International Aid

Elephants Have the Right of Way is the true story of a life spent at the front lines of humanitarian aid. As a senior logistics expert with UNICEF, Horst Dietrich Rüttinger worked across Africa and beyond, helping deliver food, medicine, and hope to communities facing war, famine, and natural disaster. From navigating flooded roads and remote airstrips to coordinating relief in fragile regions, Horst offers a rare, firsthand look at what it really takes to move help where it’s needed most. But this memoir is not only about crisis response. It is also about family, resilience, and the ...

Dedicated to the impoverished in forgotten places of the world, this book questions whether the likes of the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the United States Agency for International Development and other big international aid organizations help or hinder the world’s poorest people. It also questions whether the aid packages provided are genuine or whether they are scams designed to subjugate Third World countries. BANKRUPTING THE THIRD WORLD: How the Global Elite Drown Poor Nations in a Sea of Debt, by novelists, filmmakers and independent researchers James Morcan & Lance ...

Al Miller’s worst fears of the Trensmyan’s current capabilities are confirmed. Now he has to convince a sitting monarch to evacuate all his citizens, all twenty-one million of them. They also need to remove all the usable supplies that could be of use to the Trensmyan soldiers. Jack Prable is made the official commander of First Battalion. If that isn’t enough, he stupidly opens his mouth about a good idea. He soon finds himself on the back of a stupid beast he doesn’t want to be within a hundred yards of. Thom Mellin’s forces have helped the Norwan Navy and Marines clear the ...

In this ground-breaking book, Ben Ramalingam shows that the linear, mechanistic models and assumptions on which foreign aid is built would be more at home in early-20th-century factory floors than in the dynamic, complex world we face today. All around us, we can see the costs and limitations of dealing economies and societies as if they are analogous to machines. The reality is that such social systems have far more in common with ecosystems: They are complex, dynamic, diverse, and unpredictable.

Her kidnappers don't know who she is. Yet. Caitlin Bishop was running a humanitarian compound in South Sudan when armed rebels stormed the gate. Now she's gone — dragged into the lawless frontiers of Central Africa, hours ahead of anyone who can help. She's also the daughter of the U.S. Secretary of State. Official channels are paralyzed. Politics, deniability, and a map full of borders no one wants to cross. So her father makes one call — to the only man who operates outside all of it. Milo deCogan. Former special operations. Now running Relief Solutions, a private rescue firm with one...

"Return to your rest, my soul, for the LORD has been good to you." – Psalm 116:7 When you feel your soul being afflicted with anxiety and turmoil, return to Scripture to find rest. Listening to the books of Psalms and Proverbs enhanced with peaceful nature sounds in the background will restore...

"Return to your rest, my soul, for the LORD has been good to you." – Psalm 116:7 When you feel your soul being afflicted with anxiety and turmoil, return to Scripture to find rest. Listening to the books of Psalms and Proverbs enhanced with peaceful instrumental music in the background will...

Care to have a good command of spoken English? If you’re willing to, look no further. You’re in good hands now! As a matter of fact, listening comes on top of the list when it comes to mastering a second language (this is how we learned our first language in the first place). Thus, exposing ourselves to extended periods of audible language input can never be underestimated. Besides, if we’re keen to take our spoken English to the next level, we are expected to focus on the language as a whole. In other words, it pays to study the grammar, the vocabulary, the phrasal verbs, the idioms ...

"Sean Patrick Hopkins offers exactly the kind of narration this audiobook deserves...He makes this story of America's first significant overseas aid effort and the two people most responsible--a sea captain and a Catholic priest--come alive." -- AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award Winner The...

A collection of one-on-one discussions with 40 of the world’s greatest thought and action leaders and prominent philanthropic figures. THE BUSINESS OF PHILANTHROPY features diverse insights into the power of strategic philanthropy to inform, inspire and mobilise the next generation of social...

With over two decades’ experience both observing and interpreting how people channel disaster into opportunity in the most extreme circumstances and environments on Earth, Ben Ramalingam has a unique vantage point from which to identify the key principles that can enable anyone to use stress...

The grave is dug, the headstone carved, the hearse idling out front. A once-potent political and cultural scourge of our time, Liberalism, is breathing its last?and loudest?breaths. In this provocative postmortem, R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. traces the dubious rise and inevitable fall of the deeply...

THE INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER FEATURING INTERVIEWS WITH DR ANTHONY FAUCI, DAME SALLY DAVIES AND DR JIM DOWN For every doctor there is that one patient, whose story touches them in a way they didn’t expect, changing their entire outlook on life. This inspiring and deeply moving book is the...

Young and idealistic, Tori Hogan travels to Kenya as an intern for Save the Children, intent upon doing her part to improve the lives of refugees. But the cynicism of a young African boy changes Tori’s life and sets her on a course to reconsider everything she thought she knew about helping those in need. Years later, Tori returns to Africa and embarks on a journey through Kenya, Uganda, and Rwanda, searching for the truth about what does and does not work in international aid.

WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE WINNER OF IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE ‘The most important work of contemporary reporting I have ever read’ SALLY ROONEY The Western world has turned its back on refugees, fuelling one of the most devastating human rights...

We live in an era where someone can contract an infectious disease in Hong Kong, get on a plane, and land in New York City before the incubation period is over. We also live in a time where the wealthiest one percent of people control 34 times more than the wealth of the entire bottom 50 percent of the world's population. Climate change, mass migration, war, and the rise of Artificial Intelligence all pose challenges to maintaining the health of our human species. And yet we march on, beating back illness, disadvantage and suffering, inch by inch. This textbook, now in its third edition, is...

The new world of results-driven aid that could put an end to extreme poverty Drawing on 2 decades covering global development as editor in chief of Devex, Raj Kumar explores how nontraditional models of philanthropy and aid are empowering the world’s poorest people to make progress. Old aid...

Empty Hands is the inspiring memoir of Zulu nurse and healthcare activist Sister Abegail Ntleko. Growing up poor in a rural village with a father who didn't believe in educating girls, against seemingly insurmountable odds Sister Abegail earned her nursing degree and began work as a community...

Roesel tells of his work in Africa, Asia and the Americas, helping communities get critical services for their survival. He recounts what he saw, what the people told him, what his studies at Hopkins, the University of Georgia, and other universities taught him, and what the literature reported should be done and could be achieved. Then he tried out the approaches and technologies in communities all over the world. Frequently, when he arrived, he was shocked. He tells why. After consulting, analyzing and getting feedback, he designed approaches to solve the worst problems. He included ...

Russia invades Ukraine and threatens other nations hoping to escape its orbit. China spends a trillion dollars on its Belt & Road program that manipulates poor countries all across the globe. Other autocracies like Iran and North Korea devote large resources to military intimidation, cyberattacks, and disinformation campaigns. How can the U.S. respond? Via costly military interventions? Dubiously effective nation-building by our government? Are there other options? In this short, fascinating book, an experienced embedded reporter sojourns through Serbia, the Caucasus, Kurdistan, and other ...