A World of Three Zeros: The New Economics of Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment, and Zero Net Carbon Emissions

A World of Three Zeros: The New Economics of Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment, and Zero Net Carbon Emissions
by Muhammad Yunus P

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: PublicAffairs (September 11, 2018)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1541742397
• ISBN-13: 978-1541742390
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds

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A winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and bestselling author of Banker to the Poor offers his vision of an emerging new economic system that can save humankind and the planet

Muhammad Yunus, who created microcredit, invented social business, and earned a Nobel Peace Prize for his work in alleviating poverty, is one of today's most trenchant social critics. Now he declares it's time to admit that the capitalist engine is broken--that in its current form it inevitably leads to rampant inequality, massive unemployment, and environmental destruction. We need a new economic system that unleashes altruism as a creative force just as powerful as self-interest.

Is this a pipe dream? Not at all. In the last decade, thousands of people and organizations have already embraced Yunus's vision of a new form of capitalism, launching innovative social businesses designed to serve human needs rather than accumulate wealth. They are bringing solar energy to millions of homes in Bangladesh; turning thousands of unemployed young people into entrepreneurs through equity investments; financing female-owned businesses in cities across the United States; bringing mobility, shelter, and other services to the rural poor in France; and creating a global support network to help young entrepreneurs launch their start-ups.

In A World of Three Zeros, Yunus describes the new civilization emerging from the economic experiments his work has helped to inspire. He explains how global companies like McCain, Renault, Essilor, and Danone got involved with this new economic model through their own social action groups, describes the ingenious new financial tools now funding social businesses, and sketches the legal and regulatory changes needed to jumpstart the next wave of socially driven innovations. And he invites young people, business and political leaders, and ordinary citizens to join the movement and help create the better world we all dream of.

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"A book to make Wall Street quake."―

180 Days of Writing for Third Grade (180 Days of Practice)

180 Days of Writing for Third Grade (180 Days of Practice)
by Kristi Stur

• Age Range: 7 - 9 years
• Grade Level: 3 and up
• Series: 180 Days of Practice
• Paperback: 216 pages
• Publisher: Shell Education; 1 edition (October 1, 2015)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 142581526X
• ISBN-13: 978-1425815264
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 0.5 x 11 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds

Organized in two-week units that align with a single writing standard, 180 Days of Writing provides high-interest themes and allows students to interact with mentor texts during the first week of the unit, and apply their learning during the following week.

Students get practice in all the steps of the writing process: prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing. With daily writing practice, students can gain confidence in their writing skills as they formulate their own opinions and learn to express them.

Creative writing is also included, with narrative pieces and informative/explanatory writing assignments, helping students to find the joy in writing and strengthen language and grammar skills at the same time.

Teachers can use daily practice activities as part of a classroom morning routine, at the beginning of each writing lesson, or as homework. Genre-specific rubrics and data-analysis tools provide authentic assessments that help teachers differentiate instruction. All activities are correlated to College and Career Readiness and other state standards.

Help your students develop strong writing skills that will serve them throughout their school years and beyond.

About Shell Education
Rachelle Cracchiolo started the company with a friend and fellow teacher. Both were eager to share their ideas and passion for education with other classroom leaders. What began as a hobby, selling lesson plans to local stores, became a part-time job after a full day of teaching, and eventually blossomed into Teacher Created Materials. The story continued in 2004 with the launch of Shell Education and the introduction of professional resources and classroom application books designed to support Teacher Created Materials curriculum resources. Today, Teacher Created Materials and Shell Education are two of the most recognized names in educational publishing around the world.

For Horse-Crazy Girls Only: Everything You Want to Know About Horses

For Horse-Crazy Girls Only: Everything You Want to Know About Horses
by Christina Wilsdon P

• Age Range: 8 - 11 years
• Grade Level: 2 - 6
• Hardcover: 160 pages
• Publisher: Feiwel & Friends; 37445th edition (September 28, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312603231
• ISBN-13: 978-0312603236
• Product Dimensions: 6.2 x 0.7 x 9.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.4 ounces

Is your first and second favorite animal a horse? Is your bedroom covered with horse posters on your walls and horse models on your shelves? Would you rather muck out a stall than clean your room? Then you are absolutely, undeniably horse crazy, and For Horse-Crazy Girls Only is the book for you! This is the only comprehensive book about everything a horse-crazy girl needs to know about horses. You'll learn everything from the different breeds of horses, to how a horse's body works, to the quirky little things that make the horse the BEST animal ever. Author Christina Wilsdon even shares ideas for horse-themed parties, and suggestions for the best horse movies to watch with your friends. And that's just the beginning.

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Serial Experiments Lain: Close the World

Serial Experiments Lain: Close the World
by Ryutaro Nakamur

• CD-ROM
• Publisher: Production 2nd (2000)
• Language: Japanese
• ASIN: B000QD78F6

From back cover: "We're all connected. There is the world around us, a world of people, tactile sensation, and culture. There is the weird world, inside the computer, of images, virtual experiences, and a culture of its own. The day after a classmate commits suicide, Lain, a thirteen-year-old girl, discovers how closely the two worlds are linked when she receives an email from the dead girl.

