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“joanne liu”

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  • Ebola, Bombs, and Migrants

    Humanitarian Crises in a Security-Obsessed World

    by Joanne Liu ...
    Translated by Marisa Coulton ...
    A searing account of three interconnected global crises that defined the 2010s, and a powerful invitation to respond with compassionate solidarity.In Ebola, Bombs, and Migrants, Dr. Joanne Liu, former International President of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières, draws on frontline experience to examine three major humanitarian crises of the 2010s, revealing the global obsession with ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Barbed Wire

    The Fence that Changed the West

    by Joanne S. Liu ...
    How could an ordinary fence shape the development of a nation? Before the 1870s, much of the American West was an uninterrupted expanse of prairie and cowboys ran cattle on an open range without a fence in sight. Then the Homestead Act of 1862 passed and settlers poured into the west looking for land to tame and farm. This set up a conflict between the farmers who wanted to keep cattle off their ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • My Heart Grows

    by Jeffrey Burton ...
    Illustrated by Joanne Liu ...
    This tender novelty board book shines a light on all the ways a parent’s love for their children grows more and more each day.My heart used to beat for one,now it beats for two.But oh how giant my heart growsall because of you.A parent’s love for their child grows daily, always in new and unexpected ways: through making mistakes, through asking why, through taking a stand, through making up your ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

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    Greed, Guns, Armies, and Aid

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    For readers of Christopher Hedges, Robert Fisk, and Christopher Hitchens, an extraordinary humanitarian gives us a bracing and uncompromising account of her work in some of the most devastated corners of the world -- and a new and provocative vision for changing course on our growing militarization.In 1995, twenty-five-year-old Samantha Nutt, a recent medical-school graduate and a field volunteer ... Read more

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  • The Worst Hard Time

    The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl

    by Timothy Egan ...
    In a tour de force of historical reportage, Timothy Egan’s National Book Award–winning story of the Dust Bowl rescues an iconic chapter of American history from the shadows.The dust storms that terrorized America’s High Plains during the Great Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since. Following a dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, Timothy ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Has the West Lost It?

    A Provocation

    by Kishore Mahbubani ...
    The West's two-century epoch as global powerhouse is at an end. A new world order, with China and India as the strongest economies, dawns. How will the West react to its new status of superpower in decline?In Kishore Mahbubani's timely polemic, he argues passionately that the West can no longer presume to impose its ideology on the world, and crucially, that it must stop seeking to intervene, ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • Wounded Knee

    Party Politics and the Road to an American Massacre

    by Heather Cox Richardson ...
    A groundbreaking history of the massacre of the Lakota Sioux, from the author of Democracy Awakening**.**“The story is tragic, the scholarship exhilarating.” —Elliott West, author of The Contested PlainsOn December 29, 1890, American troops opened fire with howitzers on hundreds of unarmed Lakota Sioux men, women, and children near Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota, killing nearly 300 Sio... ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • An Imperfect Offering

    Humanitarian Action in the Twenty-first Century

    by James Orbinski ...
    “As Albert Camus wrote, the doctor’s role is as a witness–to witness authentically the reality of humanity, and to speak out against the horrors of political inaction. . . . The only crime equaling inhumanity is the crime of indifference, silence, and forgetting.”—James OrbinskiIn 1988, after a year-long research trip investigating pediatric AIDS in Africa, Dr. James Orbinski was inspired to work ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • War Games

    The Story of Aid and War in Modern Times

    by Linda Polman ...
    From Rwanda to Afghanistan, from Sudan to Iraq, this devastating expose shows how the humanitarian aid industry, the media and warmongers are locked in a cycle of mutual dependency on battlefields around the world.'Polman shines a light on the multibillion dollar juggernaut that is today's humanitarian aid network. A disturbing account that raises profound questions' Financial Times'One of the ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Universal

    Renewing Human Rights in a Fractured World

    by Alex Neve ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    The 2025 Massey Lectures delivered by human rights activist and former secretary general of Amnesty International Canada Alex Neve.Universality is the core promise of the human rights order born out of the devastation of World War II and the Holocaust: these rights extend to everyone, everywhere, at all times, without exception. But the cruel reality is that the word universal also screams of our ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dreams of El Dorado

    A History of the American West

    by H. W. Brands ...
    **From a New York Times bestselling author, a masterful history of the American West—from the California Gold Rush to the settling of Oklahoma and beyond."Epic in its scale, fearless in its scope, this is a bravura performance from one of our master historians." —Hampton Sides, bestselling author of Blood and Thunder**In Dreams of El Dorado, H. W. Brands tells the thrilling panoramic story of the ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Hope in Hell: Inside the World of Doctors Without Borders

    Inside the World of Doctors Without Borders

    by Dan Bortolotti ...
    More fascinating and harrowing accounts of the volunteer professionals who risk their lives to help those in desperate need.Praise for the second edition:"Direct and evocative, this well-written book pushes readers to the edge of a world of grueling realities not known by most Americans."-- ChoiceDoctors Without Borders (aka Medecins Sans Frontieres, or MSF) was founded in 1971 by rebellious ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD