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Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 202 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The secret to happiness, longevity, and living on is through mentoring the next generation.
In How to Live Forever, Encore.org founder and CEO Marc Freedman tells the story of his thirty-year quest to answer some of contemporary life's most urgent questions: With so many living so much longer, what is the meaning of the increasing years beyond 50? How can a society with more older people than younger ones thrive? How do we find happiness when we...
Author
Publisher
Freehand Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
216 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
The story of Abu Bakr al Rabeeah, a young boy whose family moved from Iraq to Syria just before the start of the Syrian civil war. In 2014 his family finally found safety in immigrating to Edmonton, Canada.
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xi, 222 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In Roots Quest, sociologist Jackie Hogan digs into our current genealogy boom to ask why we are so interested in our family history. She shows how the surging popularity of genealogy is a response to large-scale social changes, and she explores the way our increasingly rootless society fuels the quest for an elemental sense of belonging--for roots."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 243 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The story of Brian Bechtold, who killed his parents in 1992 at the age of twenty-two. Critically acclaimed author and psychoanalyst Mikita Brottman offers literary true crime writing at its best, taking us into the life of a murderer after his conviction-when most stories end but the defendant's life goes on"--
Author
Publisher
Cherry Lake Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This series explores disability in a comprehensive, honest, and age-appropriate way. This book explores disability pride, self-advocacy, and person-first language. Engaging inquiry-based sidebars encourage students to LOOK, THINK, MAKE A GUESS, ASK QUESTIONS, and CREATE. Books are authored by writers with disabilities and the series has been developed in partnership with Easterseals who is leading the way to full equity, inclusion, and access through...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxiv, 287 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The French have a name for the uniquely hellish years between elementary school and high school: "l'âge ingrat" or "The Ugly Age." Characterized by a perfect storm of developmental changes-physical, psychological, and social-the middle-school years are a time of great distress for parents and children alike, marked by hurt, isolation, exclusion, competition, anxiety, and often outright cruelty. Some of this is inevitable; there are intrinsic challenges...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 404 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"May you always feel at home. After their decision not to have a biological child, Sarah Sentilles and her husband, Eric, decided to adopt via the foster care system. Knowing that the goal is reunification with the birth family, Sarah opens their home to a flurry of social workers who question, evaluate, and ultimately prepare them to welcome a child into their family--even if it most likely means giving them up. After years of starts and stops, a...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Atria books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 276 pages, 8 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The raw, uplifting, and unforgettable memoir from the CEO and president of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence chronicling her personal battle against abuse, violence, and even a murder attempt. Ruth M. Glenn wasn't surprised the first time her husband beat her. She was hurt and disappointed but after a childhood in a broken and violent home, she was not surprised. After all, this was just the way things were, right? It was only after...
Author
Series
Publisher
NYU Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
x, 333 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
From Glee to gay marriage, from lesbian senators to out gay Marines, we have undoubtedly experienced a seismic shift in attitudes about gays in American politics and culture. Our reigning national story is that a new era of rainbow acceptance is at hand. But dig a bit deeper, and this seemingly brave new gay world is disappointing. For all of the undeniable changes, author Walters argues, the plea for tolerance has sabotaged the full integration of...
Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"America's criminal justice policy reflects irrational fears stoked by politicians seeking to win election. A preeminent legal scholar argues that reform guided by evidence, not politics and emotions, will reduce crime and reverse mass incarceration. The United States has the world's highest rate of incarceration, a form of punishment that ruins lives and makes a return to prison more likely. As awful as that truth is for individuals and their families,...
Author
Publisher
Chelsea Green Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
393 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Big government, big business, big everything: Kirkpatrick Sale took giantism to task in his 1980 classic, Human Scale, and today takes a new look at how the crises that imperil modern America are the inevitable result of bigness grown out of control -- and what can be done about it. The result is a keenly updated, carefully argued case for bringing human endeavors back to scales we can comprehend and manage -- whether in our built environments, our...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
An examination of how over the past eighty years the legal system has increasingly confused quantity with quality and might with legitimacy. As the law bloats into chaos, it staggers only by excusing itself from the very commands it insists that we obey, leaving Americans victim to arbitrary, unconstitutional power. By examining the system as a whole, Gibney shows that the tragedies often portrays as isolated mistakes or the work of a few bad actors--police...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
145 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"What does it mean to be male in the 21st Century? Award-winning artist Grayson Perry explores what masculinity is: from sex to power, from fashion to career prospects, and what it could become--with illustrations throughout. In this witty and necessary new book, artist Grayson Perry trains his keen eye on the world of men to ask, what sort of man would make the world a better place? What would happen if we rethought the macho, outdated version of...
16) Personal politics: the roots of women's liberation in the civil rights movement and the new left
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1980, ©1979
Language
English
Formats
Description
Argues that the women most crucial to the liberation movement in the 1960s were responding to their treatment in the civil rights and New Left movements.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xix, 262 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"If You're in My Office, It's Already Too Late. James Sexton knows this. After dealing with more than a thousand clients whose marriages have dissolved over everything from an ill-advised threesome with the nanny to the uneven division of carpool duties, he also knows all of the what-not-to-dos for couples who want to build--and consistently work to preserve--a lasting, fulfilling relationship. Described by former clients as a "courtroom gunslinger"...
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