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The Battle for Clarity

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Are you stuck, spinning your wheels, or just surviving day to day? What if the clarity you need to win in life has been within you all along — waiting to be discovered? In The Battle for Clarity: 4 Steps to Personal Victory from Sunzi’s Art of War, transformational speaker, award-winning educator, and life strategist David Boyd guides you through an empowering journey of self-discovery, inspired ... Read more

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Are you stuck, spinning your wheels, or just surviving day to day? What if the clarity you need to win in life has been within you all along — waiting to be discovered? In The Battle for Clarity: 4 Steps to Personal Victory from Sunzi’s Art of War, transformational speaker, award-winning educator, and life strategist David Boyd guides you through an empowering journey of self-discovery, inspired
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The Rights of Nature

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Winner of the Green Prize for Sustainable LiteratureA growing body of law around the world supports the idea that humans are not the only species with rights; and if nature has rights, then humans have responsibilities.“Expertly written case studies in which legalese is accessibly distilled … empowering reminders that the seemingly inevitable slide toward planetary destruction can be halted.” — ... Read more

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From the author of The Hole and The Factory, a collection of strange and wonderful tales of humans, animals, and plantsCrabs scurrying over a landfill. Huge tadpoles writhing in a pond. A gecko stuck to the window. A sudden invasion of ants. Nature mysteriously creeps in and overruns the realm of humans in this stunning collection of stories.Hiroko Oyamada masterfully conveys the sense that
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The Right to a Healthy Environment

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by David R. Boyd ...

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Canada has abundant natural wealth, beautiful landscapes, vast forests, and thousands of rivers and lakes. The land defines Canadians as a people, yet the country has one of the industrialized world's worst environmental records. Building on his previous book, The Environmental Rights Revolution (2012), David R. Boyd describes how recognizing the constitutional right to a healthy environment could ... Read more

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Canada has abundant natural wealth, beautiful landscapes, vast forests, and thousands of rivers and lakes. The land defines Canadians as a people, yet the country has one of the industrialized world's worst environmental records. Building on his previous book, The Environmental Rights Revolution (2012), David R. Boyd describes how recognizing the constitutional right to a healthy environment could
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Night on the Galactic Railroad

by Kenji Miyazawa ...

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The most renowned work by the legendary Japanese writer who inspired Studio Ghibli, Night on the Galactic Railroad is a classic for readers of My Father's Dragon and A Wrinkle in Time. An adventure story steeped in profound themes.On the eve of the Milky Way festival, Giovanni rushes past his classmates who are busy preparing for the celebration. He must get to his job at the printing office where ... Read more

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The most renowned work by the legendary Japanese writer who inspired Studio Ghibli, Night on the Galactic Railroad is a classic for readers of My Father's Dragon and A Wrinkle in Time. An adventure story steeped in profound themes.On the eve of the Milky Way festival, Giovanni rushes past his classmates who are busy preparing for the celebration. He must get to his job at the printing office where
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by Osamu Dazai, David Boyd ...

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