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Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
Traces how the author, having been rescued and resuscitated by Himalayan villagers after a failed attempt to climb K2, worked to build schools that would benefit the young girls who were forbidden an education by Taliban restrictions.
Author
Publisher
Torchflame Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
At its heart, A Life in Dark Places is an adventure story, its heroes the men and women who have risked their lives to minister to the vulnerable. Paul Giannone writes masterfully about what he has seen and experienced with a keen eye for detail and a leavening of humor. The author has found himself a participant in some of the most dramatic and horrific events of the past half century -- America's defeat in Vietnam and the subsequent "boat people"...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Eric Greitens shares his life journey from being an average kid to working to make a difference in the world's trouble spots and joining the Navy SEALS to protect the weak, and encourages readers to reflect on the power of choice and acts of courage.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Bosnia. Rwanda. Kosovo. Sierra Leone. Pakistan. Just a few of the world’s humanitarian and political crises in the past years. Whether the result of war or nature, these disasters devastate populations and cripple health systems. Despite the immense dangers and difficulties of the work, one organization, Doctors Without Borders, has continuously intervened at these frontlines of overwhelming human need. Set in war-torn Congo and Liberia, Living...
Publisher
Wayne State University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The JDC at 100: A Century of Humanitarianismtraces the history of the JDC-an organization founded to aid victims of World War I that has played a significant role in preserving and sustaining Jewish life across the globe. The thirteen essays in this volume, edited by Avinoam Patt, Atina Grossmann, Linda G. Levi, and Maud S. Mandel, reflect critically on the organization's transformative impact on Jewish communities throughout the world, covering topics...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The author describes how, after working as a humanitarian around the world, he realized that he could do nothing to stop violence or prevent people from becoming refugees and soon joined the elite Navy SEALs, where he drew on his humanitarian training as he battled injustice.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Shortly after receiving the news that they will soon be reunited with their families back in the United States, a unit serving in Iraq is deployed on one last humanitarian mission. Their objective is to deliver medical supplies to a remote Iraqi village. Upon arriving in the village, the unit is viciously ambushed and many lives are lost. Now, as the four surviving members of the battalion return home and attempt to readjust to civilian life, the...
Author
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
An assessment of how Haiti has fared after the 2010 earthquake, revealing how the country continues to suffer from poverty, illness, and a broken infrastructure, and assessing the factors that prevent aid from reaching people in need.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The New York Times -bestselling author and Navy SEAL "describes his adventurous life in a manner that many teen boys will find inspirational" ( VOYA ). In this adaptation of his bestselling book, The Heart and the Fist , Eric speaks directly to teen readers, interweaving memoir and intimate second-person narratives that ask the reader to put themselves in the shoes of himself and others. Readers will share in Eric's evolution from average kid to...
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Credited with saving 300 lives through evacuation and many more through medical aid during her time in the Balkans, Sally Becker's story is both uplifting and a warning of the true nature and price of warIn May 1993, Sally Becker went to Bosnia to help victims of war, delivering medical aid and evacuating wounded children from the besieged city of Mostar. She was dubbed the "Angel of Mostar," and was hailed for her efforts to save the children from...
Author
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The iconic relief organization's activities over a half century of history, through wars, epidemics, and other disasters: "Well-researched . . . fascinating." -Julia F. Irwin, Bulletin of the History of Medicine
In dark skirts and bloodied boots, Clara Barton fearlessly ventured onto Civil War battlefields to tend to wounded soldiers. She later worked with civilians in Europe during the Franco-Prussian War, lobbied legislators to ratify the Geneva...
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