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Books in the ZIS Library

Your research unit on development, housing and aid and/or Romania will serve you well as you prepare for your Habitat build in Romania. Perhaps you would like to read further. This is a selected list of books that feature Romania or Development Issues, Poverty and/or the Developing World available in the ZIS Library. Browse the selection and see if you might be interested in a fiction or nonfiction choice.

Nonfiction on the Shelves

Burying the Typewriter by Carmen Bugan
Call Number: 920 BUG
ISBN: 9781555976170
Publication Date: 2012-07-03
Carmen Bugan describes growing up in Romania and being the daughter of a political dissident in a time of political oppression and persecution.
EcoMind by Frances Moore Lappe
Call Number: 304.2 LAP
ISBN: 1568586833
Publication Date: 2011-09-13
Presents the author's views on the twenty-first century's environmental and poverty crises and what we can do to solve these problems.
Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
Call Number: 305.5 BOO
ISBN: 1400067553
Publication Date: 2012-02-07
Examines and provides real-life accounts of urban poor families living in Bombay, India.
The Locust Effect by Gary A. Haugen; Victor Boutros
Call Number: 305.5 HAU
ISBN: 9780199937875
Publication Date: 2014-02-04
Examines the link between extreme poverty and violence--rape, forced labor, illegal detention, land theft, and police abuse--and argues that monetary aid meant to help the poor is often lost in the daily chaos of violence.
Half the Sky by Nicholas D. Kristof; Sheryl WuDunn
Call Number: 362.83 KRI
ISBN: 0307267148
Publication Date: 2009-09-08
Tells the stories of women in Africa and Asia who have been victims of sex trafficking and forced prostitution, gender-based violence, and maternal mortality, and shows how girls' education and micro-finance can change their lives while providing a boost to the economies of developing countries.
Uncivil Society by Stephen Kotkin; Jan T. Gross (Contribution by)
Call Number: 947 KOT
ISBN: 9780679642763
Publication Date: 2009-10-06
Examines the failures of Eastern European Communism and the political revolutions that took place in 1989, and focuses on events in Poland, Romania, and the German Democratic Republic to determine the downfall of Communism.

Fiction on the Shelves

Nadirs by Herta Müller; Sieglinde Lug (Afterword by, Translator)
Call Number: FIC MUL
ISBN: 0803231970
Publication Date: 1999-08-01
Presents fifteen short stories largely based on the author's troubled childhood in 1950s and '60s Romania.

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