Summary: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2016
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WHEAtkinson, Robert
Summary: In public discourse in the United States, small businesses are lauded as drivers of the economy and keys to economic growth, while "big business" is often vilified. Even in the face of evidence that larger firms are proven to be more likely to stimulate economic growth, American public policy favors small businesses through measures such as lowering taxes or regulatory requirements for firms...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MIT Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.6 ATKLamothe, 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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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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 305.2 SMISummary: My first day, my mind was reeling. "I didn't want to make any mistakes." "I was worried I wouldn't be able to do the job." All of these are common and valid reactions to the first day of employment. But, as this video illustrates, a new hire's nervousness and uncertainty can be the flipside of excitement, ambition, and an eagerness to learn the ins and outs of the company. Topics include the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Menzel, 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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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 DALHorowitz, Sara
Summary: "The progressive twentieth century changed every facet of life for American workers--from how much life you could expect to have, to what you had the right to demand of it. But by 2027, a majority of American workers will go to work every day as a part of the gig economy, and without the traditional employer-sponsored safety net that baby boomers took for granted. And within a decade, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 334 HORCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Business HorowitzEhman, 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...
Format: text
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 KLEHughes, Susan
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 HUGMaloney, 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 MALSummary: Looks at what life is like for children of different countries and how each child can fulfill his or her hopes and ambitions no matter what challenges they face.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK 2006
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J305.23 LIFSummary: 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 WORStrickland, Tessa
Summary: Offers a visual introduction to children from around the world, with an emphasis on what they have in common.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barefoot Books 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 305.2 STRMucha, Laura
Summary: "Find out what children eat all around the world in this beautifully illustrated book, written by bestselling poet and author Laura Mucha, alongside trained chef and food writer Ed Smith. From biltong to biryani, papaya to passionfruit, and ramen to roti, there are so many different dishes and delicacies all around the world. In this fascinating book, young children can learn all about what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nosy Crow Inc. 2023
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J 641.5 MUCStone, 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
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 305.4 STOWatters, 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