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81) Ser responsable
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24 pages : color illustrations ; 23 x 25 cm.
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Español
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Responsibility is important for children to learn and understand at an early age. This title will introduce readers to what being responsible is through everyday and relatable examples that they are sure to experience.
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258 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
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Español
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"Es inútil negarlo: vivimos en una era realmente difícil. Una pandemia global, una crisis climática que no deja de empeorar, conflictos armados, desigualdad económica creciente... Ciertamente, sentir esperanza cuando el mundo tiene retos tan complejos puede parecer una proposición difícil, ingenua, incluso utópica. Pero sin duda es necesarísima para hallar nuevos caminos propicios para la humanidad y el resto de los habitantes del planeta....
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242 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Almost-thirteen-year-old Naomi receives a mysterious package containing a tiny clay Golem that obeys her every command, and she is unprepared for the chaos he creates when she sends him away with instructions to save the world.
Naomi Teitelbaum is so ready for her Bat Mitzvah. Her prayers are memorized and she's definitely got a handle on her Torah portion (well, almost). Then she gets a mysterious gift: a tiny clay Golem. To Naomi's shock, it comes...
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23 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
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English
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"In this illustrated choose-your-own-ending book, Margo must choose between cleaning her room or putting it off to do something fun. Readers make choices for Margo and read what happens next, with each story path leading to different consequences. Includes four different endings and discussion questions"--
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327 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"Seventeen-year-old movie-lover Ethan, the defacto manager of Minneapolis's crumbling Green Street Cinema, teams with a motley crew to try to save the landmark from destruction." --
When developers swoop in and say the classic Green Street Cinema is going to be destroyed to make room for luxury condos, Ethan Ashby and a motley crew of cinema employees comes together to save the place they love. It's going to take a movie miracle for the Green Street...
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219 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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English
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Kids around the world are working together to make our planet a better, safer, happier place -- and now you can join in with this practical guide! You Can Change the World empowers kids to make changes in their lives and communities with the powerful message that anyone can make a difference in the world. This colorfully illustrated book is packed with information, ideas, and activities for everyday sustainability -- like mending clothes, composting,...
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vii, 288 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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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...
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English
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In the criminal justice system, people are cast into polar positions on the good-bad axis: good guys and bad guys. Prosecutors, who wield considerable power and influence in the enforcement of our laws, are almost universally cast as good guys. Seldom is there accountability when they are, in fact, not always good.
Rethinking Justice: Inside America's Movement for Prosecution Reform introduces a newly minted generation of prosecutors, intent on holding...
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Español
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La ciencia del derecho tiene como finalidad fundamental que la sociedad sea justa, con esa justicia real y concreta que consiste en que se respete y se dé a cada hombre su derecho, aquello que es suyo. Tarea importante y de incalculable trascendencia social, aunque a veces cueste grandes esfuerzos conseguirlo.
Este libro es una introducción al derecho, orientado en gran medida a personas que, o bien están en los comienzos de sus estudios de derecho...
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372 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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"Confronted by the terrifying trends of the early twenty-first century -- widening inequality, environmental destruction, and the immiseration of millions of workers around the world -- many economists and business leaders still preach dogmas that lack evidence and create political catastrophe: Private markets are always more efficient than public ones; investment capital flows efficiently to necessary projects; massive inequality is the unavoidable...
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x, 284 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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Offers a collection of non-fiction essays exploring the state of the world as ecosystems, economies and assumptions collapse around us. Kingnorth's essays chart the change in his thinking as he grew disenchanted with the environmental movement he once embraced and articulate a new vision, one that stands firmly in opposition to the belief that technology can save us. He argues for a renewed balance between the human and nonhuman worlds. --Adapted...
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A courageous hummingbird defies fear and expectations in her attempt to save the forest from fire. The illustrated story is supplemented by a natural and cultural history of hummingbirds, as well as an inspiring message from Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai. Based on a South American indigenous story.
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310 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"Los Angeles, the late 1970s: Jess Shepard is an installation artist who creates environments that focus on light and space, often leading to intense sensory experiences for visitors to her work. A run of critically lauded projects peaks with Zero Zone, an installation at the once upon a time site of nuclear bomb testing in the New Mexico desert. But when a small group of travelers experience what they perceive as a religious awakening inside Zero...
96) The innovation delusion: how our obsession with the new has disrupted the work that matters most
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260 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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"For forty years, innovation has been the hottest buzzword in business. But what if the benefits of innovation have been exaggerated, and our obsession with the new has distracted us from the work that matters most? It's hard to avoid innovation these days. Nearly every product gets marketed as being disruptive, whether it's a new technology or a new toothbrush. But in this manifesto on the state of American work, historians of technology Lee Vinsel...
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106 pages ; 19 cm
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English
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"The groundbreaking speeches of Greta Thunberg, the young climate activist who has become the voice of a generation, including her historic address to the United Nations"--
In August 2018 Thunberg decided not to go to school one day in order to protest the climate crisis. Her actions sparked a global movement, inspiring millions of students to go on strike for our planet. This collection of her speeches provides a rallying cry for why we must all...
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56 pages : color illustrations, map ; 28 cm.
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English
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Eleven-year-old Teddy is participating in his first cattle drive, but when his father leaves him in the hands of the trail boss, Teddy must prove himself in order to win respect and to earn his spurs. Based on the memoirs of cowpuncher E.C. Abbott.
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Do you know that a prosecutor can charge you with a crime even if a crime wasn't committed? Do you know your Constitutional rights as a US citizen?
Discover one woman's compelling true story and how it became a fight against a Criminal Justice System that has strayed far from its original purpose.
Do you believe an unlawful criminal prosecution could never happen to you or your loved ones? Noted Certified Speaking Professional (ret.) and grandmother...
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