Summary: The World Inequality Report: 2018 is the most authoritative and up-to-date account of global trends in inequality. Researched, compiled, and written by a team of the world's leading economists, it presents, with unrivaled clarity and depth, information and analysis that will be vital to policy makers and scholars everywhere.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 339 WORSummary: Presents the theory that the American dream, all but abandoned in the United States, has been adopted successfully in other countries, including Italy, France, Finland, Slovenia, Germany, Portugal, Norway, Tunisia, and Iceland, looking at such areas as worker benefits, public expenditure for the common good, and state-funded higher education.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2016
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WHEMenzel, Peter
Summary: Photo spreads, with brief commentaries, of possessions of families in more than 50 countries. Awards: SLJ Best Book. Annotation. A fascinating project--sponsored by a number of international organizations--resulting in this richly intriguing book (it will get well-deserved promotion and distribution via all sorts of media). Sixteen photographers traveled to 30 nations to live for a week with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sierra Club Books 1994
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 306.85 MEND'Aluisio, Faith
Summary: A companion to the best-selling Material World: A Global Family Portrait, this unique book is a multicultural odyssey in words and 350 stunning images that illuminates the hopes, dreams, joys, and sorrows of women the world over. A testament to the imdomitable power of the human spirit, Women in the Material World portrays the startling differences and striking similarities in women's lives at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sierra Club Books 1996
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 305.42 DALLamothe, Matt
Summary: Follows the daily lives of seven children from around the world, including such places as Japan, India, Uganda, and Italy, and discusses how schools, meals, and play can be different or similar in different places in the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books, LLC 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 305.23 LAMMark, Nikki
Summary: In April 2018, Nikki and Doug Mark's perfectly healthy twelve-year-old-son, Tommy, went to sleep one night and never woke up. They're still not exactly sure why. Devastated, Nikki embarked on an unconventional journey to create a legacy for Tommy and to heal her heart. She created a plan to transform neglected land in a Los Angeles public park into a state-of-the-art athletic field, honoring...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Union Square & Co. 2023
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Summary: A scathing reexamination of the lives of nine female celebrities in the 2000s, and the sexist, exploitative culture that took them down. Welcome to celebrity culture in the early aughts: the reign of Perez Hilton, celebrity sex tapes, and dueling tabloids fed by paparazzi who were willing to do anything to get the shot. It was a time when the Internet was still the Wild West, and when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Press 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 302.23 DITWatters, Ethan.
Summary: Journalist Watters explores the American exportation of how the world goes mad, arguing that as we introduce Americanized ways of treating mental illnesses, we are in fact spreading the diseases.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.89 WATRomeo, Nick
Summary: "Confronted by the terrifying trends of the early twenty-first century -- widening inequality, environmental destruction, and the immiseration of millions of workers around the world -- many economists and business leaders still preach dogmas that lack evidence and create political catastrophe: Private markets are always more efficient than public ones; investment capital flows efficiently to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2023
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Summary: "Journalist Masuma Ahuja introduces us to 31 teenage girls from 29 countries. Through diary entries and photographs, they share their own stories of growing up and show what ordinary girlhood is like all over the world"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 305.235 AHULeVine, Robert Alan
Summary: "In some parts of northwestern Nigeria, mothers studiously avoid making eye contact with their babies. Some Chinese parents go out of their way to seek confrontation with their toddlers. Japanese parents almost universally co-sleep with their infants, sometimes continuing to share a bed with them until age ten. Yet all these parents are as likely as Americans to have loving relationships with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Parents Le VineSmall, Meredith F.
Summary: "This is not a parenting advisor but instead a revealing perspective on how and why we raise children as we do." --Booklist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.1 SMASmith, Penny
Summary: Introduces children from around the world and discusses where they live, how they play, and what their schools are like.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 305.2 SMISummary: "Shadows of Liberty reveals the extraordinary truth behind the news media: censorship, cover-ups, and corporate control. Filmmaker Jean-Philippe Tremblay takes a journey through the darker corridors of the US media, where global conglomerates call the shots. For decades, their overwhelming influence has distorted news journalism and compromised its values.Tracing the story of media...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SHAGuilbeault, Nina
Summary: A Harvard-trained sociologist (and vegan), exploring the history of the vegan movement and its present-day tensions, grapples with the most fundamental questions of all: Is there a truly ethical way to eat?, which results in an eye-opening portrait of how social change happens, with profound implications for our plates--and our planet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2024
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Summary: "Around the world, little ones are carried in many different ways: in slings, on shoulders, in backpacks, on hips, in baskets, and in loving arms. Up! depicts ten places around the world, from Afghanistan to northern Canada, Peru to West Africa. In each place, a mom, dad, grandparent, aunt, uncle, cousin, or sibling lovingly carries a baby. With various family configurations and settings...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Owlkids Books 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HUGEhman, Karen
Summary: Shares practical, motivational ideas on how to plan special occasions in spite of already overloaded schedules, outlining a range of less-daunting, creative suggestions and menu plans for birthday, holiday, and special-event celebrations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baker Pub Group 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 394.26 EHMSmall, Meredith F.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.122 SMAAxtell, Roger E.
Summary: "As featured in the New York Times and Reader's Digest "An eye-opener into the pitfalls awaiting the unaware traveler." -Washington Post "Can save the innocent abroad from great gobs of serious trouble." -Chicago Tribune Before you raise your hand to signal the waiter, extend your thumb to hitchhike, or flash the "O.K." sign with thumb and forefinger, Stop! Think of where you are and exactly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wiley 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153.69 AXTKleinfeld, Rachel
Summary: Drawing on fifteen years of firsthand field research, a foreign policy expert describes how extreme violence cripples democracies and discusses how some societies have successfully fought massive violence and reclaimed security.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.32 KLEMaloney, Brenna
Summary: "This book shows the many ways people learn around the world"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J371 MALKhanna, Ro
Summary: "Rep Ro Khanna offers a revolutionary roadmap to facing America's digital divide. In Khanna's vision, "just as people can move to technology, technology can move to people. People need not be compelled to move from one place to another to reap the benefits offered by technological progress" (from the foreword by Amartya Sen, Nobel Laureate in Economics)"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.973 KHADyer, Hadley
Summary: "Economic inequality affects everybody. No matter how rich or poor you are, economic inequality impacts every aspect of your life--the place where you live, the opportunities you experience, the healthcare you get, the education you receive. More Than Money breaks down why the rich seem to be getting richer while the rest of us are struggling to just get by. With vivid, energetic illustrations,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Annick Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 339.2 DYEStockman, Farah
Summary: "Shannon, Wally, and John built their lives around their place of work. Shannon, a white single mother, became the first woman to run the factory's dangerous furnaces at the Rexnord manufacturing plant in Indianapolis and was proud of producing one of the world's top brands of steel bearings. Wally, a black man known for his initiative and kindness, was promoted to become chairman of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021