Books to Change the World

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The International Bank of Bob: Connecting Our Worlds One $25 Kiva Loan at a Time
The International Bank of Bob: Connecting Our Worlds One $25 Kiva Loan at a Time 4.03 avg rating — 1,101 ratings
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Silent Spring
Silent Spring 4.05 avg rating — 53,317 ratings
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Papyrus: The Plant that Changed the World: From Ancient Egypt to Today's Water Wars
Papyrus: The Plant that Changed the World: From Ancient Egypt to Today's Water Wars 3.62 avg rating — 120 ratings
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Humankind: Changing the World One Small Act At a Time
Humankind: Changing the World One Small Act At a Time 4.22 avg rating — 1,257 ratings
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The Daughter of Kurdland: A Life Dedicated to Humankind
The Daughter of Kurdland: A Life Dedicated to Humankind 4.20 avg rating — 409 ratings
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The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1) 4.15 avg rating — 2,323,212 ratings
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The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success 4.11 avg rating — 53 ratings
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The China-America Alliance: East Asian and American Cultural Values Promote Global Harmony
The China-America Alliance: East Asian and American Cultural Values Promote Global Harmony 4.53 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Fluid: The Approach Applied by Geniuses Over Centuries
Fluid: The Approach Applied by Geniuses Over Centuries 4.32 avg rating — 842 ratings
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Secrets Behind What You Eat
The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Secrets Behind What You Eat 4.03 avg rating — 3,512 ratings
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Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty 4.12 avg rating — 10,336 ratings
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How to Change Everything: The Young Human's Guide to Protecting the Planet and Each Other
How to Change Everything: The Young Human's Guide to Protecting the Planet and Each Other 3.89 avg rating — 867 ratings
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The Abundant Community: Awakening the Power of Families and Neighborhoods
The Abundant Community: Awakening the Power of Families and Neighborhoods 3.83 avg rating — 439 ratings
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A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There 4.31 avg rating — 35,161 ratings
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 3.65 avg rating — 194,442 ratings
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Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered
Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered 4.09 avg rating — 6,887 ratings
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Lug, Dawn of the Ice Age (Lug, 1)
Lug, Dawn of the Ice Age (Lug, 1) 3.86 avg rating — 111 ratings
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FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition
FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition 3.66 avg rating — 388 ratings
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Binding Chaos: Mass Collaboration on a Global Scale
Binding Chaos: Mass Collaboration on a Global Scale 4.39 avg rating — 132 ratings
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Saving Animals: A Future Activist's Guide
Saving Animals: A Future Activist's Guide 4.75 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder 3.93 avg rating — 14,733 ratings
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Contact
Contact 4.15 avg rating — 150,001 ratings
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Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)
Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1) 3.86 avg rating — 87,061 ratings
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Throw Out Fifty Things: Clear the Clutter, Find Your Life
Throw Out Fifty Things: Clear the Clutter, Find Your Life 3.48 avg rating — 3,071 ratings
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The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia 4.25 avg rating — 143,163 ratings
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The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)
The Forever War (The Forever War, #1) 4.14 avg rating — 176,933 ratings
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The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More
The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More 3.82 avg rating — 29,932 ratings
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed 3.93 avg rating — 73,872 ratings
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference 4.01 avg rating — 844,255 ratings
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Kids Make It Better: A Write-in, Draw-in Journal
Kids Make It Better: A Write-in, Draw-in Journal 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Making Peace With the Earth: Beyond Land Wars And Food Wars
Making Peace With the Earth: Beyond Land Wars And Food Wars 3.95 avg rating — 86 ratings
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Everyone Leads: Building Leadership from the Community Up
Everyone Leads: Building Leadership from the Community Up 3.72 avg rating — 108 ratings
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White Folks Guide to Understanding the Black Community, and Get Out the Vote
White Folks Guide to Understanding the Black Community, and Get Out the Vote 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Moon in the Nautilus Shell: Discordant Harmonies Reconsidered: From Climate Change to Species Extinction, How Life Persists in an Ever-Changing World
Moon in the Nautilus Shell: Discordant Harmonies Reconsidered: From Climate Change to Species Extinction, How Life Persists in an Ever-Changing World 3.81 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Do Good Well: Your Guide to Leadership, Action, and Social Innovation
Do Good Well: Your Guide to Leadership, Action, and Social Innovation 4.05 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Killing for Profit: Exposing the Illegal Rhino Horn Trade
Killing for Profit: Exposing the Illegal Rhino Horn Trade 4.06 avg rating — 220 ratings
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The Humanure Handbook: A Guide to Composting Human Manure
The Humanure Handbook: A Guide to Composting Human Manure 4.41 avg rating — 1,048 ratings
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The Mismeasure of Man
The Mismeasure of Man 4.05 avg rating — 9,212 ratings
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The Book of Life: Change Your Mind and Change Your Life!
