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Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
by Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn
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by Ethan Kross
Published Feb 2022
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by Mary Beard
Published Dec 2017
Read Reviews"A modern feminist classic." - The Guardian
From the internationally acclaimed classicist and New York Times best-selling author comes this timely manifesto on women and power.
by Kennedy Odede, Jessica Posner
Published Jul 2016
Read ReviewsFind Me Unafraid tells the uncommon love story between two uncommon people whose collaboration sparked a successful movement to transform the lives of vulnerable girls and the urban poor. With a Foreword by Nicholas Kristof.
by Amana Fontanella-Khan
Published Aug 2014
Read ReviewsA triumphant portrait of a fiery sisterhood changing the lives of India's women.
by Conor Grennan
Published Dec 2011
Read ReviewsLittle Princes is the epic story of Conor Grennan's battle to save the lost children of Nepal and how he found himself in the process. Part Three Cups of Tea, part Into Thin Air, Grennan's remarkable memoir is at once gripping and inspirational, and it carries us deep into an exotic world that most readers know little about.
by Kate Pickett, Richard Wilkinson
Published Apr 2011
Read ReviewsIt is common knowledge that in rich societies the poor have shorter lives and suffer more from almost every social problem. This groundbreaking book goes an important stage beyond either of these ideas: it demonstrates that more unequal societies are bad for almost everyone within them - the well-off as well as the poor.
by Peter Singer
Published Sep 2010
Read ReviewsFor the first time in history, it is now within our reach to eradicate world poverty and the suffering it brings. The people of the developed world face a profound choice: If we are not to turn our backs on a fifth of the worlds population, we must become part of the solution.
by Tracy Kidder
Published May 2010
Read ReviewsStrength in What Remains is a wonderfully written, inspiring account of one mans remarkable American journey and of the ordinary people who helped him a brilliant testament to the power of will and of second chances.
by Tom Shachtman
Published Sep 2009
Read ReviewsThis 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.
by Melissa Fay Greene
Published Sep 2007
Read ReviewsA novel of tragedy and hope set in AIDS-torn Ethiopia. When Haregwoin Teferras 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.
by Greg Mortenson, David O. Relin
Published Jan 2007
Read ReviewsThe inspiring account of one man's campaign to build schools in the most dangerous, remote, and anti-American reaches of Asia.
by Tracy Kidder
Published Aug 2004
Read ReviewsThis powerful and inspiring book shows how one person can make a difference, as Kidder tells the true story of a gifted man who is in love with the world and has set out to do all he can to cure it.
by Muhammad Yunus
Published Oct 2003
Read ReviewsThis autobiography of the world-renowned, visionary economist who came up with a simple but revolutionary solution to end world poverty - micro-credit.
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