Rebecca Stefoff
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"An empowering, engaging young readers guide to understanding and battling climate change from the expert and bestselling author of This Changes Everything and On Fire, Naomi Klein. Warmer temperatures. Fires in the Amazon. Superstorms. These are just some of the effects of climate change that we are already experiencing. The good news is that we can all do something about it. A movement is already underway to combat not only the environmental effects...
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"Beginning with a look at Christopher Columbus's arrival through the eyes of the Arawak Indians, then leading the reader through the struggles for workers' rights, women's rights, and civil rights during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and ending with the current protests against continued American imperialism, Zinn presents a radical new way of understanding America's history. In so doing, he reminds readers that America's true greatness...
7) First humans
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"Describes the search for early branches of the human family tree, including the first true humans, members of the genus Homo"--Provided by publisher.
9) Origins
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"Describes the search for the earliest human ancestors, from ancient apes to the australopiths"--Provided by publisher.
10) Overpopulation
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Examines the results of demographic changes and illustrates the threat of overpopulation to man and his environment.
12) Monarchy
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"Discusses monarchies as a political system, and details the history of monarchies throughout the world"--Provided by publisher.
14) Gloria Estefan
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Profiles the Cuban-American pop singer who is the leader of the popular Latin musical group the Miami Sound Machine.
15) William Penn
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Focuses on the struggles of the founder of Pennsylvania who promoted the Quaker religion and spent his lifetime preaching the right of each individual to choose his own faith.
16) Extinction
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Examines the extinction of various plants and animals, mankind's effect on the biosphere and species loss, and the preservation and protection of life forms.
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A Young People's History of the United States brings to US history the viewpoints of workers, enslaved people, immigrants, women, Black people, Latino Americans, Asian Americans, American Indians, and others whose stories, and their impact, are rarely included in books for young people.
Beginning with a look at Christopher Columbus’s arrival through the eyes of the Arawak Indians, then leading the reader through the...
Beginning with a look at Christopher Columbus’s arrival through the eyes of the Arawak Indians, then leading the reader through the...