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Publisher
Blackbirch Press
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Profiles a woman who is remembered for her intellectual accomplishments, belief in womens' rights, and support of her husband, John, who became the second president of the United States.
Author
Publisher
Mango Media
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Michelle Travis, a lawyer and a law professor who has spent years pressing legal solutions to advance womens rights, brings us Dads for Daughters. This book will be the call to action for fathers to launch a new phase of the gender equality revolution. Together, dads of daughters can help create the world that all dads envision for their daughters.
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Publisher
Sterling Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Gloria Steinem started a movement that changed our world. This picture-book biography of the pioneering feminist brings the message of equality to a new generation. Using gorgeous watercolor illustrations, this biography of Gloria Steinem introduces young readers to the leader of the womens liberation movement. Following her from childhood through her political awakening and beyond, Glorias Voice explains Steinems motivations and beliefs, as well...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
This compelling historical novel spans the early and very formative years of feminist and womens health activist Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, as she struggles to find her way amidst the harsh realities of poverty. Margaret was determined to get out. She didnt want to clean the dirty dishes and soiled diapers that piled up day in and day out in her large familys small home. She didnt want to disappoint her ailing mother, who cared...
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Language
English
Description
In User Friendly, Cliff Kuang and Robert Fabricant reveal the untold story of a paradigm that quietly rules our modern lives: the assumption that machines should anticipate what we need. Spanning over a century of sweeping changes, from womens rights to the Great Depression to World War II to the rise of the digital era, this book unpacks the ways in which the world has beenand continues to beremade according to the principles of the once-obscure...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"In the days before Homeira Qaderi gave birth to her son, Siawash, the road to the hospital in Kabul would often be barricaded because of the frequent suicide explosions. With the city and the military on edge, it was not uncommon for an armed soldier to point his gun at the pregnant womans bulging stomach, terrified that she was hiding a bomb. Frightened and in pain, she was once forced to make her way on foot. Propelled by the love she held for...
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Language
English
Description
Shows listeners moments throughout the nation's history, including the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Civil Rights movements, to guide them in understanding American politics today.
Pulitzer Prizewinning author Jon Meacham helps us understand the present moment in American politics and life by looking back at critical times in our history when hope overcame division and fear. Our current climate of partisan fury is not new, and in The Soul of...
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English
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Steve Inskeep tells the riveting story of John and Jessie Frémont, the husband and wife team who in the 1800s were instrumental in the westward expansion of the United States, and thus became America's first great political couple. John C. Frémont, one of the United Statess leading explorers of the nineteenth century, was relatively unknown in 1842, when he commanded the first of his expeditions to the uncharted West. But in only a few years, he...
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