14 best-selling nonfiction books like War Games: The Story Of Aid And War In Modern Times by Linda Polman

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Similar categories in Ray Porter's For We Are Many (Bobiverse, #2) book and Linda Polman's War Games: The Story Of Aid And War In Modern Times

"What does kaheerakah mean?"

-Ray Porter, For We Are Many (Bobiverse, #2)

"I always wanted to be a bad influence."

-Ray Porter, For We Are Many (Bobiverse, #2)

Similar categories in Tim Butcher's Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart book and Linda Polman's War Games: The Story Of Aid And War In Modern Times

• politics
• africa
• history
• nonfiction

"In six harrowing weeks of travel I felt I had touched the heart of Africa and found it broken."

-Tim Butcher, Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart

"Almost astride the Equator, night fell like a portcullis. The sun dropped below the horizon and suddenly all was dark."

-Tim Butcher, Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart

"the normal laws of development are inverted here in the Congo. The forest, not the town, offers the safest sanctuary and it is grandfathers who have been more exposed to modernity than their grandchi…"

-Tim Butcher, Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart

"My journey through the Congo had its ow unique category. It did not quite do it justice to call it adventure travel, and it certainly wasn't pleasure travel. My Congo journey deserved its own categor…"

-Tim Butcher, Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart

Similar categories in Victoria Hislop's The Return book and Linda Polman's War Games: The Story Of Aid And War In Modern Times

• war

"They wound their way through a labyrinth of streets, partly following their noses, partly the orientation of the map. Jardines, Mirasol, Cruz, Puentezuelas, Capuchinas... Each word held its magic. Th…"

-Victoria Hislop, The Return

Similar categories in Rory Stewart's The Places in Between book and Linda Polman's War Games: The Story Of Aid And War In Modern Times

• politics
• history
• nonfiction

Similar categories in Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf book and Linda Polman's War Games: The Story Of Aid And War In Modern Times

Similar categories in Mihály Csíkszentmihályi's Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience book and Linda Polman's War Games: The Story Of Aid And War In Modern Times

Similar categories in Ann Brashares's The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Sisterhood, #1) book and Linda Polman's War Games: The Story Of Aid And War In Modern Times

Similar categories in Timothy Snyder's On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century book and Linda Polman's War Games: The Story Of Aid And War In Modern Times

Similar categories in Nikesh Shukla's The Good Immigrant book and Linda Polman's War Games: The Story Of Aid And War In Modern Times

• politics
• nonfiction

"You cannot have meaning without knowledge of the environment from which it stems."

-Nikesh Shukla, The Good Immigrant

"If cultures were to survive in England it would be on the shoulders of bastardisation"

-Nikesh Shukla, The Good Immigrant

"Integrate well. Move upwards in society. Be praised – until people worry that you’re doing too well, and then they remember that you’re foreign." (from "The Good Immigrant" by Nikesh Shukla)"

-Nikesh Shukla, The Good Immigrant

"It is there in the white men and women who do not understand, to the point of frustration, why we still walk with the noose of our ancestors around our necks, as we cannot comprehend how they do not …"

-Nikesh Shukla, The Good Immigrant

Similar categories in William MacAskill's Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference book and Linda Polman's War Games: The Story Of Aid And War In Modern Times

Similar categories in Dennis E. Taylor's All These Worlds (Bobiverse, #3) book and Linda Polman's War Games: The Story Of Aid And War In Modern Times

Similar categories in Sally Hayden's My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World’s Deadliest Migration Route book and Linda Polman's War Games: The Story Of Aid And War In Modern Times

• politics
• nonfiction
• history
• war

Similar categories in Paul Lynch's Prophet Song book and Linda Polman's War Games: The Story Of Aid And War In Modern Times

• war

"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,"

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"... time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what's left..."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

Similar categories in Tim Marshall's The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World book and Linda Polman's War Games: The Story Of Aid And War In Modern Times

• society
• politics
• history
• nonfiction

"Vietnam is an irritation for China. For centuries the two have squabbled over territory, and unfortunately for both this is the one area to the south which has a border an army can get across without…"

-Tim Marshall, The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World

Similar categories in Chris Miller's Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology book and Linda Polman's War Games: The Story Of Aid And War In Modern Times

• politics
• history
• nonfiction

"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"

-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

Similar categories in Shehan Karunatilaka's The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida book and Linda Polman's War Games: The Story Of Aid And War In Modern Times

"Even suicide requires perseverance."

-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

"Why should a Creator watch over you? Wasn't creating you enough?"

