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Karma & The Seven Cups

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An inspirational adventure story about a 12-year-old boy who wants to save his sister's life, and prove to himself that life is fair. Similar to Wonder, The Alchemist, or Jeremy Fink & The Meaning of Life, Karma is a fast-paced read that is appropriate for all ages.Everyone says life's not fair. Karma wants to prove them all wrong.Things were going bad for Karma. His mom died, his stutter got ... Read more

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An inspirational adventure story about a 12-year-old boy who wants to save his sister's life, and prove to himself that life is fair. Similar to Wonder, The Alchemist, or Jeremy Fink & The Meaning of Life, Karma is a fast-paced read that is appropriate for all ages.Everyone says life's not fair. Karma wants to prove them all wrong.Things were going bad for Karma. His mom died, his stutter got
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Creating Citizens

Liberal Arts, Civic Engagement, and the Land-Grant Tradition

by Brigitta R. Brunner, Kelly D. Alley, Barb Bondy, Elizabeth Brestan-Knight, Laura Nan Fairley, Anne-Katrin Gramberg, William E. Kelly, Christopher McNulty, Iulia Pittman0, James Emmett Ryan1, Timothy S. Thornberry Jr.2, Kyes Stevens3, Chad Wickman Jr.4 ...

Creating Citizens is a collection of essays about Community and Civic Engagement (CCE) learning at land-grant universities.In Creating Citizens, professors and administrators at Auburn University’s College of Liberal Arts recount valuable, first-hand experiences teaching Community and Civic Engagement (CCE). They demonstrate that, contrary to many expectations, CCE instruction both complements the ... Read more

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Creating Citizens is a collection of essays about Community and Civic Engagement (CCE) learning at land-grant universities.In Creating Citizens, professors and administrators at Auburn University’s College of Liberal Arts recount valuable, first-hand experiences teaching Community and Civic Engagement (CCE). They demonstrate that, contrary to many expectations, CCE instruction both complements the
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Harnessing Hibernate

Step-by-step Guide to Java Persistence

by James Elliott, Timothy M. O'Brien, Ryan Fowler ...

Harnessing Hibernate is an ideal introduction to the popular framework that lets Java developers work with information from a relational database easily and efficiently. Databases are a very different world than Java objects, and they often involve people with different skills and specializations. With Hibernate, bridging these two worlds is significantly easier, and with this book, you can get up ... Read more

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Harnessing Hibernate is an ideal introduction to the popular framework that lets Java developers work with information from a relational database easily and efficiently. Databases are a very different world than Java objects, and they often involve people with different skills and specializations. With Hibernate, bridging these two worlds is significantly easier, and with this book, you can get up
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Changing Minds, If Not Hearts

Political Remedies for Racial Conflict

by James M. Glaser, Timothy J. Ryan ...

Series series American Governance: Politics, Policy, and Public Law
Americans preach egalitarianism, but democracy makes it hard for minorities to win. Changing Minds, If Not Hearts explores political strategies that counteract the impulse of racial majorities to think about racial issues as a zero-sum game, in which a win for one group means a loss for another. James M. Glaser and Timothy J. Ryan argue that, although political processes often inflame racial ... Read more

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Americans preach egalitarianism, but democracy makes it hard for minorities to win. Changing Minds, If Not Hearts explores political strategies that counteract the impulse of racial majorities to think about racial issues as a zero-sum game, in which a win for one group means a loss for another. James M. Glaser and Timothy J. Ryan argue that, although political processes often inflame racial
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Changing Minds, If Not Hearts

Political Remedies for Racial Conflict

by James M. Glaser, Timothy J. Ryan ...

Series series American Governance: Politics, Policy, and Public Law
Americans preach egalitarianism, but democracy makes it hard for minorities to win. Changing Minds, If Not Hearts explores political strategies that counteract the impulse of racial majorities to think about racial issues as a zero-sum game, in which a win for one group means a loss for another. James M. Glaser and Timothy J. Ryan argue that, although political processes often inflame racial ... Read more

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Americans preach egalitarianism, but democracy makes it hard for minorities to win. Changing Minds, If Not Hearts explores political strategies that counteract the impulse of racial majorities to think about racial issues as a zero-sum game, in which a win for one group means a loss for another. James M. Glaser and Timothy J. Ryan argue that, although political processes often inflame racial
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Please Stop Helping Us

How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed

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Why is it that so many efforts by liberals to lift the black underclass not only fail, but often harm the intended beneficiaries?In Please Stop Helping Us, Jason L. Riley examines how well-intentioned welfare programs are in fact holding black Americans back. Minimum-wage laws may lift earnings for people who are already employed, but they price a disproportionate number of blacks out of the labor ... Read more

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Why is it that so many efforts by liberals to lift the black underclass not only fail, but often harm the intended beneficiaries?In Please Stop Helping Us, Jason L. Riley examines how well-intentioned welfare programs are in fact holding black Americans back. Minimum-wage laws may lift earnings for people who are already employed, but they price a disproportionate number of blacks out of the labor
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Colorblind

The Rise of Post-Racial Politics and the Retreat from Racial Equity

by Tim Wise ...