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From back cover: "We're all connected. There is the world around us, a world of people, tactile sensation, and culture. There is the weird world, inside the computer, of images, virtual experiences, and a culture of its own. The day after a classmate commits suicide, Lain, a thirteen-year-old girl, discovers how closely the two worlds are linked when she receives an email from the dead girl.

Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging

Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
by Sebastian Junger P

• Hardcover: 192 pages
• Publisher: Twelve; 1 edition (May 24, 2016)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1455566381
• ISBN-13: 978-1455566389
• Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.8 x 7.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces

Now a New York Times bestseller

We have a strong instinct to belong to small groups defined by clear purpose and understanding--"tribes." This tribal connection has been largely lost in modern society, but regaining it may be the key to our psychological survival.

Decades before the American Revolution, Benjamin Franklin lamented that English settlers were constantly fleeing over to the Indians-but Indians almost never did the same. Tribal society has been exerting an almost gravitational pull on Westerners for hundreds of years, and the reason lies deep in our evolutionary past as a communal species. The most recent example of that attraction is combat veterans who come home to find themselves missing the incredibly intimate bonds of platoon life. The loss of closeness that comes at the end of deployment may explain the high rates of post-traumatic stress disorder suffered by military veterans today.

Combining history, psychology, and anthropology, TRIBE explores what we can learn from tribal societies about loyalty, belonging, and the eternal human quest for meaning. It explains the irony that-for many veterans as well as civilians-war feels better than peace, adversity can turn out to be a blessing, and disasters are sometimes remembered more fondly than weddings or tropical vacations. TRIBE explains why we are stronger when we come together, and how that can be achieved even in today's divided world.

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"Junger has raised one of the most provocative ideas of this campaign season--and accidentally written one of its most intriguing political books."―The New York Times

"There are three excellent reasons to read Sebastian Junger's new book: the clarity of his thought, the elegance of his prose, and the provocativeness of his chosen subject. Within a compact space, the sheer range of his inquiry is astounding."―S. C. Gwynne, New York Times bestselling author of Rebel Yell and Empire of the Summer Moon

"Sebastian Junger has turned the multifaceted problem of returning veterans on its head. It's not so much about what's wrong with the veterans, but what's wrong with us. If we made the changes suggested in TRIBE, not only our returning veterans, but all of us, would be happier and healthier. Please read this book."―Karl Marlantes, New York Times bestselling author of Matterhorn and What It Is Like to Go to War

"Junger uses every word in this slim volume to make a passionate, compelling case for a more egalitarian society."―Booklist

"The author resists the temptation to glorify war as the solution to a nation's mental ills and warns against the tendency "to romanticize Indian life," but he does succeed in showing "the complicated blessings of 'civilization,' " while issuing warnings about divisiveness and selfishness that should resonate in an election year. The themes implicit in the author's bestsellers are explicit in this slim yet illuminating volume."―Kirkus Reviews

"Thought-provoking...a gem."―The Washington Post

"TRIBE is an important wake-up call. Let's hope we don't sleep through the alarm."―Minneapolis Star Tribune

"Compelling...Junger...offers a starting point for mending some of the toxic divisiveness rampant in our current political and cultural climate."―The Boston Globe

"Junger argues with candor and grace for the everlasting remedies of community and connectedness."―O Magazine

"TRIBE is a fascinating, eloquent and thought-provoking book..packed with ideas...It could help us to think more deeply about how to help men and women battered by war to find a new purpose in peace."―The Times of London

Wonder

Wonder
by R. J. Palacio P

• Age Range: 8 - 12 years
• Grade Level: 3 - 7
• Lexile Measure: 790L
• Series: Wonder
• Hardcover: 320 pages
• Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers; 1 edition (February 14, 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0375969020
• ISBN-13: 978-0375869020
• ASIN: 0375869026
• Product Dimensions: 5.8 x 1.1 x 8.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING JULIA ROBERTS, OWEN WILSON, AND JACOB TREMBLAY!

Over 6 million people have read the #1 New York Times bestseller WONDER and have fallen in love with Auggie Pullman, an ordinary boy with an extraordinary face. 

The book that inspired the Choose Kind movement.

I won't describe what I look like. Whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse.

August Pullman was born with a facial difference that, up until now, has prevented him from going to a mainstream school. Starting 5th grade at Beecher Prep, he wants nothing more than to be treated as an ordinary kid—but his new classmates can’t get past Auggie’s extraordinary face. WONDER, now a #1 New York Times bestseller and included on the Texas Bluebonnet Award master list, begins from Auggie’s point of view, but soon switches to include his classmates, his sister, her boyfriend, and others. These perspectives converge in a portrait of one community’s struggle with empathy, compassion, and acceptance.

"Wonder is the best kids' book of the year," said Emily Bazelon, senior editor at Slate.com and author of Sticks and Stones: Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy. In a world where bullying among young people is an epidemic, this is a refreshing new narrative full of heart and hope. R.J. Palacio has called her debut novel “a meditation on kindness” —indeed, every reader will come away with a greater appreciation for the simple courage of friendship. Auggie is a hero to root for, a diamond in the rough who proves that you can’t blend in when you were born to stand out.

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