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Eleven

by Paul Hanley ...

Eleven billion people will crowd this marvelous planet by century’s end. If the global economy were to grow five-fold during this period as predicted, humanity’s ecological footprint would exceed Earth’s biocapacity by 400%. We need to chart a new course to the future. The sweeping changes that make a ‘full world’ work—involving dual processes of destruction and reconstruction—will transform ... Read more

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Eleven billion people will crowd this marvelous planet by century’s end. If the global economy were to grow five-fold during this period as predicted, humanity’s ecological footprint would exceed Earth’s biocapacity by 400%. We need to chart a new course to the future. The sweeping changes that make a ‘full world’ work—involving dual processes of destruction and reconstruction—will transform
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Adasiyyih

The Story of 'Abdu'l-Baha's Model Farming Community

by Paul Hanley, Patrick Falso, Carlos Esparza ...

In 1901, 'Abdu'l-Bahá purchased land in what is now Jordan that would become the village of 'Adasíyyih. Through His guidance and unending inspiration, Bahá'í pioneers from Iran would soon settle there and transform a degraded parcel of land--which 'Abdu'l-Bahá reportedly described as the most inhospitable place on Earth--into the site of a thriving farm and prosperous community whose residents ... Read more

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In 1901, 'Abdu'l-Bahá purchased land in what is now Jordan that would become the village of 'Adasíyyih. Through His guidance and unending inspiration, Bahá'í pioneers from Iran would soon settle there and transform a degraded parcel of land--which 'Abdu'l-Bahá reportedly described as the most inhospitable place on Earth--into the site of a thriving farm and prosperous community whose residents
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Richard St. Barbe Baker: Child of the Trees

by Paul Hanley ...

Illustrated by Elizabeth Konn ...

Series Book 3 - Change Maker Series
An inspiring biography aimed at middle grade readers!Richard St. Barbe Baker dedicated his life to planting trees all over the world to help cool our overheated environment. He was called "the world's greatest conservationist" and was a pioneer in protecting the world's forests, creating sustainable forestry methods, and educating people about the importance of planting trees. He was the founder ... Read more

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An inspiring biography aimed at middle grade readers!Richard St. Barbe Baker dedicated his life to planting trees all over the world to help cool our overheated environment. He was called "the world's greatest conservationist" and was a pioneer in protecting the world's forests, creating sustainable forestry methods, and educating people about the importance of planting trees. He was the founder
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Kid's Treasury: 99 Classic Children's Books to Enlighten and Educate

A Treasury of Fairy Tales, Adventures, Nature Studies, Myths, and Moral Classics

by C. E. Smith, Louey Chisholm, Harrison Weir, Harriet Putnam, Thomas Lambert Sappington, Carl Sandburg, Patten Beard, Margaret Warner Morley, Hector Malot, Charles Dickens, Catharine Shaw, Evelyn Sharp, Johanna Spyri, Heinrich Hoffmann, Roy Rutherford Bailey, Pamela Grey, E. Nesbit, Edward Stratemeyer, Loïs Bates, Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Josephine Daskam Bacon, John Habberton, James Otis, Padraic Colum, Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb, E. Louise Smythe, F. J. Cross, Vesta J. Farnsworth, Douglas English, Francis Rolt-Wheeler, Ella Rodman Church, H. Lee M. Pike, Luna May Ennis, Claire Martha Coburn, Florence Emma Voigt Mendel, Mary F. Nixon-Roulet, Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade, Wm. H. Meadowcroft, Etta Blaisdell McDonald, James H. Shaw, Georgia Eldridge Hanley, W. Harcourt Bath, Paul B. Du Chaillu, Norman F. Langford, Jean M. Thompson, W. Warde Fowler, Katharine Elizabeth Dopp, Joseph Grinnell, Elizabeth Grinnell, Alfred John Church, Homer, A. L. O. E., C. M. Stevens, Francis La Flesche, Karl Friedrich Becker, George P. Upton, Paul Hume, Ruth Fox Hume, Rebecca Deming Moore, Helen Mildred Owen, L. WÃ¼rdig, Elisha Noyce, Julia Dalrymple, Henry C. McCook, Jim Kjelgaard, William Shakespeare, Mary Elting, Edith M. Patch, Mary Proctor, Olive Thorne Miller, Kathrine Lois Scobey, Olive Brown Horne, H. R. Hall, Ray Stannard Baker, Bernadine Bailey, E. F. Buckley, Rupert Sargent Holland, Benjamin Brewster, Neltje Blanchan, Burren Laughlin, L. L. Flood, Sarath Kumar Ghosh, Dorothy Crain, Oliver Optic, Dillon Wallace, Charles H. L. Johnston, G. E. Mitton, Mary Macgregor, John Bunyan, Jesse Lyman Hurlbut, Josephine Pollard, May Farinholt Jones, Harriet Pearl Skinner ...

