Author: Anneke Forzani
Publisher: Language Lizard Bilingual Livi
ISBN: 9781636851051
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Who Are We? helps us to understand and appreciated the diversity in our community. This bilingual book in Dari and English, part of the Language Lizard Living in Harmony Series, includes access to free lesson plans and fun activities to support diversity education.
Author: David Reich
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192554387
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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The past few years have witnessed a revolution in our ability to obtain DNA from ancient humans. This important new data has added to our knowledge from archaeology and anthropology, helped resolve long-existing controversies, challenged long-held views, and thrown up remarkable surprises. The emerging picture is one of many waves of ancient human migrations, so that all populations living today are mixes of ancient ones, and often carry a genetic component from archaic humans. David Reich, whose team has been at the forefront of these discoveries, explains what genetics is telling us about ourselves and our complex and often surprising ancestry. Gone are old ideas of any kind of racial âpurity.' Instead, we are finding a rich variety of mixtures. Reich describes the cutting-edge findings from the past few years, and also considers the sensitivities involved in tracing ancestry, with science sometimes jostling with politics and tradition. He brings an important wider message: that we should recognize that every one of us is the result of a long history of migration and intermixing of ancient peoples, which we carry as ghosts in our DNA. What will we discover next?
Author: Charles J. Keating
Publisher: Twenty-Third Publications
ISBN: 9780896223219
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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"[A] popular presentation of the relationship between personality and spirituality. The author relates the personalities of sixteen types of Myers-Briggs ..."--Page 4 of cover
Author: Vincent Deary
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374713219
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 273
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The first book in a major new trilogy, How to Live: How We Are, How We Break, and How We Mend We live in small worlds. How We Are is an astonishing debut and the first part of the monumental How to Live trilogy, a profound and ambitious work that gets to the heart of what it means to be human: how we are, how we break, and how we mend. In Book One, How We Are, we explore the power of habit and the difficulty of change. As Vincent Deary shows us, we live most of our lives automatically, in small worlds of comfortable routine—what he calls Act One. Conscious change requires deliberate effort, so for the most part we avoid it. But inevitably, from within or without, something comes along to disturb our small worlds—some News from Elsewhere. And with reluctance, we begin the work of adjustment: Act Two. Over decades of psychotherapeutic work, Deary has witnessed the theater of change—how ordinary people get stuck, struggle with new circumstances, and finally transform for the better. He is keenly aware that novelists, poets, philosophers, and theologians have grappled with these experiences for far longer than psychologists. Drawing on his own personal experience and a staggering range of literary, philosophical, and cultural sources, Deary has produced a mesmerizing and universal portrait of the human condition. Part psychologist, part philosopher, part novelist, Deary helps us to see how we can resist being habit machines, and make our acts and our lives more fully our own.
Author: One Direction
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008170894
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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The must-have Christmas gift for all 1D fans, don’t miss the year’s only official book from the world’s favourite band...
Author: Oliver Jeffers
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698408470
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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#1 New York Times bestseller A TIME Magazine Best Book of the Year A NPR Best Book of 2017 A Boston Globe Best Book of 2017 "Moments of human intimacy jostle with scenes that inspire cosmic awe, and the broad diversity of Jeffers's candy-colored humans...underscores the twin messages that 'You're never alone on Earth' and that we're all in this together."--Publisher's Weekly (starred review) "A true work of art."--BuzzFeed Oliver Jeffers, arguably the most influential creator of picture books today, offers a rare personal look inside his own hopes and wishes for his child--and in doing so gifts children and parents everywhere with a gently sweet and humorous missive about our world and those who call it home. Insightfully sweet, with a gentle humor and poignancy, here is Oliver Jeffers' user's guide to life on Earth. He created it specially for his son, yet with a universality that embraces all children and their parents. Be it a complex view of our planet's terrain (bumpy, sharp, wet), a deep look at our place in space (it’s big), or a guide to all of humanity (don’t be fooled, we are all people), Oliver's signature wit and humor combine with a value system of kindness and tolerance to create a must-have book for parents. Praise for Here We Are: -"A sweet and tender distillation of what every Earthling needs to know and might well spend a lifetime striving to achieve. A must-purchase for new parent shelves"--School Library Journal -"From the skies to the animal kingdom to the people of the world and lots of other beautifully rendered examples of life on Earth, Here We Are carries a simple message: Be kind." --NPR -"[An] enchanting gem of a children's book"--NBC's Today Show -"A must-have book for parents."--Gambit -"A celebration of people all shapes and sizes, and of the beauty and mystery of our Earth."--Booklist -"...a beautifully illustrated guide to living on Earth and being a good person."--Brightly -[Here We Are] is a tour through the land, the sea, the sky, our bodies; dioramas of our wild diversity....[Jeffers] is the master of capturing the joy in our differences."--New York Times Book Review
Author: Robie H Harris
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781406367393
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Join Nellie, Gus, baby Jake, and their parents at Funland as they go on rides, watch performers, and play games along with many other children and grown-ups. As they enjoy their excursion, they - and young readers - notice that people are the same as one another in lots of ways, and different in lots of ways too.
Author: Britta Teckentrup
Publisher: Tiger Tales
ISBN: 1664340394
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
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Celebrate the power of love and friendship in this beautiful book that features vibrant artwork, die-cut pages, and the inspiring message that when we work together, we can affect change. Each of us is wonderful and special on our own. But when we team up with friends, family, and even those whom we don’t know, we can make amazing things happen. This inspiring book, which features vibrant artwork and die-cut pages, takes readers on a journey to understand that while we are able to accomplish much on our own, we will achieve even more, and be able to affect real change, when we join with others.
Author: Samuel P. Huntington
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780684866697
Category : Americanization
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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America was founded by settlers who brought with them a distinct culture including the English language, Protestant values, individualism, religious commitment, and respect for law. The waves of later immigrants came gradually accepted these values and assimilated into America's Anglo-Protestant culture. More recently, however, national identity has been eroded by the problems of assimilating massive numbers of immigrants, bilingualism, multiculturalism, the devaluation of citizenship, and the "denationalization" of American élites. September 11 brought a revival of American patriotism, but already there are signs that this is fading. This book shows the need for us to reassert the core values that make us Americans.--From publisher description.
Author: Alison McGhee
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1534446133
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Told in the voices of two high school juniors, Micah is held captive by the cult his parents joined and Sesame, his orphaned girlfriend, rallies their friends to save him.
