Quando la presidente della National Geographic Society Jean Case ha iniziato a indagare sulle qualità distintive dei grandi changemaker (promotori del cambiamento), ha scoperto cinque caratteristiche sorprendenti che avevano tutti in comune. Non si trattava della ricchezza, di certi privilegi e neppure della genialità. Tutti questi uomini e queste donne eccezionali avevano scelto di  piazzare una grande scommessa, correre rischi con audacia, apprendere dai propri fallimenti, spingersi al di là della 'bolla' in cui vivevano e lasciare che il senso di urgenza prevalesse sulla paura. In tutto il corso de 'L'importanza di osare', Jean illustra in toni vividi questi principi mediante la narrazione di storie - dalle esperienze trasformative che ha vissuto in prima persona alle rivoluzionarie scoperte di Jane Goodall nell'ambito della comprensione e della protezione degli scimpanzé, alla decisione del noto chef José Andrés di dedicarsi al pronto intervento portando la sua cucina nelle zone colpite da devastanti uragani per nutrire gli affamati, agli ambiziosi sforzi compiuti da Bryan Stevenson per porre fine alle detenzioni ingiuste e altro ancora. L'autrice apporta nuovi spunti a storie che potreste pensare di conoscere già - come il percorso seguito da Airbnb per arrivare a trasformare il settore dell'ospitalità partendo da zero, o lo storico moonshot di John F. Kennedy - e condivide perle tratte da promotori del cambiamento di cui non avete mai sentito parlare. Intrecciando storytelling, consigli pratici e pura ispirazione, 'L'importanza di osare' vi insegnerà come mettere in a

Explores the life cycle of butterflies, using photographs and step-by-step text to follow a monarch butterfly's growth process from egg to caterpillar to chrysalis to mature insect.

Introduces readers to the life cycle of a frog, including information on how a tadpole turns into an amphibian.

A nonprofit leader's guide for engaging millennials in all aspects of a nonprofit organization

Written by Millennials about Millennials, Cause for Change examines strategies for engaging Millennials as constituents, volunteers, and donors, and focuses on how organizations can realign themselves to better respond to this group of 80 million strong. At the heart of this research-based guide is the Millennial Development Platform, an action-based rubric developed by the authors and included in each chapter to help organizations create the infrastructure for a long-term millennial engagement strategy.

• Examines how Millennials communicate, volunteer, take action, influence their peers, and choose to give their time and money
• Explains how Millennials view their role in the workplace, and how their approach is re-shaping nonprofit culture from within

Cause for Change profiles Millennials who have emerged as dynamic leaders to create and manage movements in their communities.

This collection of essays presents one of the first acts of documenting shifts in the cultural production of whiteness within texts across the twentieth century, following shifts from the proud colonial moment through to the moment of liberal multiculturalism to the recent war on terror. Each essay addresses the ways in which texts produced in these moments depend on rhetorical strategies that implicitly or explicitly privilege whiteness.

Riverbend, the Iraqi blogger continues her dispatches from her native Baghdad. Embedded journalism at its most compelling, her blog recounts the major events of the occupation and the insurgency since October 2004, as well as her and her family's daily struggles.
The postings include: an 'open letter to Americans' before the 2004 election begging them to consider what a second Bush term will mean for Iraq; the irony of living in an oil-rich country with a desperate fuel shortage: Riverbend waits with her brother in long lines before the gas pump and then goes home to siphon out the fuel for the neighborhood generator; a description of the plight of young women in an increasingly Islamist Iraq: 'The problem with defiance (not going out in public fully covered) is that it doesn't just involve you personally, it involves anyone with you at that moment - usually a male relative. It means that there might be an exchange of ugly words or a fight and probably, after that, a detention in Abu Ghraib;' and the kidnapping of Christian Science Monitor reporter Jill Carroll; with a moving tribute to Carroll's guide and translator, a well-known person in the neighborhood who was murdered on the spot by the kidnappers.