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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"Who gets to leave a legacy? 1985. Anita de Monte, a rising star in the art world, is found dead in New York City; her tragic death is the talk of the town. Until it isn't. By 1998 Anita's name has been all but forgotten--certainly by the time Raquel, a third-year art history student is preparing her final thesis. On College Hill, surrounded by progeny of film producers, C-Suite executives, and international art-dealers, most of whom float through...
Author
Language
English
Description
Populist rage, ideological fracture, economic and technological shocks, war, and an international system studded with catastrophic risk--the early decades of the twenty-first century may be the most revolutionary period in modern history. But it is not the first. Humans have lived, and thrived, through more than one great realignment. What are these revolutions, and how can they help us to understand our fraught world? Fareed Zakaria investigates...
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Series
Publisher
Creative Education
Pub. Date
[2017]
Lexile measure
1220L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (48 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color).
Language
English
Description
Examines the origins, advancements, and future of the social sciences, including anthropology and psychology, and the ways in which scientists utilize the scientific method to explore questions. Includes suggestions for activities, color photographs, a glossary, biographical profiles of scientists, and further resources.
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Series
Language
English
Description
Billy Harney was born to be a cop. The son of Chicago's chief of detectives, whose twin sister is also on the force, Billy plays it by the book. Alongside Detective Kate Fenton, Billy's tempestuous, adrenaline-junkie partner, there's nothing he wouldn't sacrifice for his job. Enter Amy Lentini, a hard-charging assistant state's attorney hell-bent on making a name for herself-who suspects Billy isn't the cop he claims to be. They're about to be linked...
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Lexile measure
870L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (64 pages) : color illustrations, color map.
Language
English
Description
Offers middle-school girls a crash course in social studies, discussing how geography, history, and government affect their daily lives. Features real-life examples, exercises, maps, graphs, and charts.
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 238 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The twenty-first century is experiencing a watershed moment defined by chaos and uncertainty, as one emergency cascades into another, underscoring the larger dynamics of change that are fueling instability across the world. Since the global financial crisis of 2008, people have increasingly lost trust in institutions and elites, while seizing upon new digital tools to sidestep traditional gatekeepers. As a result, powerful new voices - once regarded...
Author
Publisher
Leaping Hare Press, an imprint of The Quarto Group
Pub. Date
2024
Physical Desc
127 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Challenge your biases and broaden your understanding of power and how we wield it with this essential guide. Power is complex. This is a guide to navigating those complexities. From ancient theories of power to contemporary examples, from cultural patterns to personal insights, this guide provides a foundation for examining hierarchies and inequalities and establishes a framework for understanding power and how it shapes our lives and communities."--...
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Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (40 pages) : illustrations (some color), map.
Language
English
Description
Offers a teacher guide to the nonfiction Orca Footprints series which provides information about planet and resource sustainability. Extends information on the fourteen titles in the series and ways to build units with activities that engage student learning.
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
426 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The invention of modern freedom-the equating of liberty with restraints on state power-was not the natural outcome of such secular Western trends as the growth of religious tolerance or the creation of market societies. Rather, it was propelled by an antidemocratic backlash following the Atlantic Revolutions. We tend to think of freedom as something that is best protected by carefully circumscribing the boundaries of legitimate state activity. But...
15) Jade legacy
Author
Series
Green Bone saga volume 3
Publisher
Orbit
Language
English
Description
"Jade, the mysterious and magical substance once exclusive to the Green Bone warriors of Kekon, is now known and coveted throughout the world. Everyone wants access to the supernatural abilities it provides, from traditional forces such as governments, mercenaries, and criminal kingpins, to modern players, including doctors, athletes, and movie studios. As the struggle over the control of jade grows ever larger and more deadly, the Kaul family, and...
16) Samurai game
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Jove mass-market ed.
Physical Desc
397 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In an underground club, a high-ranking public official spends his secret nights indulging in fantasies as exciting as they are depraved. For a seductive employee of the Dungeon, it's her job to fulfill them. But she's playing a far more dangerous game-one of blackmail, politics, and murder that reaches into the shadow world of the GhostWalkers, and the creation of a spectacular, one-of-a-kind new weapon of defense. But when a dictator makes his own...
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Language
English
Description
""As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in the aisles, guiding us to our assigned seats for a performance. The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power--which groups have it and which do not." In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched...
Author
Publisher
Crown Forum
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 257 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Behind every awful, dangerous decision lurks one evil beast: the Cool. From politics to the personal, from fashion to food, from the campus to the locker room, the desire to be cool has infected all aspects of our lives. At its most harmless, it is annoying. At its worst, it is deadly, on a massive scale. The Cool are the termites of life, infiltrating every nook and cranny and destroying it from within. The Cool report the news, write the scripts,...
Author
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource : illustrations
Language
English
Description
On August 21, 2013, chemical weapons were unleashed on the civilian population in Syria, killing another 1,400 people in a civil war that had already claimed the lives of more than 140,000. As is all too often the case, the innocent found themselves victims of a violent struggle for political power. Such events are why human rights activists have long pressed for institutions such as the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate and prosecute...
Author
Publisher
Myers Education Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
x, 228 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Social studies education over its hundred-year history has often focused on predominantly white and male narratives. This has not only been detrimental to the increasingly diverse population of the U.S., but it has also meant that social studies as a field of scholarship has systematically excluded and marginalized the voices, teaching, and research of women, scholars of color, queer scholars, and scholars whose politics challenge the dominant traditions...