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Basic Books
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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A sociologist explores why “green cities” won’t fix everything—and urges us to celebrate urban life as it is
Everywhere you look, cities are getting greener. The general assumption is clear: if something is unhealthy or bad about urban life today, then nature holds the cure. However, argues sociologist Des Fitzgerald, green spaces are not the panacea that people think.
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Everywhere you look, cities are getting greener. The general assumption is clear: if something is unhealthy or bad about urban life today, then nature holds the cure. However, argues sociologist Des Fitzgerald, green spaces are not the panacea that people think.
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Publisher
Elsevier Science
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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Genie: A Psycholinguistic Study of a Modern-Day "Wild Child reports on the linguistic research carried out through studying and working with Genie, a deprived and isolated, to an unprecedented degree, girl who was not discovered until she was an adolescent. An inhuman childhood had prevented Genie from learning language, and she knew little about the world in any respect save abuse, neglect, isolation, and deprivation. This book is organized into...
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ABRAMS
Pub. Date
2023
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
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Español
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Jane Addams Children's Book Award Winner
A Pura Belpré Illustrator Honor Book
A Robert F. Sibert Honor Book
STARRED REVIEW *"Masterfully combines text and folk-inspired art to add an important piece to the mosaic of U.S. civil rights history." ―Kirkus Reviews
Seven years before Brown v. Board of Education, the Mendez family fought to end segregation in California schools.
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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A fresh and entertaining perspective on materials science involving the craftspeople who have built their careers around working with materials such as clay, stone, steel and wool.
From atomic structures to theories about magnetic forces, scientific progress has given us a good grasp on the properties of many different materials. However, most scientists cannot measure the temperature of steel just by looking at it, or sculpt stone into...
From atomic structures to theories about magnetic forces, scientific progress has given us a good grasp on the properties of many different materials. However, most scientists cannot measure the temperature of steel just by looking at it, or sculpt stone into...
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Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
This program is read by the authors, hosts of the podcast Dolls of Our Lives.
Which American Girl are you?
Are you a Molly (a patriotic overachiever with a flair for drama)? Felicity (the original horse girl)? Kirsten (a cottagecore fan who seems immune to cholera), Samantha (a savior complex in a sailor suit), or Josefina (who dealt with grief by befriending a baby goat)? Have you ever wondered how Britney Spears or Michelle
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Bearport Publishing
Language
English
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Emotions are like a rainbow—there is a color for every one we feel. And when the stressed feeling starts to take over the rainbow, it's time for The White Book! Simple activities, tips, and tricks help young readers whose stressed white shines brightest in the rainbows of their colorful minds. They can turn the pages from front to back or back to front. They can use every single page or open the book to just one random page. Soon, the other...
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Publisher
Bearport Publishing
Language
English
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Emotions are like a rainbow—there is a color for every one we feel. And when the sad feeling starts to take over the rainbow, it's time for The Blue Book! Simple activities, tips, and tricks help young readers whose sad blue shines brightest in the rainbows of their colorful minds. They can turn the pages from front to back or back to front. They can use every single page or open the book to just one random page. Soon, the other colors of their...
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
A gripping account of racial justice activists who confronted violent white supremacists in Charlottesville, VA, and stirred the nation
On August 11 and 12, 2017, armed neo-Nazi demonstrators descended on the University of Virginia campus and downtown Charlottesville. When they assaulted antiracist counterprotesters, the police failed to intervene, and events culminated in the murder of counterprotestor Heather Heyer.
In this book, Emmy-nominated...
On August 11 and 12, 2017, armed neo-Nazi demonstrators descended on the University of Virginia campus and downtown Charlottesville. When they assaulted antiracist counterprotesters, the police failed to intervene, and events culminated in the murder of counterprotestor Heather Heyer.
In this book, Emmy-nominated...
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Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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NOW A NEW YORK TIMES AND A USA TODAY BESTSELLER
FINALIST, LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE
"I am an eighties baby who grew to hate school. I never fully understood why. Until now. Until Bettina Love unapologetically and painstakingly chronicled the last forty years of education 'reform' in this landmark book. I hated school because it warred on me. I hated school because I loved to dream."
—Ibram
31) Setting Goals
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Publisher
Lerner Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Guide young readers to try new things and learn new skills, habits that are important for success and happiness. Pairs with the fiction title Paco Tries.
