Your World, Better: Global Progress And What You Can Do About It
Charles Kenny
(Author)
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Description
Written for the smart and engaged middle school student, Your World, Better looks at how America and the World has changed since the reader's parents and grandparents were young: what has happened to health and wealth, homes, school and work, rights and democracy, war and the environment, happiness and depression. It reports the positive trends, the problems that remain and what we can do about them. All author royalties from sales will be donated to UNICEF."Everyone, no matter how old, or how young, should read this. I'm sending to grandkids and their parents." --Nancy Birdsall"Great read for middle school kids who want to understand how the world is getting better -- and can become even more so!" --Parag Khanna"If you know a middle school student or teacher, pass this along! Incredibly fresh and honest." --Karen Schulte "Kids are taught that everything's getting worse and we're all doomed--factually incorrect, and a message that leads to cynicism & fatalism, not constructive action. An antidote: Charles Kenny's new Your World, Better..." --Steven Pinker
Product Details
Price
$8.10
Publisher
Independently Published
Publish Date
March 19, 2021
Pages
200
Dimensions
5.98 X 9.02 X 0.42 inches | 0.6 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9798598836392
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About the Author
Charles Kenny is a writer-researcher at the Center for Global Development and has worked on policy reforms in global health as well as UN peacekeeping and combating international financial corruption. Previously, he spent fifteen years as an economist at the World Bank, travelling the planet from Baghdad and Kabul to Brasilia and Beijing. He is the author of The Plague Cycle: The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease, Getting Better: Why Global Development Is Succeeding and How We Can Improve the World Even More, and The Upside of Down: Why the Rise of the Rest Is Great for the West. He earned a history degree at Cambridge and has graduate degrees from Johns Hopkins, the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, and Cambridge.