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"This is the one book I would unhesitatingly recommend to anyone interested in underdevelopment and health." -- International Journal of... (read more) New - Trade Paper 
by Jeffrey D. Sachs
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He has been cited by the New York Times Magazine as "probably the most important economist in the world" and by Time as "the world's best-known economist." He has advised an extraordinary range of world leaders and international institutions on the full... (read more) Used - Hardcover
by Jared Diamond
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In his million-copy bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond examined how and why Western civilizations developed the technologies and immunities that allowed them to dominate much of the world. Now in this brilliant companion volume, Diamond... (read more) Your Price $7.50 Used - Hardcover
by Tracy Kidder
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Beautifully told, and entirely inspiring, Mountains Beyond Mountains is an exceptional look at the heroic life of Dr. Paul Farmer. Providing health care for hundreds of thousands in a remote, impoverished region of Haiti, Farmer's incomparable dedication... (read more) Your Price $11.95 Used - Hardcover
by Sara Wheeler
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Squeezed between a vast ocean and the longest mountain range on earth, Chile is 2,600 miles long and never more than 110 miles wide--not a country that lends itself to maps, as Sara Wheeler discovered when she traveled alone from the top to the bottom... (read more) Your Price $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
by William Easterly
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A professor of economics pens an informed and excoriating attack on the tragic waste, futility, and hubris of the West's efforts to improve the lot of the so-called developing world, and provides constructive suggestions on how to move forward.... (read more) Your Price $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
by Colin Thubron
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A land of enormous proportions, countless secrets, and incredible history, Central Asia--the heart of the great Mongol empire of Tamerlane, site of the legendary Silk Route and scene of Stalin's cruelest deportations--is a remote and fascinating region... (read more) Used - Trade Paper
by Robert R. Desjarlais
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Shelter BluesSanity and Selfhood Among the HomelessRobert R. DesjarlaisWinner of the 1999 Victor Turner Prize of the Society for Humanistic AnthropologyBeautifully crafted, powerfully illustrated with conversation, theoretically important, and almost... (read more) Your Price $23.00 Used - Trade Paper
by Bill Mckibben
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Reissued on the tenth anniversary of its publication, this classic work on our environmental crisis features a new introduction by the author, reviewing both the progress and ground lost in the fight to save the earth. This impassioned plea for... (read more) Used - Trade Paper
by Ed Viesturs
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For eighteen years Viesturs pursued climbing's holy grail: to stand atop the world's fourteen 8,000-meter peaks, without the aid of bottled oxygen. As he recounts his most harrowing climbs, he reveals a man torn between the safe world he and his loved... (read more) Used - Hardcover
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