Author
Publisher
ABRAMS
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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This inclusive collection of 100 words introduces young children to complex conceptsâfrom managing big feelings to celebrating our differences
Adopting the same format and approach as the popular The Little Book of Joy, this pocket-sized book features a collection of words to teach children about the world we live in and how to navigate their way through it. Each page offers a word and age-appropriate definition, along with...
Adopting the same format and approach as the popular The Little Book of Joy, this pocket-sized book features a collection of words to teach children about the world we live in and how to navigate their way through it. Each page offers a word and age-appropriate definition, along with...
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Description
Modern feminism increasingly benefits only a small class of professional women. There is no reason to sacrifice everyone else's happiness for their sake.
Mary Harrington shows that women's liberation was less the result of moral progress than an effect of the material consequences of the Industrial Revolution. We've now left the industrial era for the digital age, in which technology is liberating us from natural limits and embodied...
Mary Harrington shows that women's liberation was less the result of moral progress than an effect of the material consequences of the Industrial Revolution. We've now left the industrial era for the digital age, in which technology is liberating us from natural limits and embodied...
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Series
Publisher
ABRAMS
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Inspired by her popular Wild Thing podcast, journalist Laura Krantz incorporates the scientific method and her journalistic skills to determine if aliens might exist
How likely is it that humans arenât alone in the universe?
Reports of strange lights, UFO sightings, and alien encounters aboundâand some (like recent accounts from US Navy pilots) even sound credible. And in recent years, armed with state-of-the-art...
How likely is it that humans arenât alone in the universe?
Reports of strange lights, UFO sightings, and alien encounters aboundâand some (like recent accounts from US Navy pilots) even sound credible. And in recent years, armed with state-of-the-art...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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“An illuminating and highly readable narrative about the role of women at the center of imperial Rome—fascinating and important.” —Lesley Adkins, author of Handbook to Life in Ancient Rome
Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero—these are the names history associates with the early Roman Empire. Yet, not a single one of these emperors was the blood son of his predecessor....
Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero—these are the names history associates with the early Roman Empire. Yet, not a single one of these emperors was the blood son of his predecessor....
Author
Publisher
House of Anansi Press Inc
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Description
An intimate look at one of culture's most enduring taboos: public sex.
Park Cruising takes a long look at the men who cruise for sex in urban parks. Human rights lawyer Marcus McCann uses park cruising as a point of departure for discussions of consent, empathy, public health, municipal planning, and our relationship to strangers. Prompted by his work opposing a police sting in a suburban park, McCann's ruminations go beyond
...37) The Voice That Won the Vote: How One Woman's Words Made History: How One Woman's Words Made History
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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Description
In August of 1920, women's suffrage in America came down to the vote in Tennessee. If the Tennessee legislature approved the 19th amendment it would be ratified, giving all American women the right to vote. The historic moment came down to a single vote and the voter who tipped the scale toward equality did so because of a powerful letter his mother, Febb Burn, had written him urging him to "Vote for suffrage and don't forget to be a good boy." The...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Description
From Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson of the award–winning hip-hop group the Roots, comes this vibrant book commemorating the legacy of television's Soul Train.
Foreword by Gladys Knight
Preface by Nick Cannon
Soul Train: The Music, Dance, and Style of a Generation celebrates the television show that was a two-decade cultural phenomenon from the '70s through the '90s, launching the careers of artists such...
Foreword by Gladys Knight
Preface by Nick Cannon
Soul Train: The Music, Dance, and Style of a Generation celebrates the television show that was a two-decade cultural phenomenon from the '70s through the '90s, launching the careers of artists such...
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Description
An unflinching look at the challenges and misunderstandings mixed-race people face in family spaces and intimate relationships across their varying cultural backgrounds
In this emotionally powerful and intellectually provocative blend of memoir, cultural criticism, and theory, scholar and essayist Samira Mehta reflects on many facets of being multiracial.
Born to a white American and a South Asian immigrant, Mehta grew up feeling more...
In this emotionally powerful and intellectually provocative blend of memoir, cultural criticism, and theory, scholar and essayist Samira Mehta reflects on many facets of being multiracial.
Born to a white American and a South Asian immigrant, Mehta grew up feeling more...
40) Leading Others
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Series
Publisher
Lerner Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Description
Model leadership behavior to emergent readers by showing how to share, how to listen, how to care, and how to give. Pairs with the fiction title Dev Makes a Card.
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