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How We Welcome

How We Welcome

Why Canada's Refugee Resettlement Program Undermines Place-making

From: Subdivided

The chapter discusses immigrant sponsorship to Canada and ensuring successful settlement for families upon arrival. ; 13 $1.30 Add
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Howard’s Way or Deane’s Way: Culture Wars in Contemporary Australia

Howard’s Way or Deane’s Way: Culture Wars in Contemporary Australia

From: Managing Diversity

Over the past ten years at least, a period largely defined by the prime ministership of John Howard, but arguably extending back through twenty years of pronounced economic change and social … 20 $2.40 Add
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Hub Cities and Transport Costs
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Hub Cities and Transport Costs

Section 1: The Economist’s City

From: Cities Matter

Chapter 2 explores transportation networks and hub cities, discussing topics including networks, ‘Transport Cost’ theory, and more. 6 $0.60 Add
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Hubris

Hubris

From: History's People

From History’s People: Personalities and the Past 70 $7.00 Add
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Hum
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Hum

From: My Mother, My Translator

Further explores Partition and the unease with which it was talked about. Singh recounts his grandfather’s stories, comparing them with his mother’s, plotting his lineage of storytellers. 19 $1.90 Add
Human Development

Human Development

Lessons from the Cuban Revolution

Capitalism is a system in crisis. In the context of an urgent need for an alternative system, Cuba provides valuable lessons. The Cuban Revolution’s unique features have allowed it to … 135 View
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Human Interdependence

Human Interdependence

From: Turning the World Right-Side Up

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Human Moles in the "Lovely Land of War"

Human Moles in the "Lovely Land of War"

From: The Great Class War 1914-1918

Except in its opening and closing stages, the Great War is a “stationary war,” to be associated forever with concepts such as trenches, no man’s land, and barbed wire — … 33 $3.30 Add
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Human/Nature
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Human/Nature

From: The Web of Meaning

The chapter begins with the absurdity of anthropocentrism, continuing with the European thirst for domination overseas and over nature. The Great Acceleration is described as the commodification … 29 $2.90 Add
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Human Nature or Human Ignorance?

Human Nature or Human Ignorance?

From: The Memory We Could Be

The story of climate change is one of the rise to dominance of a particular human relationship with nature, defined by callousness. Today we are blinded by that relationship, locked in its logic … 37 $3.70 Add
Human Permaculture
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Human Permaculture

Life Design For Resilient Living

As climate change, ecological decline, and social breakdown start to bite, people expect that governments will solve our problems. Yet this belief has proven to be false. Rather than looking to … ; 242 View
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Climate Change

Climate Change

A choice for humanity

From: The United Nations in the 21st Century

This chapter explores how the UN’s concern for environmental issues showcases how the organization has evolved to respond to the evolving needs of humanity 9 $0.90 Add
Human Rights

Human Rights

Social Justice in the Age of the Market

Rampant market economics has led to violations of human rights. Koen de Feyter questions how far the international human rights system provides effective protection against the adverse effects of … 250 View
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Human Rights and Human Differences

Human Rights and Human Differences

From: The Rights Revolution

From The Rights Revolution: 27 $2.70 Add
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Human Rights and Racial Discrimination in Housing

Human Rights and Racial Discrimination in Housing

From: Resisting Eviction

This book concludes with a discussion of the human rights case initiated by Heron Gate tenants evicted in 2018 who are seeking a right to return. The potentially precedent-setting case before the … 7 $0.70 Add
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Science and Indigenous Knowledge as the Evidentiary Basis for Impact Assessment
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Science and Indigenous Knowledge as the Evidentiary Basis for Impact Assessment

From: The Next Generation of Impact Assessment

This chapter considers the Impact Assessment Act’s (IAA) approach to science and Indigenous knowledge by setting out the roles that science and Indigenous knowledge play in establishing the … 25 $2.50 Add