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At the Center of the World in Ethiopia
by S. W. Omamo
As the world lurches seemingly non-stop from one major humanitarian crisis to another, and as development challenges grow in complexity and urgency, this first-person account of leadership at the humanitarian and development frontline could not be more relevant or timely. The setting is Ethiopia from 2018 to 2021. The narrator is a former United Nations agency Representative to Ethiopia who framed...
21982) Youth Work in the Spotlight
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A user-friendly guide to the recommendation that will inspire and motivate many to put youth work in the spotlight and to advocate for its quality and development, from the local to the European level.
Guide to Recommendation CM/Rec(2017)4 of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe to member States on youth work
Young people are involved in youth work throughout their transition from childhood to adulthood. Youth work offers young people...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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In this book, readers will learn about confidence in themselves and others, how and why they feel it, how to best respond to it, and how to communicate these feelings. Social and emotional learning (SEL) concepts support growth mindset throughout, while Try This! and Grow with Goals activities at the end of the book further reinforce the content. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text engage young readers as they learn more about states...
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Discover the keys to accessing supernatural healing, power, provision and protection no matter what's going on around you.
Are you, filled with fear or anxiety about world tensions, or perhaps the coronavirus that is raging across many nations? Despite governments' and society's best attempts to contain and mitigate this deadly plague, it appears unstoppable, continuing to spread rapidly across the globe.
Experts say that even with a temporary reprieve,...
21985) The War for Afghanistan: A Very Brief History: From Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History
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Thomas Barfield is professor of anthropology at Boston University. His books include The Perilous Frontier: Nomadic Empires and China, 221 BC to AD 1757; The Central Asian Arabs of Afghanistan; and Afghanistan: An Atlas of Indigenous Domestic Architecture.
When it invaded Afghanistan in 2001, the United States sought to do something previous foreign powers had never attempted: to create an Afghani state where none existed. More than a decade on,...
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Consuming with a conscience is one of the fastest growing forms of political participation worldwide. Every day we make decisions about how to spend our money and, for the socially conscious, these decisions matter. Political consumers "buy green" for the environment or they "buy pink" to combat breast cancer. They boycott Taco Bell to support migrant workers or Burger King to save the rainforest. But can we overcome the limitations of consumer identity,...
21987) Breaking the Silence
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Breaking the Silence is the story of Latarsha Haughton, founder of Breaking the Silence... Healing the Pain. Latarsha gets candid about the years of abuse she suffered at the hands of family members - most specifically, her biological father. She tells how she transformed the pain of years of sexual trauma and being impregnated by one of her abusers, to discovering her purpose of creating a community where survivors of abuse could come together to...
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An inspiring history of all the women who have taken a seat in Congress!
For the first 128 years of America's history, only men served in the Senate and House of Representatives. All that changed in January 1917 when Jeannette Rankin was sworn in as the first woman elected to Congress. From the women's suffrage movement to the 2018 election, Ilene Cooper highlights influential and diverse female leaders who opened doors for women in politics. Women...
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During the decade that preceded Syria's 2011 uprising and descent into violence, the country was in the midst of another crisis: the mass arrival of Iraqi migrants and a flood of humanitarian aid to handle the refugee emergency. International aid organizations, the media, and diplomats alike praised the Syrian government for keeping open borders and providing a safe haven for Iraqis fleeing the violence in Baghdad and Iraq's southern provinces. Only...
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This book contains all three volumes of, "Little Visits with Great Americans" is a 1905 motivational book by Orison Swett Marden (1848-1924). It looks at the power of the individual with reference to notable people from American history ranging from statesmen and industrial leader to musicians and writers, looking at how they attained success in an attempt to motivate and inspire readers. Dr. Orison Swett Marden was an American author of inspirational...
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The aim of this book is to analyse and reflect on the effect of femininities in the field and the encountered biases specific to women researchers in tourism studies. The purpose of the book is to define potential areas of gender bias using international case studies from five continents to improve the validity and transparency of future research conducted by researchers in transcultural contexts. It covers broad themes including access, attire and...
21992) Feeling Afraid
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In this book, readers will discover how to recognize fear in themselves and others, how to best respond to it, and how to communicate about these feelings. Social and emotional learning (SEL) concepts support growth mindset throughout, while Try This! and Grow with Goals activities at the end of the book further reinforce the content. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text engage young readers as they learn more about emotions. Also...
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Drawing on extensive interviews with ninety-four women prisoners, Megan Sweeney examines how incarcerated women use available reading materials to come to terms with their pasts, negotiate their present experiences, and reach toward different futures. Foregrounding the voices of African American women, Sweeney analyzes how prisoners read three popular genres: narratives of victimization, urban crime fiction, and self-help books. She outlines the history...
21994) Fake News
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What is fake news? How can the news be wrong? How do we know if what we're reading is true or not?
The concept of fake news and the media as a whole is discussed as part of the What's the Issue series. What's the Issue asks 'what's all the fuss about?' It reviews what is at stake when we think about fake news, with the aim of helping young people to understand this difficult subject and provide them with the tools to inform their own opinions...
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Une langue tue est une langue morte.
S'il est un sujet qui est passé sous silence dans la campagne présidentielle, c'est bien celui de la langue française. Même les discussions sur la culture, si fréquentes, s'en détournent et l'ignorent. Pourtant le français, dans les instances internationales, dans la communication planétaire, en France même, se délabre chaque jour sous les coups de boutoirs des ayants voix. Plus la France s'efface dans...
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This book deals with the problem of Scottish identity within the British context in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. On James VI's succession to the English throne in 1603 the Scots were troubled at the prospect of Scotland's nationhood being absorbed by a supremely confident and intolerant England. Their strategic response was to develop a self-conscious attention to Scotland's past.
The non-institutionalized nature of Scottish society made...
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Italy's current crisis of Mediterranean migration and detention has its roots in early twentieth century imperial ambitions. Empire's Mobius Strip investigates how mobile populations were perceived to be major threats to Italian colonization, and how the state's historical mechanisms of control have resurfaced, with greater force, in today's refugee crisis.
What is at stake in Empire's Mobius Strip is a deeper understanding of the forces driving...
21998) Diwali (Diwali)
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IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
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Diwali is the Hindu festival of lights that is celebrated every year. It is a religious holiday that lasts for five days, and is India's biggest and most important holiday. Readers will learn that Hindus celebrate this special day with fireworks, religious rituals, feasts and sweets, and much more. Complete with simple text and colorful photographs. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
21999) Cultural Policy: Origins, Evolution, and Implementation in Canada's Provinces and Territories
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How do Canadian provincial and territorial governments intervene in the cultural and artistic lives of their citizens? What changes and influences shaped the origin of these policies and their implementation? On what foundations were policies based, and on what foundations are they based today? How have governments defined the concepts of culture and of cultural policy over time? What are the objectives and outcomes of their policies, and what instruments...
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This landmark literary anthology of poems, stories, and literary essays about abortion, Choice Words: Writers on Abortion, is a powerful collection of timely pieces on the struggle to defend reproductive rights. Twenty years in the making, this book spans continents and centuries; the manuscript includes Audre Lorde, Margaret Atwood, Lucille Clifton, Amy Tan, Gloria Steinem, Ursula Le Guin, Gwendolyn Brooks, Joyce Carol Oates, Gloria Naylor, Dorothy...
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