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Free & Easy ReturnsBest Deals| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| ISBN 13 | 9781844086825 |
| ISBN 10 | 1844086828 |
| Author | Nicholas D. Kristof |
| Book Format | Paperback |
| Language | English |
| Book Subtitle | How To Change The World |
| Book Description | Pulitzer Prizewinning reporting team, husband and wife Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, take us on a journey through Africa and Asia to meet an extraordinary array of exceptional women struggling against terrible circumstances. More girls have been killed in the last fifty years, precisely because they are girls, than men were killed in all the wars of the twentieth century combined. More girls are killed in this routine 'gendercide' in any one decade than people were slaughtered in all the genocides of the twentieth century. In the nineteenth century, the central moral challenge was slavery. In the twentieth, it was totalitarianism. In the twentyfirst, Kristof and WuDunn demonstrate, it will be the struggle for gender equality in the developing world. Fierce, moral, pragmatic, full of amazing stories of courage and inspiration, HALF THE SKY is essential reading for every global citizen. |
| Editorial Review | Beautifully edited and with excellent notes. * TLS * Touching, angry, bewildered...they demand to be read * MAIL ON SUNDAY * Immensely moving...As the first world war slips out of living memory, this is a timely reminder of what was lost and how we lost it * SUNDAY TIMES * Unique...a remarkable portrait of five young people caught up in the cataclysm of war * INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY * |
| About the Author | Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn won a Pulitzer Prize for their coverage of China as New York Times correspondents. Mr Kristof won a second Pulitzer for his oped columns. They live in the New York area with their three children. |
| Publication Date | 26-Aug-10 |
| Number of Pages | 352 |
