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  Social Studies for a Better...

  Katy Swalwell, Noreen Naseem...

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  Plan and deliver a curriculum to help your students connect with the humanity of others! 
   
   
   
  In the wake of 2020, we need today's young learners to be prepared to develop solutions to a host of entrenched and complex issues, including systemic racism, massive environmental problems, deep political divisions, and future pandemics that will severely test the effectiveness and equity of our health policies. What better place to start that preparation than with a social studies curriculum that enables elementary students to envision and build a better world? 
   
   
   
  In this engaging guide two experienced social studies educators unpack the oppressions that so often characterize the elementary curriculum—normalization, idealization, heroification, and dramatization—and show how common pitfalls can be replaced with creative solutions. Whether you're a classroom teacher, methods student, or curriculum coordinator, this is a book that can transform your understanding of the social studies disciplines and their power to disrupt the narratives that maintain current inequities.

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  Aboriginal Australia - A...

  Lillian Brooks

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  Aboriginal Australia represents one of the world’s oldest continuous cultures, with a history that spans over 65,000 years. The Aboriginal peoples of Australia have a deep connection to the land, having lived across the continent for millennia, developing diverse societies, languages, and spiritual beliefs. This rich cultural heritage reflects an extraordinary resilience, as Aboriginal communities have adapted to a wide range of environments, from the arid deserts to lush rainforests. 
  The term "Aboriginal" refers to the diverse Indigenous groups that inhabit Australia, each with their own unique customs, languages, and traditions. There are over 250 distinct language groups, with their own dialects and systems of social organization. These communities have historically been hunter-gatherers, using sophisticated methods of land management, such as controlled fire-stick farming, to ensure the sustainability of their environment. The interconnectedness of land, culture, and spirituality is central to Aboriginal identity, where the landscape itself holds profound cultural significance. The concept of “Country” goes beyond mere geography—it is a living, breathing entity with deep spiritual meaning.

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  How to Fall in Love

  Olivia Werner

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  [How to Fall in Love] invites readers into an intimate exploration of modern connection, weaving together raw emotional insight with razor-sharp social observation. With unflinching honesty and lyrical precision, this groundbreaking guide dismantles our cultural myths about romance while illuminating the subtle complexities of opening one's heart in a digital age. Through masterfully crafted chapters that read like intimate conversations, readers discover how the architecture of love is built not through grand gestures, but in the delicate moments of vulnerability, the quiet courage of remaining open despite past wounds, and the revolutionary act of choosing connection in a world designed for disconnection. This isn't just another dating manual – it's a profound meditation on how we love now, examining the intricate dance between solitude and intimacy, between protecting ourselves and daring to be seen.

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  Down to Earth Dharma - Insight...

  Rebecca Bradshaw

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  Buddhist teachings and heart-centered practices from the "feminine paradigm" to embrace receptivity and bring more balance to your life, relationships, and the world. 
   
   
   
  With deeply thoughtful, lyrical prose, this book invites listeners to engage with the world from a unique perspective that encourages feeling, intuitive understanding, embodiment, interdependence, and sacredness. Weaving together classical Theravada Buddhist teachings and mindfulness practices, the book teaches us when and how to channel our receptive and active orientations—sometimes called the feminine and masculine paradigms—to feel more at home in ourselves and the world and drop more deeply into the Buddhist teachings on suffering and happiness. 
   
   
   
  Rebecca Bradshaw, a respected Buddhist teacher in the Insight Meditation community, offers teachings that are simple yet require us to explore aspects of ourselves that go against much of our social conditioning that values goal-oriented busyness, productivity, independence, outgoing energy, and other “active” qualities. When overemphasized, this orientation can cause destructive emotions and behaviors, but we can counter them by embracing more receptive qualities. The receptive or feminine paradigm takes us deeper into the heart of the classical Buddhist teachings, leading to openness and freedom of the heart-mind.

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  The Art of Trust Building -...

  Dennis Reina, Michelle Reina

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  Master the essential actions that create lasting trust in any relationship, from the world's leading experts in workplace trust.Trust is essential to all relationships, but knowing how to build and maintain it remains elusive. Drawing from three decades of research and consulting, trust experts Dennis and Michelle Reina provide a comprehensive roadmap for creating lasting trust in any relationship.Through actionable frameworks, tools, and stories, listeners will learn essential behaviors that build trust in character, communication, and capability; how to foster an environment of openness where people feel heard and valued; ways to rebuild trust after breaches or betrayals; techniques for strengthening self-trust as the foundation for trusting others; and the role of gratitude in nurturing reciprocal trust. 
   
  With the groundbreaking Reina Individual Trust Scale Assessment and concrete strategies for implementation, this essential guide equips listeners to forge powerful bonds of trust that endure through uncertainty and change.

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  A Pathway to American Renewal -...

  Sr Robert L. Woodson

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  This challenging and inspiring collection of essays constructively frames the story of Black America—not as a tragedy involving helpless victims, but as a model for the nation. Scholars and grassroots leaders recount the history—the gritty, painful, but often triumphant account of what blacks accomplished after slavery was ended. Denied access to the institutions of white America, they built their own churches, schools, hotels, and a host of other successful enterprises. Their resilience produced amazing increases in literacy, family formation, and income. 
   
   
   
  Today's unsung grassroots leaders are the living evidence of the power of resilience. They use their stories of overcoming adversity and their own fallibility to help others. The organizations they create heal their communities. 
   
   
   
  This volume presents the insights of scholars who warn of the dangerous forces that threaten to shackle the ability of blacks to succeed today. They warn that, by accepting the notion that black adversity continues to be the product of systemic racism and is therefore unchangeable, no one would need to step up to the realities of a responsible life. This kind of thinking has led to lowering standards in education and even in the judicial system. The scholars outline positive paths to the future.

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