Frieda Makes a Difference

Frieda Makes a Difference
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Publisher : UN
Total Pages : 52
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ISBN-10 : 9211014093
ISBN-13 : 9789211014099
Rating : 4/5 (93 Downloads)

Synopsis Frieda Makes a Difference by : United Nations

Join Frieda as she learns how to make a difference in the world! This is the story about a young girl named Frieda who embarks on a wonderful adventure to bring about positive change in the world. One day, Ana from the United Nations visits Frieda's school to teach her class about the Sustainable Development Goals - the world's plan to reduce poverty and protect the planet by 2030. Frieda develops a global perspective and is encouraged to take action against the biggest issues of our day: from combating climate change and protecting endangered species to ending poverty and fighting inequality. But most important, Frieda learns that 'everyone must work together to make the world much better for all'. With colourful illustrations, engaging text, and tips on how to change the world, children will discover what they can do to make a difference' in their lives and the lives around them.

Dimples Delight

Dimples Delight
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Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
Total Pages : 65
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ISBN-10 : 9781554696031
ISBN-13 : 1554696038
Rating : 4/5 (31 Downloads)

Synopsis Dimples Delight by : Frieda Wishinsky

Lawrence hates being teased about his dimples, but nothing he does seems to make any difference. Joe goes right on teasing him, and the teasing gets meaner and meaner. Finally, Lawrence notices something about his friend Stewart that may provide the tool he needs to tease-proof himself once and for all.

Try It!

Try It!
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 36
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ISBN-10 : 9781534460089
ISBN-13 : 153446008X
Rating : 4/5 (89 Downloads)

Synopsis Try It! by : Mara Rockliff

Meet fearless Frieda Caplan—the produce pioneer who changed the way Americans eat by introducing exciting new fruits and vegetables, from baby carrots to blood oranges to kiwis—in this brightly illustrated nonfiction picture book! In 1956, Frieda Caplan started working at the Seventh Street Produce Market in Los Angeles. Instead of competing with the men in the business with their apples, potatoes, and tomatoes, Frieda thought, why not try something new? Staring with mushrooms, Frieda began introducing fresh and unusual foods to her customers—snap peas, seedless watermelon, mangos, and more! This groundbreaking woman brought a whole world of delicious foods to the United States, forever changing the way we eat. Frieda Caplan was always willing to try something new—are you?

To Redeem One Person is to Redeem the World

To Redeem One Person is to Redeem the World
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Publisher : Other Press, LLC
Total Pages : 530
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ISBN-10 : 9781590511831
ISBN-13 : 1590511832
Rating : 4/5 (31 Downloads)

Synopsis To Redeem One Person is to Redeem the World by : Gail A. Hornstein

A fascinating and dramatic account of a controversial figure in twentieth-century psychiatry. In this “dazzling and provocative”* biography, Gail Hornstein brings back to life the maverick psychiatrist Frieda Fromm-Reichmann. To Redeem One Person Is to Redeem the World tells the extraordinary life story of the German-Jewish refugee analyst who accomplished what Freud and almost everyone else thought impossible: she successfully treated schizophrenics and other seriously disturbed mental patients with intensive psychotherapy, rather than medication, lobotomy, or shock treatment. Written with unprecedented access to a rich archive of clinical materials and newly discovered records and documents from across Europe and the United States, Hornstein’s meticulous and “delightfully lucid”** biography definitively reclaims the life of Fromm-Reichmann. The therapist at the core of Joanne Greenberg’s I Never Promised You a Rose Garden is also the analyst who had an affair with, and later married, her patient Erich Fromm. A pioneer in her field, she made history as the pivotal figure of the unique and legendary mental hospital, Chestnut Lodge. “A lively, well-written account of a charismatic leader in an important period of psychiatry’s history.” —Psychology Today “At a time when little pills are seen as a quick fix for almost everything, this book is well worth taking time to read and contemplate.” —Philadelphia Inquirer *Publishers Weekly **Kirkus Reviews

Becoming Eve

Becoming Eve
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Publisher : Seal Press
Total Pages : 272
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ISBN-10 : 9781580059176
ISBN-13 : 1580059171
Rating : 4/5 (76 Downloads)

