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HomeGrown: Anti-Racism Reading List

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This reading list is a curated selection of eBook titles available in the NC LIVE HomeGrown Collection. The collection includes titles from North Carolina publishers like Duke University Press, Algonquin Books, CrossRoad Press, UNC Press, McFarland, Press 53, Gryphon House, John F. Blair, and Ingalls. 

No Holds. No Checkout Limits. No Wait Lists. HomeGrown titles are available in perpetuity with unlimited, simultaneous access. Immediate access for everyone, at any time, forever. 

For more eBooks, check out our A-Z database list. Questions? Email help@nclive.org 
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RVvSAOn_Xhf_E9Qwe-TR--RYJPd25K1jqwEFPjcBYec/

Coronavirus: a book for children

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Axel Scheffler has illustrated a digital book for primary school age children, free for anyone to read on screen or print out, about the coronavirus and the measures taken to control it. Published by Nosy Crow, and written by staff within the company, the book has had expert input: Professor Graham Medley of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine acted as a consultant, and the company also had advice from two head teachers and a child psychologist.

The book answers key questions in simple language appropriate for 5 to 9 year olds:

https://nosycrowcoronavirus.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/Coronavirus_ABookForChildren.pdf

Brilliant Green: The Surprising History and Science of Plant Intelligence by Stefano Mancuso - eBook Central

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Are plants intelligent? Can they solve problems, communicate, and navigate their surroundings? Or are they passive, incapable of independent action or social behavior? Philosophers and scientists have pondered these questions since ancient Greece, most often concluding that plants are unthinking and inert: they are too silent, too sedentary -- just too different from us. Yet discoveries over the past fifty years have challenged these ideas, shedding new light on the extraordinary capabilities and complex interior lives of plants.
https://www.nclive.org/cgi-bin/nclsm?url=http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/nclive-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3317668

A Mathematician's Apology by G. H. Hardy - eBook Central

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G. H. Hardy was one of this century's finest mathematical thinkers, renowned among his contemporaries as a 'real mathematician … the purest of the pure'. He was also, as C. P. Snow recounts in his Foreword, 'unorthodox, eccentric, radical, ready to talk about anything'. This 'apology', written in 1940, offers a brilliant and engaging account of mathematics as very much more than a science; when it was first published, Graham Greene hailed it alongside Henry James's notebooks as 'the best account of what it was like to be a creative artist'. C. P.
https://www.nclive.org/cgi-bin/nclsm?url=http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/nclive-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1864707

Open Education North Carolina Collection

Open Education North Carolina Collection contains free, open textbooks that have been curated for the most frequently taught courses across North Carolina's 2 and 4-year colleges and universities. Faculty can adopt these open educational resources (OER) to save their students money and lower the overall cost of higher education.

Open Education North Carolina is an initiative that aims to reduce the cost of higher education for North Carolina students by providing free, open textbooks for 30 of the most frequently-taught courses across North Carolina’s 2 and 4-year colleges and universities.
Read more about the initiative at: https://www.nclive.org/oenc

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