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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From To Make a Whore Of From: Between Certain Death and a Possible Future View Arsenal Pulp Press	In this chapter, the author describes her mother’s ailing health and eventual death from AIDS.	Emily Stern	18	2021	$1.80 Add
From To Say Good-Bye From: Between Certain Death and a Possible Future View Arsenal Pulp Press	This essay details the author’s HIV diagnosis in the late 1990s, and how he feels discomfited by the Bay Area because of his history there.	Andrew R. Spieldenner	10	2021	$1.00 Add
From NEW! Trouble Brewing in the East: First Congo War 1994–1997 From: Postcards from Congo View Arsenal Pulp Press	The chapter follows the First Congo War from 1994 to 1997.	Edmund Trueman	10	2022	$1.00 Add
From Undead Disco Variations on a Theme From: Between Certain Death and a Possible Future View Arsenal Pulp Press	In this chapter, the author discusses gay music, music claimed by gay people, and music that, sometimes retrospectively, narrates the gay experience.	Patrick Milian	14	2021	$1.40 Add
NEW! Up the Coast One Family's Wild Life in the Forests of British Columbia NeWest Press	Kathryn Willcock and her sisters grew up in logging camps on the coast of B.C. in the 1960s when children were set loose to play in the wilderness, women kept rifles next to the wood stove, and …	Kathryn Willcock	224	2022	View
From US Supremacy’s All-Conquering March From: Patriots, Traitors and Empires View Baraka Books	Chapter twelve, US Supremacy’s All Conquering March focuses on the United States commitment to ending the DPRK or North Korea state. The DPRK has a people- and Korean-centred economy, …	Stephen Gowans	14	2018	$1.40 Add
From Waiting Absurd Nicosia/Lefkoşa From: Walls View Goose Lane Editions	The author travels to Cyprus and discusses the wall that divides its territory and the Turkish and Greek Cypriots. He explores the history of this wall and the conflict between these two groups, …	Marcello Di Cintio	31	2013	$3.10 Add
From Wall Street’s Empire From: Washington's Long War on Syria View Baraka Books	The United States has an empire, even if it’s not often called one. More often, the U.S. Empire is widely referred to by various euphemisms, anodyne terms which make the unacceptable appear …	Stephen Gowans	20	2017	$2.00 Add
Walls Travels Along the Barricades	Winner, Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing, Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction, and City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize Shortlisted, Dolman Travel Book Award Longlisted, …		288		View
From Wang Dan’s Shooting Star From: The Legacy of Tiananmen Square View Collection: Witnesses to Global Conflict: Canadian Authors' Accounts Goose Lane Editions	This chapter begins with the author meeting with Wang Den in London, one of the student leaders of the Tiananmen Square Uprising. The chapter goes on to provide a detailed day-by-day account of …	Michael Cormier	33	2013	$3.30 Add
From Wang Juntao’s Exile From: The Legacy of Tiananmen Square View Collection: Immigrating to Canada Goose Lane Editions	This chapter begins with the story of a Chinese exile named Wang Juntao, who was a student leader during the 1989 uprising and now lives in New York. The author goes on to discuss the legacy of …	Michael Cormier	16	2013	$1.60 Add
Washington’s Long War on Syria Baraka Books	When President Barack Obama demanded formally in the summer of 2011 that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad step down, it was not the first time Washington had sought regime change in Damascus. The …	Stephen Gowans	280	2017	View
From Washington’s Power Projection Platform in the Pacific From: Patriots, Traitors and Empires View Baraka Books	Chapter eleven, Washington’s Power Projection Platform in the Pacific focuses on the shift in shift in politics in South Korea by 1993. The Berlin Wall had fallen, the German Democratic …	Stephen Gowans	10	2018	$1.00 Add
From Washington’s State Islamic Allies From: Washington's Long War on Syria View Baraka Books	Most people in the West remember the Arab Spring protests as touching the Arab republics—Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, and of course, Libya and Syria. They seldom remember, or know at all, that …	Stephen Gowans	15	2017	$1.50 Add
From "Watch out for Africa!" Closing in on the Congo From: Rwanda and the New Scramble for Africa View Baraka Books	In Chapter 15, Philpot explores the end of the Rwandan crisis and what it evolved into in the Congo. Philpot examines what happened to the 1,300,000 Rwandan refugees who remained displaced in …	Robin Philpot	20	2013	$2.00 Add
From NEW! "We Hired Hitler!" From: Myths of Modern History View James Lorimer and Company	This chapter explores the rise of fascism in Europe, highlighting the fact that Europe’s upper class used its wealth and influence to create fascist movements everywhere and to bring …	Jacques R. Pauwels	45	2022	$4.50 Add