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A nonfiction investigation into masculinity, For The Love of Men provides actionable steps for how to be a man in the modern world, while also exploring how being a man in the world has evolved.
In 2019, traditional masculinity is both rewarded and sanctioned. Men grow up being told that boys don't cry and dolls are for girls (a newer phenomenon than you might realize-gendered toys came back in vogue as recently...
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2018.
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xxii, 309 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"From award-winning actress and political activist America Ferrera comes a vibrant and varied collection of first person accounts from prominent figures about the experience of growing up between cultures. America Ferrera has always felt wholly American,and yet, her identity is inextricably linked to her parents' homeland and Honduran culture. Speaking Spanish at home, having Saturday-morning-salsa-dance-parties in the kitchen, and eating tamales...
3) The Pack
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[2021]
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200 pages ; 22 cm.
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"Attending a boarding school for girls with animal powers, new girl Sadie joins the Pack-a group of 'it' girls-and is consumed by social drama until someone starts to threaten them in an attempt to tear the Pack apart"--
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Canterwood Crest. Main series volume 10
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©2010
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IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
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211 pages ; 20 cm.
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When Sasha Silver becomes the most popular girl at Canterwood Crest Academy, she must figure out a way to deal with her old friends Paige and Callie and the boy she has a crush on.
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Stem cell research has sparked controversy and heated debate since the first human stem cell line was derived in 1998. Too frequently these debates devolve to simple judgments-good or bad, life-saving medicine or bioethical nightmare, symbol of human ingenuity or our fall from grace-ignoring the people affected. With this book, Ruha Benjamin moves the terms of debate to focus on the shifting relationship between science and society, on the people...
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Émile Durkheim is often referred to as the father of sociology. Along with Karl Marx and Max Weber he was a principal architect of modern social science and whose contribution helped established it as an academic discipline. "The Division of Labor in Society", published in 1893, was his first major contribution to the field and arguably one his most important. In this work Durkheim discusses the construction of social order in modern societies, which...
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2022.
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viii, 260 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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"Liz Bucar navigates the thorny terrain of religious appropriation, from yoga classes to non-Muslims who signal allyship by donning hijabs. Exploring the ethics of alleged appropriations, Bucar argues that borrowing isn't itself a problem, as long as we are invested in our enthusiasms-committed to understanding their roots and diverse meanings"--
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Canterwood Crest. Main series volume 11
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2010
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IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
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181 pages ; 20 cm.
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An anonymous tell-all blog reveals the secrets of Sasha and her friends to all of Canterwood Crest Academy, and the girls must find out who is turning their secrets into campus-wide scandals.
9) The audition
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Audition trilogy (Maddie Ziegler) volume 1
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IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 6
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Twelve-year-old Harper loves to dance and is a rising star in Connecticut when her parents move her to Florida and she must prove herself to The Bunheads in order to compete.
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The most popularly read, adapted, anthologized, and incorporated primer on sociology ever written for modern readers  Acclaimed scholar and sociologist Peter L. Berger lays the groundwork for a clear understanding of sociology in his straightforward introduction to the field, much loved by students, professors, and general readers. Berger aligns sociology in the humanist tradition-revealing its relationship to the humanities and philosophy-and establishes...
11) The callback
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Audition trilogy (Maddie Ziegler) volume 2
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IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 6
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Harper McCoy, twelve, joins the school musical hoping to get past "dancer's block," but her Dance Starz teammates are not pleased, especially since they will soon compete against their biggest rivals, The Belles, in Regionals.
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Un libro necesario para entender un conflicto de alcance mundial que dura mĂ¡s de seis dĂ©cadas y en que el autor ha pretendido: "meter los pies en el barro para que israelĂes y palestinos vivan juntos, entremezclados y en paz".
Este nuevo libro no es un libro teĂ³rico sobre el conflicto palestino-israelĂ sino el fruto de numerosos diĂ¡logos mantenidos durante años con las personas que se me acercan y buscan respuestas a tantas preguntas, desde...
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A Systems Theory of Religion, still unfinished at Niklas Luhmann's death in 1998, was first published in German two years later thanks to the editorial work of André Kieserling. One of Luhmann's most important projects, it exemplifies his later work while redefining the subject matter of the sociology of religion. Religion, for Luhmann, is one of the many functionally differentiated social systems that make up modern society. All such subsystems...
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The Protestant ethic - a moral code stressing hard work, rigorous self-discipline, and the organization of one's life in the service of God - was made famous by sociologist and political economist Max Weber. In this brilliant study (his best-known and most controversial), he opposes the Marxist concept of dialectical materialism and its view that change takes place through "the struggle of opposites." Instead, he relates the rise of a capitalist economy...
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Learn to solve problems together with this nonfiction book. Ideal for young readers, the book includes a fiction story related to the topic, a connected project, glossary, useful text features, and engaging sidebars. This 28-page full-color book explores real-world problems and how individuals have come together to find solutions. It also covers key topics like creative problem-solving and brainstorming, and includes an extension activity for grade...
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2020.
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149 pages ; 22 cm
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The leader of the Catholic Church discusses what the COVID-19 crisis revealed about the cruelty and inequality of society, what it can teach about handling upheaval, and how to make the world safer, fairer, and healthier for all people.
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2020.
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ix, 308 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
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"So often in life, we get stuck in a cycle of response. We put out fires. We deal with emergencies. We stay downstream, handling one problem after another, but we never make our way upstream to fix the systems that caused the problems ... [This book] probes the psychological forces that push us downstream--including 'problem blindness,' which can leave us oblivious to serious problems in our midst. And Heath introduces us to the thinkers who have...
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Applied Psychology: Practical Guide to the Human Mind, Step-by-Step Advice to the Understandings of Psychology
What people are saying: This is a surprisingly fascinating book. Well written in an easy to understand style and well researched. Applied Psychology: Practical Guide to the Human Mind, Step-by-Step Advice to the Understandings of Psychology (Positive Psychology) by Jonny Bell gives you a great overview of psychology and the workings of the...
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This essential presents the state of urban research on gentrification in a condensed form. This term, which has been used in the scientific community since the 1960s, has now also become established in the public debate. It describes how rising rents in the cities and the lack of affordable housing lead to poorer residents being driven out of their neighbourhoods. It becomes clear in what way gentrification is a general principle of urban development...
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We need our neighbors and community to stay healthy, produce jobs, raise our children, and care for those on the margin. Institutions and professional services have reached their limit of their ability to help us. The consumer society tells us that we are insufficient and that we must purchase what we need from specialists and systems outside the community. We have become consumers and clients, not citizens and neighbors. John McKnight and Peter Block...
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