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Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Presents an analysis of the new sexual landscape faced by girls in today's high schools and colleges, revealing hidden truths, hard lessons, and important possibilities in girls' modern-world sex lives.
Author
Publisher
HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A paradigm-shifting book from Aboriginal scholar Tyson Yunkaporta, who brings a crucial Indigenous perspective to history, education, money, power, and sustainability--and offers a new template for living"--
With the world in constant crisis, Yunkaporta shows us what can be gained by viewing global system through the lens of indigenous knowledge. By emphasizing community and connection over individualism and fragmentation-- and by cultivating respect...
Author
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Business visionary and bestselling author David Weinberger shows how the digital revolution is radically changing the way we make sense of our lives.
Human beings are information omnivores: we are constantly collecting, labeling, and organizing data. But today, the shift from the physical to the digital is mixing, burning, and ripping our lives apart. In the past, everything had its one place, the physical world demanded it, but now everything has...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
The immense cataclysm of World War II devastated the Baltic republics of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, sending many of their inhabitants to the ends of the earth. Part history, part autobiography, Walking Since Daybreak tells the tragic story of the Baltic nations before, during, and after the war. Personal stories of the survival or destruction of Modris Eksteins's family members, lend an intimate dimension to this vast narrative of those who have...
Author
Publisher
Green Candy Press
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
In Marijuana Cooking: Good Medicine Made Easy, authors Bliss Cameron and Veronica Green guide would-be chefs through the process of making their own tasty and healthy home-remedies using marijuana. Step-by-step instructions and photographs carefully document the cooking techniques described, making this the most user-friendly marijuana cookbook available. Increasing awareness of the therapeutic properties of marijuana--to ease tension in the body,...
66) Volunteering
Author
Series
Publisher
Jump!
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"In this book, readers will learn about one of the important duties of active citizens. Why should we volunteer? What are organizations you can support? Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text will engage young readers as they learn more. Compelling questions encourage further inquiry"--
Author
Publisher
Distributed in the U.S. by Publishers Group West
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
This book rips the lid off the campaign to discredit scientists, confuse journalists, and deny climate change. The tactics have been slick, but PR expert James Hoggan and investigative journalist Richard Littlemore have compiled a readable, accessible guidebook through the muck. Beginning with leaked memos from the coal industry, the oil industry and the tobacco-sponsored lie-about-science industry, the authors expose the plans to "debunk" global...
Author
Publisher
Abrams
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"You swab your cheek or spit in a vial, then send it away to a lab somewhere. Weeks later you get a report that might tell you where your ancestors came from or if you carry certain genetic risks. Or the report could reveal long-buried family secrets and upend your entire sense of identity. Soon a lark becomes an obsession, a relentless drive to find answers to questions at the core of your being, like "Who am I?" and "Where did I come from?" Welcome...
69) Farmers help
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Simple text and full-color photographs describe a farmer's tools, workplace, and role in the community"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Al Alvarez touched down in Las Vegas one hot day in 1981, a dedicated amateur poker player but a stranger to the town and its crazy ways. For three mesmerizing weeks he witnessed some of the monster high-stakes games that could only have happened in Vegas and talked to the extraordinary characters who dominated them-road gamblers and local professionals who won and lost fortunes on a regular basis.
Set over the course of one tournament, The Biggest...
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Introduces readers to the media literacy skills needed to evaluate and understand the difference between fact and opinion in media. Includes a hands-on activity related to media literacy"--
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"New York. Athens. Boston. Tohoku. Newtown. Oslo. West. Wenzhou. New Orleans. Dhaka. Moore. Nairobi. These communities are just a few among the many that have been hit hard by one of the "wicked problems" of today's world: natural catastrophe, disease and contagion, systems or social collapse. If you haven't been directly touched by one of these disruptions yourself, you are sure to have been affected by them in some way. They harm people, destabilize...
Author
Publisher
Conari Press
Pub. Date
c1992
Language
English
Description
Badass Victorian Women
Enjoy a fascinating and sometimes humorous glimpse into the lives of over one hundred, 19th-century Victorian era American women who refused to whittle themselves down to the Victorian model of proper womanhood. Included in Wild Women are 50-black-and-white photos from the era.
During the Victorian era, a woman's pedestal was her prison.
But, scores of nineteenth-century American women chose to live life on their terms. In this...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
[1989], c1934
Language
English
Description
A remarkable introduction to cultural studies, Patterns of Culture made history in exploring the role of culture in shaping our lives. In it, the renowned anthropologist Ruth Benedict offers an in-depth look at three societies-the Zuñi of the southwestern United States, the Kwakiutl of western Canada, and the Dobuans of Melanesia-and demonstrates the diversity of behaviors in them.
Benedict's groundbreaking study shows that a unique configuration...
78) Go back to where you came from: the backlash against immigration and the fate of western democracy
Author
Publisher
Nation Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the new political climate in Europe and the United States where xenophobia and racism have voted Britain out of the EU and catapulted Donald Trump to the presidency.
Opportunistic politicians have exploited the economic crisis, terrorist attacks, and an unprecedented influx of refugees to bring hateful and reactionary views from the margins of political discourse into the mainstream. Openly xenophobic ideas are becoming state policy. How...
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press, a capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Introduces readers to the concept of privacy, especially related to the Internet and online safety, such as creating a safe password. Includes a hands-on activity related to media literacy"--
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