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1) Make your mark, make a difference: a kid's guide to standing up for people, animals, and the planet
Author
Publisher
Beyond Words
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Discover the path to becoming a champion of change! From climate challenges to the Black Lives Matter movement to protecting the smallest of endangered species, this book leads you through an overview of issues, essential human rights background, and stories of how other young activists tackle local, national, and international problems. Before you know it, advocate and crusader will be words others use to describe you while you continue to discover...
Author
Language
English
Description
"With Be A Revolution: How Everyday People are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World—and How You Can, Too, Oluo aims to show how people across America are working to create real positive change in our structures. Looking at many of our most powerful systems—like education, media, labor, health, housing, policing, and more—she highlights what people are doing to create change for intersectional racial equity. She also illustrates various...
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Since the collapse of the housing market in 2008, demand for housing has consistently outpaced supply in many US communities. The failure to construct sufficient housing -- especially affordable housing -- in desirable communities and neighborhoods comes with significant social, economic, and environmental costs. This book examines how local participatory land use institutions amplify the power of entrenched interests and privileged homeowners. The...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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"Populist rage, ideological fracture, economic and technological shocks, war, and an international system studded with catastrophic risk―the early decades of the twenty-first century may be the most revolutionary period in modern history. But it is not the first. Humans have lived, and thrived, through more than one great realignment. What are these revolutions, and how can they help us to understand our fraught world? In this major work, Fareed...
Author
Publisher
Watkins
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"This is an age of change and disruption. Now is the time to channel the energy of disruption and bring about the change you want to see in the world. Whether you consider yourself a rebel, an activist, a protestor, or someone who simply sees injustice that they wish they could challenge--you have access to a power that you may not have considered: energy"--Back cover.
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Series
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In this work, Ruha Benjamin calls on us to take imagination seriously as a site of struggle and a place of possibility for reshaping the future. A world without prisons? Ridiculous. Schools that foster the genius of every child? Impossible. Work that doesn't strangle the life out of people? Naive. A society where everyone has food, shelter, love? In your dreams. Exactly. Ruha Benjamin, Princeton University professor, insists that imagination isn't...
Author
Publisher
New York University Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Diversity and anti-racism work is too often reduced to training, therapy, education, and policy, or what the author calls "Feel-Good" approaches that focus on emotions and morality and prevent us from taking collective action for racial justice, decolonization, and equity in our organizations and communities"--
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"From the bestselling author, media pioneer, and curator of TED, an inspiring book about one of humankind's defining but overlooked impulses, and how we can super-charge its potential to build a hopeful future. Recent years have been tough on optimists. Hopes that the Internet might bring people together have been crushed by the divisiveness of social media. But as head of TED, Chris Anderson has had a ringside view of the world's boldest thinkers...
10) The understory
Author
Publisher
Deep Vellum Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A novel of man's relationship with nature, power, and the vitality of storytelling, from beloved Thai author Saneh Sangsuk. The lovable, yarnspinning monk Luang Paw Tien, now in his nineties, is the last person in his village to bear witness to the power and plenitude of the jungle before agrarian and then capitalist life took over his community. Nightly, he entertains the children of his village with tales from his younger years: his long pilgrimage...
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