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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time
by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin  
Powells.com Staff Pick Nelson Mandela once said, "Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world." Mortenson and Relin's Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time is a powerful contribution to that arsenal. If there...
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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations... One School at a Time
by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
Powells.com Staff Pick Nelson Mandela once said, "Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world." Mortenson and Relin's Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time is a powerful contribution to that arsenal. If there...
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There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Her Country's Children
by Melissa Fay Greene
Powells.com Staff Pick Millions of children are left without parents in Ethiopia as the result of AIDS. A skilled and graceful exploration of this crisis, Greene's moving account of one woman's actions shows the tremendous impact one person can make. Haregewoin is a genuine...
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There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Africa's Children
by Melissa Fay Greene
Powells.com Staff Pick Millions of children are left without parents in Ethiopia as the result of AIDS. A skilled and graceful exploration of this crisis, Greene's moving account of one woman's actions shows the tremendous impact one person can make. Haregewoin is a genuine...
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Billionaire Who Wasn't: How Chuck Feeney Made and Gave Away a Fortune
by Conor O'clery Publisher Comments In 1988 Forbes Magazine hailed Chuck Feeney as the twenty-third richest American alive. Born in Elizabeth, New Jersey to a blue-collar Irish-American family during the Depression, a veteran of the Korean War, he had made a fortune as co-founder of Duty...
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Anne Gould Hauberg: Fired by Beauty
by Barbara Johns Book News Annotation Art collector and philanthropist Anne Hauberg is honored in this handsome oversize volume (11.25x11.25"), illustrated with many photos of her life and the works she engendered, including the Pilchuck Glass School and the Pilot School for...
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An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action for the Twenty-First Century
by James Orbinski Publisher Comments From one of the world’s greatest humanitarian activists comes a searing personal memoir that is also an urgent call to confront suffering in all its many forms. Having seen things we hope never to see, confronted suffering and dispassion and evil...
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Julia S. Tutwiler (Library of Alabama Classics)
by Anne Gary Pannell Publisher Comments This biography traces the life of Julia Strudwick Tutwiler (1841-1916) from her childhood in Alabama through her pioneering accomplishments as a teacher, administrator, and humanitarian. Born in Tuscaloosa in 1841, Tutwiler was encouraged by her father...
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A Place to Go, a Place to Grow: Simple Things That Make a Difference for At-Risk Kids
by Lou Dantzler Publisher Comments In the wake of the Watts riots in the 1960s, Dantzler founded the Challengers Boys and Girls Club. What started out as a circle of 12 boys meeting under a maple tree has grown into a $6 million facility that has served 32,000 boys and girls. In this...
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If Two Shall Agree: The Story of General Paul A. Rader and Commissioner Kay F. Rader of the Salvation Army
by Carroll Ferguson Hunt Publisher Comments Take a man who grew up in the New York City metropolitan area, whose family has been totally immersed in the life and passion of The Salvation Army for generations, put him with a young lady from a small town in the Deep South who has no idea what a...
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Away from Home: Letters to My Family
by Lillian Carter and Gloria Carter Spann Publisher Comments Lillian Carter was one of the most loved and admired women in the country. Mother of a president, she was a strong, resolutely independent woman with a mind of her own, determined to bypass the barriers of age and sex. In these letters to her...
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Albert Schweitzer (Albert Schweitzer Library)
by James Brabazon Publisher Comments James Brabazon updates his critically acclaimed biography of humanitarian Albert Schweitzer to include a wealth of recently discovered documents, including the letters between Schweitzer and Helene Bresslau written during the ten years before their...
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The Culture Broker: Franklin D. Murphy and the Transformation of Los Angeles
by Margaret Leslie Davis Synopsis Franklin Murphy? It's not a name that is widely known; even during his lifetime the public knew little of him. But for nearly thirty years, Murphy was the dominant figure in the cultural development of Los Angeles. Behind the scenes, Murphy used his role...
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Education of Jane Addams (Politics and Culture in Modern America)
by Victoria Bissell Brown Publisher Comments The Education of Jane Addams traces, with unprecedented care, Addams's three-decade journey from a privileged prairie girlhood through her years as the competent spinster daughter in a demanding family after her father's death to her early seasoning on...
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Rescuing the World: The Life and Times of Leo Cherne
by Andrew F Smith Publisher Comments Leo Cherne's life brimmed with paradox and improbability. He was born in the Bronx to a poor, immigrant, Jewish family, and yet rose to the heights of economic and political power in WASP America. A successful entrepreneur and an unofficial advisor to...
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To Bear Witness: A Journey of Healing and Solidarity
by Kevin M. Cahill Publisher Comments Physician, teacher, activist, diplomat, and advocate, Kevin Cahill has touched so many lives, and helped right so many wrongs. And in this book, he chronicles extraordinary achievements of compassion and commitment. Bringing together a rich selection of...
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The Whole World Was Watching: Living in the Light of Matthew Shepard
by Romaine Patterson Publisher Comments When her best friend, Matthew Shepard, was murdered in 1998 in Laramie, Wyoming, Romaine Patterson was thrust into activism by the media frenzy that surrounded the town. In 1999, she founded Angel Action, an organization for peaceful demonstration...
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Mary Reed Missionary to the Lepers
by John Jackson Publisher Comments 1912. The story of Miss Reed who served for more than 20 years as a missionary to the Lepers. Contents: Early Life; Discovery and Decision; The Way of the Cross; Appointed to Chandag; Among the Lepers; Trials and Triumphs-1894; Praise and Progress-1895...
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Intimate Colonialism: Head, Heart, and Body in West African Development Work (Writing Lives: Ethnographic Narratives)
by Laurie L Charles Publisher Comments A lyrical, autoethnographic study of a woman's Peace Corps tour, showing the personal, intimate side of development work and the lasting impressions on both the worker and the community....
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My Dear Children: Mother Teresa's Last Message
by Hiroshi Katayanagi Publisher Comments Before entering the Jesuits, Hiroshi Katayanagi spent a year in Calcutta as a volunteer with Mother Teresa. During that time he took many candid photographs of her, which are complemented in "My Dear Children" by her own message of hope through her...
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