Kid's Treasury: 99 Classic Children's Books to Enlighten and Educate surveys the capacious educational imagination of children's literature, bringing together moral tales, folklore, adventure narratives, animal studies, historical retellings, poetry, drama, and popular fiction. Its range moves from domestic realism and cautionary fantasy to natural-history writing and inherited classical ... Read more

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Kid's Treasury: 99 Classic Children's Books to Enlighten and Educate surveys the capacious educational imagination of children's literature, bringing together moral tales, folklore, adventure narratives, animal studies, historical retellings, poetry, drama, and popular fiction. Its range moves from domestic realism and cautionary fantasy to natural-history writing and inherited classical
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Stress Wisely

How to Be Well in an Unwell World

by Robyne Hanley-Dafoe ...

Narrated by Robyne Hanley-Dafoe, Paul Stefano ...

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9 hours 1 min

It’s time to make stress your ally, not your enemy.Stress is inherent to the human condition. When not properly understood, stress can wreak havoc on our mental and physical health, our relationships, and our lives. But it doesn’t have to be that way.In Stress Wisely, award-winning psychology scholar and resiliency expert Dr. Robyne Hanley-Dafoe explains how we can be strategic in stressful times ... Read more

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It’s time to make stress your ally, not your enemy.Stress is inherent to the human condition. When not properly understood, stress can wreak havoc on our mental and physical health, our relationships, and our lives. But it doesn’t have to be that way.In Stress Wisely, award-winning psychology scholar and resiliency expert Dr. Robyne Hanley-Dafoe explains how we can be strategic in stressful times
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Recovering 1940s Horror Cinema

Traces of a Lost Decade

by Paul Corupe, David Hanley, Karen Herland, Mark Jancovich, Kier-La Janisse, Peter Marra, Rick Trembles, Blair Davis, Louise Fenton, Anne Golden, Cory Legassic, Ian Olney, Dennis R. Perry, Selma Purac, Gary D. Rhodes ...

The 1940s is a lost decade in horror cinema, undervalued and written out of most horror scholarship. This collection revises, reframes, and deconstructs persistent critical binaries that have been put in place by scholarly discourse to label 1940s horror as somehow inferior to a “classical” period or “canonical” mode of horror in the 1930s, especially as represented by the monster films of ... Read more

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The 1940s is a lost decade in horror cinema, undervalued and written out of most horror scholarship. This collection revises, reframes, and deconstructs persistent critical binaries that have been put in place by scholarly discourse to label 1940s horror as somehow inferior to a “classical” period or “canonical” mode of horror in the 1930s, especially as represented by the monster films of
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An African History of Africa

From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence

by Zeinab Badawi ...

Already a major international bestseller, Zeinab Badawi’s sweeping and much-needed survey of African history traces the continent’s extraordinary legacy from prehistory to the present from the African perspective.“Equal parts gripping and galvanizing. . . . Researched across more than 30 countries, it brings the dazzling civilizations of pre-colonial Africa vividly to life. A book that feels both ... Read more

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Already a major international bestseller, Zeinab Badawi’s sweeping and much-needed survey of African history traces the continent’s extraordinary legacy from prehistory to the present from the African perspective.“Equal parts gripping and galvanizing. . . . Researched across more than 30 countries, it brings the dazzling civilizations of pre-colonial Africa vividly to life. A book that feels both
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Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Delphi Classics)

by Henry David Thoreau, Delphi Classics ...

