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Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion
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Sara Miles
Miles has produced a provocative and witty spiritual memoir from an atheist-turned-religious activist. "Take This Bread" is the story of her journey to faith and how she took Jesus' call to feed others by establishing food pantries that feed thousands of people.
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Sweet Charity?: Emergency Food and the End of Entitlement
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Janet Poppendieck
In this study of soup kitchens and other nongovernmental programs that work to combat hunger and poverty, a sociologist asserts that such programs are insufficient to meet the needs of those they serve and are poor replacements for governmental support. She asks whether these well-intentioned efforts might actually serve to perpetuate the problem ...
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Where Mercy Fails: Darfur's Struggle to Survive
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Chris Herlinger, Paul Jeffrey (Photographer)
This new work provides a graphic and literal context for understanding the current tragedy in Darfur and describes a framework for how people of faith are responding to the crisis.
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All You Can Eat: How Hungry Is America?
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Joel Berg
With the biting wit of "Super Size Me" and the passion of a lifelong activist, Berg draws attention to the growing number of people who are forced to wait in lines at food pantries across the nation. The author challenges the new president to confront the result of U.S. poverty--hunger--and offers a simple and affordable plan to end it for good.
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Cause Celeb
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Ms. Helen Fielding
After breaking with her erratic newscaster boyfriend, disaffected British publicist Rosie Richardson finds a new, fulfilling career running a relief camp in Africa. When famine hits her community, she returns to London to organize a celebrity benefit, with the help of TV and film high-rollers she met through the ex-boyfriend. High-jinx ensue.
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Backstabbing for Beginners: My Crash Course in International Diplomacy
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Michael Soussan
From the corridors of the UN to the palaces of Baghdad, an unprecedented, first person coming of age account of the oil for food scandal that rocked the UN. Michael Soussan was a young, idealistic diplomat when he landed his dream job as a Program Coordinator at the UN's Oil for Food Program, the largest humanitarian operation in the organization ...
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The quality of mercy : Cambodia, holocaust and modern conscience
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William Shawcross
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Bread for the World
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Arthur R Simon
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Rice, Rivalry, and Politics: Managing Cambodian Relief
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Linda Mason
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The Selfish Altruist: Relief Work in Famine and War
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Tony Vaux, Anthony Vaux
This volume describes and analyzes some of the most traumatic situations involving famine and war of the last two decades of the 20th century, seeking to help the reader to understand what it takes to be an aid worker and how important humanitarian action is today. Famine and war evoke strong emotional reactions, and for most people there is a ...
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The Geopolitics of Hunger, 2000-2001: Action Against Hunger
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Against Hunger Action, Action Against Hunger
This volume explores the use of hunger as a weapon in food crises around the world. It also discusses strategies to counter inequitable food distribution while maintaining neutrality in complex situations and reviews political approaches to combating hunger and attaining food justice.
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Famine That Kills: Darfur, Sudan
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Alex de Waal
When news of the Darfur famine in the '80s broke in the West, relief experts predicted that, without massive food aid, millions of people would starve to death. Food aid on this scale did not arrive, but millions did not starve to death. Analyzing the famine from the perspective of the rural people in the region who suffered it, Alex de Waal ...
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Rooms in the House of Stone: The "Thistle" Series of Essays
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Michael Dorris
Essays by Michael Dorris about his travels in drought-plagued Zimbabwe, where he visited refugee camps and farmers.
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Community Nutrition
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Jessie Craig Obert
The revision of this textbook for courses in community and public health nutrition explains the community structure in which nutrition programs are conducted and how the community nutritionist plans programs for health promotion and disease prevention throughout the life cycle. Programming is based on the nationwide Health Promotion Program. The ...
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Food Aid: The Challenge and the Opportunity
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H W Singer
Food aid has played a key role in responding to the extreme poverty and disasters afflicting millions of people in the developing world. It is at the centre of much political discussion, both nationally and internationally, and there have been notable successes, yet there is doubt and criticism about the appropriateness of food aid and confusion ...
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Food Aid After Fifty Years: Recasting Its Role
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Professor Christopher B Barrett, Daniel G Maxwell
This book analyzes the impact food aid programmes have had over the past fifty years, assessing the current situation as well as future prospects. Issues such as political expediency, the impact of international trade and exchange rates are put under the microscope to provide the reader with a greater understanding of this important subject matter ...
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Living Hungry in America
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J Larry Brown
Here is the unforgettable true story of the human beings behind the statistics of hunger. A group of physicians and health leaders traveled the country to document starvation in a land of bounty. What emerged is a call for justice--and a new hope that hunger in America will become a thing of the past.
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Not by Bread Alone: Social Support in the New Russia
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Melissa L Caldwell
An ethnographic study of poverty and social welfare in the postsocialist world. Focuses on the everyday operations and civil transactions at CCM soup kitchens to reveal the new realities, the enduring features, and the intriguing subtext of social support in Russia today.
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Best Things in the Worst Times: An Insider's View of World Vision
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Graeme S Irvine
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Aid as Obstacle: Twenty Questions about Our Foreign Aid and the Hungry
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Joseph Collins, David Kinley, Frances M. Lappe
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The Political Economy of Hunger Volume I: Entitlement and Well-Being
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Jean Dreze (Editor), Professor Amartya K Sen (Editor)
WIDER Studies in Development Economics The World Institute for Development Economics Research, established in 1984, started work in Helsinki in 1985, with the financial support of the Government of Finland. The principal purpose of the Institute is to help identify and meet the need for policy-oriented socio-economic research on pressing global ...
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Toward an End to Hunger in America
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Peter Eisinger
Cheap, plentiful food is an American tradition. We spend a smaller percentage of our income on food than any other nation. We feed much of the world with our surpluses. Consumers, retailers, and restaurants throw away one-quarter of our food stock every year. And yet data collected by the federal government show that almost 12 percent of American ...
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Feeding the Crisis: U.S. Food Aid and Farm Policy in Central America
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Rachel Garst, Tom Barry
'The book provides a clear and concise review of U.S. legislation on food aid and farm policy; it summarizes well the debate over food self-sufficiency versus 'comparative advantage' in agricultural trade policy for underdeveloped countries; it provides insights into the counter-insurgency strategy for the Reagan and Bush administrations in ...
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Ending Hunger: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
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Days of Hunger, Days of Chaos: The Coming Great Food Shortages in America
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Texe Marrs
Here are just some of the probing questions this groundbreaking book answers in its investigation into the coming, great food crisis: Does the Illuminati's Rockefeller Foundation now control the seeds of 95 percent of the Earth's major cereal crops-wheat, barley, and corn? (page 69); Is there a "Global Seeds Conspiracy" to place total ownership of ...
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