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  Beyond Your Bubble - How to...

  Tania Israel

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  As featured in the New York Times, the Washington Post, TED Talks, and the Orange County Register, this practical, politically neutral book offers concrete skills for holding meaningful conversations that cut across today's intense political divide, showing listeners how to connect to the people in their lives. 
   
   
   
  Political polarization is at an all-time high, and the consequences for our personal relationships are significant. Many people have friends and family members with whom they feel they can no longer communicate because of their extreme political views. In this book, psychologist Tania Israel presents her program for helping people have meaningful, constructive conversations with those they disagree with politically. 
   
      
   
  Chapters show listeners how to develop and use the scientifically-proven skills that are the foundation of constructive conversation, including strategies for effective listening, managing emotions, and understanding someone else's perspective, as well as finding common ground, avoiding self-righteousness, and telling your own story. Throughout, conversation prompts, practical exercises, case examples, and self-quizzes help listeners visualize and practice starting, sustaining, and ending challenging conversations.

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  Women Who Invented the Sixties -...

  Steve Golin

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  Women Who Invented the Sixties tells the story of how four women helped define the 1960s and made a lasting impression for decades to follow. 
   
   
   
  In 1960, Ella Baker played the key role in the founding of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, which became an essential organization for students during the civil rights movement and the model for the antiwar and women's movements. In 1961, Jane Jacobs published The Death and Life of Great American Cities, changing the shape of urban planning irrevocably. In 1962, Rachel Carson published Silent Spring, creating the modern environmental movement. And in 1963, Betty Friedan wrote The Feminine Mystique, which sparked second-wave feminism and created lasting changes for women. Their four separate interventions helped, together, to end the 1950s and invent the 1960s. 
   
   
   
  Women Who Invented the Sixties situates each of these four women in the 1950s—Baker's early activism with the NAACP and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Jacobs's work with Architectural Forum and her growing involvement in neighborhood protest, Carson's conservation efforts and publications, and Friedan's work as a labor journalist and the discrimination she faced—before exploring their contributions to the 1960s and the movements they each helped shape.

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  Incredible True Stories for...

  Diana Reinhart

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  Think nothing can tear kids away from their screens? Challenge accepted! 
  Incredible True Stories for Curious Kids isn't just another fact book. It's a collection of surprising, real-life stories told through fun characters and dialogue that make kids forget they're actually learning. 
  From a teenager who found a planet during his summer internship to mushrooms that put on their own light show, each tale proves reality is more incredible than fiction. 
  Inside Incredible True Stories for Curious Kids, you'll discover true stories that make perfect "Wait, that actually happened?!" moments: 
  - The octopus that pulled off the greatest aquarium escape in history 
  - How a frustrated chef's revenge on a picky customer accidentally created potato chips 
  - Why your head is literally older than your feet (thanks, Einstein!) 
  - The bird that perfectly mimics chainsaws, car alarms, and camera shutters 
  - How a moldy sandwich forgotten in a lab saved millions of lives 
  - The lake where you literally cannot sink, no matter how hard you try 
  - The day it rained frozen lizards in Florida 
  - How broken guitar equipment created Queen's stadium anthem 
  What makes this audiobook actually cool: 
  - 7 themed chapters: Wild World, Accidental Inventions, Sports & Gaming, Future Tech, Pop Culture, Mind-Blowing Science, and Unstoppable People 
  - Bite-sized stories 
  - Something for everyone: Stories span diverse interests from sports to science, technology to history, animals to art and pop culture 
  - Screen-time alternative that actually works: Stories just as engaging as digital content but gives kids impressive knowledge to share at school, with friends, or at the dinner table 
  Each story is told in kid-friendly language with just the right amount of humor and dialogue to keep even the most tech-distracted young reader engaged.

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  Animals on the Farm

  Kim Mitzo Thompson, Karen Mitzo...

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  Kids will love this playful story about animals that live on a farm and the wonderful sounds that they make. Simple sentence structures and repetitive words will encourage young children to fall in love with learning to read.  Kids will enjoy following along word-for-word with the recorded story that features sound effects and professional voices to help children develop vocabulary and improve listening skills.  This reader features adorable art to engage young learners.

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  The Little Book of Christmas and...

  Anonyme

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  From Celtic druids and Viking Yule to the outright banning of Christmas for 400 years, The Broons, first footing and the Loony Dook, this is a joyous miscellany that showcases the creative, elaborate and sometimes downright bizarre aspects of Scottish Christmas and New Year, from the ancient past to the more recent present. It includes different local traditions, from those practised in the Borders all the way to the islands of Orkney and Shetland, as well as the nationwide pastimes enjoyed by everyone.
  The book is packed with tradition, lore and legend, as well as poems, stories, carols, recipes, history, jokes and fun facts. Illustrated throughout with line drawings and black and white photographs.
  Best enjoyed in front of an open fire with a glass of whisky and a black bun.

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  Perfecting the Past in Spanish -...

  Gordon Smtih Durán, Cynthia...

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  Querido estudiante: 
  Thank you for taking an interest in this book. We are sure that you will be very glad you did. Why? Simply because once you have worked through the straightforward systems, the easy explanations and the practical exercises found here, you will be able to do the following with confidence: 
  •Use Ser and Estar accurately. 
  •Choose intelligently between the Preterite and Imperfect Past. 
  •Know how to say WAS and WERE correctly in Spanish. 
  •Understand and utilise the Perfect Past tenses....and so much more. 
  Talking in the Past is a challenge that you can overcome! This book has been designed and written for every passionate student of the Spanish language who currently struggles to talk in the past. We have created some simple-to-follow systems that will clear up the mystery of when and how you choose each tense correctly. Just work through the book in the order that we have presented it to you and we promise you that the mists will clear and any confusion you may have had in the past, about the past, will disappear forever. 
  un saludo, 
  Gordon y Cynthia. 
  LightSpeed Spanish

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