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An essential galvanizing narrative about making a difference here and abroadmdasha road map to becoming the most effective global citizens we can beIn their number one New York Times best seller Half the Sky husband-and-wife team Nicholas D Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn brought to light struggles faced by women and girls around the globe and showcased individuals and institushytions working to address oppression and expand opportunity A Path Appears is even more ambishytious in scale nothing less than a sweeping tapshyestry of people who are making the world a better place and a guide to the ways that we can do the samemdashwhether with a donation of or milshylion with our time by capitalizing on our skills as individuals or by using the resources of our businesses With scrupulous research and on-the-ground reporting the authors assay the art and science of giving identify successful local and global initiashytives and share astonishing stories from the front lines of social progress We see the compelling inshyspiring truth of how real people have changed the world upending the idea that one person canrsquot make a difference We meet people like Dr Gary Slutkin who develshyoped his landmark Cure Violence program to combat inner-city conflicts in the United States by applying principles of epidemiology Lester Strong who left a career as a high-powered television anchor to run an organization bringing in older Americans to tushytor students in public schools across the country MIT development economist Esther Duflo whose pioneering studies of aid effectiveness have revealed new truths about among other things the power of hope and Jessica Posner and Kennedy Odede who are transforming Kenyarsquos most notorious slum by exshypanding educational opportunities for girls A Path Appears offers practical results-driven advice on how best each of us can give and reveals the lasting benefits we gain in return Kristof and WuDunn know better than most how many urgent challenges communities around the world face toshyday Here they offer a timely beacon of hope for our collective future.
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Nicholas D. Kristof is a New York Times op-ed columnist and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner. With his wife, Sheryl WuDunn, he has written four best-selling books, including the No. 1 New York Times best-seller "Half the Sky." Kristof and WuDunn were the first married couple to win a Pulitzer for journalism, for their coverage of the Tiananmen Square democracy movement in China and the massacre that followed. Kristof later won a second for his columns from Darfur. Kristof and WuDunn live in the New York area with their three children. Kristof is active on social media, particularly Facebook (www.facebook.com/kristof) and Twitter (www.twitter.com/nickkristof) . He was the first blogger on the New York Times website and the first to make a video for the site; he now has more Twitter followers than any other print journalist.
