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1) Make your mark, make a difference: a kid's guide to standing up for people, animals, and the planet
Author
Publisher
Beyond Words
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Kids today are more aware than ever of the issues that impact people, animals, and the planet, but getting involved can be an overwhelming prospect. Make Your Mark, Make a Difference: A Kid's Guide to Standing Up for People, Animals, and the Planet provides middle grade readers with tools to help them become informed and effective activists with an approach that offers hope and perspective. From Black Lives Matter to climate change, the book leads...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Populist rage, ideological fracture, economic and technological shocks, war, and an international system studded with catastrophic risk���the early decades of the twenty-first century may be the most revolutionary period in modern history. But it is not the first. Humans have lived, and thrived, through more than one great realignment. What are these revolutions, and how can they help us to understand our fraught world? In this major work,...
Author
Publisher
Zonderkidz
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Encourage children to use their voices, talents, and intelligence to help the world and raise awareness of girls and all the amazing things they do! An inspiration for readers of all ages, Girls of the World: Doing More Than Ever Before calls attention to the truth that it���s never too soon to become aware of and speak up about things that are important to you. Now is the perfect time for girls to show the world just who they are and what...
Author
Publisher
The MIT Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A fascinating look at collaboration: the evolution of human cooperative behavior and how it has allowed cultures to develop and drive social change"--
"A blueprint for a better future that offers a unified theory of human behavior, culture, and society. Playing on the phrase a 'theory of everything' from physics, Michael Muthukrishna’s ambitious, original, and deeply hopeful book A Theory of Everyone draws on the most recent research from across...
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Updated to include a new chapter about the influence of social media and the Internet—the 20th anniversary edition of Bowling Alone remains a seminal work of social analysis, and its examination of what happened to our sense of community remains more relevant than ever in today’s fractured America. Twenty years, ago, Robert D. Putnam made a seemingly simple observation: once we bowled in leagues, usually after work; but no longer. This seemingly...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
"Lenny Steinhorn presents compelling evidence that Boomers significantly shaped—and improved—their times. This is a counterintuitive examination of a generation that is far more complex and far more influential than is commonly believed." and#x2014;Frank Senso, former CNN Washington bureau chief While the Greatest Generation deserves our praise for surviving the Depression and fighting in World War II, the Baby Boomers, this book argues, are in...
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