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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: Reviews, Scott Bessenecker, Social Justice, Base of the Pyramid, Socially Responsible Business, Bibliography, St. Luke Penny Savings Bank, Blog Action Day, Walter Rauschenbusch, Bryant L. Myers, Community, Economics, Herman Daly, Poverty
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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|| The Reading Life|| Science & Technology
Tagged With: War & Peace, Hiroshima, History, Holidays, Keiji Nakazawa, Los Alamos, Math, Nagasaki, Books, Reviews, Ellen Klages, Stories, Engineering, Trinity, Girls
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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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Tagged With: Politics, Presidents, Reviews, Biography, Careers, Gender, Girls
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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: Seamus Heaney, Stories, Beowulf, Theater, Dick Ringler, Wisconsin Book Festival, Heroes, John D. Niles, John Gardner, Movies, Norman Gilliland, The Reading Life, Reviews
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