The following is a list of books, and then films with a global influence that might interest the international volunteer

*Please send any favorites!

Recommended Book List

  • "Mountains Beyond Mountains" -Tracey Kidder

  • "The World Travellers' Manual of Homeopathy" -Dr. Colin B. Lessell

  • "An Atlas of African Dermatology" - Barbara Leppard

  • "Caring for Muslim Patients" -Aziz Sheikh and Abdul Rashid Gatrad

  • "Race Against Time" - Stephen Lewis

  • "The End of Poverty" -Jeffery D. Sachs

  • "Infections and Inequalities-The Modern Plagues" - Paul Farmer

  • "Dispatches from the Global Village" - Derek Evans

  • "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man" -John Perkins

  • "On the Road to Kandahar-Travels through the Islamic World" -Jason Burke

  • "A long way gone -Memoirs of a boy soilder" -Ishmael Beah

  • "Stolen Angels" - Kathy Cook

  • "Extraordinary Evil-A brief history of Genocide" -Barbara Coloroso

  • "A People betrayed - The Role of the West in Rwanda's Genocide

  • "Whose War is it? -How Canada can Survive in the Post-9/11 World" -J.L Granatstein

  • "Poor Story" -Giles Bolton

  • "Another Day in Paradise -International Humanitarian Workers tell their stories" -Carol Bergman

  • "Notes from Canada's Young Activists" -Severn Cullis-Suzuki et al

  • "Facing the Congo- A modern day journey into the Heart of Darkness" -Jeffrey Tayler

  • "Light at the Edge of the World -A journey through the world of vanishing Cultures" Wade Davis

  • "Holy Cow - An Indian Adventure" - Sarah MacDonald

  • "Do No Harm - How Aid can Support Peace or War" - Mary B. Anderson

  • "Mugabe -Power, Plunder, and the Struggle for Zimbabwe" -Martin Meredith

  • "I didn't do it for you - How the world use and abused a small African Nation" -Michelr Wrong

  • "Gandhi  An Autobiography - The Storey with my Experiments with Truth"

  • "The Psychology of Culture Shock" -Ward, Bochner & Furnham

  • "New Guinea Tapeworms and Jewish Grandmothers -Tales of Parasites and People" -Robert S. Desowitz

Recommended Film List

  • Born into Brothels

  • The End of Suburbia

  • The Corporation

  • Invisible Children

  • Social Genocide

  • The Power of Community - How Cuba Survived Peak Oil

  • Darwin's Nightmare

  • Black Coffee

  • Blood Diamond

  • The Last King of Scotland

  • The Constant Gardener

  • In This World

*For more amazing film titles with an International Flavor visit:
http://www.mongrelmedia.com/catalogue.html




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