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IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 1
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Stories of Cooperation in the Social Emotional Library series presents real life, historical, and modern stories that celebrate cooperation as displayed in everyday life. Through the collection of five separate stories, thought-provoking issues and questions, as well as hands-on activities, encourage the development of critical life skills, empathy, and social emotional growth.
2) World brain
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'World Brain' is an article written by H. G. Wells and first contributed to the new 'Encyclopédie Française' in 1937. It explores the idea of a 'permanent world encyclopaedia' that would contain 'the whole human memory' and that would be 'a world synthesis of bibliography and documentation with the indexed archives of the world.' Fascinating and arguably prophetic reading, 'World Brain' will appeal to fans of any of Wells' work. Includes a specially...
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"This book is a call to action for addressing problems like climate change, clean energy, and healthcare access on a grand scale, leveraging an ecosystem of public/government resources and private sector, technology-focused organizations. Chapters are framed around cases and profiles from over 20 ventures across technology, healthcare, climate, and education. The authors construct a model for impact, on that starts with rebuilding trust among society,...
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A compelling argument for solving the global climate crisis through local partnerships and experimentation. Global climate diplomacy-from the Kyoto Protocol to the Paris Agreement-is not working. Despite decades of sustained negotiations by world leaders, the climate crisis continues to worsen. The solution is within our grasp-but we will not achieve it through top-down global treaties or grand bargains among nations.Charles Sabel and David Victor...
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Billy and Rose volume 02
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
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"Billy and Rose are back--and prone to serious discussion--in four charming stories about the ups and downs of negotiating friendship. The diligent sheep and the mellow pig who debuted in Billy and Rose: Forever Friends are back--and they have strong opinions! Even best friends can disagree, whether the topic is books (tall blue books versus fat red ones), rain (will it or won't it?), the perils of a bad hair day (should Rose concur that Billy is...
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Baby-sitters little sister. Main series volume 80
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IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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490L
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Karen and her friends decide to get a tree for a neighbor but they aren't cooperating very well.
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"A dynamic historian revisits the workers' internationals, whose scope and significance are commonly overlooked. In current debates about globalization, open and borderless elites are often set in opposition to the immobile and protectionist working classes. This view obscures a major historical fact: for around a century-from the 1860s to the 1970s-worker movements were at the cutting edge of internationalism. The creation in London of the International...
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The United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on December 10, 1948 in the midst of an especially bitter phase of the Cold War. Many people contributed to this remarkable achievement, but most observers believe that the UN Commission on Human Rights, which drafted the Declaration, would not have succeeded in reaching agreement without the leadership of the Commissionʹs chair: Eleanor Roosevelt. ER herself regarded...
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For more than thirty years, humankind has known how to grow enough food to end chronic hunger worldwide. Yet while the "Green Revolution" succeeded in South America and Asia, it never got to Africa. More than 9 million people die of hunger, malnutrition, and related diseases every year--most of them in Africa and most of them children. More die of hunger in Africa than from AIDS and malaria combined. Now, an impending global food crisis threatens...
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World-renowned futurist Hazel Henderson extends her twenty-five years of work in economics to examine the havoc the current economic system is creating at the global level. Markets are now spreading worldwide-a spread which is often equated with the hope of democracy spreading along with it. But markets still run on old textbook models that ignore social and environmental costs-leading to a new kind of warfare: global economic warfare.
Building a...
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Looks at how China, in its ascendance, has become the world's worst polluting superpower, creating a devastating environmental impact worldwide akin to that of England and the U.S. during the Industrial Revolution. Simons combines in-depth reporting with wide-ranging interviews, scientific research, and travel to some of the beautiful places on earth.
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"On the worldwide black market, the third most profitable commodity after illegal weapons and drugs is human flesh: women and girls from all over Eastern Europe, sold for sex by the networks of organized crime that became entrenched in the aftermath of the fall of communism. "Natasha" is what they're called in Israel and in Turkey, whether they're actually from Russia, Moldova, the Czech Republic, Romania, or Ukraine, and whatever their real names...
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In February of 2017, Amnesty International released their Annual Report for 2016 to 2017, concluding that the "us versus them" rhetoric increasingly employed by politicians is endangering human rights the world over. Renowned UN prosecutor and human rights scholar Payam Akhavan has encountered the grim realities of contemporary genocide throughout his life and career. He argues that deceptive utopias, political cynicism, and public apathy have given...
19) Triple cross
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Moscow's Organized Crime Bureau chief Dimitri Danilov teams up with William Cowley, head of the FBI's Russian desk, in the hopes of stoping the Mafias of the United States, Russia, and Itialy from forming themselves into an organized-crime conglomerate with the power to rule the world.
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