The Book of Life: Change Your Mind and Change Your Life! really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Life Series: First Day
Life Series: First Day it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming 3.93 avg rating — 653 ratings
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The Price of Thirst: Global Water Inequality and the Coming Chaos
The Price of Thirst: Global Water Inequality and the Coming Chaos 3.83 avg rating — 156 ratings
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Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit (Ishmael, #1)
Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit (Ishmael, #1) 4.01 avg rating — 102,550 ratings
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Complicity (The CCCCC Conspirators Code #1)
Complicity (The CCCCC Conspirators Code #1) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Resurrection: Glen Canyon and a New Vision for the American West
Resurrection: Glen Canyon and a New Vision for the American West 4.45 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better
Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better 3.94 avg rating — 2,484 ratings
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Water, Peace, and War: Confronting the Global Water Crisis
Water, Peace, and War: Confronting the Global Water Crisis 4.17 avg rating — 46 ratings
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The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering Our Place in Nature
The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering Our Place in Nature 4.14 avg rating — 1,546 ratings
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Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil
Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil 4.13 avg rating — 927 ratings
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Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How
Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How 3.93 avg rating — 597 ratings
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At the Edge of History and Passages About Earth
At the Edge of History and Passages About Earth 4.33 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Beasts at Bedtime: Revealing the Environmental Wisdom in Children’s Literature
Beasts at Bedtime: Revealing the Environmental Wisdom in Children’s Literature 4.16 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Insult to Our Planet & The Florida Keys
Insult to Our Planet & The Florida Keys 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Swipe to Unlock: The Primer on Technology and Business Strategy
Swipe to Unlock: The Primer on Technology and Business Strategy 4.22 avg rating — 3,341 ratings
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Easy Money Management: A Give and Save 3-6-5 Approach to Personal Finance
Easy Money Management: A Give and Save 3-6-5 Approach to Personal Finance 4.73 avg rating — 67 ratings
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Samson: The Modern Day America
Samson: The Modern Day America it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Treed
Treed 4.27 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Where Oceans Hide Their Dead (Across Oceans, #2)
Where Oceans Hide Their Dead (Across Oceans, #2) 4.36 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Teardown: Rebuilding Democracy from the Ground Up
Teardown: Rebuilding Democracy from the Ground Up 4.48 avg rating — 263 ratings
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The Creation of Me, Them and Us
The Creation of Me, Them and Us 4.55 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Building a Better World in Your Backyard - Instead of Being Angry at Bad Guys
Building a Better World in Your Backyard - Instead of Being Angry at Bad Guys 3.98 avg rating — 340 ratings
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Bahá'u'lláh and the New Era: An Introduction to the Bahá'í Faith
Bahá'u'lláh and the New Era: An Introduction to the Bahá'í Faith 4.30 avg rating — 360 ratings
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The Great Pivot: Creating Meaningful Work to Build a Sustainable Future
The Great Pivot: Creating Meaningful Work to Build a Sustainable Future 4.58 avg rating — 19 ratings
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A Small Farm Future: Making the Case for a Society Built Around Local Economies, Self-Provisioning, Agricultural Diversity, and a Shared Earth
A Small Farm Future: Making the Case for a Society Built Around Local Economies, Self-Provisioning, Agricultural Diversity, and a Shared Earth 4.07 avg rating — 177 ratings
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Bomber's Moon
Bomber's Moon 4.33 avg rating — 33 ratings
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The Undrowning Lotus
The Undrowning Lotus 4.31 avg rating — 62 ratings
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In This Together: How Republicans, Democrats, Capitalists and Activists Are Uniting to Tackle Climate Change and More
In This Together: How Republicans, Democrats, Capitalists and Activists Are Uniting to Tackle Climate Change and More 4.64 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Kompost fĂĽr Ihre Pflanzen: Was Sie ĂĽber Kompostieren wissen mĂĽssen
Kompost für Ihre Pflanzen: Was Sie über Kompostieren wissen müssen 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Mama Miti: Wangari Maathai and the Trees of Kenya
Mama Miti: Wangari Maathai and the Trees of Kenya 4.21 avg rating — 1,036 ratings
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Deer, Tree, the Shaman, and the Sun: A Story About Learning To Be Ourselves in a New World
Deer, Tree, the Shaman, and the Sun: A Story About Learning To Be Ourselves in a New World 3.93 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Monarca
Monarca 4.02 avg rating — 237 ratings
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Principles of Environmental Science Inquiry and Applications
Principles of Environmental Science Inquiry and Applications 3.44 avg rating — 142 ratings
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Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took On New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City
Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took On New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City 3.93 avg rating — 1,003 ratings
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Recycled Thoughts: Just how Green is Green?
