Environmental Humanities

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Inside job
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Inside job

From: The Environmentalist’s Dilemma

Kopecki profiles NDP MLA Heather McPherson, whose party held the balance of power in the 2020 Canadian Liberal minority government, and describes Alberta’s relationship to its oil … 30 $3.00 Add
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Introduction

Introduction

From: Common Threads

By recognizing that human culture is a part of the ecosystem — not separate — and by creatively reimagining what symbiotic relationships of local production and consumption might look … 6 $0.60 Add
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Introduction

From: Fighting For Space

In America today, overdose deaths are the highest they have ever been. Heroin has reached the middle class and suburban America. At the same time, public opinion has turned against the war on … 18 $0.18 Add
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Introduction

From: About Face

The Introduction outlines the questions that this anthology seeks to answer: Who suffers from addictions in Canada, How can we better understand addictions, What are the steps forward in the … 4 $0.40 Add
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Introduction

Towards a Poetic Ecology

From: The Biology of Wonder

In the introduction, Weber discusses attempts to separate emotions and nature in the science of biology, and how modern researchers are rejecting this earlier paradigm. 14 $1.40 Add
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Introduction

From: Power

In the introduction, Heinberg suggests that while there is not a single solution to the converging crises of the 21st century, there is a single causative agent. That causative agent is … 13 $1.30 Add
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Introduction

From: i-Minds, 2nd edition

My objective? To have us all pondering and examining. To “rise in arms” not against the i-tech industry but to our own blind acceptance or complacency, to our apparent apathy, and the … 1 $0.10 Add
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Is Food Addiction Real?

Is Food Addiction Real?

From: About Face

The readings in the third section of the book discuss food related mental illnesses including body dysmorphia and eating disorders. The readings in this section include firsthand accounts from … 8 $0.80 Add
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Jail for Heroin Users Ramps Up: The 1950s

Jail for Heroin Users Ramps Up: The 1950s

From: Heroin

This chapter explores the increase in convictions under the Opium and Narcotic Drug Act in the 1950s and discusses the Oakalla Prison Farm and the Mimico Reformatory in Ontario, where some … 14 $1.40 Add
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Jessica

Jessica

From: About Face

On Narcotics. The essays in the first section of the book discuss substance abuse. These readings include personal accounts of struggles with addiction in all its forms. The authors in these … 4 $0.40 Add
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Jewish Addiction Community Services (JACS)

Jewish Addiction Community Services (JACS)

From: About Face

The final section of the book discusses a variety of organizations that work to help people suffering from addictions. 4 $0.40 Add
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Learning, Play, and Parenting

Learning, Play, and Parenting

Conflicting Needs in a Busy, Busy World

From: i-Minds, 2nd edition

With a little walk through history, and a little more developmental theory, I will explore larger cultural shifts in parenting and family systems, expand on the blurred lines of learning and … 22 $2.20 Add
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Learning to Think

Learning to Think

Mirroring the Other

From: The Biology of Wonder

This chapter explores cognition in infants, toddlers, and animals. 30 $3.00 Add
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Legal Heroin: The 1950s, 1960s and 1970s

Legal Heroin: The 1950s, 1960s and 1970s

From: Heroin

This chapter examines the division between legal and illegal heroin during 1950s-1970s. The role of law enforcement and the pharmaceutical industry are explored, as well as the Narcotic Control … 23 $2.30 Add
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Let’s get drunk and celebrate the future
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Let’s get drunk and celebrate the future

From: The Environmentalist’s Dilemma

This chapter is a call to change the world to a sustainable one through celebration. A world that uses our creative energy and intelligence and ambition and puts it wherever we want, other than … 7 $0.70 Add
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Living Beyond Symptoms of Severe and Persistent Anorexia Nervosa

Living Beyond Symptoms of Severe and Persistent Anorexia Nervosa

From: About Face

The readings in the third section of the book discuss food related mental illnesses including body dysmorphia and eating disorders. The readings in this section include firsthand accounts from … 7 $0.70 Add