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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, color map ; 29 cm.
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"A picture book about unity for people around the world. This book combines the Sonia Manzano's lyrical text with incredible National Geographic photography of people from around the world to explore and celebrate how we are the same and how we are different-- and how laughter and love can help bring a world together. Just imagine all the wonderful people there are to meet!"--
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Every culture is a unique answer to a fundamental question: What does it mean to be human and alive? In The Wayfinders, renowned anthropologist, winner of the prestigious Samuel Johnson Prize, and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Wade Davis leads us on a thrilling journey to celebrate the wisdom of the world's indigenous cultures. In Polynesia we set sail with navigators whose ancestors settled the Pacific ten centuries before Christ. In...
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
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What Makes Us Unique? provides an accessible introduction to the concept of diversity, teaching children how to respect and celebrate people's differences and that ultimately, we are all much more alike than we are different. Additional questions at the back of the book allow for further discussion." -- Amazon.com.
5) People
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Around the world, people practice different religions. They live in different kinds of houses, and in cities, villages, and rural areas. Some places have millions of people living right on top of one another. Other people live very far from their neighbors. In this book, readers are encouraged to consider the differences and similarities between the people who live on Earth.
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356 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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"Some democracies are highly homogeneous. Others have long maintained a brutal racial or religious hierarchy, with some groups dominating and exploiting others. Never in history has a democracy succeeded in being both diverse and equal, treating members of many different ethnic or religious groups fairly. And yet achieving that goal is now central to the democratic project in countries around the world. It is, Yascha Mounk argues, the greatest experiment...
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48 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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English
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This book discusses the progress that women and minorities have made in the scientific fields. Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, Iranian Fields Medal winner Maryam Mirzakhani, and cosmologist Stephen Hawking, who persevered despite incredible physical limitations, are among the persons profiled.
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4 videodiscs (approximately 10 hrs.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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It is 1935. Three years have passed, and as the seasons turn, so too do the machinations of a rising revolution. As a new summer falls upon the foothills of India's Little England, Simla, political tensions reach fever point. With help from the scheming Cynthia, Ralph faces the most pivotal year of his career. Alice's husband has followed her to India, and Aafrin's ascending career may be in jeopardy.
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4 videodiscs (600 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Set against the sweeping grandeur of the Himalayas and tea plantations of Northern India, this epic drama tells the rich and explosive story of the decline of the British Empire and the birth of modern India, from both sides of the experience.
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xxii, 309 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"From award-winning actress and political activist America Ferrera comes a vibrant and varied collection of first person accounts from prominent figures about the experience of growing up between cultures. America Ferrera has always felt wholly American, and yet, her identity is inextricably linked to her parents' homeland and Honduran culture. Speaking Spanish at home, having Saturday-morning-salsa-dance-parties in the kitchen, and eating tamales...
15) Diversidad
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95 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
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Español
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Existen muchas cosas que nos hacen iguales y otras muchas que nos hacen diferentes. El lugar en el que vivimos, lo que comemos, cómo nos vestimos e incluso cómo hablamos son algunos de los aspectos que hacen que seamos quienes somos. ¿Te imaginas un mundo en el que todo y todos fuéramos iguales? ¡Qué aburrimiento! Vamos a explorar todas las cosas maravillosas que nos hacen especiales a nuestra manera. La diversidad significa ser diferentes ¡y...
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Throughout its history, America has been confronted with two alternative views of its identity. Is it, according to one argument, a deeply Christian nation called to purity and uniformity in the face of a challenging world? Or is it, according to the other argument, a beacon of hope and openness, a land in which a variety of people can work side by side in justice and for a common good? In this timely and needed book, the authors challenge readers--especially...
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"Learn how to welcome new neighbors into your community, particularly when they might be far from home, in this uplifting and diverse picture book that champions human connection and inclusivity. After all, the world is everyone's home and we're one big family!" --
Demonstrates the importance of welcoming people from all over the world into the community with love, compassion, and acceptance.
19) It lives inside
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1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Desperate to fit in at school, Sam rejects her East Indian culture and family to be like everyone else. However, when a mythological demonic spirit latches onto her former best friend, she must come to terms with her heritage to defeat it.
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xv, 203 pages ; 22 cm
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"A maverick thinker who's drawn the applause of both the populist left and right offers a searing indictment of the managerial elite. Mainstream politicians and pundits explain today's populist unrest as a simple divide between "winners" and "losers." They recognize that globalization has created massive inequalities, but these are inevitable, they say -- and the best we can do is throw a sop to the "deplorables" to keep them from revolting. But what...
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