Despite their own poverty since Daddy died, Mama tells nine-year-old James Otis they need to help Sarah, whose family lost everything in a fire.

Arguing that our current response to world poverty is not only insufficient but ethically indefensible, philosopher Peter Singer offers a seven-point plan that mixes personal philanthropy (figuring how much to give and how best to give it), local activism (spreading the word in your community), and political awareness (contacting your representatives to ensure that your nation's foreign aid is really directed to the world's poorest people)

"A religious fundamentalist, a political operative, a primitive sermonizer, and an accomplice of worldly secular powers. Her mission has always been of this kind. The irony is that she has never been able to induce anybody to believe her. It is past time that she was duly honored and taken at her word."
Among his many books, perhaps none have sparked more outrage than The Missionary Position, Christopher Hitchens's meticulous study of the life...

Mother Teresa is an informative introduction to the famous Catholic nun. Mother Teresa is one of the most admired Nobel laureates of all time. Born in Eastern Europe of Albanian parents, she became a Catholic missionary nun in India when she was still a teenager. After teaching in a convent school in Calcutta for nearly two decades, in 1946 she claimed that she heard God calling her to live and work among "the poorest of the poor" in that city's slums....

The beloved chaplain of Loyola University's men's basketball team offers a memoir of her life of service along with common sense wisdom and spiritual guidance from one hundred years of living.

This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. UNRRA delegates at their meeting in Atlantic City, New Jersey. 2. The flying boat Mars on the ground and in the air. 3. A circular aluminum house. 4. Arctic tests of the carrier Midway. 5. Trout are caught at a New Zealand hatchery. 6. Delegates arrive at Hunter College for a meeting of the UN Security Council.

This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. Catholic organizations collect food for the world's needy. 2. A bust of Booker T. Washington is unveiled at Hall of Fame. 3. German criminals are hanged at Dachau; in Prague, Karl Frank is sentenced and hanged. 4. Indigenous peoples of the jungles of Panama harvest bananas. 5. Recreational activities of children in the New York Police Athletic Leagues. 6. Two-year anniversary of D-Day,...