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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Capturing the excitement of spiritual activism that is catalyzing the planet, Fierce light illuminates the connection between spirituality and social change. Luminaries such as Alice Walker, John Lewis and Noah Levine share how their faith is a catalyst for political action.
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Publisher
Gatekeeper Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
It’s What You Set in Motion: A Toolbox for Collaborative Changemaking is a how-to resource for aspiring and practicing changemakers everywhere. Use this hands-on, one-of-a-kind, all-in-one toolbox to build and enhance essential twenty-first century skill sets: empathy, adaptive leadership, collaborative problem-solving, teamwork, community engagement, innovation design, entrepreneurship, global competence, critical thinking, and others. Whether...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.3 - AR Pts: 48
Language
English
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Description
Presents a comprehensive historical narrative that describes how and why ancient civilizations such as the Anasazi, Maya, and the Polynesian culture on Easter Island failed and fell into ruin and examines how lessons learned from the past can help in preserving the future.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A chorus of men who died of AIDS observes and yearns to help a cross-section of today's gay teens who navigate new love, long-term relationships, coming out, self-acceptance, and more in a society that has changed in many ways.
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Takes readers on a 52-week journey of reconnecting with what really matters, finding happiness and joy, and making a difference in the world. Each Monday offers readers a mindful moment to read and process, and provides several opportunities for them to engage. The back of the book also includes a journal-entry prompt and a conversation starter for each week.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"With his international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of why civilizations rise and fall. Now, in his third book in this monumental trilogy, he reveals how some nations successfully recover from crises while adopting selective changes--a coping mechanism more commonly associated with individuals recovering from personal crises. Diamond compares how six countries have survived recent upheavals--ranging...
Author
Language
English
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Description
Avoid the speed trap! Discover how changemakers can find lasting solutions to urgent social problems through a proven 5-step process for listening thoughtfully, building broad support, and exploring unconventional options.
Society celebrates leaders who promise fast, easy solutions to the world's problems-but quick fixes are just mirages that fade, leaving us with the same broken systems. The truth is, effective social change happens through slow,...
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Language
English
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Description
How could two hardworking people do everything right in life, a woman asks, and end up destitute? Willa Knox and her husband followed all the rules as responsible parents and professionals, and have nothing to show for it but debts and an inherited brick house that is falling apart. The magazine where Willa worked has folded; the college where her husband had tenure has closed. Their dubious shelter is also the only option for a disabled father-in-law...
Author
Language
English
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Description
[A] landmark book . . Solnit illustrates how the uprisings that begin on the streets can upend the status quo and topple authoritarian regimes ( Vice ). A book as powerful and influential as Rebecca Solnit's Men Explain Things to Me , her Hope in the Dark was written to counter the despair of activists at a moment when they were focused on their losses and had turned their back to the victories behind them -- and the unimaginable changes soon to come....
17) Disruption
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Little Brown & Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming human society fundamentally and profoundly. Three of our most accomplished and deep thinkers come together to explore how A.I. could affect our relationship with knowledge, impact our worldviews, and change society and politics as profoundly as the ideas of the Enlightenment.
19) Early warning
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Description
Family patriarch Walter Langdon has died, and his children have fanned out across the country. The narrative moves year by year from 1953 to 1986, encompassing Cold War blinkeredness, Sixties rebellion, and escalating wealth into the Eighties.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 13.8 - AR Pts: 35
Language
English
Description
"The consequential age we are living in will be remembered as one of the great turning points in civilization. Once we turn, though, where will we be? That is the compelling question Al Gore sets out to answer by examining the drivers of global change, connecting the dots among the social, economic, and political forces shaping our present and future. A rising global consciousness is forcing people around the world, but especially Americans, to rethink...
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