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...would suggestÂ??Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder. It is now available in an inexpensive paperback edition, perfect for slipping into a backpack or beach tote and also in digital format (and also there are copies in several Harvard libraries...
...extraordinary challenges that Farmer and his team faced in delivering health care and building community-based programs gave considerable insight to the problems that continue to complicate the recovery of Haiti. The story is compelling. It helps one become more attentive to the diverse aspects of different countriesâ???? economic and social conditions, to perhaps better understand why aid sometimes does not work as intended, and to appreciate the generous and proud spirit that can survive amidst poverty...
...????m about to start on Kidderâ????s more recent book,Â??Strength in What Remains...
Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming, by Paul Hawken;Â??Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
...encourage anyone to readÂ??Blessed Unrest by Paul Hawken. Those of us who think of ourselves as (or who have become, reluctantly) leaders of the social-justice movement could stand a reminder that we must also be humble participants in itâ????and that "our" movement is THE movement, that the fight for access to health care and education and justice and dignity is also the fight for a safer world and one that will sustain us. As Hawken says, "There is no question that the environmental movement is critical to our survival. Our house is literally burning...