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Building from nuclear to extended families, and then on to people in the community, these richly photographed books help children see how they fit in the world.
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Learn about the creative ways Americans help their communities. This nonfiction book includes a short fiction piece related to the topic, fun activity, glossary, and other helpful tools. With this fun and informative book, students will see all the wonderful things that can happen when communities create together! This 32-page full-color book describes the importance of community involvement while giving examples of creative leaders across the country....
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Today, we can find an online community to suit almost any interest we may have. And yet these communities carry an element of menace. The anonymity associated with online communities allows particularly vicious interplay, where people can pile on others with virtually zero consequences. Using current examples from the news and connecting this phenomenon to historical incidents like the Salem witch trials, this fascinating resource examines an interesting...
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Designing Healthy Communities volume 2
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In this episode, Dr. Richard Jackson investigates the link between the obesity epidemic and the Type-2 Diabetes epidemic that's sweeping the United States that has been amplified by the urban sprawl fueled by car dependency. To prevent disease through better urban planning, Boulder, Colorado has redesigned the city to make bicycles a safe alternative form of transportation. Two Denver, Colorado suburbs have transformed dead malls into mixed-use and...
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What would life be like if you lived somewhere else? Would it be strange to take the subway to school or to live five miles from your nearest neighbor? This volume explores the similarities and differences between several types of communities, focusing in particular on urban, suburban, and rural areas. Think About It and Compare and Contrast sidebars encourage young readers to engage with the material, while vocabulary call-outs and the glossary help...
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Designing Healthy Communities volume 1
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Dr. Jackson searches past and present America for healthy, sustainable communities of all sizes and shapes that can serve as models for the rest of the nation. His journey takes him to Roseto, Pennsylvania, Prairie Crossing, Illinois, New York City, New York, Charleston, South Carolina, and the forgotten 1960s urban renewal project of Lafayette Park in Detroit, Michigan, the brainchild of four men, including visionary architect, Mies van der Rohe....
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Designing Healthy Communities volume 2
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Dr. Jackson believes that it's every citizen's right to live in a clean, healthy environment. But right now, not everyone lives in an environment like that. Many low-income neighborhoods that were built near big transportation hubs and struggling industrial cities are full of citizens denied that right: in Oakland, a morbidly obese grandmother struggles to raise seven grandchildren, all of whom have asthma as a result of living near the port; in the...
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Designing Healthy Communities volume 1
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When the United States industry and manufacturing markets collapsed or went elsewhere, communities all over the country were left with the task of redefining themselves for a new paradigm. This video features the issues that these communities faced and how the individuals within them came together to implement more sustainable practices in order to allow future generations to enjoy all the beauty the area has to offer.
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271 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
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An "alternative to traditional horticulture: designed plantings that function like naturally occurring plant communities. Thomas Rainer and Claudia West, two leading voices in ecological landscape design, reveal how plants fit together in nature and how to use this knowledge to create landscapes that are resilient, beautiful, and diverse."--Page 4 of cover.
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Introduce readers to the various ways they can participate in volunteerism with this nonfiction title. Readers will discover many different charities and programs, including The Salvation Army, Feeding America, Habitat for Humanity, and Doctors Without Borders through vivid images, charts, and informational text. This nonfiction title aids in encouraging children to make a difference in their own communities by writing to newspapers or politicians...
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Buzzing Communities cuts through the fluff to offer a clear process for creating thriving online communities. This book combines a century of proven science, dozens of real-life examples, practical tips, and trusted community-building methods. This step-by-step guide includes a lifecycle for tracking your progress and a framework for managing your organization's community efforts. This Book Will Help You to: -Understand what the members of your community...
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I welcome you my dear reader. We humans have a burning desire to live as ideal families filled with love and also in wonderful communities where we can have great and harmonious relationships which are mutually beneficial with all our neighbors. Since communities have everywhere started from our own relationships and also in businesses, the developments of technology such as the internet have provided human beings in their own circles and communities...
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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience!
This nonfiction title walks readers through a changing neighborhood using eye-catching photos with a tight text-to-photo match. Pairs with the fiction title Grandpa's Photos.
"These titles offer new readers short sentences every other page against full-page colorful photos. The text is large and easy to read in black and...
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Americans are loud. Amsterdam equals sex, drugs, and rock & roll. Mexicans are lazy and Germans are boring, but punctual. Paris is romantic, Wuhan infectious, Ukrainians heroic, and New Zealand untouched.
This is the way people around the world think about cities, regions and countries and the communities that live there; through cliches and stereotypes. It can be frustrating and hindering trade, diplomacy, investment, tourism, or talent attraction....
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From neighborhoods and schools to the worldwide community, this book explains how design-thinking principles can help create communities that give all its members a place and a voice by planning in an inclusive and collaborative way. Beginning with a detailed look at the steps involved in design thinking, readers are guided through the process so they can design their own solutions to the barriers that prevent participation in order to create a truly...
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This book inspires readers to become change-makers for healthy living and eating by using design-thinking principles to tackle local and global issues. Beginning with a detailed look at the steps involved in design thinking, readers are guided through the process so they can design their own solutions to big issues, from the need for healthy food options in schools to the lack of clean drinking water in impoverished communities.
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