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Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.70 — 8,395 ratings — published 2009
The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 5,705 ratings — published 2006
Emergency Sex (And Other Desperate Measures) : True Stories from a War Zone
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avg rating 4.09 — 4,722 ratings — published 2004
Lords of Poverty (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 393 ratings — published 1994
Gray Mountain (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.69 — 111,750 ratings — published 2014
Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 8,085 ratings — published 2015
The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 8,071 ratings — published 2007
Chasing Chaos: My Decade In and Out of Humanitarian Aid (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 3,151 ratings — published 2013
The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.61 — 4,200 ratings — published 2017
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 90,353 ratings — published 2003
Darfur: A Short History of a Long War (African Arguments)
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avg rating 3.77 — 244 ratings — published 2005
A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.72 — 443 ratings — published 2002
Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 10,495 ratings — published 1991
Reinventing Foreign Aid (Mit Press)
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avg rating 3.80 — 44 ratings — published 2008
War Games: The Story Of Aid And War In Modern Times (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 309 ratings — published 2010
The Road to Hell (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 385 ratings — published 1997
The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.81 — 2,494 ratings — published 2013
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.27 — 25,132 ratings — published 2011
The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically (Castle Lectures in Ethics, Politics, and Economics)
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avg rating 3.79 — 3,904 ratings — published 2015
The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 7,032 ratings — published 2009
An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action in the Twenty-first Century (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 2,304 ratings — published 2008
When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty without Hurting the Poor...and Yourself (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 14,216 ratings — published 2009
Aid and Other Dirty Business: How Good Intentions Have Failed the World's Poor (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.75 — 245 ratings — published 2007
Does Foreign Aid Really Work? (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.85 — 81 ratings — published 2007
Wilderness First Responder: How to Recognize, Treat, and Prevent Emergencies in the Backcountry (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 96 ratings — published 1998
Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 4,199 ratings — published 1891
The Last Sweet Bite: Stories and Recipes of Culinary Heritage Lost and Found (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 360 ratings — published
Band-Aid for a Broken Leg (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 1,573 ratings — published 2012
Clawing Back: Redistribution In Precarious Times (Culture and Economic Life)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published
Give a Man a Fish: Reflections on the New Politics of Distribution (The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures)
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avg rating 4.14 — 157 ratings — published 2015
Making Aid Work: Kueling With Dictators and Warlords in the Middle East and North Africa (Hardcover)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Humanitarianism, War, and Politics: Solferino to Syria and Beyond (New Millennium Books in International Studies)
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avg rating 3.67 — 6 ratings — published
Elastic Empire: Refashioning War through Aid in Palestine (Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures)
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avg rating 4.76 — 17 ratings — published
Humanitarian Fictions: Africa, Altruism, and the Narrative Imagination (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 3,954 ratings — published 2020
Full Spectrum Resistance, Volume Two: Actions and Strategies for Change (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.51 — 45 ratings — published
Abolitionist Intimacies (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.60 — 221 ratings — published 2022
The Emergency Survival Manual: 294 Life-Saving Skills (Outdoor Life)
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avg rating 4.07 — 54 ratings — published 2015
Why Africa is Poor: And What Africans Can Do About It (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.63 — 94 ratings — published 2010
Advocacy in Conflict: Critical Perspectives on Transnational Activism (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.78 — 9 ratings — published 2015
Undermining Development: The Absence of Power Among Local NGOs in Africa (Hardcover)
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avg rating 2.00 — 1 rating — published 2004
Decolonising the University (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.04 — 110 ratings — published
The Event of Postcolonial Shame (Translation/Transnation)
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avg rating 4.12 — 24 ratings — published 2010
Decolonizing Academia: Poverty, Oppression and Pain (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 95 ratings — published
The Golden Fleece: Manipulation and Independence in Humanitarian Action (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.11 — 9 ratings — published 2012
Debt-Free U: How I Paid for an Outstanding College Education Without Loans, Scholarships, Or Mooching Off My Parents (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.79 — 541 ratings — published 2010
African Literary NGOs: Power, Politics, and Participation (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.67 — 3 ratings — published 2013
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.31 — 293,559 ratings — published 2025
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