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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as humanitarian)
avg rating 3.66 — 359,365 ratings — published 2006
An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action in the Twenty-first Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as humanitarian)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,300 ratings — published 2008
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as humanitarian)
avg rating 4.21 — 90,190 ratings — published 2003
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as humanitarian)
avg rating 4.28 — 55,892 ratings — published 2008
Chasing Chaos: My Decade In and Out of Humanitarian Aid (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as humanitarian)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,145 ratings — published 2013
Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as humanitarian)
avg rating 4.28 — 4,887 ratings — published 2003
Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as humanitarian)
avg rating 3.70 — 8,383 ratings — published 2009
Falling Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as humanitarian)
avg rating 4.62 — 32 ratings — published
Stones Into Schools: Promoting Peace With Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as humanitarian)
avg rating 3.85 — 17,136 ratings — published 2009
A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as humanitarian)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,260 ratings — published 2014
Hope in Hell: Inside the World of Doctors Without Borders (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as humanitarian)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,231 ratings — published 2004
Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as humanitarian)
avg rating 4.26 — 23,770 ratings — published 2011
Emergency Sex (And Other Desperate Measures) : True Stories from a War Zone
by (shelved 7 times as humanitarian)
avg rating 4.09 — 4,709 ratings — published 2004
Band-Aid for a Broken Leg (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as humanitarian)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,567 ratings — published 2012
The Crisis Caravan: What's Wrong with Humanitarian Aid? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as humanitarian)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,470 ratings — published 2008
A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as humanitarian)
avg rating 3.72 — 443 ratings — published 2002
Humanitarian Negotiations Revealed: The MSF Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as humanitarian)
avg rating 3.97 — 60 ratings — published 2011
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as humanitarian)
avg rating 3.69 — 11,284 ratings — published 2005
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as humanitarian)
avg rating 4.16 — 636,738 ratings — published 2012
The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as humanitarian)
avg rating 3.83 — 5,701 ratings — published 2006
The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as humanitarian)
avg rating 3.99 — 7,168 ratings — published 2009
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as humanitarian)
avg rating 4.16 — 196,489 ratings — published 2007
When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty without Hurting the Poor...and Yourself (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as humanitarian)
avg rating 4.20 — 14,201 ratings — published 2009
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as humanitarian)
avg rating 4.23 — 37,912 ratings — published 1998
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as humanitarian)
avg rating 3.98 — 119,029 ratings — published 2012
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as humanitarian)
avg rating 4.27 — 25,058 ratings — published 2011
The Big Truck that Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as humanitarian)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,893 ratings — published 2013
There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Africa's Children (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as humanitarian)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,418 ratings — published 2006
Another Day in Paradise: International Humanitarian Workers Tell Their Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as humanitarian)
avg rating 3.76 — 88 ratings — published 2003
Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as humanitarian)
avg rating 4.12 — 10,482 ratings — published 1991
Notes from My Travels: Visits with Refugees in Africa, Cambodia, Pakistan and Ecuador (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 5 times as humanitarian)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,811 ratings — published 2003
Condemned to Repeat?: The Paradox of Humanitarian Action (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as humanitarian)
avg rating 3.79 — 109 ratings — published 2002
Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as humanitarian)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,943 ratings — published 1999
Chasing The Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as humanitarian)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,725 ratings — published 2008
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as humanitarian)
avg rating 4.62 — 270,662 ratings — published 2014
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as humanitarian)
avg rating 4.37 — 928,117 ratings — published 1946
Six Months in Sudan: A Young Doctor in a War-torn Village (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as humanitarian)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,264 ratings — published 2009
I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as humanitarian)
avg rating 4.33 — 7,744 ratings — published 2010
The Heart and the Fist: The Education of a Humanitarian, the Making of a Navy SEAL (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as humanitarian)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,743 ratings — published
War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as humanitarian)
avg rating 4.53 — 15,822 ratings — published 2019
The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as humanitarian)
avg rating 4.26 — 70,697 ratings — published 2002
The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as humanitarian)
avg rating 4.27 — 65,211 ratings — published 2019
Thirst: A Story of Redemption, Compassion, and a Mission to Bring Clean Water to the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as humanitarian)
avg rating 4.44 — 5,754 ratings — published 2018
International Humanitarian Law A Comprehensive Introduction (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 3 times as humanitarian)
avg rating 4.18 — 17 ratings — published
We Are Displaced (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as humanitarian)
avg rating 4.41 — 10,666 ratings — published 2018
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as humanitarian)
avg rating 4.39 — 339,847 ratings — published 2012
However Long the Night: Molly Melching's Journey to Help Millions of African Women and Girls Triumph (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as humanitarian)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,242 ratings — published 2013
Enough: Why the World's Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as humanitarian)
avg rating 4.11 — 546 ratings — published 2008
Digital Humanitarians (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as humanitarian)
avg rating 4.00 — 84 ratings — published 2015
The Politics of Fear: Médecins sans Frontières and the West African Ebola Epidemic (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as humanitarian)
avg rating 3.63 — 41 ratings — published
“Awake, arise, break the trance of tribe,
and the planet of apes becomes human.
