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2012., Da Capo Press Call No: NEW Bio O51m Edition: First Da Capo press paperback ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Describes the life of the landscape architect responsible for New York's Central Park and Boston's Emerald Necklace including his lesser-known time spent as an influential journalist, early voice for the environment and abolitionist, all overshadowed by a tragic personal life.
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[2015]., 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Bio M236h Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: An intimate portrait of Malala Yousafzai, who was wounded when Taliban gunmen opened fire on her in Pakistan's Swat Valley. The shooting of the then fifteen-year-old teenager sparked international media outrage. An educational activist in Pakistan, Yousafzai has since emerged as a leading campaigner for the rights of children worldwide and in December 2014, became the youngest-ever Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.
![He named me Malala [DVD] (2015). Directed by Davis Guggenheim.](/Library/images/cover/noimage.png "He named me Malala [DVD] (2015). Directed by Davis Guggenheim.")
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By Rebick, Judy2018., General, Anansi Call No: Bio R289h Availability:1 of 1 At Your LibraryView an interview with Judy Rebick from CBC Radio's The Current website. Summary Note: Renowned Canadian feminist Judy Rebick tells the story of the eleven personalities she developed in order to help her cope with, and survive, childhood sexual abuse. Rebick chronicles her struggle with depression in the 1980s, when she became a high-profile spokesperson for the pro-choice movement during the fight to legalize abortion. It was in the 1990s, when she took on her biggest challenge as a public figure by becoming president of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women, that her memories began to surface and became too persistent to ignore. Rebick reveals her moment of discovery: meeting the eleven personalities; uncovering her repressed memories of childhood sexual abuse; and then communicating with each personality in therapy and on the page in a journal - all of this while she is leading high-profile national struggles against a Conservative government. With courage and honesty, Rebick lays bare the public and private battles that have shaped her life. Judy Rebick is now a frequent commentator on CBC Radio and Television. She lives in Toronto.
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2003., Oxford University Press Call No: 361.2 B736h Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "What business entrepreneurs are to the economy, social entrepreneurs are to social change. They are, writes David Bornstein, the driven, creative individuals who question the status quo, exploit new opportunities, refuse to give up - and remake the world for the better.".
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2006., Atria Books Call No: Bio M217m Edition: 1st Atria Books hardcover ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2014., Spiegel & Grau Call No: BLK Bio S847j Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The founder of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama recounts his experiences as a lawyer working to assist those desperately in need, reflecting on his pursuit of the ideal of compassion in American justice.
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[2014], Adult, Second Story Press Call No: Bio M145s Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Elsie MacGill achieved many firsts in science and engineering at a time when women were considered to be inferior in the sciences. In 1923, at the age of nineteen, she became the first woman to attend engineering classes at the University of Toronto. She was the first woman in North America to hold a degree in aeronautical engineering and the first woman aircraft designer in the world. As chief engineer for the Canadian Car and Foundry Company she oversaw the production of the Hawker Hurricane, and designed a series of modifications to equip the plain for cold weather flying. Her Maple Leaf trainer may still be the only plane ever to be completely designed by a woman. And she did all this while suffering from polio. In this biography we learn that she supervised 4500 workers and produced about 1450 Hawker Hurricanes by the end of WWII. Elsie was a popular heroine of her time, inspiring the comic book Queen of the Hurricanes in the 1940s. In later life she became a powerful feminist activist, advocating for the rights of women and children."--From publisher.
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c2012., Adult, Alfred A. Knopf Canada Call No: Fic Bal Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Novel follows the lives of two women who must deal with the relentless logic forced upon them by survival: Damini, a Hindu midwife, and Anu, who flees an abusive marriage for the sanctuary of the Catholic church. When Sister Anu comes to Damini's home village to open a clinic, their paths cross, and each are certain they are doing what's best for women. What do health, justice, education and equality mean for women when India is marching toward prosperity, growth and becoming a nuclear power? If the baby girls and women around them are to survive, Damini and Anu must find creative ways to break with tradition and help this community change from within.
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c2001., Atlantic Monthly Press Call No: CLBio R781b Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "In war and in peace, the twentieth century was the Roosevelt century. From Theodore Roosevelt's Square Deal and battles with the plutocrats of the Gilded Age, to Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal and wartime leadership, to Eleanor Roosevelt's pivotal work on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and vital role in the Civil Rights movement, their crusades dramatically reshaped the political and moral landscape of our nation." "In The Three Roosevelts, author James MacGregor Burns and historian Susan Dunn illuminate the intertwining lives of these leaders, who emerged from the closed society of New York's wealthy Knickerbocker elite to become America's most powerful advocates for social and economic justice. As Burns and Dunn follow the evolution of the Roosevelt political philosophy, they explore how Theodore's example of dynamic leadership would inspire the careers of his distant cousin Franklin and his niece Eleanor."--BOOK JACKET.
