Harvest of Innocence [Paperback]

Michele Leight (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 8, 2006

: Harvest of Innocence is a book filled with heartbreaking and heartwarming true personal accounts of coping with the very real problems of lack of education, AIDS, STDs, abuse, sex-trafficking, gender inequalities, poverty and exploitation on a local, national and international level.

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About the Author

Michele Leight is a writer, artist and filmm aker, and the founder of www.ashraya-ny.org, a New York City website focused on youth, risky behavior, health education and preparedness against predators. She lives and works in New York City.

Product Details

• Paperback: 230 pages
• Publisher: BookSurge Publishing (December 8, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1419646362
• ISBN-13: 978-1419646362
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,262,103 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Medical Crisis Concern, October 22, 2007

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Daniel H. Lavezzo (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Harvest of Innocence (Paperback)

Anyone wanting to make sense out of the cruelty perpetrated by both man and nature can take a recording device, interview strangers and friends, and put a range of experiences and opinions in an ordered perspective to understand the problems of diseases such as aids and hepatitis C. With a passionate coherence and the rhythmic writing of obvious concern, Michele Leight, in Harvest of Innocence uses research and viewpoint to show the inability and/ or unwillingness of global governmental, medical, and social institutions to help health systems reach deep into their societies to protect their young. She unravels strands from the knotted dynamic of cause expansion of and solution impediments to the aids crisis. Some of the impediments are technological: difficulties in efficient blood supply screening, and the delay between contraction and accurate testing for HIV. Many of the causes of these diseases's enormous global growth are the lack of medical institutions available for majority populations in many agrarian and authoritarian countries without resources as well as poor medical prison treatment in the democratic, industrialized countries with resources. Many other causes of increased reckless behavior are growing meth use, the sharing of nasal straws for cocaine, the lack of blood tests in many countries before marriage, men forced to look for work in cities who return infected to their village spouses, worldwide prostitution, and the predatory trafficking of children for sexual purposes. Her concern presents a maze of problems that face efforts to slow down aids and hepatitis C or, for that matter, any of many voracious and ravaging diseases. I recommend this book to anyone who shares her concern.

5.0 out of 5 stars Share with all your loved ones, March 2, 2007

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Ily in New Orleans - See all my reviews

This review is from: Harvest of Innocence (Paperback)

Each story introduces the reader to characters that can be our friend, neighbor, or family member and familiarizes you with very real and pertinent issues of AIDS, STD's, Virus's, without the melodrama that so often accompanies the more sensational media coverage. Ms. Leight's empathy and hopefulness comes through on each page and fills the reader with a sense of purpose. We can make a difference in the fight against diseases that each day claim the lives and quality of life of so many. One good first step is to share this book and its valuable information with people you care about!

5.0 out of 5 stars Compassionate urgency about major health and cultural issues, February 21, 2007

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Carter B. Horsley "synthesist" (New York, New York USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Harvest of Innocence (Paperback)

"Harvest of Innocence" is a collection of gripping and stirring true accounts of people coping with risky behavior that is passionate and sobering. It looks at a lot of difficult issues about healthcare, AIDs, cultural issues and women's rights and argues effectively for early education about them. The stories it relates are cogent and searing and they are told with compassion and sophistication that will be compelling reading for young and old alike.