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17 Social Justice Books for Summer Reading Before College
Reading can improve empathy and build critical thinking skills. Check out these 17 social justice books for incoming first-year students. by Bernard Grant, Ph.D. Published on August 16, 2022 Image Credit: MesquitaFMS / E+ / Getty Images Research shows that reading improves empathy and theory of mind. Reading also builds vocabulary, critical thinking skills, and cultural competency. MRI scans showed that reading increases brain activity.
The Wealth Hoarders
For decades, a secret army of tax attorneys, accountants, and wealth managers has been developing into the shadowy Wealth Defense Industry. These "agents of inequality" are paid millions to hide trillions for the richest 0.01 percent. In this book, inequality expert Chuck Collins, who himself inherited a fortune, interviews the leading players and gives a unique insider account of how this industry is doing everything it can to create and entrench hereditary dynasties of wealth and power.
Být normální je na hovno - Jak žít, učit se a být úspěšný mimo běžné mantinely
O knize Být normální je na hovno - Jak žít, učit se a být úspěšný mimo běžné mantinely Co je to normální? Jsem normální? A vy? A kdokoliv z nás? Všichni jsme obklopeni institucemi, systémy a kulturními zvyklostmi, které vyžadují normálnost. Všichni si musíme vybudovat život a své vlastní já navzdory přísným soudcům zavedené teorie normality. Chci, abyste byli připravení.
Success with Attention Deficit
I have attention deficit disorder (ADHD), and I wouldn’t change it for the world. In fact, I’m working to change society’s understanding of ADHD. You know me. I was that kid in elementary school, the little redhead who was sent to the hallway countless times for drumming on his desk. When I was ordered to be still in line, I hopped around with excitement. I blurted out my thoughts when I was told to raise my hand. It turns out that what got me in trouble in school was not so much a deficit.
How to Find Happiness & Resilience with Adult ADHD
Adults with ADHD should strive to be resilient. I’m talking about finding the warrior within all of us. Whether we know it or not, the warrior developed over years of fighting for our identities in school — surrounded by families who fought side by side with us — and in our struggles in the workplace and society. In the end, this is who we are.
Jonathan Mooney: Some are at risk in the culture of ‘normal’
I was a weird kid. I was obsessed with checker-patterned clothing, and for a time I rode a checkered bike, wore checkered Vans, checkered shorts, a checkered shirt and to top it all off, a checkered hat. I loved the television series “Roots” and took to calling myself Kunta Kinte. I would shower only in my socks. I decided one year to pee only in the corner of the extra room in our house. No one noticed, which gives you a sense of the general level of cleanliness in our home.
Opinion | At Risk in the Culture of ‘Normal’ (Published 2019)
disability Research shows that people with atypical brainsare at a higher risk of suicide and self-harm. Oct. 9, 2019 Credit...Leonardo Santamaria By Jonathan Mooney Mr. Mooney is the author of “Normal Sucks.” I was a weird kid. I was obsessed with checker-patterned clothing, and for a time I rode a checkered bike, wore checkered Vans, checkered shorts, a checkered shirt and to top it all off, a checkered hat. I loved the television series “Roots” and took to calling myself Kunta Kinte.
Book Excerpt: A Former Special Ed Kid on Learning Differences, Our Educational System and Why ‘Normal Sucks’
Book cover courtesy of Henry Holt & Co.; author photo courtesy of Jonathanmooney.com Excerpted from Normal Sucks: How to Live, Learn, and Thrive Outside the Lines by Jonathan Mooney. Copyright © 2019 by Jonathan Mooney. Reprinted by permission of Henry Holt and Company. From my first day in kindergarten at Pennekamp Elementary School, me and school just didn’t get along. It started with the desk.
How, Exactly, Did We Come Up with What Counts As 'Normal'?
Where did normal come from, and why does it have the power it does in our lives, in our institutions, in our world? How did it become like air—invisible, essential, all around us? As Ian Hacking was the first to point out, look up normal in any English dictionary and the first definition is “usual, regular, common, typical.” How did this become something to aspire? How did everyone being the same achieve the cultural force it has?
Normal Sucks: How to Live, Learn, and Thrive Outside the Lines
“Written with humor and compassion, laughter and tears, Normal Sucks will inspire all of us to embrace and celebrate our differences.” The author, who was diagnosed with dyslexia and ADHD, writes this book as a letter to his three sons who had asked him when they were young: "What is normal?" He had trouble answering. Mooney couldn't read until he was 12 years old. He wants his sons to thrive in a world that will tell them that they are not normal because of the way they look, think and learn.
New Releases and More for August 13, 2019
This week, Liberty and Kelly discuss gods with a little g, The Memory Police, The Yellow House, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, Flatiron Books, publishers of Thirteen by Steve Cavanagh, and Ritual. Pick up an All the Books! 200th episode commemorative item here. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, iTunes, or Spotify and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news.
You are special! Now stop being different
Let me tell you about my relationship with the desk. From my first day at Penny Camp Elementary in 1982, it was fraught. This is how it went down: Five seconds into class, the foot starts bouncing; 10 seconds in, both feet; 15 seconds, I bust out the drums! After a few minutes, it’s all over. I’m trying to put my leg behind my neck. No, that desk and I didn’t get along. For some kids it was just furniture, but for me it was a form of enhanced interrogation that would have made Dick Cheney smile.
Opinion | You Are Special! Now Stop Being Different
Disability Oct. 12, 2017 Let me tell you about my relationship with the school desk. From my first day at Penny Camp Elementary School in 1982, it was fraught. This is how it went down: Five seconds into class, the foot starts bouncing; 10 seconds in, both feet; 15 seconds, I bust out the drums! After a few minutes, it’s all over. I’m trying to put my leg behind my neck. No, that desk and I didn’t get along.
"What is Wrong With Me? Nothing at All, I Understand at Last"
I was one of those kids, since the first grade. Teachers knew it and my classmates did, too: Jonathan Mooney was kind of crazy. As one of those kids, I made friends with the janitor, the only visitor at my desk in the hallway. And I was on a first-name basis with Shirley, the receptionist in the principal’s office. It wasn’t that I was totally crazy or out of control. But I felt that I was bad, almost morally defective. That feeling ate away at my sense of self like battery acid. In fact, it ruined it.
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