In 2011, the Korean American writer and teacher Suki Kim taught English to the sons of North Korea's elite for two semesters. ...
Leading from the Roots: Nature-Inspired Leadership Lessons for Today’s World
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Nature Based Leadership: Lessons for Living, Learning, Serving, and Leading
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No Enemies, No Hatred: Selected Essays and Poems
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The Fire Next Time
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The Warmth of Other Suns
They made the crossing at the border city of Washington, D.C., where they took their pictures to verify they were free from ...
Arte of Now: Practice of Immediacy in the Arts
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Tiger and Clay – Syria Fragments
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The Morning They Came for Us: Dispatches from Syria
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The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine
On December 17, 2010, Mohammed Bouazizi, a fruit vendor in Tunis, Tunisia, set himself on fire to protest official ...
The Longest War
Consider 9/11 and the Arab Spring of 2011 as opposing bookends to a decade of repression, fear, and fetishized violence. ...
The Partnership: Five Cold Warriors and Their Quest to Ban The Bomb
Unless you are a World War II history buff, you may have missed the fact that the island of Tinian in the Northern Mariana ...
My Beloved World
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Three Days in Damascus: A Memoir
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The Long Emancipation
As discussed by the scholar Ira Berlin in his monograph The Long Emancipation: The Demise of Slavery in the United States, ...
A Singular Woman
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Reading Obama
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Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking
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The New Jim Crow
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How Children Succeed
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Once I Was A Debutante
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Empire of the Summer Moon
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Winner Take All Politics
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Cinderella Ate My Daughter
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Cleopatra: A Life
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No Way Down
When you think about a life worth living, what comes to mind? Helping others in need? Giving your children your love and ...