What We're Reading

-In Print

Endless Appetites: How the Commodities Casino Creates Hunger and Unrest, by Alan Bjerga.  Wiley & Sons, 2011.

Three Famines: Starvation and Politics, by Thomas Keneally.  Public Affairs, 2011.

Tomatoland:  How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit, by Barry Estabrook.  Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2011.

Catalyzing Development:  A New Vision for Aid, edited by Homi Kharas.  Brookings Institution, 2011.

Christians and the Common Good:  How Faith Intersects with Public Life, by Charles Gutenson.  Brazos Press (Baker), 2011.

Poor Economics:  A Radical Thinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty, by Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo.  Public Affairs, 2011.

UnPoverty:  Rich Lessons from the Working Poor, by Mark Lutz.  UnPoverty Communications, 2010.

Getting Better:  Why Global Development Is Succeeding -- and How We Can Improve the World Even More, by Charles Kenny.  Basic Books, 2011.

Hunger:  The Biology and Politics of Starvation, by John Butterly and Jack Shepherd.  Dartmouth College Press, 2010.

American Grace:  How Religion Divides and Unites Us, by Robert D. Putnam and David E. Campbell.  Simon & Schuster, 2010.

Hunger:  An Unnatural History, by Sharman Russell.  Basic Books, 2005.

Boundless Faith:  The Global Outreach of American Churches, by Robert Wuthnow.  University of California Press, 2009.

Importing Poverty?  Immigration and the Changing Face of Rural America, by Philip Martin.  Yale University Press, 2009.

The End of Food, by Paul Roberts.  Houghton Mifflin, 2008.

Mobilizing Hope:  Faith-Inspired Activism for a Post-Civil Rights Generation, by Adam Taylor.  IVP Books, 2010.

Delivering Aid Differently:  Lessons from the Field, edited by Wolfgang Fengler & Homi Kharas.  Brookings Institution, 2010.

The Coming Famine:  The Global Food Crisis and What We Can Do About IT, 2nd edition, by Julian Cribb.  University of California Press, 2010.

Food Justice, by Robert Gottlieb and Anupama Joshi.  MIT Press, 2010.

The World Food Problem:  Toward Ending Undernutrition in the Third World, 4th ed, by Howard D. Leathers and Philipps Foster.  Lynne Rienner Publisher, 2009.

One Illness Away:  Why People Become Poor and How They Escape Poverty, by Anirudh Krishna.  Oxford University Press, 2010.

Changing Poverty, Changing Policies, edited by Maria Cancian and Sheldon Danziger.  Russell Sage Foundation, 2009.

Emerging Africa:  How 17 Countries Are Leading the Way, by Steven Radelet.  Center for Global Development, 2010.

Global Poverty:  How Global Governance is Failing the Poor, by David Hulme.  Routledge, 2010.

Names, Not Just Numbers:  Facing Global AIDS and World Hunger, by Donald Messer.  Speakers' Corner Books, 2010.

Broke USA:  From Pawnshops to Poverty, Inc. - How the Working Poor became Big Business, by Gary Rivlin.  HarperCollins, 2010.

Organizing for Social Change, by Kim Bobo, et al.  4th ed, Forum Press, 2010.

Enough:  Why the World's Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty, Roger Thurow and Scott Kilman, Public Affairs, 2009