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EPL Guest Picks: International Development Week 2026

The Alberta Council for Global Cooperation aims to celebrate International Development Week by engaging communities with stories and ideas that shape global progress. This booklist encourages everyone to explore, reflect, and take part in building a more peaceful and prosperous planet.

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  • Everyday Habits for Transforming Systems

    the Catalytic Power of Radical Engagement

    Kahane, Adam
    How can you contribute to meaningful change? Adam Kahane shares seven everyday habits brought to life through vivid stories, that enable anyone, anywhere to transform systems and create a better world
    Book, 2025Oakland, CA : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., [2025] — 303.484 KAH
  • Poignantly told from a young boy’s perspective, this acclaimed memoir about a Mexican family laboring in California’s fields has been transformed into a striking graphic novel, sure to resonate with fans of Illegal and They Called Us Enemy
    Graphic Novel, 2024New York : Clarion Books, Harper Alley, imprints of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2024] — J 973.92 JIM ROS
  • The Toolbox

    Strategies for Crafting Social Impact

    Harold, Jacob
    This guide to nine powerful tools from storytelling to design thinking that have fueled major social movements and successful organizations. This vibrant, visual playbook distills 21st-century impact strategy into an accessible blueprint for anyone…
    Book, 2023Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., [2023] — 658.408 HAR
  • Hold Everything Dear

    Dispatches on Survival and Resistance

    Berger, John
    Berger examines the roots of terrorism through the lens of profound despair, displacement, and the millions forced into refugee life by poverty and war across regions confronting the global depth of human suffering and proposes actions that could…
    Book, 2025London : Verso, 2025. — 355.033 BER
  • You Will Not Kill Our Imagination

    a Memoir of Palestine and Writing in Dark Times

    Teebi, Saeed
    This fearless memoir explores what the author describes as the Palestinian experience in this moment, including how the violence and devastation they witness shape Palestinian art, imagination, and identity.
    Book, 2025Toronto, ON : Scribner, 2025. — 305.89274 TEE
  • Against Technoableism

    Rethinking Who Needs Improvement

    Shew, Ashley
    Bioethicist Ashley Shew exposes the misconceptions she faces as a newly disabled person, from being labeled an “inspiration” to being treated as a tech-dependent problem to fix. She challenges society’s tendency to view disability as an individual…
    eAudiobook, 2023HighBridge Company, 2023
  • All We Can Save

    Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis

    A feminist renaissance is emerging in the climate movement, led by voices rooted in compassion, creativity, connection, and collaboration. Yet women and girls crucial agents of change remain too often excluded, a dynamic that undermines progress at…
    eAudiobook, 2020Books on Tape, 2020