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Ahuja, Masuma

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

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 305.235 AHU

LeVine, 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

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Parents Le Vine

Small, 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

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.1 SMA

Small, Meredith F.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 1998

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.122 SMA

Axtell, 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

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153.69 AXT

Kleinfeld, 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

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.32 KLE

Stone, Tanya Lee

Summary: Follows girls who are coming of age in the developing world and confronting barriers to their education.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wendy Lamb Books 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 305.4 STO

Watters, 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

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.89 WAT

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

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 339 WOR

Fadiman, Anne

Summary: When three-month-old Lia Lee Arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion from which neither she nor her parents nor her doctors would ever recover. Lia's parents were part of a large Hmong community in Merced. The Hmong, traditionally a close-knit and fiercely people, have been less amenable to assimilation than most immigrants,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Noonday Press 1998

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.461 FAD

Chu, Lenora

Summary: China's widely acclaimed yet insular education system is held up as a model of academic and behavioral excellence. Chu, an American journalist of Chinese descent raising a young family in Shanghai, noticed how well-behaved Chinese children were compared to her boisterous toddler. Enrolling three-year-old Rainer in China's state-run public school system, the immediate results were positive. But...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2017

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 370.951 CHU

Mumm, Susan M.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Personal Growth Publishers 2000

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 299.093 MUM

Piazza, Jo

Summary: "At age thirty-four, Jo Piazza got her romantic-comedy ending when she met the man of her dreams on a boat in the Galápagos Islands and was engaged three months later. But before long, Jo found herself riddled with questions. How do you make a marriage work in a world where you no longer need to be married? How does an independent, strong-willed feminist become someone's partner -- all the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony Books 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PIAZZA, JO PIA

Alexander, Jessica Joelle

Summary: What makes Denmark the happiest country in the world--and what are the secrets of Danish parents for raising happy, confident, succesful kids, year after year? This upbeat and practical guide brings together the insights of a licensed psychotherapist and a mom -- a Dane and an American married to a Dane, respectively -- on the habits of the happiest families on earth.

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Publisher / Publication Date: TarcherPerigee Book 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.874 ALE

Rumer, Masha

Summary: "A candid portrait of the realities, challenges, and joys many contemporary immigrants confront while raising a new generation of Americans"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.874 RUM

Schutt, Bill

Summary: "Eating one's own kind is completely natural behavior in thousands of species, including humans. Throughout history we have engaged in cannibalism for reasons relating to famine, burial rites, and medicinal remedies. Cannibalism has been used as a form of terrorism but also as the ultimate expression of filial piety. With unexpected wit and a wealth of knowledge, Bill Schutt, a research...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 394 SCH

Tushnet, Mark V.

Summary: "The Supreme Court has unanimously held that Jackson Pollock's paintings, Arnold Schöenberg's music, and Lewis Carroll's poem "Jabberwocky" are "unquestionably shielded" by the First Amendment. Nonrepresentational art, instrumental music, and nonsense: all receive constitutional coverage under an amendment protecting "the freedom of speech," even though none involves what we typically think of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342 TUS

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