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  • Ward, Barbara. (Lady Jackson).
    THE LOPSIDED WORLD.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Norton, (1968.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "Cogent and provocative analysis of human potential and international resources, [which] compares the "Atlantic third" to the wealthy and privileged class of last century." A title in the Christian A. Herter Lecture series, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies126 pp.

    Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, missing front endpaper, but overall tight and clean in a very good dustjacket.

    Book ID: 30595
    Keywords: africa, developing countries, Economics and Politics
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  • LEAVING MICROSOFT TO CHANGE THE WORLD: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children. by Wood, John.
    Wood, John.
    LEAVING MICROSOFT TO CHANGE THE WORLD: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children.

    Edition: 3rd printing.

    New York: Harper Collins, (2006.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - INSCRIBED on the title page "Dear ---- enjoy the journey" . While on a trip to the Himalayas, Wood visited a remote Nepalese school and learned that the students had few books in their library - "When he offered to run a book drive to provide the school with books, his idea was met with polite skepticism. ...But John Wood did return to that school and with thousands of books bundled on the back of a yak. And at that moment, Wood made the decision to walk away from Microsoft and create Room to Read - an organization that has donated more than 1.2 million books, established more than 2,600…

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    New York: Harper Collins, (2006.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - INSCRIBED on the title page "Dear ---- enjoy the journey" . While on a trip to the Himalayas, Wood visited a remote Nepalese school and learned that the students had few books in their library - "When he offered to run a book drive to provide the school with books, his idea was met with polite skepticism. ...But John Wood did return to that school and with thousands of books bundled on the back of a yak. And at that moment, Wood made the decision to walk away from Microsoft and create Room to Read - an organization that has donated more than 1.2 million books, established more than 2,600 libraries and 200 schools, and sent 1,700 girls to school on scholarship ultimately touching the lives of 875,000 children with the lifelong gift of education." Photographs, index. 266 pp. ISBN: 0-06-112107X.

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    Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)

    Book ID: 36041
    Keywords: developing countries, Education and children, literacy, room-to-read
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