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Emma's War: An Aid Worker, a Warlord, Radical Islam, and the Politics of Oil--A True Storyof Love and Death in Sudan by Deborah Scroggins Publisher Comments Emma McCune?s passion for Africa, her unstinting commitment to the children of Sudan, and her youthful beauty and glamour set her apart from other relief workers from the moment she arrived in southern Sudan. But no one was prepared for her decision to... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover 
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Slave: My True Story by Mende Nazer Publisher Comments Mende Nazer lost her childhood at age twelve, when she was sold into slavery. It all began one horrific night in 1993, when Arab raiders swept through her Nuba village, murdering the adults and rounding up thirty-one children, including Mende. Mende was... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Lost Boys of Sudan: An American Story of the Refugee Experience by Mark Bixler Synopsis The tragic and inspiring story of four Sudanese refugees who make their way to the US to rebuild their lives.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror by Mahmood Mamdani Publisher Comments From the author of Good Muslim, Bad Muslim comes an important book, unlike any other, that looks at the crisis in Darfur within the context of the history of Sudan and examines the world’s response to that crisis. In Saviors and Survivors, Mahmood... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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Enough Moment (10 Edition) by John Prendergast Publisher Comments Had Enough? Join activists, organizations, and celebrities to fight human rights crimes in Africa. Human rights activist John Prendergast and Oscar-nominated actor Don Cheadle bring us an empowering and hopeful new book, as they reveal the steps being... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Devil Came on Horseback: Bearing Witness To the Genocide in Darfur (07 Edition) by Brian Steidle Publisher Comments Former United States Marine Brian Steidle served for six months in Darfur as an unarmed military observer for the African Union. There he witnessed first-hand the ongoing genocide, and documented every day of his experience using email, audio journals... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky: The True Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan by Benson Deng Publisher Comments Benjamin, Alepho, and Benson were raised among the Dinka tribe of Sudan. Their world was an insulated, close-knit community of grass-roofed cottages, cattle herders, and tribal councils. The lions and pythons that prowled beyond the village fences were... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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War and Slavery in Sudan (Ethnography of Political Violence) by Jok Madut Jok Publisher Comments Slavery has been endemic in Sudan for thousands of years. Today the Sudanese slave trade persists as a complex network of buyers, sellers, and middlemen that operates most actively when times are favorable to the practice. As Jok Madut Jok argues, the... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Inside Sudan Political Islam Conflict by Donald Petterson Publisher Comments Sudan, governed by an Islamic fundamentalist dictatorship, has come into conflict with the United States and other countries not because of its religious orientation but because of its record of human rights abuses and support for terrorism. The country... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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Emma's War (02 Edition) by Deborah Scroggins Publisher Comments Tall, striking, and adventurous to a fault, young British relief worker Emma McCune came to Sudan determined to make a difference in a country decimated by the longest-running civil war in Africa. She became a near legend in the bullet-scarred, famine... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Life of the Sudanese Mahdi by Haim Shaked Publisher Comments The Mahdia was an important Islamic millenarian movement of the Nilotic Sudan in the last two decades of the nineteenth century. It contributed substantially to the emergence of the Sudan as a nation-state in the twentieth century. The Mahdi's family and... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Devil Came on Horseback: Bearing Witness to the Genocide in Darfur by Brian Steidle Publisher Comments Former United States Marine Brian Steidle served for six months in Darfur as an unarmed military observer for the African Union. There he witnessed first-hand the ongoing genocide, and documented every day of his experience using email, audio journals... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky: The True Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan by Benson Deng Synopsis A stunning literary memoir from three of Sudan's Lost Boys recounts a harrowing, horrific journey across an unforgiving landscape and mourns the culture that they left behind.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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Darfur's Sorrow: A History of Destruction and Genocide by M W Daly Publisher Comments Darfur is a region set apart: huge, remote, and poverty stricken. Its people are today locked in conflict, terrorized by the lawless Arab militia known as janjawid, which has created what the United Nations has called ‘the world's worst... (read more) List Price $22.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Of Beetles & Angels: A Boy's Remarkable Journey from a Refugee Camp to Harvard by Mawi Asgedom Publisher Comments This acclaimed memoir tells the unforgettable story of a young boy's journey from a refugee camp in Sudan to Chicago, where his family survived on welfare. Mawi followed his father's advice to "treat people . . . as though they were angels sent from... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Not on Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond by Don Cheadle Publisher Comments An Academy Award-nominated actor and a renowned human rights activist team up to change the tragic course of history in the Sudan -- with readers' help While Don Cheadle was filming Hotel Rwanda, a new crisis had already erupted in Darfur, in nearby... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Challenges of Famine Relief: Emergency Operations in the Sudan by Francis Mading Deng Publisher Comments For nearly a decade, international efforts to combat famine and food shortages around the globe have concentrated on the critical situations in sub-Saharan Africa. In the Sudan, the largest country in Africa, prolonged drought, complicated by civil... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $16.82 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Darfur and the Crime of Genocide (Cambridge Studies in Law and Society) by John Hagan Publisher Comments In 2004, the State Department gathered more than a thousand interviews from refugees in Chad that verified Colin Powell 's U.N. and congressional testimonies about the Darfur genocide. The survey cost nearly a million dollars to conduct and yet it... (read more) List Price $28.25 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Long Day's Dying: Critical Moments in the Darfur Genocide by Eric Reeves Publisher Comments The main theme of this new book is that the Khartoum regime is committing genocide in Darfur while the international community watches in silence or with mere hand-wringing. Publication of such an important book, at this critical moment in the Darfur... (read more) List Price $37.99 Your price: $18.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Darfur Diaries: Stories of Survival by Jen Marlowe and Aisha Bain and Adam Shapiro Publisher Comments In February, 2003, the Sudanese Liberation Army in Darfur (the western region of Sudan) after years of oppression took up arms against the Sudanese government. The government and allied militias answered the rebellion with mass murder, rape and the... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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