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Flash mobs come and go, but purposeful creativity can change communities. Are you a creative (aspiring or otherwise) who is curious about how you can apply your skills to activist, socially engaged art projects? Whether you paint, sew, sing, build, weld, or rhyme, Make It Meaningful explores how to take that big project you've been dreaming about and actually make it a happen.
In response to the challenging times that we live in, Make It Meaningful...
3982) Protests
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
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This book explores how people use boycotts, strikes, and other forms of collective action to call for change, highlighting examples from historic protests and the movements they helped fuel, as well as the systems and policies people continue to challenge today.
Grades 5-9.
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A New York Times bestseller
A USA Today bestseller
The long-hidden diary of a young Polish woman's life during the Holocaust, translated for the first time into English
Renia Spiegel was born in 1924 to an upper-middle class Jewish family living in southeastern Poland, near what was at that time the border with Romania. At the start of 1939 Renia began a diary. "I just want a friend. I want somebody to talk to about my everyday worries and joys....
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Between the radical, creative capacity of our imagination and the social imaginary we are immersed in is an intermediate space philosophers have termed the imaginal, populated by images or (re)presentations that are presences in themselves. Offering a new, systematic understanding of the imaginal and its nexus with the political, Chiara Bottici brings fresh perspective to the formation of political and power relationships and the paradox of a world...
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From the mid-1960s to the early 1970s, revolutions in theory, politics, and cultural experimentation swept around the world. These changes had as great a transformative impact on the right as on the left. A touchstone for activists, artists, and theorists of all stripes, the year 1968 has taken on new significance for the present moment, which bears certain uncanny resemblances to that time. The Long 1968 explores the wide-ranging impact of the year...
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"Honorable Mention for the Luebbert Best Book Award, Comparative Politics Section of the American Political Science Association" "One of Choice Reviews' Outstanding Academic Titles of 2018" Lisa Blaydes is associate professor of political science and senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. She is the author of Elections and Distributive Politics in Mubarak's Egypt.
A new account of modern Iraqi...
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Can the church help America emerge from its racist shadows empowered to heal racial divides? Church pastor and former police officer Terrell Carter says yes. While our faith inarguably calls Christians to unity, the hard fact remains: we're still tragically divided when it comes to race, even - and especially, many say -- in our churches. Racism pervades our faith, our relationships, and our institutions in deep, often imperceptible ways. In Healing...
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the longest serving president in U.S. history, successfully guided Americans through two of the worst crises ever. He succeeded where others had failed in pulling the country back from the brink of collapse during the Great Depression. He lifted Americans' spirits and turned them away from fear and defeatism. Then came the horrors and devastation of World War II. The brilliant and courageous Roosevelt proved to be an outstanding...
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"Winner of the MSA Book Prize, Modernist Studies Association" "A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year" Peter J. Kalliney is the William J. and Nina B. Tuggle Chair in English at the University of Kentucky. His books include Cities of Affluence and Anger, Commonwealth of Letters, and Modernism in a Global Context.
How decolonization and the cold war influenced literature from Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean
How did superpower competition...
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"Winner of the Leon Epstein Outstanding Book Award, Political Organizations and Parties section of the American Political Science Association" "Shortlisted for the Gregory Luebbert Best Book Prize, Comparative Politics section of the American Political Science Association" Sarah Zukerman Daly is associate professor of political science at Columbia University. She is the author of Organized Violence after Civil War: The Geography of Recruitment in...
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, or "AOC" as she has dubbed herself, has taken the political scene by storm. More celebrity than advocate for serious policies, Ocasio-Cortez nonetheless wields outsized influence over the news cycle due to her adept use of media, her brash attitude, and of course, her attractive appearance. But what lies underneath the shiny exterior? "AOC" is mostly a mystery, as Peter D'Abrosca found while chronicling her life and rise-from...
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Personal reinvention is a core part of the human condition. Yet in the mid-twentieth century, certain private religious choices became lightning rods for public outrage and debate.
Public Confessions reveals the controversial religious conversions that shaped modern America. Rebecca L. Davis explains why the new faiths of notable figures including Clare Boothe Luce, Whittaker Chambers, Sammy Davis Jr., Marilyn Monroe, Muhammad Ali, Chuck Colson,...
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Did you know that Louisiana was not originally a part of the US? It was purchased in an effort to expand the American territory. As a book on social studies dedicated on the subject, your child will learn about the importance of the Louisiana Purchase, as well as the unforgettable roles of James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe and Napoleon Bonaparte.
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The Florida's Government: Power, Purpose, and People e-Book equips teachers with a stunning nonfiction reader focusing on Florida's government. Filled with vibrant images and primary source documents, this informational text exposes students to the different branches of government and so much more. Build valuable literacy skills and standards-aligned content knowledge with this e-Book that discusses history, civics, and other social studies topics....
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Examine Georgia's government with Our Leaders in Government, an appropriately-leveled informational text that promotes social studies content literacy. As a part of the Primary Source Readers: Content and Literacy in Social Studies: Georgia Kit, this high-interest reader comes with full-color illustrations and dynamic primary source documents. This state studies-driven text connects to Georgia Standards of Excellence, WIDA, and NCSS/C3 framework.
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Bring the history of Florida to life through intriguing primary source documents! Florida's Government: Power, Purpose, and People is a nonfiction reader focusing on Florida's branches of government. Based on state standards, this resource builds literacy skills and vocabulary, as it covers history, civics, and other social studies topics. Used in the classroom or at home, this informational text contains important text features including an index,...
3997) Mass Incarceration
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This book explores mass incarceration in America, highlighting the history of the topic, an analysis of the events that shaped it, and an overview of the debates surrounding the topic. The book also includes a table of contents, two infographics, informative sidebars, two Case Study special features, quiz questions, a glossary, additional resources, and an index. This Focus Readers title is at the Voyager level, aligned to reading levels of grades...
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In this young readers' adaptation of his adult memoir Dear America, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and undocumented immigrant Jose Antonio Vargas tells his story, in light of the 12 million undocumented immigrants currently in the United States.
Jose Antonio Vargas was only twelve years old when he was brought to the United States from the Philippines to live with his grandparents. He didn't know it, but he was sent to the U.S. illegally.
When...
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Éveil de consciences panafricaines
Le but principal de ce livre est la conscientisation des jeunes Africains, renforcer leur optimiste et leur estime de soi, leur niveau de conscience politique, sociologique, culturelle et philosophique...
Ce livre a pour but de vous galvaniser, de vous inciter à vous former, vous informer, comprendre le sens de l'histoire, les intérêts stratégiques, la propagande, comprendre le fonctionnement des méRdias...
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