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For Maya, a young widow trying to escape her complicated past, teaching school in a secluded mountain village offers a promise of peace. Here she feels close to the calm heart of the land, where lush foothills meet clear skies. In the evenings she teaches a peasant girl, Charu, to write so she can correspond with her lover in secret. As Maya finds out, however, no refuge is remote enough to keep out the modern world, or her own past. The community...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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The companion to Chelsea Clinton & Alexandra Boiger's #1 New York Times bestseller, She Persisted. Perfect for tiny activists, mini feminists and little kids who are ready to take on the world.
Women around the world have long dreamed big, even when they've been told their dreams didn't matter. They've spoken out, risen up and fought for what's right, even when they've been told to be quiet. Whether in science, the arts,...
Women around the world have long dreamed big, even when they've been told their dreams didn't matter. They've spoken out, risen up and fought for what's right, even when they've been told to be quiet. Whether in science, the arts,...
26) Disruption
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 85 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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Disruption explores a groundbreaking initiative that seeks to eradicate poverty by empowering women on government assistance programs in Colombia, Peru and Brazil to “save their way out of poverty.” The film interweaves women’s testimonies to the transformative power of financial education with the story of Fundación Capital, a group of dynamic activist-economists that believes when you invest in women you change society. As women share how...
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The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2020.
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ix, 1093 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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"Thomas Piketty's bestselling Capital in the Twenty-First Century galvanized global debate about inequality. In this audacious follow-up, Piketty challenges us to revolutionize how we think about politics, ideology, and history. He exposes the ideas that have sustained inequality for the past millennium, reveals why the shallow politics of right and left are failing us today, and outlines the structure of a fairer economic system. Our economy, Piketty...
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English
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"This book offers a unique perspective from a progressive author who supports the ongoing movements for racial and gender equality and justice, but who is concerned about the prevalence of 'cancelling' people, and especially people qho are well-intentioned and who are themselves allied with these movements . . . [and] argues that 'cancellation' is oftentimes counter-productive and destructive of the very values which the 'cancellers' claim to support"--Adapted...
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
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ix, 254 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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"Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming human society fundamentally and profoundly. Three of our most accomplished and deep thinkers come together to explore how AI could affect our relationship with knowledge, impact our worldviews, and change society and politics as profoundly as the ideas of the Enlightenment."--Publisher marketing.
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Social Evolution
Pub. Date
2021.
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190 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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"In this powerful book, Max Borders sets out a complete Decentralist philosophy. It's more than the sum of technologies, he argues. If we reduce 'crypto' to mere trinkets and tokens, we will lose our moorings and submit to authoritarians on the left and right. We must therefore prepare ourselves. Decentralism provides philosophical and practical tools for living and working in an uncertain future."-Back cover.
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English
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""The queen of living history" (Lucy Worsley) returns with an immersive account of how English women sparked a worldwide revolution-from their own kitchens. No single invention epitomizes the Victorian era more than the black cast-iron range. Aware that the twenty-first-century has reduced it to a quaint relic, Ruth Goodman was determined to prove that the hot coal stove provided so much more than morning tea : it might even have kick-started the...
34) Finding Dawn
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 74 min.) : digital, stereo., sound, color
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English
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Dawn Crey. Ramona Wilson. Daleen Kay Bosse. These are just three of the estimated 500 Aboriginal women who have gone missing or been murdered in Canada over the past thirty years. Directed by acclaimed Métis filmmaker Christine Welsh, Finding Dawn is a compelling documentary that puts a human face to this national tragedy. This is an epic journey into the dark heart of Native women’s experience in Canada. From Vancouver’s skid row, where more...
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Counterpoint Press
Pub. Date
2014
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275 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Favorite sons in small-town Kentucky join the National Guard in order to avoid being sent to combat in Vietnam. They are sent anyway, and are part of the casualties who are delivered back to their hometown along with POW Lieutenant Harlan O'Brien. But the overwhelming grief, even as one hero is being celebrated, cripples the town's faith and gives more impact to the way war divides and alienates a society.
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Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
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1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Michael Moore visits a host of nations to learn how the U.S. could improve its own prospects. The creator of Fahrenheit 9/11 and Bowling for Columbine is back with this hilarious and eye-opening call to arms. Turns out the solutions to America's most entrenched problems already exist in the world. They're just waiting to be co-opted.
37) Golden age
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English
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winner: the much-anticipated final volume of her magnificent, best-selling American trilogy, which brings the beloved Langdon family into our present times and beyond. A lot can happen in 100 years, as Jane Smiley has shown to dazzling effect in her astonishing, critically acclaimed Last Hundred Years Trilogy. When Golden Age, its last installment, opens in 1987, the next generation of the Langdon family is facing economic,...
38) The artivist
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Publisher
Kokila
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
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Motivated by the realization of global inequities, a young boy embraces his dual identities as an artist and activist, becoming an "Artivist" to make a difference by using his viral mural as a catalyst for positive change.
39) Empty
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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When, just ten years in the future, oil supplies run out and global warming leads to devastating storms, senior high school classmates Tom, Niki, Gwen, Hector, and Brock realize that the world as they know it is ending and lead the way to a more environmentally-friendly society.
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Publisher
Disney/Jump at the Sun Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 12
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243 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
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English
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Presents the stories of ten African-American men from different eras in American history, organized chronologically to provide a scope from slavery to the modern day.
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