Humanitarian


Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action in the Twenty-first Century
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
Chasing Chaos: My Decade In and Out of Humanitarian Aid
Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor
Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa
Falling Night
Stones Into Schools: Promoting Peace With Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan
A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity
Hope in Hell: Inside the World of Doctors Without Borders
Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal
Emergency Sex (And Other Desperate Measures) : True Stories from a War Zone
Band-Aid for a Broken Leg
The Crisis Caravan: What's Wrong with Humanitarian Aid?
Without Borders by Amanda HegerFinding Joy by Adriana  HerreraHearts Heal in Haiti by Sally BurbankThe Enlightenment of Bees by Rachel LindenCatalyst by Rachel  Grant
Humanitarian Hearts
41 books — 1 voter
An Imperfect Offering by James OrbinskiThe Photographer by Emmanuel GuibertHope in Hell by Dan BortolottiBand-Aid for a Broken Leg by Damien BrownWar Doctor by David Nott
Médecins Sans Frontières
25 books — 12 voters

The Science of Evil by Simon Baron-CohenAgainst Empathy by Paul Bloom
Empathy and It's Shortcomings
2 books — 1 voter
Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy KidderPoor Economics by Abhijit V. BanerjeeHalf the Sky by Nicholas D. KristofDead Aid by Dambisa MoyoThe Bottom Billion by Paul Collier
International development
228 books — 217 voters


Abhijit Naskar
Yesterday I was stupid, so I wanted to change the world. Today, I am more stupid, so I am changing the world. And tomorrow there will be a hundred more stupid like me, for this stupidity for changing the world can never accept any excuse for inaction, even if that excuse happens to be a most rational reason.
Abhijit Naskar, Operation Justice: To Make A Society That Needs No Law

Abhijit Naskar
Earthlog Sonnet 3001 In a tiny backwater of the milkyway galaxy there spins a hilarious blue pebble called earth, which is dominated by a species of monkeys, whose lives primarily revolve around power, first it was prophets, then it was kings, later it was ceo's, and all these top monkeys claim to seek power in the interest of their people, they even have an earth-specific name for this seemingly idealistic sentiment, they call it "humanity," but by the time they reach to the top, they have h ...more
Abhijit Naskar, Naskar Goes to Earth: Field Notes from A Planet of Apes

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