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Product: Living in Emergency

Product: Emmanuel Guibert: The Photographer : Into War-Torn Afghanistan with Doctors Without Borders (Paperback); 2009 Edition

Product: Epidemic: Ebola and the Global Scramble to Prevent the Next Killer Outbreak

A global health catastrophe narrowly averted. A world unprepared for the next great threat.

In December 2013, a young boy in a tiny West African village contracted the deadly Ebola virus. The virus spread to his relatives, then to neighboring communities, then across international borders. The world's first urban Ebola outbreak quickly overwhelmed the global health system and threatened to kill millions.

In an increasingly interconnected world in which everyone is one or two flights away from New York or London or Beijing, even a localized epidemic can become a pandemic. Ebola's spread through West Africa to Nigeria, the United Kingdom and the United States sounded global alarms that the next killer outbreak is right around the corner - and that the world is woefully unprepared to combat a new deadly disease.

From the poorest villages of rural West Africa to the Oval Office itself, this book tells the story of a deadly virus that spun wildly out of control - and reveals the truth about how close the world came to a catastrophic global pandemic.

Product: Beyond Borders: Reflections from the Humanitarian Frontline

“Two weeks ago, I didn't even know that Niger was a country… now I am deep in its south with Doctors Without Borders, responsible for saving people's lives.”

In this story of humanitarian emergency medical work as a physician with Médecins Sans Frontières in Africa, Cassandra Arnold uses spare prose and haunting images to share the heartbreak and the humor, the challenges and the celebrations of volunteer work overseas.

From February 2009 to October 2013, Dr Cassandra Arnold spent twenty months in the field as a volunteer with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières. In that time, she accepted 8 posts in 5 different countries: Niger, Haiti, Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Iraq. This is Niger, where it all began.

Part journal, part photo album, part poem... deeply personal and deeply confronting... If you have ever wondered what this work is really like, read this book and you will know.

"Follow me now into the sands of the Sahel."

Profits from the sale of this book will be donated to Doctors Without Borders Canada.

This is a full colour, fixed page layout ebook. It is best read on a tablet or with the free Kindle App for your laptop or PC. It will be in black and white on a standard Kindle.

Product: Mission Congo