Hoist your heart as a beacon of love -
confront the fear, and war loses oxygen.”
― With Love From A Blue Rock
and the planet of apes becomes human.
Hoist your heart as a beacon of love -
confront the fear, and war loses oxygen.”
― With Love From A Blue Rock
“Fugitive Peace (The Song)
[Verse 1]
One pen can defeat a thousand guns,
that's why they ban books, not guns.
There's nothing more dangerous than ideas
that inoculate the mind against weapons.
Traitor is not one who questions the state,
but the one who kills without question.
Hoist your heart as a beacon of love -
confront the fear, and war loses oxygen.
[Chorus]
Stronger the military, stupider the citizens;
military is the failure of education.
If there is not a Naskar in sight,
be the Naskar of your generation.
Stronger the military, stupider the citizens;
military is the failure of education.
Wake up to life, break the trance of arms,
and the planet of apes becomes human!
[Verse 2]
Show me a nation with a titanic army,
I'll show you a society in decay.
Show me a nation that spends on education,
I'll show you tomorrow being built today.
War is the currency of political power -
patriotism is genocide, military is massacre.
Yet there is no stranger, only neighbor;
everyone is family, no one is foreigner.
[Chorus]
Stronger the military, stupider the citizens;
military is the failure of education.
If there is not a Naskar in sight,
be the Naskar of your generation.
Stronger the military, stupider the citizens;
military is the failure of education.
Wake up to life, break the trance of arms,
and the planet of apes becomes human!
[Verse 3]
A world without borders
is a world without fear,
it's impossible to control people
when we neither hate nor fear.
Every ape has a talent for war,
takes a human to rise in peace.
Wild animals look good only in jungle,
xenophobia is the ultimate brain disease.
[Pre-Chorus]
Beyond fear and fanaticism,
beyond brainless indoctrination,
every culture is my culture,
every nation is my nation.
No borrowed make believe,
no quicksand of cowardice,
superstition fading from bones,
as we rise above the prejudice.
[Final Chorus]
Stronger the military, stupider the citizens;
military is the failure of education.
If there is not a Naskar in sight,
be the Naskar of your generation.
Stronger the military, stupider the citizens;
military is the failure of education.
Wake up to life, break the trance of arms,
and the planet of apes becomes human!
[Outro]
One pen can defeat a thousand guns...
One pen can defeat a thousand guns...”
― Naskar Goes to Earth: Field Notes from A Planet of Apes
[Verse 1]
One pen can defeat a thousand guns,
that's why they ban books, not guns.
There's nothing more dangerous than ideas
that inoculate the mind against weapons.
Traitor is not one who questions the state,
but the one who kills without question.
Hoist your heart as a beacon of love -
confront the fear, and war loses oxygen.
[Chorus]
Stronger the military, stupider the citizens;
military is the failure of education.
If there is not a Naskar in sight,
be the Naskar of your generation.
Stronger the military, stupider the citizens;
military is the failure of education.
Wake up to life, break the trance of arms,
and the planet of apes becomes human!
[Verse 2]
Show me a nation with a titanic army,
I'll show you a society in decay.
Show me a nation that spends on education,
I'll show you tomorrow being built today.
War is the currency of political power -
patriotism is genocide, military is massacre.
Yet there is no stranger, only neighbor;
everyone is family, no one is foreigner.
[Chorus]
Stronger the military, stupider the citizens;
military is the failure of education.
If there is not a Naskar in sight,
be the Naskar of your generation.
Stronger the military, stupider the citizens;
military is the failure of education.
Wake up to life, break the trance of arms,
and the planet of apes becomes human!
[Verse 3]
A world without borders
is a world without fear,
it's impossible to control people
when we neither hate nor fear.
Every ape has a talent for war,
takes a human to rise in peace.
Wild animals look good only in jungle,
xenophobia is the ultimate brain disease.
[Pre-Chorus]
Beyond fear and fanaticism,
beyond brainless indoctrination,
every culture is my culture,
every nation is my nation.
No borrowed make believe,
no quicksand of cowardice,
superstition fading from bones,
as we rise above the prejudice.
[Final Chorus]
Stronger the military, stupider the citizens;
military is the failure of education.
If there is not a Naskar in sight,
be the Naskar of your generation.
Stronger the military, stupider the citizens;
military is the failure of education.
Wake up to life, break the trance of arms,
and the planet of apes becomes human!
[Outro]
One pen can defeat a thousand guns...
One pen can defeat a thousand guns...”
― Naskar Goes to Earth: Field Notes from A Planet of Apes
