Children's Health, Building Toward a Better Future

Children's Health, Building Toward a Better Future
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Total Pages : 56
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ISBN-10 : PSU:000043069064
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Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Synopsis Children's Health, Building Toward a Better Future by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Health and the Environment

Beautiful Trouble

Beautiful Trouble
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Publisher : OR Books
Total Pages : 187
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ISBN-10 : 9781939293169
ISBN-13 : 1939293162
Rating : 4/5 (69 Downloads)

Synopsis Beautiful Trouble by : Andrew Boyd

Banksy, the Yes Men, Gandhi, Starhawk: the accumulated wisdom of decades of creative protest is now in the hands of the next generation of change-makers, thanks to Beautiful Trouble. Sophisticated enough for veteran activists, accessible enough for newbies, this compact pocket edition of the bestselling Beautiful Trouble is a book that’s both handy and inexpensive. Showcasing the synergies between artistic imagination and shrewd political strategy, this generously illustrated volume can easily be slipped into your pocket as you head out to the streets. This is for everyone who longs for a more beautiful, more just, more livable world – and wants to know how to get there. Includes a new introduction by the editors. Contributors include: Celia Alario • Andy Bichlbaum • Nadine Bloch • L. M. Bogad • Mike Bonnano • Andrew Boyd • Kevin Buckland • Doyle Canning • Samantha Corbin • Stephen Duncombe • Simon Enoch • Janice Fine • Lisa Fithian • Arun Gupta • Sarah Jaffe • John Jordan • Stephen Lerner • Zack Malitz • Nancy L. Mancias • Dave Oswald Mitchell • Tracey Mitchell • Mark Read • Patrick Reinsborough • Joshua Kahn Russell • Nathan Schneider • John Sellers • Matthew Skomarovsky • Jonathan Matthew Smucker • Starhawk • Eric Stoner • Harsha Walia

Toward a Brighter Future

Toward a Brighter Future
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Total Pages : 28
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ISBN-10 : MINN:31951D015350792
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Rating : 4/5 (92 Downloads)

Synopsis Toward a Brighter Future by : R. John Rapsys

Toward the Future

Toward the Future
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Publisher : Mariner Books
Total Pages : 228
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ISBN-10 : 0156907801
ISBN-13 : 9780156907804
Rating : 4/5 (01 Downloads)

Synopsis Toward the Future by : Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

"A Helen and Kurt Wolff book." Translation of Les directions de l'avenir. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Working toward an Equitable and Prosperous Future for All

Working toward an Equitable and Prosperous Future for All
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 188
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ISBN-10 : 9781475847260
ISBN-13 : 1475847262
Rating : 4/5 (60 Downloads)

Synopsis Working toward an Equitable and Prosperous Future for All by : Jill Casner-Lotto

Community colleges serve as a critical gateway to English-language instruction, higher education, workforce training, and civic engagement for many immigrants and refugees looking to gain an economic foothold in the labor market and integrate into the social fabric of their communities. Coming from various walks of life with different goals and aspirations, immigrants and refugees have turned to community colleges to help them further their education, prepare for citizenship, or launch new careers. At a time when our nation is facing bitter political divides over its immigration policies and gridlock at the federal level, this book tells a different story: It showcases the exemplary initiatives of community colleges and their partners working together at local and state levels to integrate immigrants and refugees into the economic, social, and cultural fabric of our communities and our country, and it illustrates the various ways immigrant and refugee students enrich campus life, strengthen communities, and benefit our economy. This book shares the perspectives of community college CEOs and examines the role of leadership in adopting institution-wide strategies and allocating resources that have advanced immigrant and refugee integration on campus and in the community. We also learn how front-line practitioners make those strategies work through educational and career pathways that have enabled immigrants and refugees to pursue their academic and career goals and contribute to the economic prosperity and cultural vibrancy of their communities.

Toward A Better Life

Toward A Better Life
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Publisher : Prometheus Books
Total Pages : 385
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ISBN-10 : 9781616143954
ISBN-13 : 1616143959
Rating : 4/5 (54 Downloads)

Synopsis Toward A Better Life by : Peter Morton Coan

This book offers a balanced, poignant, and often moving portrait of America’s immigrants over more than a century. The author has organized the book by decades so that readers can easily find the time period most relevant to their experience or that of family members. The first part covers the Ellis Island era, the second part America’s new immigrants—from the closing of Ellis Island in 1955 to the present. Also included is a comprehensive appendix of statistics showing immigration by country and decade from 1890 to the present, a complete list of famous immigrants, and much more. This rewarding, engrossing volume documents the diverse mosaic of America in the words of the people from many lands, who for more than a century have made our country what it is today. It distills the larger, hot-topic issue of national immigration down to the personal level of the lives of those who actually lived it.

