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82) Make your mark, make a difference: a kid's guide to standing up for people, animals, and the planet
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2024.
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"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...
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2015.
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"The prominent economist and president of the American Enterprise Institute--the leading intellectual think tank on the right--offers a bold new vision for conservatism as a movement for social and economic justice. In The Conservative Heart, Arthur C. Brooks contends that after years of focusing on economic growth and traditional social values, it is time for a new kind of conservatism--one that helps the vulnerable without mortgaging our children's...
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[2021]
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"Juliette and Warner fought hard to take down the Reestablishment once and for all. Life in the aftermath isn't easy, as they and their friends at the Sanctuary work with their limited resources to stabilize the world. Warner has his sights set on more than just politics. Since he proposed to Juliette two weeks ago, he's been eager to finally marry her, the person he loves more than anything and has endured so much to be with. But with so much chaos...
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2019.
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In We Are Citizens readers will explore what being a good citizen means at home, at school, and in the world. Features include critical-thinking questions; a civics in action feature that encourages kids to put what they've learned into practice; a civics checklist; glossary; and more.
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2022.
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In this revelatory, unnerving, and ultimately hopeful book, Bremmer details how domestic and international conflicts leave us unprepared for a trio of looming crises—global health emergencies, transformative climate change, and the AI revolution. Today, Americans cannot reach consensus on any significant political issue, and US and Chinese leaders behave as if they’re locked in a new Cold War. We are squandering opportunities to meet the challenges...
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[2018]
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So the presidential election of 2016 happened. You cried, you ranted, you marched. But how do you stay engaged for the long term? How do you keep fighting while also continuing your real life? How do you get involved when you feel far from the action? How do you stay vigilant without being furious? All. The. Time. Needing to take action after the election, Emma Gray, Executive Women's Editor at HuffPost, put on her journalist hat and set out to get...
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[2018]
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We're not good at living with tension. It's uncomfortable. It feels unsafe. The moment a friend, spouse, business, or political movement disagrees with us, we flee to the safety of like-minded thinkers, and dehumanize and attack anyone who thinks differently. No one wins. And if someone dares question our particular stance, we demonize them. This is killing us-families, friendships, civility, and discourse. It kills our chance to hear and be heard....
92) EarthShift
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Pub. Date
2002
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Through Julie Armstrong and her family, we learn of the dramatic planetary and social changes that occur before, during and after the Shift of the Ages. We live with them as Julie uses her mystical abilities to guide her loved ones through their physical and emotional fears so that they may learn to trust a Higher Source.
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2010, 2009
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They survived the EarthShift, and all but one ascended to the fifth dimension. Since then, Julie and Dave Armstrong's family has worked hard on their own growth and the spirituality of those left behind in the third dimension; the struggling souls who must shed their fears and negativity in order to transition. The vibrations of the next consciousness shift are building as the family prepares for its most crucial role. Their mission--and they have...
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2005.
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Includes information on Afghanistan, Africa, animals, Asia, Australia, Bangladesh, beaches, bicycles, Brazil, cars, cellphones, children, China, climate change, computers, developing countries, discrimination, diseases, Egypt, Ethiopia, fair-trade products, farming, food, France, gardening, HIV/AIDS, homeless, housing, India, Internet, Japan, Kenya, Mozambique, Nepal, Pakistan, peace, poverty, recycling, schools, South Africa, Sudan, toxins, travel,...
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2019.
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The author examines the "gilded age" of the twenty-first century, where the rich and powerful fight for equality and justice any way they can - except ways that threaten the social order and their position atop it. The affluent rebrand themselves as saviors of the poor and lavishly reward "thought leaders" who redefine "change" in winner-friendly ways, seeking to do more good, but never less harm. The author recounts the limousine confessions of a...
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2020.
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"The National Road is a collection of essays about American places, each dealing with contentious matters: religion, politics, sex, race, poverty, loss and the stubborn persistence of national pride, despite abundant reasons for cynicism. An important question lies at the heart of this collection: what does it mean to "belong" in America in the midst of an era when rootedness to a particular piece of ground means less than at any time during our history?...
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[2021]
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"Millions of Americans have marched to fight inequality and to bring about social change. These gatherings have shined a light on important issues and resulted in new laws. Discover some of the most famous marches in U.S. history--and encourages readers to stand up for the things they believe in"--