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Chasing hope : a reporter's life
\"From New York Times columnist, Pulitzer Prize winner, and bestselling author Nicholas D. Kristof, an intimate and gripping memoir about a life in journalism\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Tightrope : Americans reaching for hope
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn explore the causes and costs of addiction, poverty and incarceration plaguing America, from the inner city to small towns like Yamhill, Oregon. While pockets of empathy and aid exist, are they enough to rescue the thousands of Americans in despair, for whom the American Dream of self-reliance is impossibly out of reach?
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Half the sky : turning oppression into opportunity for women worldwide
Two Pulitzer Prize winners issue a call to arms against our era's most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women in the developing world. They show that a little help can transform the lives of women and girls abroad and that the key to economic progress lies in unleashing women's potential.
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Half the sky : how to change the world
Two Pulitzer Prize winners issue a call to arms against our era's most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women in the developing world. They show that a little help can transform the lives of women and girls abroad and that the key to economic progress lies in unleashing women's potential.
The Trump-Russia Story': Cue the stage lights
Russia's role \"Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the U.S. presidential election.\" - Russian intelligence conspired \"to gain unauthorized access (to 'hack') into the computers of U.S. persons and entities involved in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, steal documents from those computers, and stage releases of the stolen documents to interfere with the 2016 U.S. presidential election.\" - Michael Cohen, statement to the court, Dec. 12,2018, after earlier confessing to lying to Congress about Trump's investment interest in Russia To the audience A recent Washington Post/ Schar poll found that 43 percent of Americans still are skeptical that Russia interfered with the 2016 election.
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A path appears : transforming lives, creating opportunity
\"From the authors of the #1 New York Times best-selling Half the Sky, a unique and essential narrative about making a difference in the world--a roadmap to becoming a conscientious global citizen. Equal in urgency and compassion to Half the Sky, this galvanizing new book from the acclaimed husband and wife team is even more ambitious in scale: nothing less than a deep examination of people who are making the world a better place, and the myriad ways we can support them, whether with a donation of five dollars or five million, an inkling to help or a useful skill to deploy. With scrupulous research and on-the-ground reporting, the authors assay the art and science of giving--determining the current most successful local and global aid initiatives (on issues from education to inner-city violence to disease prevention), evaluating the efficiency and impact of specific approaches and charities, as well as fundraising. Most compellingly, perhaps, they show us how particular people have made a difference, and offer practical advice on how best each of us can give and what we can personally derive from doing so\"--
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Woody Allen meets the #MeToo movement
Woody Allen meets the #MeToo movement Four years ago, when Woody Allen was given a lifetime achievement award by the Golden Globes, Dylan Farrow curled up in a ball on her bed, crying hysterically. Actors are donating earnings from Woody Allen movies to sexual assault organizations, and Amazon is said to be considering canceling its distribution of his movies. [...]the New York judge in the Mia Farrow-Woody Allen child custody case ruled that although he couldn't be sure whether the sexual assault itself had occurred, \"Mr. Allen's behavior toward Dylan was grossly inappropriate.\" [...]nobody has explained where Dylan and Allen went when they both disappeared as the baby sitter was searching for them-except Dylan, who says that that's when the assault happened.
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