In Their Own Words: A History of the American Negro, 1916-1966 -- by Milton Meltzer (Author) (Book - Child)
"The concept of their own words is what distinguishes this well compiled history of a people." From Choosing Books for Kids
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Age groups: School Age (6-12)
The Physician's Essential Mba: What Every Physician Leader Needs to Know -- by Michael J. Stahl, Peter J. Dean (Authors) (Book)
"Book News, Inc. Managed health care has physicians juggling their white coats and business suits. In 16 chapters (each with a glossary) devoted to bridging this cultural and skills gap, management...
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Age groups: Adulthood (22+)
Questioning Identity: Gender, Class, Nation (Understanding Social Change S.) -- by Kath Woodward (Author) (Book)
"Questioning Identity: Gender, Class, Nation provides an exploration of identity as a contemporary concern in everyday life and as a key concept in social science. Drawing on work from a variety of...
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Age groups: Adulthood (22+)
How the Other Half Lives -- by Jacob Riis (Author) (Book)
"How the Other Half Lives is a riveting account of life in New York's Lower East Side tenements of the last century written by one of the Progressive Era's preeminent reformers. Drawn from the...
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Age groups: Adolescence (13-21), Adulthood (22+)
Achieving Balance (Book - Parent)
"36-page workbook addresses balance of work and family; Interactive elements help build skills; Achieve planning, communicating, and delegating skills." --from the publisher
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Age groups: Adulthood (22+)
A New Coat for Anna -- by Harriet Ziefert (Author) (Book - Child)
"Even though there is no money, Anna's mother finds a way to make Anna a badly needed winter coat." Annotation (barnesandnoble.com)
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Age groups: Preschool/Kindergarten (3-5), School Age (6-12)
Ending Poverty -- by Robin Marris (Author) (Book)
"This book analyses the economic forces that account for poverty and the social and political issues that result in the world's gross imbalance of wealth. The distinguished economist Robin Marris...
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Age groups: Adulthood (22+)
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl -- by Anne Frank (Author) (Book - Child)
"Born in 1929, Anne Frank received a blank diary on her 13th birthday, just weeks before she and her family went into hiding in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam. Her marvelously detailed, engagingly personal...
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Age groups: School Age (6-12), Adolescence (13-21)
Battling Resistance to Antibiotics and Pesticides: An Economic Approach -- by Ramanan Laxminarayan (Author) (Book)
"The increasing resistance of bacteria to antibiotics, and pests to pesticides, threatens to undo some of the most remarkable advances made in public health and agriculture during the past century....
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Age groups: Adulthood (22+)
The Lenses of Gender: Transforming the Debate on Sexual Inequality -- by Sandra Bem (Author) (Book)
"In this book a leading theorist on sex and gender discusses how hidden assumptions embedded in our cultural discourses, social institutions, and individual psyches perpetuate male power and oppress...
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Age groups: Adulthood (22+)