Cleaner Production

Cleaner Production
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 435
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ISBN-10 : 9783030231651
ISBN-13 : 3030231658
Rating : 4/5 (51 Downloads)

Synopsis Cleaner Production by : Francisco José Gomes da Silva

This book provides an overview of cleaner production, including how regulations have evolved, and presents a broad perspective on how it is being developed. Presenting several practical examples and applications of modern clean production technologies, it provides readers with ideas on how to extend these practices to other industry sectors in order to contribute to a better environment in the future. The authors start from the initial concepts of how to implement new cleaner production systems, before collecting recent developments in the area and demonstrating practical ways in which the latest knowledge can be applied. It motivates readers to develop new ideas on how to improve manufacturing systems to save energy and generate less waste, and discusses strategies on how to save, reuse and adapt materials, as well as techniques to reduce the waste and pollution produced. This book serves as a reference resource for industrial management engineers and researchers, and is also of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students looking for insights into cleaner production in industry.

Toward a Brighter Future for the Elderly

Toward a Brighter Future for the Elderly
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Total Pages : 76
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ISBN-10 : UIUC:30112104132011
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Rating : 4/5 (11 Downloads)

Synopsis Toward a Brighter Future for the Elderly by : United States. President's Task Force on the Aging

Education and Social Media

Education and Social Media
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Publisher : MIT Press
Total Pages : 267
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ISBN-10 : 9780262034470
ISBN-13 : 0262034476
Rating : 4/5 (70 Downloads)

Synopsis Education and Social Media by : Christine Greenhow

How are widely popular social media such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram transforming how teachers teach, how kids learn, and the very foundations of education? What controversies surround the integration of social media in students' lives? The past decade has brought increased access to new media, and with this, new opportunities and challenges for education. In this book, leading scholars from education, law, communications, sociology, and cultural studies explore the digital transformation now taking place in a variety of educational contexts. The contributors examine such topics as social media usage in schools, online youth communities, and distance learning in developing countries; the disruption of existing educational models of how knowledge is created and shared; privacy; accreditation; and the tension between the new ease of sharing and copyright laws. Case studies examine teaching media in K-12 schools and at universities; tuition-free, open education powered by social media, as practiced by University of the People; new financial models for higher education; the benefits and challenges of MOOCS (Massive Open Online Courses); social media and teacher education; and the civic and individual advantages of teens' participatory play.

A More Just Future

A More Just Future
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 224
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ISBN-10 : 9781982157623
ISBN-13 : 1982157623
Rating : 4/5 (23 Downloads)

Synopsis A More Just Future by : Dolly Chugh

Winner of the 2024 Getting To We Words Create Worlds Award In the vein of Think Again and Do Better, a revolutionary, “welcome, and urgent invitation” (Angela Duckworth, #1 New York Times bestselling author) to explore the emotional relationship we have with our country’s complicated and whitewashed history so that we can build a better future. As we grapple with news stories about our country’s racial fault lines, our challenge is not just to learn about the past, but also to cope with the “belief grief” that unlearning requires. If you are on the emotional journey of reckoning with the past, such as the massacre of Black Americans in Tulsa, the killing of Native American children in compulsory “residential schools” designed to destroy their culture, and the incarceration of Japanese Americans, you are not alone. The seeds of today’s inequalities were sown in past events like these. The time to unlearn the whitewashed history we believed was true is now. As historians share these truths, we will need psychologists to help us navigate the shame, guilt, disbelief, and despair many of us feel. In A More Just Future, Dolly Chugh, award-winning professor, social psychologist, and author of the acclaimed The Person You Mean to Be, invites us to dismantle the systems built by our forebearers and work toward a more just future. Through heartrending personal histories and practical advice, Chugh gives us the psychological tools we need to grapple with the truth of our country with “one of the most moving and important behavioral science books of the last decade” (Katy Milkman, author of How to Change).