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Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"Workplace positivity expert Shola Richards (Making Work Work) explores a radical new concept for rethinking our personal, professional, and social lives: togetherness."--
The African philosophy of Ubuntu embraces the belief that we are universally connected to each other. Richards suggests it could transform the way we treat others, making us kinder and more respectful to others, on and off the job. He believes that the illusion that we are more...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
Decades before the American Revolution, Benjamin Franklin lamented that English settlers were constantly fleeing over to the Indians -- but Indians almost never did the same. Tribal society has been exerting an almost gravitational pull on Westerners for hundreds of years, and the reason lies deep in our evolutionary past as a communal species. The most recent example of that attraction is combat veterans who come home to find themselves missing the...
Author
Series
Kids of the Polk Street School volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Emily Arrow has two problems, trying to work in her invention group with bossy Linda Lorca in charge and thinking of a wedding present for Ms. Vincent, the student teacher.
Author
Series
Clique novels. Original series volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Following Christmas break, the girls are back together, but everything seems different with the addition of Alicia's cousin from Spain who is spending the semester at Octavian Country Day School.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Returning for her senior year at an exclusive private school and poised to become the new "Master of the Universe," a teenaged girl falls from social glory and must scrabble her way back to the top using strategic effort and the help of her best friend.
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Series
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
A stevedore on the San Francisco docks in the 1940s, Hoffer wrote philosophical treatises examining mass movements--from Christianity in its infancy to the national uprisings of modern times. His analysis of the psychology of mass movements is a brilliant and frightening study of the mind of the fanatic
Author
Pub. Date
1995
Description
Out of Control chronicles the dawn of a new era in which the machines and systems that drive our economy are so complex and autonomous as to be indistinguishable from living things. Kevin Kelly is Executive Editor of Wired, the new bible of the techno-culture. Formerly Publisher and Editor of Whole Earth Review, he has been instrumental in helping launch a number of cultural innovations: The Hacker's Conference; Cyberthon; the first virtual-reality...
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Description
"The Empowerment Manual is a comprehensive guide for those seeking to foster vision, trust, accountability and responsibility through shared power and bottom-up leadership. This desperately needed toolkit is key to: understanding group dynamics; facilitating communication and collective decision-making; dealing effectively with difficult people."--P. [4] of cover.
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"From National Book Award finalist and "one of our most gifted writers" (Chicago Tribune), Charles Baxter, a timely and unsettling new novel about the people drawn to and unmoored by a local activist group more dangerous than it appears. Brettigan's son, a once promising actor, has gone missing, and despite the fact that his wife, Alma, knows he left on purpose, she has been searching for him all over the city. She checks the usual places, churches,...
Author
Series
Private novels. Main series volume 5
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Reed Brennan arrived at Easton Academy expecting to find an idyllic private school experience - challenging classes, adorably preppy boys, and a chance to create a new life for herself. Instead she discovered lies, deception, blackmail, and murder.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
A poignant look at empathetic encounters between staunch ideological rivals, all centered around our common need for food.
While America's new reality appears to be a deeply divided body politic, many are wondering how we can or should move forward from here. Can political or social divisiveness be healed? Is empathy among people with very little ideological common ground possible? In A Decent Meal, Michael Carolan finds answers to these fundamental...