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Homelands & Marketplace Present Series on Global Work
Each WORKING profile brings us deep into the life of a single worker in the global economy. This month, Kelly McEvers introduces us to Samanta, a sex worker in the oil boomtown of Baku, Azerbaijan. All migrant workers have their stories, but Samanta's is particularly harrowing. More...
Labor Day Extra: Holiday Show Features WORKING Project
To mark the US Labor Day holiday, Marketplace rebroadcast excerpts of four WORKING profiles—a Chinese postman (produced by Sandy Tolan), French chocolate taster (Jon Miller), Pakistani tannery worker (Gregory Warner), and Cambodian silk maker (Rachel Louise Snyder). More...
Alan Weisman's World Without Us is TIME Book of the Year
How would our planet respond if humans were to vanish? Alan Weisman provides the answers in The World Without Us, TIME's #1 nonfiction book for 2007. Now available in paperback, The World Without Us was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and was recently shortlisted for the Rachel Carson Environment Book Award.
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Sandy Tolan's The Lemon Tree Wins Christopher Award
Sandy Tolan's The Lemon Tree: An Arab, A Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East was cited for "affirming the highest values of the human spirit." A finalist for the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award, the book grew out of a documentary for Fresh Air. TIME called it "a handbook to understanding the Palestinian Israeli conflict."
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Weisman's Gaviotas Reissued for 10th Anniversary
Alan Weisman's award-winning book Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World has been released in a 10th anniversary edition by Chelsea Green Publishing. The book, with a new afterword by Alan, tells the story of a sustainable community built by visionaries in war-ravaged Colombia. It grew out of a radio feature for Searching for Solutions.
Ellis Cose's "Against the Odds" Rolls into Second Season
Against the Odds, a multimedia project headed by author and Newsweek columnist Ellis Cose, is now in production for a second season. The project launched last year with an article in Newsweek, a web package, and a radio special edited by Homelands' Jon Miller and distributed by PRI. This season will feature stories from Rwanda, India, and the US.
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Sandy
Tolan
Sandy Tolan has reported from more than 30 countries, and has won many awards for his radio work and his writing. The author of two books, he's an associate professor of journalism at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. More...
Alan
Weisman
Alan Weisman has written five books, including the best-selling The World Without Us. His work has appeared in Harper's, Discover, Atlantic Monthly, NY Times Magazine, and LA Times Magazine. He teaches journalism and Latin American Studies at the University of Arizona.
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Jonathan
Miller
Jonathan Miller is Homelands' executive director and executive producer of the WORKING and Worlds of Difference series. A longtime freelancer for newspapers, magazines, radio, and TV, Jon is an Affiliated Scholar at the Polson Institute for Global Development at Cornell University. More...
Cecilia Vaisman
Cecilia Vaisman has reported widely on the environment, human rights, race and ethnicity, and AIDS. A former staff producer for NPR,
she teaches Latin American Cinema at the University of Illinois at Chicago and is working on a documentary she shot in Cuba. More...
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