Series series City Lights Open Media
How "colorblindness" in policy and personal practice perpetuate racial inequity in the United States today.Following the civil rights movement, race relations in the United States entered a new era.Legal gains were interpreted by some as ensuring equal treatment for all and that "colorblind" policies and programs would be the best way forward. Since then, many voices have called for an end to ... Read more

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How "colorblindness" in policy and personal practice perpetuate racial inequity in the United States today.Following the civil rights movement, race relations in the United States entered a new era.Legal gains were interpreted by some as ensuring equal treatment for all and that "colorblind" policies and programs would be the best way forward. Since then, many voices have called for an end to
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No Excuses

Closing the Racial Gap in Learning

by Stephan Thernstrom, Abigail Thernstrom ...

Black and Hispanic students are not learning enough in our public schools, and their typically poor performance is the most important source of ongoing racial inequality in America today—thus, say Abigail and Stephan Thernstrom, the racial gap in school achievement is the nation's most critical civil rights issue and an educational crisis; it's no wonder that "No Child Left Behind," the 2001 ... Read more

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Black and Hispanic students are not learning enough in our public schools, and their typically poor performance is the most important source of ongoing racial inequality in America today—thus, say Abigail and Stephan Thernstrom, the racial gap in school achievement is the nation's most critical civil rights issue and an educational crisis; it's no wonder that "No Child Left Behind," the 2001
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Integrated

How American Schools Failed Black Children

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**A NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY BEST BOOK OF 2025 • A powerful, incisive reckoning with the impacts of school desegregation that traces four generations of the author’s family to show how the implementation of integration decimated Black school systems and did much of the Black community a disservice"Rooks deftly sketches this lamentable, sobering history."—The Atlantic**On May 17, 1954, Brown v. ... Read more

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**A NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY BEST BOOK OF 2025 • A powerful, incisive reckoning with the impacts of school desegregation that traces four generations of the author’s family to show how the implementation of integration decimated Black school systems and did much of the Black community a disservice"Rooks deftly sketches this lamentable, sobering history."—The Atlantic**On May 17, 1954, Brown v.
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Such a Pretty Girl

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A darkly compelling novel about a young woman who must defend herself against her abusive father. “In the character of Meredith, Laura Wiess has created a girl to walk alongside Harper Lee’s Scout and J.D. Salinger’s Phoebe. Read this novel, and you will be changed forever” (New York Times bestselling author Luanne Rice).They promised Meredith nine years of safety, but only gave her three.Her ... Read more

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A darkly compelling novel about a young woman who must defend herself against her abusive father. “In the character of Meredith, Laura Wiess has created a girl to walk alongside Harper Lee’s Scout and J.D. Salinger’s Phoebe. Read this novel, and you will be changed forever” (New York Times bestselling author Luanne Rice).They promised Meredith nine years of safety, but only gave her three.Her
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We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For

The Promise of Civic Renewal in America

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Chronic unemployment, deindustrialized cities, and mass incarceration are among the grievous social problems that will not yield unless American citizens address them. Peter Levine's We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For is a primer for anyone motivated to help revive our fragile civic life and restore citizens' public role. After offering a novel theory of active citizenship, a diagnosis of ... Read more

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Chronic unemployment, deindustrialized cities, and mass incarceration are among the grievous social problems that will not yield unless American citizens address them. Peter Levine's We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For is a primer for anyone motivated to help revive our fragile civic life and restore citizens' public role. After offering a novel theory of active citizenship, a diagnosis of
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Forgotten

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Each night at precisely 4:33 am, while sixteen-year-old London Lane is asleep, her memory of that day is erased. In the morning, all she can "remember" are events from her future. London is used to relying on reminder notes and a trusted friend to get through the day, but things get complicated when a new boy at school enters the picture. Luke Henry is not someone you'd easily forget, yet try as ... Read more

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Each night at precisely 4:33 am, while sixteen-year-old London Lane is asleep, her memory of that day is erased. In the morning, all she can "remember" are events from her future. London is used to relying on reminder notes and a trusted friend to get through the day, but things get complicated when a new boy at school enters the picture. Luke Henry is not someone you'd easily forget, yet try as
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