Biography, Autobiography & Life Writing

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Butter Buns

From: The Whole Animal

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Call You by Your Name
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Call You by Your Name

From: This Has Always Been a War

In “Call You by Your Name” the author delves into their relationship with Lucky. Discussing relationships, cheating, bush life, camp relationships, abuse, manipulation, sex, shame, … 73 $7.30 Add
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Calling It Quits
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Calling It Quits

From: Up the Coast

Chapter Ten focuses on the twilight years of the logging camp, struggles with machinery, injuries on the job, the death of an employee at her fathers camp, her parents first international holiday … 28 $2.80 Add
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Camp Gurs

Camp Gurs

From: On Love and Tyranny

This chapter details Arendt’s internment in a French "enemy alien" camp. When France fell, Arendt left the camp on foot. 8 $0.80 Add
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Canada and Hungarian Refugees: The Historical Context

Canada and Hungarian Refugees: The Historical Context

From: The 1956 Hungarian Revolution

Fifty years after the event, the Canadian program of refugee intake following the abortive Hungarian uprising of 1956 is recalled as a pivotal moment in Canadian immigration history. And it was … 18 $2.34 Add
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Canada's Colony

Canada’s Colony

Stuart Hodgson and the Birth of the Modern Arctic

From: Umingmak

Readings in Part Three of this title, entitled "Emperor of the North" discuss Hodgson’s growing power and influence in the communities of the Northwest Territories. Topics … 13 $1.30 Add
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Canvassing
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Canvassing

Part 5. Campaigning

From: Women Winning Office

In Canvassing Nash discusses canvassing. The chapter discusses what canvassing can be, who is is for, canvassing strategy, and even provides her own 12 tips for canvassing. 12 $1.20 Add
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Capacity Building #1

Capacity Building #1

Healing and Connecting with Our Selves

From: Reclaiming the Commons for the Common Good

"The more I’m securely connected to myself. The more I can risk connecting with others, getting involved in the Gabriola Commons, committing to endless meetings of the Covenant Team. … 6 $0.60 Add
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Capacity Building #2

Capacity Building #2

Healing, Habitats, and Reconnecting with Nature

From: Reclaiming the Commons for the Common Good

At its simplist, a commons is a habitat of interrelationships bound by mutuality: mutual obligation and mutual sef-interest and also, hopefully, affinity. 8 $0.80 Add
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Capacity Building #3

Capacity Building #3

Ecoliteracy and Knowing through Implicated Participaton

From: Reclaiming the Commons for the Common Good

The essential thing in people, especially kids, becoming ecoliterate is creating opportunities for ongoing participation in particular local habitats. 10 $1.00 Add
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Capacity Building #4

Capacity Building #4

Commoning Knowledge and Knowledge Commons

From: Reclaiming the Commons for the Common Good

The author suggests that learning and knowledge flow from attentive participation, with the senses wide open, and possibly the heart as well. 8 $0.80 Add
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Capacity Building #5

Capacity Building #5

Commons Organizing and the Common Good

From: Reclaiming the Commons for the Common Good

Staying implicated in the common good and the good of the commons and community is a big part of reclaiming the commons, though not all of it. 12 $1.20 Add
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Capacity Building #6

Capacity Building #6

A Spirit Dialogue, Reconnecting with Creation

From: Reclaiming the Commons for the Common Good

Patterning won’t emerge by just wishing or waiting for its emergence. It requires action, behaviour-changing, consciousness-changing action at every level from the personal to the … 10 $1.00 Add
Captured Hearts

Captured Hearts

New Brunswick's War Brides

Imagine you’re a young woman caught up in the ugly reality of war. You meet and fall in love with a young soldier from a foreign country. You marry and your world is upended: when the war … 148 View
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This Space Is Taken

This Space Is Taken

From: Any Other Way

Stephanie Nolan describes how a casual football game among friends in the park and how it shaped her identiy. 2 $0.20 Add
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Cast of Characters

Cast of Characters

From: How We Changed Toronto

Short biographies about the people consistently mentioned throughout the book. 7 $0.70 Add