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Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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A revelatory account of poverty in America so deep that we, as a country, don’t think it exists. Jessica Compton’s family of four would have no cash income unless she donated plasma twice a week at her local donation center in Tennessee. Modonna Harris and her teenage daughter Brianna in Chicago often have no food but spoiled milk on weekends. After two decades of brilliant research on American poverty, Kathryn Edin noticed something she hadn’t...
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English
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With the wisdom, humor, curiosity, and sharp insights that have brought millions of readers to his New York Times column and his previous bestsellers, David Brooks has consistently illuminated our daily lives in surprising and original ways. In The Social Animal, he explored the neuroscience of human connection and how we can flourish together. Now, in The Road to Character, he focuses on the deeper values that should inform our lives. Responding...
3) Bunny
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Language
English
Description
"Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England's Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort--a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other 'Bunny,' and are often found entangled in a group hug so tight they become one. But everything...
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Publisher
aha! Process Inc
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
xii, 161 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
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Having witnessed newfound freedom for girls and women during the past two decades, researchers and educators are now turning their attention to the lack of simultaneous growth and autonomy among boys and men. Dr. Paul Slocumb has made this real-time crisis his focus, turning his insight on boys and their pain. He creates a riveting portrait of the emotional abyss that engulfs many of our male children. Particularly powerful are the book's six true...
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English
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"A how-to in becoming more understanding and considerate of others, and to find joy that comes from being seen."
As David Brooks observes, “There is one skill that lies at the heart of any healthy person, family, school, community organization, or society: the ability to see someone else deeply and make them feel seen—to accurately know another person, to let them feel valued, heard, and understood.”
And yet we humans don’t do this well....
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Publisher
Torrey House Press
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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San Juan County, Utah, contains some of the most spectacular landscapes in the world, rich in natural wonders and Indigenous culture and history. But it's also long been plagued with racism, bitterness, and politics as twisted as the beckoning canyons. In 2017, en route to the Valley of the Gods with his spouse, a Colorado man closed the gate on a corral. Two weeks later, the couple was facing felony charges. Award–winning journalist Jonathan P....
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"A stunning debut novel ... about a Nigerian family living in Utah and their uncomfortable assimilation to American life. Living in small-town Utah has always been an uneasy fit for Tunde Akinola's family, especially for his Nigeria-born parents. Though Tunde speaks English with a Midwestern accent, he can't escape the children who rub his skin and ask why the black won't come off. As he struggles to fit in and find his place in the world, he finds...
Publisher
LearningExpress, LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
This 100-question practice test prepares you for the CLEP Introductory Sociology exam. Use the instant scoring and detailed answer explanations to determine where you're strong and what you can work on improving.
Publisher
LearningExpress, LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
This 100-question practice test prepares you for the CLEP Introductory Sociology exam. Use the instant scoring and detailed answer explanations to determine where you're strong and what you can work on improving.
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Language
English
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From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergarten classes—this is award winning writer Simon Winchester’s brilliant and all-encompassing look at how humans acquire, retain, and pass on information and data, and how technology continues to change our lives and our minds.
With the advent of the internet, any topic we want to know about is instantly available with the touch of a smartphone button....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Two families awaiting the arrival of their adopted infant daughters from Korea meet at the airport. The families lives become interwined after the Donaldsons, a young American couple invite the Yazdan's, Maryam, her son and his Iranian American wife to an arrival party, which becomes an annual event. Maryam, who came to this country thirty-five years earlier, feels her values threatened when she is courted by a newly widowed Donaldson. A penetrating...
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Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
214 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
A toxic ideology of extreme competition and individualism has come to dominate our world. It misrepresents human nature, destroying hope and common purpose. Only a positive vision can replace it, a new story that re-engages people in politics and lights a path to a better future. George Monbiot shows how new findings in psychology, neuroscience and evolutionary biology cast human nature in a radically different light: as the supreme altruists and...
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Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xxii, 280 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Leading a narrative journey from the site of the Charlottesville riots to the boardrooms of Facebook, considering such diverse topics as zombies, neuroscience, and honeybees, psychologist and emotion regulation specialist Cavanagh leaves no stone unturned in her quest to understand how social technology is reshaping the way people socialize.
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English
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"Can reading a book make you more rational? Can it help us understand why there is so much irrationality in the world? ... Today humanity is reaching new heights of scientific understanding--and also appears to be losing its mind. How can a species that developed vaccines for COVID-19 in less than a year produce so much fake news, medical quackery, and conspiracy theorizing? Pinker rejects the cynical clich�e that humans are simply irrational--cavemen...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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Follows the Ganguli family through its journey from Calcutta to Cambridge to the Boston suburbs. Ashima and Ashoke Ganguli arrive in America at the end of the 1960s, shortly after their arranged marriage in Calcutta, in order for Ashoke to finish his engineering degree at MIT. Ashoke is forward-thinking, ready to enter into American culture if not fully at least with an open mind. His young bride is far less malleable. Isolated, desperately missing...
17) The raft
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The surviving men and women of a 1973 social experiment conducted by Santiago Genov�es in which they sailed together on a raft across the Atlantic, reunite and discuss the experience.
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Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
210 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Two spiritual prose poems precede more than twenty essays in which the author argues for the diversification of local economies, elucidates how art participates in our lives, and urges that humanity collectively seek harmony between human economy and nature. Ranging from America’s insatiable consumerism and household economies to literary subjects and America’s attitude toward waste, here Berry gracefully navigates from one topic to the next....
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Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
vii, 306 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Dunn argues in A Natural History of the Future, nature has its own set of rules, and no amount of human tampering can rewrite them. We might think that we can meet the challenges of global warming by manipulating nature with our technology--and even that we can live without non-human life--but as Dunn shows, we can't. We not only rely on the natural world for food, but we need its microbes to carry out the most basic bodily functions. Surviving or...
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