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From  Open 24 Hours |
In this essay, the author describes the importance of adult bookstores in his sexual awakening, and his relationship with, and marriage to, an HIV positive man. | Nels P. Highberg | 8 | 2021 | $0.80 Add |
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From  Operation "Get Einstein"From: The Einstein File |
This chapter further discusses the FBI’s file on Einstein and Hoover’s anti-Einstein operation following the scientist’s public statements warning against the dangers of nuclear … | Fred Jerome | 69 | 2018 | $6.90 Add |
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From  NEW! Pass the SpudsFrom: Up the Coast |
Chapter Seven focuses on the cook house, the cook Dave, the routine at the logging camp, grizzly bears in the shed, and the cook Lousia the nazi. | Kathryn Willcock | 10 | 2022 | $1.00 Add |
 Patriots, Traitors and EmpiresThe Story of Korea's Struggle for Freedom |
“In the night of our ignorance, North Korea confirms all stereotypes.”—Bruce Cumings Patriots, Traitors and Empires is an account of modern Korean history, written from the … | Stephen Gowans | 272 | 2018 | View |
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From  NEW! Pearl Harbour, a Surprise Attack?From: Myths of Modern History |
This chapter examines the myth surrounding that “day of infamy” when America presumably crashed into the war as a result of the Japanese “surprise attack” at Pearl … | Jacques R. Pauwels | 14 | 2022 | $1.40 Add |
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From Please, We All Gonna Get ItTrans Women on Inevitability, Health Care, and the Cure |
In this conversation, the authors share their experiences accessing health care, their thoughts on trans representation and chosen families, their relationship to the HIV/AIDS crisis, and their … | Rory Elliot with Alyssa Pariah and Gaysha Starr | 12 | 2021 | $1.20 Add |
 NEW! Postcards from CongoA Graphic History |
The Democratic Republic of Congo, the second-largest country in Africa by area, has a fractured and bloody history, variously undone by decades of colonialism, civil war, corruption, and … | Edmund Trueman | 176 | 2022 | View |
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From NEW! Postscript: A Work DiaryFrom: Up the Coast |
The postscript is the author’s reflection on her fathers 1959 work diary. | Kathryn Willcock | 5 | 2022 | $0.50 Add |
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From Postwar FalloutFrom: The Einstein File |
This chapter explores Einstein’s reaction to– as well as broader conversations during the period surrounding– the bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima and developments in nuclear … | Fred Jerome | 62 | 2018 | $6.20 Add |
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From  Power to Those Who Have It!Phillip Gourevitch |
In Chapter 9, Philpot explores the notion of the chosen “good” chiefs who the Europeans used during their imperial and colonial pursuits in Africa. Philpot discusses two African … | Robin Philpot | 11 | 2013 | $1.10 Add |
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From PrefaceFrom: The Einstein File |
Preface. | Fred Jerome | 8 | 2018 | $0.80 Add |
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From NEW! PrefaceFrom: Postcards from Congo |
Preface by author Edmond Trueman explaining his motivations behind the book and the choice to make it an illustrated history. | Edmund Trueman | 6 | 2022 | $0.60 Add |
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From NEW! PrefaceFrom: Up the Coast |
An introduction to the methodology, maps, and the explanation of “up the coast.” | Kathryn Willcock | 3 | 2022 | $0.30 Add |
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From PrEP Will Not Save UsThe Ghosts of AIDS and Suicide |
This chapter explores suicide among gay men, which has surpassed HIV as the leading cause of death of gay men in Canada. | Kody Muncaster | 6 | 2021 | $0.60 Add |
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From  Progress |
Chapter Eight focuses on the progress being made by Third World countries in the United Nations General Assembly as they began to overthrow the virtual monopoly of First World countries with … | Stephen Gowans | 12 | 2019 | $1.20 Add |
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From  Prologue |
The introduction describes an encounter between the author and a man named Xi Xin Zhu, whose home was destroyed as a result of China’s rapid economic development. The author discusses the … | Michael Cormier | 6 | 2013 | $0.60 Add |
