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World Issues

Yes you can change the world! It may not be easy or quick, but someone has to try. All change begins with awareness.



This is a selection of our current World Issues titles. To find other titles or authors, or just to browse, please use the search box.

Free the Children - young adult softcover
By Craig Kielburger And Kevin Major - $13.95 - add to cart

Here is the dramatic and moving story of one child's transformation from a normal, middle-class kid from the suburbs to an activist, fighting against child labor on the world stage of international...

 

Being Muslim - young adult softcover
By Haroon Siddiqui - $12.95 - add to cart

In the wake of 9/11, "Islam-bashing" bears all the symptoms of racism as it holds up the relatively few fanatics as representative of all 1.3 billion Muslims. That's the argument of award-winning ...

 

Chew On This Everything You Didn't Want - young adult softcover
By Eric Schlosser - $11.50 - add to cart

*Starred Review* Gr. 6-9. Including passages from Schlosser's best-selling adult book Fast Food Nation (2001) and other writings, the authors dish up a somewhat-less-stomach-churning look at the f...

 

Climate Change - young adult softcover
By Shelley Tanaka - $11.00 - add to cart

Part of a series that discusses hot-button issues in a compact format, this Groundwork Guide presents background on Earth's climate and about how, primarily through humankind's carelessness, global...

 

Empire - young adult softcover
By James Laxer - $11.00 - add to cart

In Empire, James Laxer demonstrates that we live in a new imperial age. The United States now presides over the most far-flung imperial system ever established. This reality has consequences for ...

 

The Everyday Activist: 365 Ways to Change the World - young adult softcover
By Michael Norton - $19.95 - add to cart

You want to change the world? Of course you do. But where do you begin? This book is the perfect answer for anyone who has ever asked "How can I make a difference?". The Everyday Activist shows...

 

Genocide - young adult softcover
By Jane Springer - $11.00 - add to cart

This disturbing history of mass ethnic killings across the world examines the why, when, where, and how genocide takes place--that's a lot for one small book. But in a lucid, informal text, Springe...

 

Inconvenient Truth - children's paperback
By Al Gore - $20.00 - add to cart

Starred Review. Grade 5–8—This young readers' version of the recent documentary film's companion adult volume cuts the page count by about a third but preserves the original's cogent message and ma...

 

Made You Look: How Advertising Works - young adult softcover
By Shari Graydon - $16.95 - add to cart

2004 Information Book of the Year WinnerAdvertising is pervasive. A typical North American child views a staggering 40,000 ads every year on TV alone! With such a vast number of commercials out the...

 

Racism - young adult softcover
By Clive Gifford - $12.95 - add to cart

Racism asks fundamental questions about this blight affecting millions of people around the world. What is racism? When and why did it start? What does it feel like to be a victim of racism? How c...

 

Sos Stories Of Survival - young adult softcover
By Ed Butts - $16.99 - add to cart

Everyone’s life is touched at some time by disaster. But some disasters loom so large they are international events. The stories of those who live through such devastating events such as earthquake...

 

We Are the Weather Makers - young adult softcover
By Tim Flannery - $15.99 - add to cart

We are, indeed, the weather makers. The climate connects us all, from the Arctic to the Australian Outback. And our climate is influenced by how we choose to live-how we use our fuels, our water ...

 




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