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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.--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2018

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

Lamothe, 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: 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 WHE

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

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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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2001

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

Smith, 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 SMI

Smith, Hedrick.

Summary: Recounts how the American dream has been dismantled over the past forty years by legislative, electoral, and corporate decisions that have compromised the middle class and minimized individual economic and political power.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.91 SMI

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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D'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 DAL

Hughes, 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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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

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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

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

Ehman, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Baker Pub Group 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 394.26 EHM

Small, 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 SMA

Maloney, 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 MAL

Summary: 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: DK 2006

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J305.23 LIF

Strickland, Tessa

Summary: Offers a visual introduction to children from around the world, with an emphasis on what they have in common.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Barefoot Books 2016

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 305.2 STR

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Publisher / Publication Date: Cambridge University Press 2000

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

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

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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

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

Mucha, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Nosy Crow Inc. 2023

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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J 641.5 MUC

Dyer, 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 DYE

Goodwin, Doris Kearns

Summary: "In this culmination of five decades of acclaimed studies in presidential history, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin offers an illuminating exploration into the early development, growth, and exercise of leadership. Are leaders born or made? Where does ambition come from? How does adversity affect the growth of leadership? Does the man make the times or do the times make the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2018

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.09 GOO

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.09 GOO

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.09 GOO

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