Peace Corps Times
Author : Peace Corps (U.S.)
Publisher :
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 33,52 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Peace Corps (U.S.)
ISBN :
Peace Corps Times
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 25,63 MB
Release : 1984
Category :
ISBN :
Book Description
When the World Calls
Author : Stanley Meisler
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 13,26 MB
Release : 2011-02-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0807095478
Book Description
A complete and revealing history of the Peace Corps—in time for its fiftieth anniversary When the World Calls is the first complete and balanced look at the Peace Corps's first fifty years. Stanley Meisler's engaging narrative exposes Washington infighting, presidential influence, and the Volunteers' unique struggles abroad. He deftly unpacks the complicated history with sharp analysis and memorable anecdotes, taking readers on a global trek starting with the historic first contingent of Volunteers to Ghana on August 30, 1961.
Voices from the Peace Corps
Author : Angene Hopkins Wilson
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 18,3 MB
Release : 2011-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0813129753
Book Description
Based on more than one hundred oral history interviews, [this title] follows the the experiences of Kentuckians who chose to live and work in other countries around the world, fostering close, lasting relationships with the people they served. -- jacket.
A Land Without Time
Author : John Sumser
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,83 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780897335430
Book Description
For the first time, the story of Afghanistan prior to, and during, the communist coup of 1979 is told from the perspective of an American working as a Peace Corps volunteer in Afghanistan.
Being First
Author : Robert Klein
Publisher : Wheatmark, Inc.
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 20,48 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Americans
ISBN : 1604944579
Book Description
Robert Klein, one of the initial Peace Corps volunteers who served in Ghana from 1961-1963, describes the creation of the Peace Corps and the experiences of the first cohort of volunteer teachers serving in Ghana.
A Life Inspired
Author :
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 13,72 MB
Release : 2005-12-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Book Description
Contains a collection of autobiographical reminiscences written by about 28 former Peace Corps volumteers.
Looking at Ourselves and Others
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 17,78 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Cross-cultural studies
ISBN :
Book Description
"Looking at Ourselves and Others contains lesson plans, activities, and readings that help students understand components of their own culture and leads them to appreciate and understand differences between their culture and that of others."--Home page.
Living Poor; a Peace Corps Chronicle
Author : Moritz Thomsen
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 47,76 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780295969282
Book Description
At the age of 48, Moritz Thomsen sold his pig farm and joined the Peace Corps. As he tells the story, his awareness of the comic elements in the human situation--including his own--and his ability to convey it in fast-moving, earthy prose have madeLiving Poora classic. "Hilariously funny at times, grimly sad at others and elavened with perceptive insights into the ways of the people and with breathtaking descriptions of the Ecuadorian landscape."-St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Service Disrupted
Author : Tyler E. Lloyd
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 47,39 MB
Release : 2017-07-25
Category :
ISBN : 9780692922200