Series Book 13 - Delphi Series Three
For over a hundred and fifty years, the essays, poetry and journals of the leading transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau have won the admiration of readers, due to the author’s natural observation, symbolic meanings, poetic sensibility, philosophical austerity and practical detail. This comprehensive eBook presents the complete published works of Henry David Thoreau, with numerous illustrations, ... Read more

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For over a hundred and fifty years, the essays, poetry and journals of the leading transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau have won the admiration of readers, due to the author’s natural observation, symbolic meanings, poetic sensibility, philosophical austerity and practical detail. This comprehensive eBook presents the complete published works of Henry David Thoreau, with numerous illustrations,
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Summary and Analysis of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Based on the Book by Yuval Noah Harari

by Worth Books ...

Series series Smart Summaries
So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Yuval Noah Harari's book.Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader.This short summary and analysis of Sapiens includes:Historical contextChapter-by-chapter ... Read more

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So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Yuval Noah Harari's book.Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader.This short summary and analysis of Sapiens includes:Historical contextChapter-by-chapter
... Read more
Let There Be Water

Israel's Solution for a Water-Starved World

by Seth M. Siegel ...

Discover how Israel transformed from a parched land into a water superpower, offering a blueprint for a world facing an imminent water crisis.As every day brings urgent reports of growing water shortages around the world, there is no time to lose in the search for solutions. The U.S. government predicts that forty of our fifty states-and 60 percent of the earth's land surface-will soon face ... Read more

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Discover how Israel transformed from a parched land into a water superpower, offering a blueprint for a world facing an imminent water crisis.As every day brings urgent reports of growing water shortages around the world, there is no time to lose in the search for solutions. The U.S. government predicts that forty of our fifty states-and 60 percent of the earth's land surface-will soon face
... Read more

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CHILDREN'S BOOKS – Premium Illustrated Collection: (Annotated)

Enriched Edition. 11 Novels & 120+ Short Stories, Fairy Tales, Fables & Poems for Children (Including Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm Series & The Arabian Nights)

by Kate Douglas Wiggin, Tristan Quillford ...

Illustrated by Claude A. Shepperson ...

CHILDREN'S BOOKS – Premium Illustrated Collection gathers Kate Douglas Wiggin's fiction and tales for the young into a richly accessible volume, foregrounding her gift for domestic comedy, moral feeling, and luminous characterization. Her prose belongs to the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century tradition of Anglo-American children's literature, where sentiment, ethical education, and ... Read more

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CHILDREN'S BOOKS – Premium Illustrated Collection gathers Kate Douglas Wiggin's fiction and tales for the young into a richly accessible volume, foregrounding her gift for domestic comedy, moral feeling, and luminous characterization. Her prose belongs to the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century tradition of Anglo-American children's literature, where sentiment, ethical education, and
... Read more
Shifting Sands

A Human History of the Sahara

by Judith Scheele ...

A “detailed, often gritty, picture of a fragile world” (The Wall Street Journal) that tells the history of the Sahara from prehistory to the present, showing how Saharans have navigated scarcity, conquest, and the relentless challenges of the desert environmentWhat comes to mind when we think about the Sahara? Rippling sand dunes, sun-blasted expanses, camel drivers and their caravans perhaps. Or ... Read more

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A “detailed, often gritty, picture of a fragile world” (The Wall Street Journal) that tells the history of the Sahara from prehistory to the present, showing how Saharans have navigated scarcity, conquest, and the relentless challenges of the desert environmentWhat comes to mind when we think about the Sahara? Rippling sand dunes, sun-blasted expanses, camel drivers and their caravans perhaps. Or
... Read more

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