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ordered by best selling| Partner to the Poor: A Paul Farmer Reader (California Series in Public Anthropology) | |||
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Author(s) : Paul Farmer | ||
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| Brief For nearly thirty years, anthropologist and physician Paul Farmer has traveled to some of the most impoverished places on earth to bring comfort and the best possible medical care to the poorest of the poor. Driven by his stated intent to "make human rights substantial," Farmer has treated patientsâ...Read More |
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| The Farmer's Lass | |||
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Author(s) : Paul Weightman | ||
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| Brief At a distance the girl was ordinary-looking: medium height, a broad-shouldered but bosomy build, shoulder-length blonde hair. She appeared to be in her early twenties. She wore a heavy wool sweater, blue jeans, and work boots. A shabby satchel of modest size dangled from her right hand. Her walk was...Read More |
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| Haiti After the Earthquake | |||
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Author(s) : Paul Farmer | ||
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| Brief 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...Read More |
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| On That Day, Everybody Ate: One Woman's Story of Hope and Possibility in Haiti | |||
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Author(s) : Margaret Trost, Paul Farmer, Paul Farmer | ||
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| Brief Following her husband s untimely death, Margaret Trost visited Haiti to heal her broken heart through service. Struggling to make sense of the extreme poverty and touched by the warmth and resilience of those she met, she partners with a local community and together they develop a program that now s...Read More |
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| From Outrage to Courage: Women Taking Action for Health and Justice | |||
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Author(s) : Anne Firth Murray | ||
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| Brief From sex-selective abortions to millions of girls who are "disappeared," from 90 million girls who do not go to school to HIV/AIDS spreading fastest among adolescent girls, women face unique health challenges, writes Anne Firth Murray. In this searing cradle-to-grave review, Murray tackles health is...Read More |
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| The Fair Ophelia (Kindle Single) | |||
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Author(s) : Ted Conover | ||
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| Brief How do you go from being one of several children of wealthy, celebrity parents to, as Dr. Jim Yong Kim, the president of Dartmouth College has called her, "one of the great human beings walking the earth right now?"Ophelia Dahl traveled from Buckinghamshire to Haiti in 1983 and fell in love?with the...Read More |
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| The Farmer's Age: Agriculture 1815-1860 (Special Data Issue,) | |||
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Author(s) : Paul Wallace Gates | ||
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| Getting Haiti Right This Time: The U.S. and the Coup (Read and Reist) | |||
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| Brief Did Aristide leave Haiti voluntarily? Why did the U.S. want him out? What does the regime change mean for the health of Haitians? Did Aristide “overstay his welcome,” in the words of Vice President Dick Cheney, who never had a welcome in his own country to overstay? After 35 coups, what does the...Read More |
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| Iron and Bronze | |||
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Author(s) : Win Scott Eckert, Christopher Paul Carey | ||
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| Brief Taduki-inspired visions draw an intrepid adventurer and a madman to a lost African outpost of Atlantis where they must confront an ancient mystery from the stars... Drawing on diverse sources such as Jules Verne’s THE BARSAC MISSION, H. Rider Haggard’s SHE AND ALLAN, Guy d’Armen’s Doc Ardan ...Read More |
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| Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor, With a New Preface by the Author (California Series in Public Anthropology) | |||
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Author(s) : Paul Farmer | ||
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| Brief Pathologies of Power uses harrowing stories of life--and death--in extreme situations to interrogate our understanding of human rights. Paul Farmer, a physician and anthropologist with twenty years of experience working in Haiti, Peru, and Russia, argues that promoting the social and economic...Read More |
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