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Moving Mountains
Transworld 2011; US$ 13.34One of the most enduring images of the Ethiopian famine that shocked the world in 1984 was that of the young International Red Cross nurse who, surrounded by thousands of starving people and with limited supplies, had the terrible task of choosing which children to feed, knowing that those she turned away might not last the night. That nurse was Claire... more...
Mama Jude: An Australian Nurse's Extraordinary Other Life in Africa
HarperCollins Publishers 2011; US$ 23.55Despite plans to enjoy her retirement after working as a nurse for over three decades, Judy Steel found herself in Uganda, at the age of 58, providing medical aid to some of Africa's most disadvantaged people. Since 2000, she has returned every year for several months at a time, establishing a small hospital, health clinics for mothers and babies,... more...
Forces for Good
Wiley 2012; US$ 29.95An updated edition of a groundbreaking book on best practices for nonprofits What makes great nonprofits great? In the original book, authors Crutchfield and McLeod Grant employed a rigorous research methodology derived from for-profit books like Built to Last . They studied 12 nonprofits that have achieved extraordinary levels of impact—from... more...
Charity Case
Wiley 2012; US$ 29.95A blueprint for a national leadership movement to transform the way the public thinks about giving Virtually everything our society has been taught about charity is backwards. We deny the social sector the ability to grow because of our short-sighted demand that it send every short-term dollar into direct services. Yet if the sector cannot grow,... more...
Ready!
i5 Publishing 2012; US$ 19.95Ready! The Training of the Search and Rescue Dog 2nd Edition is a well researched and practical resource for training a search and rescue dog written by an experienced search and rescue animal trainer who is also a keen student of animal behavior. Susan Bulanda introduces the reader to dog training by helping you understand first the process of how... more...
Foreign Aid in South Asia
SAGE India 2012; US$ 40.00Foreign Aid in South Asia examines the individual South Asian country experience in dealing with foreign aid. The articles in this book show that the effectiveness of foreign aid as a developmental tool over the last few decades has been mixed, and that the Paris Declaration of 2005 has brought about some improvement in aid ownership, harmonization,... more...
Not for Sale
HarperCollins 2010; Not Available?Human trafficking is not an issue of the left or right, blue states or red states, but a great moral tragedy we can unite to stop . . . Not for Sale is a must-read to see how you can join the fight.? ?Jim Wallis, author of God's Politics ?David Batstone is a heroic character.? ?Bono In the revised and updated version of this harrowing yet deeply... more...
Be the Change
HarperCollins 2009; Not AvailableMeet the men and women whose deeply personal philanthropy is dramatically changing the way we think about giving There are 8.6 million millionaires in the United States, and these numbers are set to rise in what will be the biggest intergenerational wealth transfer in history. As $41 trillion dollars (or over three times the national GDP)... more...
A Dream So Big
Zondervan 2013; US$ 15.99Steve Peifer and his wife agreed to be dorm parents at a school in Kenya for a year to escape their grief over the death of their infant son. But a one-year experiment prompted a personal and family pilgrimage that transformed a seemingly ordinary middle-aged American man, husband, and father into perhaps the most unlikely internationally influential... more...
The Sociology of Katrina
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2010; US$ 29.95The second edition of The Sociology of Katrina again brings together the nation's top sociological researchers in an effort to catalogue and deepen our understanding of the modern catastrophe of Hurricane Katrina. The new edition has been updated and revised throughout, including data about recovery efforts and conditions, and discussions of... more...