-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

"You were simply a handsome man who enjoyed beautiful boys. Nothing more, nothing less and no one's business."

-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

"Despair always begins as a snack that you nibble on when bored and then becomes a meal that you have thrice a day."

-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

Similar categories in Samantha Power's The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir book and Linda Polman's War Games: The Story Of Aid And War In Modern Times

• politics
• history
• nonfiction

"The world is filled with broken places. Pick your battles, and go win some."

-Samantha Power, The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir

"Agency. Self-determination. Dignity. Solidarity. We could not discount the potential impact of even one such altered perspective on a young girl, her family, and, eventually, on an entire community."

-Samantha Power, The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir

"The ugly political winds in the United States contrasted sharply with the earnest gravity of the occasion. Donald Trump had launched his campaign for president on a platform that blatantly stoked fea…"

-Samantha Power, The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir

Similar categories in Mohamed Mbougar Sarr's La plus secrète mémoire des hommes book and Linda Polman's War Games: The Story Of Aid And War In Modern Times

• africa

"Nunca intentes decir de qué habla un gran libro. O si lo haces, la única respuesta posible es: de nada."

-Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, La plus secrète mémoire des hommes

"He alcanzado el estado terminal de la inmigración: simplemente ya no creo en la posibilidad del regreso."

-Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, La plus secrète mémoire des hommes

"Estuvo tanto tiempo en el exilio - medio siglo! - que nos decíamos que debía de haberse dejado una parte de sí mismo por el camino"

-Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, La plus secrète mémoire des hommes

"Nos apetece hablar de todo, menos del exilio. De todas formas, no hay nada que decir sobre el exilio. No conozco un tema más molesto en este mundo."

-Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, La plus secrète mémoire des hommes

Similar categories in Caroline Criado Pérez's Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men book and Linda Polman's War Games: The Story Of Aid And War In Modern Times

• politics
• nonfiction

"When planners fail to account for gender, public spaces become male spaces by default."

-Caroline Criado Pérez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

"It's not always easy to convince someone a need exists, if they don't have that need themselves."

-Caroline Criado Pérez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

"You don’t have to realise you’re being discriminated against to in fact be discriminated against."

-Caroline Criado Pérez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

"There is no such thing as a woman who doesn’t work. There is only a woman who isn’t paid for her work."

-Caroline Criado Pérez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

Similar categories in Christy Lefteri's Songbirds book and Linda Polman's War Games: The Story Of Aid And War In Modern Times

"Now that I could hear this woman’s song—a melody that told a story I couldn’t understand—I hoped with all of my heart that it wasn’t too late."

-Christy Lefteri, Songbirds

"As if she couldn’t quite allow herself to enjoy the pleasures of one world without being pulled into the other. Her home was always waiting for her."

-Christy Lefteri, Songbirds

"You see, when you clump people together and don’t understand their personal stories, you can make up any bullshit and convince yourself it’s the truth."

-Christy Lefteri, Songbirds

"Yes, I love thinking about beginnings. I don’t like endings, though I suppose I’m like most people in that. An ending can be staring you right in the face without you knowing it."

-Christy Lefteri, Songbirds

Similar categories in Annie Ernaux's The Years book and Linda Polman's War Games: The Story Of Aid And War In Modern Times

• nonfiction
• history

"Sauver quelque chose du temps où l'on ne sera plus jamais."

-Annie Ernaux, The Years

"La profusion des choses cachait la rareté des idées et l'usure des croyances."

-Annie Ernaux, The Years

"The profusion of things concealed the scarcity of ideas and the erosion of beliefs."

-Annie Ernaux, The Years

"Je ne suis nulle part dans le temps. Il est l'ange qui fait revivre le passé, rend éternel."

-Annie Ernaux, The Years

Similar categories in Fern Brady's Strong Female Character book and Linda Polman's War Games: The Story Of Aid And War In Modern Times

• nonfiction

"I was continually over-identifying with fiction to try and find a template for myself and my story (143)"

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

"For all her flaws, my mum never raised me with dysfunctional attitudes to food or made me think I was greedy or not thin enough. She was always clear she disliked me for me."

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

"It's 2022 as I write this and I'm still waiting to find someone I respect to speak openly and in detail about meltdowns. I'm really annoyed that I have to be the one to do this."