Synopsis Becoming Eve by : Abby Stein

The powerful coming-of-age story of an ultra-Orthodox child who was born to become a rabbinic leader and instead became a woman Abby Stein was raised in a Hasidic Jewish community in Brooklyn, isolated in a culture that lives according to the laws and practices of eighteenth-century Eastern Europe, speaking only Yiddish and Hebrew and shunning modern life. Stein was born as the first son in a dynastic rabbinical family, poised to become a leader of the next generation of Hasidic Jews. But Abby felt certain at a young age that she was a girl. She suppressed her desire for a new body while looking for answers wherever she could find them, from forbidden religious texts to smuggled secular examinations of faith. Finally, she orchestrated a personal exodus from ultra-Orthodox manhood to mainstream femininity-a radical choice that forced her to leave her home, her family, her way of life. Powerful in the truths it reveals about biology, culture, faith, and identity, Becoming Eve poses the enduring question: How far will you go to become the person you were meant to be?

Taking Action to End Poverty

Taking Action to End Poverty
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0778766594
ISBN-13 : 9780778766599
Rating : 4/5 (94 Downloads)

Synopsis Taking Action to End Poverty by : Rebecca Sjonger

"This timely book examines the elimination of global poverty-one of the United Nation's sustainable development goals. From tackling hunger to creating fair work opportunities, readers will gain an understanding of how all the UN goals work together, and learn concrete strategies to inspire change. Profiles of youth-led movements and other collaborative efforts to end poverty will empower readers to get involved themselves and become change-makers"--]cProvided by publisher.

The Sustainable Development Goals

The Sustainable Development Goals
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Publisher : UN
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 9211013690
ISBN-13 : 9789211013696
Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Synopsis The Sustainable Development Goals by : United Nations

On 25 September 2015, countries adopted a set of 17 goals to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure prosperity for all as part of a new sustainable development agenda to be achieved by 2030. For the goals to be reached, everyone needs to do their part: governments, the private sector, civil society and people like you. Elyx, the United Nations' digital ambassador, uses various expressions and actions to help demonstrate the meaning of each goal. Created by French artist YAK, Elyx has no race, sex or nationality and is a universal character promoting the importance of the United Nations' work.

The Bluest Eye

The Bluest Eye
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 226
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ISBN-10 : 9780307278449
ISBN-13 : 0307278441
Rating : 4/5 (49 Downloads)

Synopsis The Bluest Eye by : Toni Morrison

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner—a powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity that asks questions about race, class, and gender with characteristic subtly and grace. In Morrison’s acclaimed first novel, Pecola Breedlove—an 11-year-old Black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others—prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment. Here, Morrison’s writing is “so precise, so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry” (The New York Times).

Only Ever Yours

Only Ever Yours
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Publisher : Quercus
Total Pages : 335
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ISBN-10 : 9781623654559
ISBN-13 : 1623654556
Rating : 4/5 (59 Downloads)

Synopsis Only Ever Yours by : Louise O'Neill

Where women are created for the pleasure of men, beauty is the first duty of every girl. In Louise O'Neill's world of Only Every Yours women are no longer born naturally, girls (called "eves") are raised in Schools and trained in the arts of pleasing men until they come of age. Freida and Isabel are best friends. Now, aged sixteen and in their final year, they expect to be selected as companions--wives to powerful men. All they have to do is ensure they stay in the top ten beautiful girls in their year. The alternatives--life as a concubine, or a chastity (teaching endless generations of girls)--are too horrible to contemplate. But as the intensity of final year takes hold, the pressure to be perfect mounts. Isabel starts to self-destruct, putting her beauty--her only asset--in peril. And then into this sealed female environment, the boys arrive, eager to choose a bride. Freida must fight for her future--even if it means betraying the only friend, the only love, she has ever known.

My Heart Will Not Sit Down

My Heart Will Not Sit Down
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 41
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ISBN-10 : 9780375845697
ISBN-13 : 0375845690
Rating : 4/5 (97 Downloads)

Synopsis My Heart Will Not Sit Down by : Mara Rockliff

Unable to rest after learning about the Great Depression taking place in America, Kedi, a young Cameroonian, resolves to help starving families in a faraway country, in a story inspired by true events. By the author of the Milo & Jazz Mysteries.