Darfur's Sorrow: The Forgotten History of a Humanitarian Disaster - M. W. Daly

Darfur's Sorrow: The Forgotten History of a Humanitarian Disaster - M. W. Daly

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Don JordanAuthor: Michael WalshWhite Cargo is the forgotten story of the thousands of Britons who lived and died in bondage...

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Publisher: Prometheus BooksAuthor(s): Zara StoneIllustration(s): 31 Illustrations including: - 31 Halftones, Black & White including Black and Whit...

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How queerness and radical politics intersected--earlier than you thought. Well before Stonewall, a broad cross section of sexual dissidents took ad...

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An indispensable guide to the moral quandaries confronting those engaged in humanitarian action.

It has been said that Herbert Hoover was responsible for saving more lives than any other person in history. This phenomenal achievement, long obsc...

North Fork of the Clearwater River: The Almost Forgotten History, Paperback

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This ground-breaking book offers unique insights into the careers of Indian doctors in colonial Kenya during the height of British colonialism, bet...

Reducere. At a time of increasing globalization and worldwide vulnerability, the study of disasters has become an important focus for anthropological researc...

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Reducere. At 3: 17 p.m. on March 18, 1937, a natural gas leak beneath the London Junior-Senior High School in the oil boomtown of New London, Texas, created ...

Introduces and explains the economics behind the multi-billion dollar humanitarian marketplace and how it came about

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Reducere. DescriptionIn the closing days of World War II a crisis was emerging for German civilians trapped on the Eastern Front by the Red Army. Many lived ...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Suzanne Humphries MDAuthor: Roman BystrianykNot too long ago, lethal infections were feared in the Western world. Since tha...

On the night of December 2, 1943, the Luftwaffe bombed a critical Allied port in Bari, Italy, sinking seventeen ships and killing over a thousand s...

In the Cause of Humanity is a major new history of the emergence of the theory and practice of humanitarian intervention during the nineteenth cent...

DescriptionDiscover the events of the Hindenburg Disaster.This book describes the crash of the Hindenburg airship in 1937, relaying the history of ...

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Readers will re-discover the forgotten treasures of the history and principles of the Declaration of Independence, recognizing the dedication of th...

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