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The clean money revolution : reinventing power, purpose, and capitalism / by Solomon, Joel,1954-; Bridge, Tyee,1970-;
Includes bibliographical references, Internet addresses and index."The Clean Money Revolution explores how "clean money"--money for good--from investors is transforming capitalism by powering sustainable businesses that build social, environmental, and financial equity. Part memoir of an inspiring thought-leader's journey from presidential campaigner to multi-millionaire investor, part insider's guide to the businesses that are remaking the world, and part table-pounding manifesto for innovative investors and entrepreneurs."--Provided by publisher.LSC
Subjects: Investments; Investments; Green movement.;
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Once upon a time we ate animals : the future of food / by Voorst, Roanne van,author.; Emblen-Jarrett, Scott,translator.; translation of:Voorst, Roanne van.Ooit aten we dieren.English.;
Includes bibliographical references."Though increasing numbers of people know that eating meat is detrimental to our own health and the planet's, many still can't be convinced to give up eating meat. But how can we change behavior when common arguments, scientific data, and information aren't working? Acclaimed anthropologist Roanne Van Voorst changes the dialogue. In Once Upon a Time We Ate Animals, she shifts the focus from the present looking forward to the future looking back-imagining a world in which most of no longer use animals for food, clothing, or other items. By shifting the viewpoint, van Voorst offers a clear and compelling vision of what it means to live in a world without meat. A massive shift is already taking place-everything van Voorst covers in this book has already been invented and is being used today by individuals and small organizations worldwide. Hopeful and persuasive, entertaining and informative, Once Upon a Time We Ate Animals offers a tantalizing vision of what is not only possible but perhaps inevitable"--
Subjects: Animal rights.; Animal welfare; Veganism.;
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All we want : building the life we cannot buy / by Harris, Michael,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.We face a reckoning - the forces of consumerism are being powerfully confronted by the effects of a global pandemic and ecological crisis. In this book, award-winning author Michael Harris allows us to re-define "the good life" and envision new, more sustainable ways to measure our days. Harris lives in Vancouver, BC.
Subjects: Consumption (Economics); Consumption (Economics); Consumption (Economics);
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Grit : the power of passion and perseverance / by Duckworth, Angela.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Diligence.; Expectation (Psychology); Perseverance (Ethics); Success.;
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Princess Charming / by Owens, Zibby.; Hatam, Holly.;
Princess Charming finds a way to shine when a movie superstar visits the castle for a special event.Ages range 3-6.LSC
Subjects: Princesses; Perseverance (Ethics);
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Sam's race / by Smith, Annette.; Reynolds, Pat.;
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Subjects: Racing; Perseverance (Ethics);
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The case against the sexual revolution : a new guide to sex in the 21st century / by Perry, Louise,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."Ditching the stuffy hang-ups and benighted sexual traditionalism of the past is an unambiguously positive thing. The sexual revolution has liberated us to enjoy a heady mixture of erotic freedom and personal autonomy. Right? Wrong, argues Louise Perry in her provocative new book. Although it would be neither possible nor desirable to turn the clock back to a world of pre-60s sexual mores, she argues that the amoral libertinism and callous disenchantment of liberal feminism and our contemporary hypersexualised culture represent more loss than gain. The main winners from a world of rough sex, hook-up culture and ubiquitous porn - where anything goes and only consent matters - are a tiny minority of high-status men, not the women forced to accommodate the excesses of male lust. While dispensing sage advice to the generations paying the price for these excesses, she makes a passionate case for a new sexual culture built around dignity, virtue and restraint. This counter-cultural polemic from one of the most exciting young voices in contemporary feminism should be read by all men and women uneasy about the mindless orthodoxies of our ultra-liberal era"--Publisher's description.
Subjects: Sex customs.; Sexual ethics.; Sex;
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Mercies in disguise : a story of hope, a family's genetic destiny, and the science that rescued them / by Kolata, Gina Bari,1948-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The phone rings. The doctor from California is on the line. "Are you ready Amanda?" The two people Amanda Baxley loves the most had begged her not to be tested-at least, not now. But she had to find out. If your family carried a mutated gene that foretold a brutal illness and you were offered the chance to find out if you'd inherited it, would you do it? Would you walk toward the problem, bravely accepting whatever answer came your way? Or would you avoid the potential bad news as long as possible? In Mercies in Disguise, acclaimed New York Times science reporter and bestselling author Gina Kolata tells the story of the Baxleys, an almost archetypal family in a small town in South Carolina. A proud and determined clan, many of them doctors, they are struck one by one with an inscrutable illness. They finally discover the cause of the disease after a remarkable sequence of events that many saw as providential. Meanwhile, science, progressing for a half a century along a parallel track, had handed the Baxleys a resolution-not a cure, but a blood test that would reveal who had the gene for the disease and who did not. And science would offer another dilemma-fertility specialists had created a way to spare the children through an expensive process. A work of narrative nonfiction in the tradition of the The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Mercies in Disguise is the story of a family that took matters into its own hands when the medical world abandoned them. It's a story of a family that had to deal with unspeakable tragedy and yet did not allow it to tear them apart. And it is the story of a young woman-Amanda Baxley-who faced the future head on, determined to find a way to disrupt her family's destiny."--
Subjects: Medical genetics.; Genetic disorders.; Genetic screening;
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The world needs your kid : how to raise children who care and contribute / by Kielburger, Marc.; Kielburger, Craig,1982-; Page, Shelley,1964-;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Child rearing; Moral development.; Responsibility in children.;
© c2009., Me to we books/Greystone Books,
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This is assisted dying : a doctor's story of empowering patients at the end of life / by Green, Stefanie,author.;
In her landmark memoir, Dr. Stefanie Green reveals the reasons a patient might seek an assisted death, how the process works, what the event itself can look like, the reactions of those involved, and what it feels like to oversee proceedings and administer medications that hasten death. Dr. Green contextualizes the myriad personal, professional, and practical issues surrounding assisted dying by bringing readers into the room, sharing the voices of her patients, her colleagues, and her own narrative.
Subjects: Assisted suicide.; Right to die.; Terminal care;
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