Youth author, speaker, and teen life strategist, Brooks Gibbs, provides a solid framework for you to help bring an end to bullying. He will show you a 7-step strategy to start a movement of kindness and compassion on your school campus. His overarching theory is that the end of bullying begins with you. As you read the brutally honest stories about his own struggle with bullying, be prepared to go on a journey of self discovery as he challenges you to deal with your own personal prejudices, offences, and down right hateful feelings.
The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement
With unequaled insight and brio, New York Times columnist David Brooks has long explored and explained the way we live. He turns to the building blocks of human flourishing in a multilayered, profoundly illuminating work grounded in everyday life. This is the story of how success happens, told through the lives of one composite American couple, Harold and Erica. Drawing on a wealth of current research from numerous disciplines, Brooks takes Harold and Erica from infancy to old age, illustrating a fundamental new understanding of human nature along the way
Heaven or Heresy: A History of the Inquisition Thomas F. Madden For many, the Inquisition conjures Gothic images of cloaked figures and barbarous torture chambers. So enmeshed is this view of the Inquisition in popular culture that such scenes play out even in comedies such as Mel Brooks' History of the World and Monty Python's Flying Circus. But is this a fair portrayal?
Publisher's Summary: The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once teemed with upwards of 30 million souls, to the most remote and inhospitable areas of the planet.
The New York Times bestseller and the USA Today #1 Hot Fiction Pick for the summer, The Chaperone is a captivating novel about the woman who chaperoned an irreverent Louise Brooks to New York City in 1922 and the summer that would change them both. Only a few years before becoming a famous silent-film star and an icon of her generation, a fifteen-year-old Louise Brooks leaves Wichita, Kansas, to study with the prestigious Denishawn School of Dancing in New York.
