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Beneath the Surface: Joseph Shaules

Beneath the Surface: Joseph Shaules

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Not just a tourist: Intercultural trainer Joseph Shaules offers advice on embracing the challenges of deep cultural learning.
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Half the Sky: Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn

Half the Sky: Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn

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Remarkable stories of the unjust reality faced by millions of women around the world and the vast well of untapped potential that these women hold.
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Marchez Noir: Amazigh Kateb

Marchez Noir: Amazigh Kateb

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Algeria’s Amazigh Kateb is a modern ambassador for trance-inducing Gnawa grooves.
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Mridanga: The Mayapuris

Mridanga: The Mayapuris

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The Mayapuris is a U.S.-based kirtan music group that performs Sanskrit call-and-response chanting originating from West Bengal, India.
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Oyo: Angelique Kidjo

Oyo: Angelique Kidjo

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 Angelique sings mostly in Beninese languages, but Oyo is essentially a masterpiece of global pop after more than 20 years in the music industry.
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Timbuktu Chronicles: Out of Africa

Timbuktu Chronicles: Out of Africa

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Entrepreneur Emeka Okafor searches for innovative home-grown African ventures in technology and business that could be useful and sustainable in many countries.
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You Can’t Make a New World without Breaking a few Atlases

You Can’t Make a New World without Breaking a few Atlases

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Broken Atlas is the virtual woodshed of Christopher Frey, a Toronto-based writer, editor and filmmaker.
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Hong Kong Confidential

Hong Kong Confidential

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Sometimes opinionated and always insightful, Ma blogs about political issues, Asian society and the life of an expat in the motherland.
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Portfolios of the Poor: Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch, Stuart Rutherford and Orlanda Ruthven

Portfolios of the Poor: Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch, Stuart Rutherford and Orlanda Ruthven

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Portfolios of the Poor: How the World's Poor Live on $2 a Day examines strategies the world's poor use to make ends meet and the flaws in the financial tools available to them.
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The Woman Who Fell from the Sky: Jennifer Steil

The Woman Who Fell from the Sky: Jennifer Steil

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A liberal-minded career woman from Manhattan, becomes editor of the Yemen Observer and steps into a whole new world of cross-cultural differences.
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