Paperback: 1 Sep 2007
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| A novel of tragedy and hope set in AIDS-torn Ethiopia. When Haregwoin Teferra’s husband and daughter died within a few years of each other, her life is shattered and she becomes a recluse. But then a priest delivers an orphan to her door. The another, and another... and together they thrive. |
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Not on Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond
by Don Cheadle, John Prendergast
Paperback: 29 May 2007
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| An Academy Award-nominated actor and a renowned human rights activist team up to change the tragic course of history in the Sudan -- with readers' help. |
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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time
by David O. Relin, Greg Mortenson
Hardcover: Mar 2006
Paperback: 30 Jan 2007
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| The inspiring account of one man's campaign to build schools in the most dangerous, remote, and anti-American reaches of Asia. |
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