Recycled Thoughts: Just how Green is Green? 4.03 avg rating — 35 ratings
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The Major Works
The Major Works 4.04 avg rating — 7,038 ratings
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Meltdown in Tibet: China's Reckless Destruction of Ecosystems from the Highlands of Tibet to the Deltas of Asia
Meltdown in Tibet: China's Reckless Destruction of Ecosystems from the Highlands of Tibet to the Deltas of Asia 4.01 avg rating — 73 ratings
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Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World
Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World 4.20 avg rating — 773 ratings
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The Story of Stuff: How Our Obsession with Stuff is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities, and our Health—and a Vision for Change
The Story of Stuff: How Our Obsession with Stuff is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities, and our Health—and a Vision for Change 4.08 avg rating — 4,343 ratings
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Animal Farm
Animal Farm 4.01 avg rating — 4,356,514 ratings
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The Promise of World Peace: To the Peoples of the World
The Promise of World Peace: To the Peoples of the World 4.75 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai
Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai 4.23 avg rating — 789 ratings
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Inquire Within: A Guide to Living in Spirit
Inquire Within: A Guide to Living in Spirit 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
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DIY Projects for the Self-Sufficient Homeowner: 25 Ways to Build a Self-Reliant Lifestyle
DIY Projects for the Self-Sufficient Homeowner: 25 Ways to Build a Self-Reliant Lifestyle 3.84 avg rating — 318 ratings
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The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal 4.08 avg rating — 28,336 ratings
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The People's Republic of Chemicals
The People's Republic of Chemicals 4.09 avg rating — 56 ratings
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The Kitáb-i-Íqán: The Book of Certitude
The Kitáb-i-Íqán: The Book of Certitude 4.64 avg rating — 424 ratings
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Wangari Maathai: The Woman Who Planted Millions of Trees
Wangari Maathai: The Woman Who Planted Millions of Trees 4.27 avg rating — 700 ratings
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Community: The Structure of Belonging
Community: The Structure of Belonging 4.06 avg rating — 1,713 ratings
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Native Tongue (Native Tongue, #1)
Native Tongue (Native Tongue, #1) 4.01 avg rating — 4,580 ratings
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Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming
Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming 3.94 avg rating — 1,812 ratings
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Eleven
Eleven 4.29 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Dr. Wangari Maathai Plants a Forest
Dr. Wangari Maathai Plants a Forest 4.45 avg rating — 337 ratings
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Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
Ecology of a Cracker Childhood 4.02 avg rating — 3,511 ratings
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Thimerosal: Let the Science Speak: The Evidence Supporting the Immediate Removal of Mercury--a Known Neurotoxin--from Vaccines
Thimerosal: Let the Science Speak: The Evidence Supporting the Immediate Removal of Mercury--a Known Neurotoxin--from Vaccines 4.10 avg rating — 94 ratings
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Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh
Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh 4.75 avg rating — 296 ratings
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Wangari's Trees of Peace: A True Story from Africa
Wangari's Trees of Peace: A True Story from Africa 4.33 avg rating — 1,315 ratings
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The Community Leadership Handbook: Framing Ideas, Building Relationships, and Mobilizing Resources
The Community Leadership Handbook: Framing Ideas, Building Relationships, and Mobilizing Resources 3.84 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Alternative Approach to Allergies, An: The New Field of Clinical Ecology Unravels the Environmental Causes of
Alternative Approach to Allergies, An: The New Field of Clinical Ecology Unravels the Environmental Causes of 4.24 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Some Answered Questions
Some Answered Questions 4.71 avg rating — 407 ratings
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Seeds of Change: Wangari's Gift to the World
Seeds of Change: Wangari's Gift to the World 4.30 avg rating — 730 ratings
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