This is a partial list of books used in researching for Stronger than Death. It consists only of books. For links to articles, videos, essays, and resources online, refer to the endnotes in Stronger than Death.
AID
A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis, by David Reif
When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty without Hurting the Poor…and Yourself, by Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert
Aid and Authoritarianism in Africa, by Tobias Hagmann
The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good, by William Easterly
Dead Aid: Why Aid is Not Working and How there is a Better Way for Africa, by Dambiso Moyo
The Locust Effect: Why the End of Poverty Requires the End of Violence, by Gary S. Haugen
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, by Nicolas Kristoff and Sheryl WuDunn
Italy
The Pope and Mussolini, by David Kertzer
I Giorni Che Sconvolsero Forli, by Marco Viroli and Gabriele Zelli
The Tigress of Forli: Renaissance Italy’s Most Courageous and Notorious Countess, by Elizabeth Lev
Annalena’s “Friends”
Etty Hillesum: Essential Writings
Etty Hillesum: an Interrupted Life
Charles de Foucauld, by Jean-Jacques Antier
Kenya, Somalia, and Somaliland
Black Hawk Down: a Story of Modern War, by Mark Bowden
Learning from Somalia, the Lessons of Armed Humanitarian Intervention, by Walter S. Clarke
Me Against My Brother: at War in Somalia, Sudan, and Rwanda, by Scott Peterson
Mending Rips in the Sky: Options for Somali Communities in the 21stCentury, by Hussein M. Adam and Richard Foster
Operation Restore Hope: the US Army in Somalia 1992-1994, by Richard Stewart
Somalia, the Untold Story: the War through the Eyes of Somali Women, by Judith Gardner and Judy El Bushra
Stoics without Pillows, by John Drysdale
The Road to Hell, by Michael Maren
Understanding Somalia: Culture, History, and Society, by I.M. Lewis
Warriors: Life and Death Among the Somalis by Gerald Hanley
Letteres dal Somaliland
Letteres dal Somalia
Different Drums, by Michael Wood
Lettera dal mio Figlio, by Mario Neri
Operazione Somalia: La dittatura, l’opposizione, la guerra civile, by Mario Sica
Where Soldiers Fear to Tread: a Relief Worker’s Tale of Survival, by John Burnett
The Mad Mullah, by Doug Jardine
Blood on the Runway, by Salah Abdi Sheikh
Getting Somalia Wrong: Faith, Hope, and War in a Shattered State, by Mary Harper
The Insanity of God, by Nik Ripken
The Road to Zero, by Mohamed Osman Omar
Bandits on the Border, by Nene Mburu
War Destroys, Peace Nurtures, by Hussein M. Adam, Edna Aden, Richard Foster
Saints and Somalis: Popular Islam in a Clan Based Society, by I.M. Lewis
Nine Faces of Kenya, by Karen Blixen
War Clouds on the Horn of Africa, by Tom J. Farer
Becoming Somaliland, by Mark Bradbury
The Shaping of Somali Society, by Lee V. Cassanelli
Somalia, the Missed Opportunities, by Mohamed Sahnoun
Inside Al-Shabaab: the Secret History of al-Qaeda’s Most Powerful Ally, by Harun Maruf and Dan Joseph
Call Me American, by Abdi Nor Iftin
The Mayor of Mogadishu: a Story of Chaos and Redemption in the Ruins of Somalia, by Andrew Harding
City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World’s Largest Refugee Camp, by Ben Rawlence
Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth, by Warsan Shire
Desert Flower, by Waris Dirie
Saa Waxay Tiri; Maansadii iyou Waayihii Xaawa Jibriil, translation by Faduma Ahmed Alim
Born in the Big Rains: a Memoir of Survival and Somalia, by Fadumo Korn
Female Circumcision: Multicultural Perspectives, by Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf
FGM in Djibouti, Miriam Martinelli, PhD thesis
Aman: the story of a Somali Girl
From a Crooked Rib, and others, by Nuruddin Farah
A Pied Cloak: Memoirs of a Colonial Police Officer, by Derek Franklin
Born Wild: the Extraordinary Story of One Man’s Passion for Africa, by Tony Fitzjohn
Keeping Hope Alive: One Woman – 90,000 Lives Changed, by Hawa Abdi
Tuberculosis and Disease
Mountains Beyond Mountains the Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a man who would cure the world, by Tracy Kidder
On Immunity: an Inoculation, by Eula Biss
Regarding the Pain of Others, by Susan Sontag
Illness as Metaphor, by Susan Sontag
The Forgotten Plague: How the Battle Against Tuberculosis was Won – and Lost, by Frank Ryan
Timebomb, The Global Epidemic of Multi-drug Resistant Tuberculosis by Lee B. Reichman
Discovering Tuberculosis: a Global History, 1900-the Present, by Christian McMillan
The Remedy: Robert Koch, Arthur Conan Doyle and the Quest to Cure Tuberculosis, by Thomas Goetz
Pathologies of Power, and Infections and Inequalities, and more, by Paul Farmer
Bandit or Patriot
Pandemic: Tracking Contagions from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond, by Sonia Shah
Catching Breath: the Making and Unmaking of Tuberculosis, by Kathryn Lougheed
Spitting Blood: the History of Tuberculosis, by Helen Bynum
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot
Second Suns: Two Trailblazing Doctors and their Quest to Cure Blindness, One Pair of Eyes at aTime, by David Oliver Relin
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures, by Anne Fadiman
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