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Give Hope a Chance
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Give Hope a Chance

From: Still Hopeful

In Chapter One, Barlow stresses how– as we come out of a global pandemic and face many more crises on the horizon– we need to remain hopeful. In this chapter Barlow argues for staying … 42 $4.20 Add
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Giving Too Much Away

Giving Too Much Away

From: No One to Tell

In this chapter, former RCMP officer Janet Merlo discusses instances of positive policing during her career and provides examples of officers who made an effort to live up to the … 10 $1.00 Add
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Glossary

Glossary

From: Reclaiming the Commons for the Common Good

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Glossary
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Glossary

From: Qummut Qukiria!

A glossary of words and language used throughout the text. ; ; 18 $1.80 Add
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Going Back

Going Back

From: The Teen Sex Trade

After a brief time away from the sex trade to graduate high school a black Nova Scotian woman goes with her boyfriend to Toronto to work as a stripper and sex worker as a way to show him how good … 18 $1.80 Add
Going Public

Going Public

A Survivor's Journey From Grief to Action

It took Julie Macfarlane a lifetime to say the words out loud—the words that finally broke the calm and traveled farther than she could have imagined. In this clear-eyed account, she … 228 View
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Gold Range
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Gold Range

From: Tracking the Caribou Queen

This chapter discusses the Margie’s family’s big move to the North, the history around the development of Yellow Knife as the capital of the Northwest Territories, their time living … 8 $0.80 Add
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Good and Evil

Good and Evil

From: On Love and Tyranny

This chapter explores Arendt’s philosophical musings on the nature of goodness. For Arendt, the antidote to evil is not mere good – it is reflection and responsibility. 7 $0.70 Add
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Got AIDS Yet?

Got AIDS Yet?

From: Between Certain Death and a Possible Future

In this essay, the author recounts seeing bathroom graffiti reading "Got AIDS Yet?" at age 8 or 9, and feeling frozen in terror. He grew up with a deep fear of sex that was only … 6 $0.60 Add
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Grade School

Grade School

From: South End Boy

1930s and 1940s Halifax. Elementary school 11 $1.10 Add
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Green Gables enshrined

Green Gables enshrined

From: The Wheel of Things

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Gregory Stewart's Mother
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Gregory Stewart’s Mother

From: The Trauma Beat

In this chapter, Cherry examines the limited, and sometimes non-existent media coverage of homicides in neighborhoods with low income and high crime rates. Cherry analyzes homicides ignored by … 18 $1.80 Add
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Grit and grace: making things happen

Grit and grace: making things happen

PART 2: LEADING WITH NERVE

From: Nerve

This chapter discusses the combination of grit, results of what we do and grace, how we achieve these results . The authors reflect on their experience with grit and grace as female leaders. ; 22 $2.20 Add
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Route of Heros

Route of Heros

From: Any Other Way

Keith Cole recalls his experiences as a sex worker in Torontos boystown. 3 $0.30 Add
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Hadesbeck’s Handlers

Hadesbeck’s Handlers

From: A Communist for the RCMP

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Half-Breed Blues

Half-Breed Blues

From: Between Certain Death and a Possible Future

This chapter explores the lingering effect of a date-rape on the author’s romantic and sexual life. 18 $1.80 Add