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

"It made perfect sense to me that my skin was bursting open in disgusting weeping pustules. The emotions felt volcanic and I'd never been good at communicating that to people in words so now my body w…"

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

Similar categories in Rashid Khalidi's The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017 book and Linda Polman's War Games: The Story Of Aid And War In Modern Times

• politics
• nonfiction
• history
• war

Similar categories in Dipo Faloyin's Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent book and Linda Polman's War Games: The Story Of Aid And War In Modern Times

• politics
• africa
• history
• nonfiction

Similar categories in Clare Chambers's Small Pleasures book and Linda Polman's War Games: The Story Of Aid And War In Modern Times

"The new and threatening would become the old and familiar in due course."

-Clare Chambers, Small Pleasures

"The journey into love was so effortless and graceful; the journey out such a long and laboured climb"

-Clare Chambers, Small Pleasures

"Previous experience taught her that the pain would not be unending - but neither would it subside smoothly, incrementally, but rather in a series of crashing waves, some of which might still knock he…"

-Clare Chambers, Small Pleasures

Similar categories in Caleb Azumah Nelson's Open Water book and Linda Polman's War Games: The Story Of Aid And War In Modern Times

"Trauma makes you considerate."

-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

"You are more than the sum of your traumas"

-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

"You do not want to die before you can live"

-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

"...love was not always synonymous with care."

-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

Similar categories in Simone de Beauvoir's Misunderstanding in Moscow book and Linda Polman's War Games: The Story Of Aid And War In Modern Times

"I could have been someone else, but then it would be someone else questioning herself about her self."

-Simone de Beauvoir, Misunderstanding in Moscow

"Já se passaram três anos? [...] A rapidez com que os anos se passaram era angustiante. Quantas vezes ainda teria três anos para viver?"

-Simone de Beauvoir, Misunderstanding in Moscow

"Sim, ela vai esquecer a igreja branca e dourada como tinha esquecido tantas outras. Aquela curiosidade que havia mantido quase intacta lhe parecia com frequência como uma sobrevivência obstinada: mas…"

-Simone de Beauvoir, Misunderstanding in Moscow

"Cada manhã, antes mesmo de abrir os olhos, ela reconhecia sua cama, seu quarto. Mas, às vezes, quando dormia de tarde, experimentava ao acordar aquela estupefação pueril: por que eu sou eu? Como se a…"

-Simone de Beauvoir, Misunderstanding in Moscow

Similar categories in Victoria Hislop's Those Who Are Loved book and Linda Polman's War Games: The Story Of Aid And War In Modern Times

• war

"-"Why do you light these candles when you're not religious?" His grandmother pondered her ritual for a moment. [...] -"It's my way of keeping those wonderful people alive", she answered. - "And does …"

-Victoria Hislop, Those Who Are Loved

Similar categories in Anuk Arudpragasam's A Passage North book and Linda Polman's War Games: The Story Of Aid And War In Modern Times

• war

"Between the forgetting that takes place as a result of our consent, which is a forgetting we need in order to reconcile our pasts and presents, and the forgetting that is imposed on us against our ow…"

-Anuk Arudpragasam, A Passage North

"There was something about twilight that heightened his anxiety, which brought it to the surface of his consciousness and made it palpable, as though with the gradual disappearance of the horizon the …"

-Anuk Arudpragasam, A Passage North

"It was the fact, above all, that sudden or violent deaths could occur not merely in a war zone or during race riots but during the slow, unremarkable course of everyday life that made them so disturb…"

-Anuk Arudpragasam, A Passage North

"There was a difference between the pleasure that soothed and lulled one to sleep and pleasure that drew the self more widely and vividly into the world, and thinking of his return to Colombo now it s…"

-Anuk Arudpragasam, A Passage North

Similar categories in Joe Dispenza's Becoming Supernatural: How Common People are Doing the Uncommon book and Linda Polman's War Games: The Story Of Aid And War In Modern Times

• nonfiction

"It’s not the gene that creates disease but the environment that programs our genes to create disease"

-Joe Dispenza, Becoming Supernatural: How Common People are Doing the Uncommon

"If you keep the same routine as yesterday, it makes sense that your tomorrow is going to be a lot like your yesterday."

-Joe Dispenza, Becoming Supernatural: How Common People are Doing the Uncommon

"The only way we can change our lives is to change our energy — to change the electromagnetic field we are constantly broadcasting. In other words, to change our state of being, we have to change how …"

-Joe Dispenza, Becoming Supernatural: How Common People are Doing the Uncommon

Similar categories in Linda Polman's War Games: The Story Of Aid And War In Modern Times book and Linda Polman's War Games: The Story Of Aid And War In Modern Times

• africa
• history
• politics
• war
• nonfiction
• international development
• society