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  • Daniel

    To Find My God

    by Stephen Thornton ...
    This is the story of a boy who suffered badly at the hands of his father, suffering years of abuse, trying to protect his brother and sister from him. Finally giving in to the fact that he couldn’t do it, he had to get away from him or die from his cruelty and beatings. Leaving the city and his family behind, he travelled as far as his ticket would take him. Meeting Mark and Rachael on the way ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Demolishing Whitehall

    Leslie Martin, Harold Wilson and the Architecture of White Heat

    by Adam Sharr, Stephen Thornton ...
    This book is about a lost world, albeit one less than 50 years old. It is the story of a grand plan to demolish most of Whitehall, London’s historic government district, and replace it with a ziggurat-section megastructure built in concrete. In 1965 the architect Leslie Martin submitted a proposal to Charles Pannell, Minister of Public Building and Works in Harold Wilson’s Labour government, for ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Teaching Social Studies to English Language Learners

    by Bárbara C. Cruz, Stephen J. Thornton ...
    Series series Teaching English Language Learners across the Curriculum
    This fully updated new edition provides readers with a comprehensive understanding of the challenges that English language learners (ELLs), also known as English Learners (ELs), face, as well as the ways in which educators might address them in the social studies classroom.The authors offer context-specific strategies for the full range of the social studies curriculum, including geography, U.S. ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Teaching Social Studies that Matters

    by Stephen J. Thornton ...
    No plan to increase achievement and enact reform in the social studies classroom will succeed without recognizing the central importance of the teacher as the “gatekeeper” of instruction. In this book, Thornton details why teachers must develop strong skills in curriculum planning and teaching methods in order for effective instruction to occur. Thornton helps teachers to develop a vision of their ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Socio-Technical Innovation Bundles for Agri-Food Systems Transformation

    by Christopher B. Barrett, Tim Benton, Jessica Fanzo, Mario Herrero, Rebecca J. Nelson, Elizabeth Bageant, Edward Buckler, Karen Cooper, Isabella Culotta, Shenggen Fan, Rikin Gandhi, Steven James, Mark Kahn, Laté Lawson-Lartego, Jiali Liu, Quinn Marshall, Daniel Mason-D'Croz, Alexander Mathys, Cynthia Mathys, Veronica Mazariegos-Anastassiou, Alesha Miller, Kamakhya Misra, Andrew Mude, Jianbo Shen, Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, Claire Song, Roy Steiner, Philip Thornton, Stephen Wood ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This open access book is the result of an expert panel convened by the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability and Nature Sustainability. The panel tackled the seventeen UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for 2030 head-on, with respect to the global systems that produce and distribute food. The panel’s rigorous synthesis and analysis of existing research leads compellingly to multiple ... Read more

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    Changing the Way We Think, to Create the World We Want

    by Frances Moore Lappe ...
    In EcoMind, Frances Moore Lapp' -- a giant of the environmental movement -- confronts accepted wisdom of environmentalism. Drawing on the latest research from anthropology to neuroscience and her own field experience, she argues that the biggest challenge to human survival isn't our fossil fuel dependency, melting glaciers, or other calamities. Rather, it's our faulty way of thinking about these ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • World Hunger

    10 Myths

    by Frances Moore Lappé, Joseph Collins ...
    "The definitive solutions-based book for all those questioning why hunger still exists when there is such an abundance of food." — The Huffington Post, "Food Tank's 2015 Recommended Fall Reading List"From bestselling authors Frances Moore Lappé and Joseph Collins comes the twenty-first century's authoritative book on world hunger. Lappé and Collins refute the myths that prevent us from addressing ... Read more

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  • The Playbook

    How to Deny Science, Sell Lies, and Make a Killing in the Corporate World

    by Jennifer Jacquet ...
    **From an astute observer of business behavior and expert in climate denial comes a thought-provoking explanation of how corporations delay, distract, and deflect blame and spread disinformation surrounding health issues, pollution, and climate change.“Brilliantly subversive and witty. If you want to be a vile, greedy capitalist, this how-to book will be a great help. And if you want to identify ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • Planetary Health

    Safeguarding Human Health and the Environment in the Anthropocene

    by Andy Haines, Howard Frumkin ...
    We live in unprecedented times - the Anthropocene - defined by far-reaching human impacts on the natural systems that underpin civilisation. Planetary Health explores the many environmental changes that threaten to undermine progress in human health, and explains how these changes affect health outcomes, from pandemics to infectious diseases to mental health, from chronic diseases to injuries. It ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Nourished Planet

    Sustainability in the Global Food System

    by Barilla Center for Food and Nutrition ...
    Mangos from India, pasta from Italy, coffee from Colombia: Every day, we are nourished by a global food system that relies on our planet remaining verdant and productive. But current practices are undermining both human and environmental health, resulting in the paradoxes of obesity paired with malnutrition, crops used for animal feed and biofuels while people go hungry, and more than thirty ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Sustainable Diets

    How Ecological Nutrition Can Transform Consumption and the Food System

    by Pamela Mason, Tim Lang ...
    How can huge populations be fed healthily, equitably and affordably while maintaining the ecosystems on which life depends? The evidence of diet’s impact on public health and the environment has grown in recent decades, yet changing food supply, consumer habits and economic aspirations proves hard.This book explores what is meant by sustainable diets and why this has to be the goal for the ... Read more

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  • Taking Stock of Industrial Ecology

    Edited by Roland Clift, Angela Druckman ...
    How can we design more sustainable industrial and urban systems that reduce environmental impacts while supporting a high quality of life for everyone? What progress has been made towards reducing resource use and waste, and what are the prospects for more resilient, material-efficient economies? What are the environmental and social impacts of global supply chains and how can they be measured and ... Read more

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