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Author
Publisher
Orca Books Publishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"It's a normal day in your normal town. You are all alone when you spot a dragon overhead. You know you can't defeat it by yourself, so you call for help. Your friends, family and neighbors all band together. Some do the firefighting, some try to reason with the dragon and some are fierce and fearless. Just when it seems the beast has won, more people arrive and rally against it. Finally, the dragon flees! And now, if it ever comes back, you’ll...
2) Hanabi
Author
Publisher
R&R Games, Inc
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
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"Hanabi is a cooperative game, i.e. a game where the players do not play against each other but work together towards a common goal. In this case they are absent-minded firework manufacturers who accidentally mixed up powders, fuses and rockets from a firework display. The show is about to start and panic is setting in. They have to work together to stop the show from becoming a disaster! The pyrotechnicians have to put together 5 fireworks, (1 white,...
Author
Publisher
Nosy Crow Inc
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Stoat is very happy alone in a boat when along comes Goat. In a colorful coat...determined to float WITH Stoat and SHARE the boat. When Stoat tries to chase Goat out of the boat, it becomes trickier to stay afloat. Uh-oh! Will Stoat and Goat end up in the moat? And will Goat's colorful coat be ruined?
Author
Publisher
Peaceable Kingdom
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Queen Benevolence is hosting a celebration to honor her loyal subjects. To thank them, she will give away 12 extraordinary items from her treasure box that she keeps hidden away in a secret chamber in the castle. But when the Queen goes to choose the items that she wants to bestow, she discovers the box is empty! A thief has stolen her treasures and is running away with them! The celebration cannot happen without the treasures and there is not much...
Author
Publisher
McGraw-Hill Education
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Emerging markets are attractive investments for many reason, including their enormous growth potential and their diversification benefits. The problem is, money doesn't discriminate between democratic and anti-democratic leaders: Markets routinely reward authoritarians like Jair Bolsonaro, Vladimir Putin, Recep Erdogan, and Hugo Chavez. Indeed, foreign money has played a major role in helping some of today's most anti-democratic leaders build, maintain,...
Author
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A sweeping, policy-oriented account of the private and public management of the world's essential natural resource. Governments dominated water management throughout the 20th century. Tasked with ensuring a public supply of clean, safe, reliable, and affordable water, governmental agencies controlled water administration in most of the world. They built the dams, reservoirs, and aqueducts to store water when available and move that water to areas...
Author
Publisher
Page Street Kids
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Furry, feathered, and scaled -- all our animal friends are ready to read. But there's just one big problem: Giraffe is too tall! Or, maybe, the book is too short. Come along for a special story time featuring six friendly animals and one puzzling predicament. Bright speech bubbles encourage readers to take an active role and find creative solutions as this wild squad works together to save story time. Using their bodies and minds, the animals persevere...
Author
Publisher
Stanford Business Books, an imprint of Stanford University Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"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,...
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"As Greenland melts, Australia burns, and greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, we think we know who the villains are: oil companies, consumerism, weak political leaders. But what if the real blocks to progress are the ideas and institutions that are supposed to be helping us? Five Times Faster is an inside story from Simon Sharpe, who has spent ten years at the forefront of climate change policy and diplomacy. In our fight to avoid dangerous...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"An epic history of the people and institutions that have built the global economy since the Great Depression"--
"In this vivid landmark history, the distinguished economic historian Martin Daunton pulls back the curtain on the institutions and individuals who have created and managed the global economy over the last ninety years, revealing how and why one economic order breaks down and another is built. During the Great Depression, trade and currency...
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