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[2020]
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Español
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"La misión de descubrir nuestra vocación o el más profundo sentido de la tarea que tenemos en nuestra vida debería ser el cometido número uno de la familia y de la escuela, donde se nos debiera reforzar nuestro mundo interior para que podamos ir en busca de nuestras pasiones. Pero en un mundo que privilegia lo cognitivo y lo académico por sobre lo emocional o espiritual, se hace una tarea más difícil de lograr."Pilar Sordo ¿Existe la libertad?...
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2022.
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English
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"Introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen-- A unique collection of 44 groundbreaking essays, poems, and artwork by migrants, refugees and Dreamers-including award-winning writers, artists, and activists-that illuminate what it is like living undocumented today. A unique collection of 44 groundbreaking essays, poems, and artwork by migrants, refugees and Dreamers-including award-winning writers, artists, and activists-that illuminate...
87) Gilded youth: a history of growing up in the royal family: from the Plantagenets to the Cambridges
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2023.
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English
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This look at growing up in the British royal family over the centuries looks beyond their often carefully depicted lives to show the more complex truth behind their eccentric upbringings.
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[2015]
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English
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"Today's kids don't know how to read a map. They can Google the answer to any question at lightning speed. If a teen forgets his homework, a quick call to mom or dad has it hand-delivered in minutes. Fueled by the rapid pace of technology, the Instant Gratification Generation not only expects immediate solutions to problems--they're more dependent than ever on adults. Today's kids are being denied opportunities to make mistakes, and more importantly,...
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2020.
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Español
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¡Cocinar nunca había sido tan fácil y divertido! Tasty, la marca de cocina más famosa de las redes sociales, ha revolucionado la manera en que millones de aficionados en el mundo preparan sus exquisitas creaciones. Si sus videos te hancautivado, espera a que el recetario físico te acompañe paso a paso a la hora de cocinar. Este libro te enseñará más de 80 recetas ganadoras, seleccionadas por seguidores de Tasty como tú, que impulsadas por...
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Publisher Annotation: Self-driving cars. WiFi-enhanced air flight. A landscape remade by climate change. Dizzying diversity in personal income. New York Times columnist Friedman, a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner and the author of best sellers like The World Is Flat, uses his Minne-sota childhood as a baseline to consider how we can better cope with a world that's accelerating in exciting and dangerous ways. His recommendations? Both nations and...
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2020.
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English
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"Today's teenagers spend an average of nine hours per day with their noses immersed in the glow of their screens. Tweens are not far behind, at six hours a day. Parents of this new, ultra-connected generation struggle with decisions completely new to parenting: Should they limit a child's screen time? Should an eight-year old be allowed to go on social media? What about playing video games with strangers? How can we keep them safe from harm when they...
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2021.
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A "entertaining and enlightening" deep dive into the alcohol-soaked origins of civilization-and the evolutionary roots of humanity's appetite for intoxication. (Daniel E. Lieberman, author of Exercised) While plenty of entertaining books have been written about the history of alcohol and other intoxicants, none have offered a comprehensive, convincing answer to the basic question of why humans want to get high in the first place. Drunk elegantly...
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[2015]
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English
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"Filmmakers and food lovers Jen and Grant dive into the issue of waste from farm, through retail, all the way to the back of their own fridge. After catching a glimpse of the billions of dollars of good food that is tossed each year in North America, they pledge to quit grocery shopping cold turkey and survive only on foods that would otherwise be thrown away."--Container.
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[2024]
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English
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"This takedown of American gun culture argues that the nation's fathers did not intend the Second Amendment to guarantee an individual right to bear arms-and that this intentional distortion of the record is an urgent threat to democracy. Hundreds of lives are lost to firearms every day in America. The cost is more than the numbers-it is also the fear, the anxiety, the dread of public spaces that an armed society has created under the tortured rubric...
99) World War II
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2017.
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English
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This book details major events of World War II, as well as the war's cultural impact
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2022.
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English
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What do you know about the Civil War? What if you lived in a different time and place? What would you wear? What would you eat? How would your daily life be different? Scholastic's If You Lived... series answers all of kids' most important questions about events in American history. With a question and answer format, kid-friendly artwork, and engaging information, this series is the perfect partner for the classroom and for history-loving readers....
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