English & Literature Studies

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Disability

A Fairy Tale

From: Disfigured

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Chapter 2 focuses on concepts of disability through time, discussing topics including the social model of disability and the medical model of disability, disability as something to be cured, … 28 $2.80 Add
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Frogs

From: Mad Hope

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Frogs:A high school biology teacher must help one of his younger students to get an abortion. As the story unfolds, he remembers his own experiences dealing with the abortion ban as a Doctor in … 81 $8.10 Add
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From Coffee to Chocolate and Beyond

The Founders

From: In Pursuit of Justice

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Gregory Stewart’s Mother

From: The Trauma Beat

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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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Hosanna!

Michel Tremblay's Queering of National Identity

From: In a Queer Country

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Elaine Pigeon’s "Hosanna! Michel Tremblay’s Queering of National Identity" treats the literary but also considers theatrical elements of Tremblay’s play. One central … 28 $0.56 Add
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How to Tell People Things They Very Probably Won’t Be Happy to Hear, at Least at First

From: Special Topics in Being a Human

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Jasilyn Charger, Cheyenne River Sioux

“My son’s buried by the river. . . . I vowed to him that he’s going to be safe, that no oil was going to touch him.”

From: How We Go Home

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Jasilyn Charger of the Cheyenne River Sioux, shares her story of her childhood with her family and moving in and out of foster homes and mental health facilities. She then became involved in the … 22 $2.20 Add
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Jesus don’t work for anyone

From: Gang Life

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tells the story of thirty-three-year-old Terrence, a mixed race “independent enforcer” who found the Lord just in time for a parole hearing. Terrence has a rather large ego and he … 16 $1.60 Add
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Key Nature Concepts for Children to Learn

From: The Big Book of Nature Activities

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A quick look at nature concepts: Why do we have seasons? Climate change. Evolution. ; 18 $1.80 Add
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Mapping Raymond Souster’s Toronto

From: The Canadian Modernists Meet

That the city is an essential component of literary modernism—as image, as site, as trope—has long been accepted in modernist studies. […]Yet, in the Canadian context of … 17 $1.53 Add
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Moral Enforcement in Israel

From: Suppression of the Erotic in Modern Hebrew Literature

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The purpose of the following chapter is to examine whether it was formal censorship or rather self-inflicted subordination to normative pressure that was responsible for the repression of the … 29 $3.19 Add
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Sins Invalid’s Origin Story

From: Crip Kinship

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Topics discussed include crip beauty and sexuality, ableism, historical eugenics, assumptions about disabled folks, intersectionality, medicalization, disability justice, activism through … 14 $1.40 Add
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"Yellow-Wolf, Malecite Chieftain of Old" 1893

From: The Quebec Anthology

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After de Gaspé’s death in 1871, one of his sons, Alfred-Patrice, found a manuscript of stories among his father’s papers. This was published in 1893 as Divers. Jane Brierley, … 15 $0.90 Add
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“Drawing Forth the Force that Slumbered in Peasants’ Arms”

The Economist, High Agriculture & Selling Capitalism

From: Food Sovereignty

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“Sabra Puritanism”

From: Suppression of the Erotic in Modern Hebrew Literature

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This research,[…], deals with “life” only in as much as it is regulated by law and norm (in the case of literary censorship), otherwise focusing on the representation of life in … 36 $3.96 Add