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Poverty Bibliography (Blog Action Day 2008)

October 15, 2008

A bibliography for Blog Action Day 2008: Poverty. A collection of readings on economics and poverty, for parents, kids, and churches. “You cannot reduce poverty if you don’t know what poverty is.”

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Shelved with: Mind & Society|| The Reading Life
Tagged With: Base of the Pyramid, Bibliography, Blog Action Day, Bryant L. Myers, Community, Economics, Herman Daly, Poverty, Reviews, Scott Bessenecker, Social Justice, Socially Responsible Business, St. Luke Penny Savings Bank, Walter Rauschenbusch
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August, 1945

August 8, 2008

Sixty-three years ago this week, the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The enormity of the event, the inhuman scale of both this power and its consequences, is nearly impossible to communicate. How can one understand the power of a thousand suns unleashed upon whole cities? It became one of the defining stories for generations […]

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Shelved with: Continuing Stories|| Mind & Society|| Science & Technology|| The Reading Life
Tagged With: Books, Ellen Klages, Engineering, Girls, Hiroshima, History, Holidays, Keiji Nakazawa, Los Alamos, Math, Nagasaki, Reviews, Stories, Trinity, War & Peace
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She Could Be President of the United States of America

July 5, 2008

Review of Catherine Thimmesh and Douglas B. Jones’s Madam President: The Extraordinary, True (and Evolving) Story of Women in Politics.

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Shelved with: Mind & Society|| The Reading Life
Tagged With: Biography, Careers, Gender, Girls, Politics, Presidents, Reviews
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Beowulf: Behold the Man

November 16, 2007

You think you’ve heard about swords, and heroes, and fire-breathing dragons, and friendship, and glory, and treasure, just ’cause you’ve read those Potter books? C’mere, boys, let me tell you a tale…

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Shelved with: The Reading Life|| Visions & Ventures|| Visual Arts
Tagged With: Beowulf, Dick Ringler, Heroes, John D. Niles, John Gardner, Movies, Norman Gilliland, Reviews, Seamus Heaney, Stories, The Reading Life, Theater, Wisconsin Book Festival
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