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    <body><![CDATA[Incredible.  Three UN aid workers - one trained as a lawyer at Harvard, a doctor from New Zealand, and a divorcee from New York and homeless shelter worker - pen their memories of life on the front lines of conflict zones in the 90's.  The book starts in Cambodia, where Dr. Andrew has been providing...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2790933">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Really great read! Very well written, you learn a lot about past UN missions and how they went down from the inside.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This....is an amazing book.  Nothing I can write about it can do more than hint at its contents.<br/><br/>Yes, it's by three young adults who go into hazardous situations in third world countries and try to make a positive difference.  All three collaborated and wrote their stories, separate and i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81169195">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I just finished reading this book that my friend Sara passed on to me with extremely high recommendations.  In this memoir written by three international workers for UN peacekeeping efforts, the friends take turns telling the stories of why they joined the UN effort, how they met, and the inside sto...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2391941">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I have mixed feelings about this book. In the end I settled on four stars because I think it describes important events going on in the world that we as Americans tend to forget about, except for those of us living and working &quot;out in the field&quot; trying to explain things to folks back home....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77640246">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is the true story of three UN peacekeepers and their expereinces through the 1990's. Working overseas my self for Peace Corps there are things I could totally relate to, but there were also lessons I have yet to learn that have made me think hard about my future. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Quick, entertaining read - but somehow I thought it'd be better.  Good look at what it's like working for the UN/any horrible bureaucracy, but two of the three main characters were really annoying - one just fucks her way around the world because she can't get a real job back home, and another seems...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52370126">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a fantastic read! I was hooked to it from the beginning and couldn't put it down. It was absolutley not as racy as the title implied. Following the authors from their entry into the UN world and following them on their missions, made me feel like I was there. It was a little hard stomach so...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23916409">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is, as the subtitle declares, a true story from hell on earth. This is a great memoir and well compiled. It weaves the impressions of three different characters who all work for the UN as peacekeepers in some of the worst places on earth. There is a doctor, a lawyer, and a secretary. The book c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18075849">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://nhw.livejournal.com/477492.html">http://nhw.livejournal.com/477492.html</a>[return][return]The title here is pretty misleading, in that there's not a lot of sex in it. But it's a very interesting book nonetheless, as three UN workers, two American and one New Zealander, one a doctor, one a lawyer and one a former social worker, reflect...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8024477">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm pretty sure all three of Emergency Sex's authors had to resign from the UN before they published this memoir, which delves into how the UN failed in various high-level missions in the 1990's. They do a good job of chronicling the divergence between the objective and the reality of their mission,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74282968">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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