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Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"Meet twenty-one women throughout history who broke fashion and norms to do something groundbreaking in this unique middle-grade collection that celebrates trailblazers and troublemakers. Girls and women have historically been denied access to work, been blocked from the arts, refused the opportunity to lead and fight, and much more, simply because of their gender. From Hatshepsut to Joan of Arc to Frida Kahlo, Troublemakers in Trousers highlights...
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Series
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A manifesto exploding what we think we know about disability, and arguing that disabled people are the real experts when it comes to technology and disability. When bioethicist and professor Ashley Shew became a self-described “hard-of-hearing chemobrained amputee with Crohn’s disease and tinnitus,” there was no returning to “normal.” Suddenly well-meaning people called her an “inspiration” while grocery shopping or viewed her as a...
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
College presidents and deans of admission have opened their doors--and their coffers--to support a more diverse student body. But is it enough just to let them in? In The Privileged Poor, Anthony Jack reveals that the struggles of less privileged students continue long after they've arrived on campus. In their first weeks they quickly learn that admission does not mean acceptance. In this bracing and necessary book, Jack documents how university policies...
Author
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
One of our leading art critics and writers, Martin Gayford, recounts his travels and meetings with the worlds greatest artists. In the course of a career thinking and writing about art, critic Martin Gayford has traveled all over the world both to see works of art and to meet artists. Gayfords journeys, often to fairly inaccessible places, involve frustrations and complications, but also serendipitous encounters and outcomes, which he makes as much...
51) Survival lessons
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Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Survival Lessons provides a road map of how to reclaim your life from this day forward, with ways to reenvision everything—from relationships with friends and family to the way you see yourself. As Alice Hoffman says, “In many ways I wrote Survival Lessons to remind myself of the beauty of life, something that’s all too easy to overlook during the crisis of illness or loss. I forgot that our lives are made up of equal parts of sorrow and joy,...
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Language
English
Description
Interweaving deep historical analysis with gripping firsthand reporting on both victims and perpetrators of violence, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist charts the return of the American cycle of racial progress and white backlash and how the federal government has failed to intervene.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “American Whitelash is indispensable. Really. It is.” — Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist Pulitzer Prize–winning...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"A timely, provocative, necessary look at how identity politics has come to dominate college campuses and higher education in America at the expense of a more essential commitment to equality. Thirty years after the culture wars, identity politics is now the norm on college campuses--and it hasn't been an unalloyed good for our education system or the country. Though the civil rights movement, feminism, and gay pride led to profoundly positive social...
58) Race at the top: Asian Americans and Whites in pursuit of the American dream in suburban schools
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The suburbs hold a privileged place in our cultural landscape not just for their wide, manicured lawns and quiet streets, but often for their high-quality schools. These elite enclaves are also historically white, and they have allowed many white Americans to safeguard their privilege by using their kids' public school educations to secure places at top colleges. But nonwhite parents also see the advantages to be had by sending their kids to those...
Author
Series
Kids have feelings too volume FE 3857
Publisher
Fearon Teacher Aids
Pub. Date
[1996]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young boy describes his feelings of fear, guilt, and anger when his parents break up.
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