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A New World Upon Us
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A New World Upon Us

PART 1: Essential Groundwork

From: Worlds at Stake

Chapter 1 serves as an introduction to the book and discusses what the world will look like as it continues to be affected by climate change. 8 $0.80 Add
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An Overview of the Impact Assessment Act
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An Overview of the Impact Assessment Act

From: The Next Generation of Impact Assessment

This chapter provides a high-level overview of the IAA by examining the five key elements of the IAA regime design: triggering the assessment process, scoping, process options and design, … 18 $1.80 Add
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A Parachute for Ralph

A Parachute for Ralph

From: Breaking the Word Barrier

Richard Doiron recounts the story of Ralph. The chapter discusses his functional illiteracy, difficulties in school, foster care, the Moncton Boys & Girls Club, and his active journey to literacy. 5 $0.50 Add
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A Plausable Future: Approaching Apocalypse

A Plausable Future: Approaching Apocalypse

From: The Memory We Could Be

Climate change represents the extinction of predictability, a demolition of certainties. By the end of the 21st century, the environmental conditions on up to a third of the Earth’s surface … 24 $2.40 Add
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A Political Agenda for Building Medicare’s Next Stage

A Political Agenda for Building Medicare’s Next Stage

From: Medicare

Examines how we must broaden the intellectual and institutional spaces for joint social activism — the kind of activism that will advance both medicare and Social Determinents of Health … 12 $1.20 Add
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A Possible Future: The World We Can Win

A Possible Future: The World We Can Win

From: The Memory We Could Be

From a climatic perspective, our transformation requires two axes: a massive reduction of emissions and a massive reduction of injustice. We must diminish vulnerabilities, reduce the drivers of … 23 $2.30 Add
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A Professor's Life

A Professor’s Life

From: Campus Confidential

An insider’s look at the life of a professor including: 60 Too Much Research? 61 A Teacher’s Lament 62 It’s Almost Impossible to Fire Profs 63 It’s Hard to Get a Faculty … ; 35 $3.50 Add
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A Quarter Century of Failed Warfare

A Quarter Century of Failed Warfare

From: Disarming Conflict

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A Roadmap to Well-Being

A Roadmap to Well-Being

From: An Economy of Well-Being

* Can Well-Being Be Measured? * The Science of Well-Being: What We Measure Affects What We Do * Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs and an Indigenous Model of Well-Being * The Util: Measuring Real … 26 $2.60 Add
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A Running Sore
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A Running Sore

From: Seven Days in Halifax

In this chapter, Ashe describes the events of Day Six of Halifax’s 1970 “Encounter on Urban Environment,” focusing on urban planning in Halifax-Dartmouth. He reports panelist Ed … 7 $0.70 Add
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A Short History of Water

A Short History of Water

From: Dry Run

In this chapter you’ll learn a little of the fascinating history of water and civilization and how politics, economics and water have been part of the history of the US, especially of the … 11 $1.10 Add
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A Strategy for Mental Health

A Strategy for Mental Health

From: Medicare

Proposes a strategy for Mental Health in Canada 8 $0.80 Add
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A Student’s Guide to University

A Student’s Guide to University

From: Campus Confidential

Focuses on what it means to be a student in university divided into the following: 1 University Isn’t for Everyone 2 Should Tuition Be Free? 3 Consider the Skilled Trades 4 University … ; 22 $2.20 Add
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A Tale of Instability in Seven Parts
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A Tale of Instability in Seven Parts

Limits

From: On Opium

The author describes her writing life in relation to the chronic pain and stiffness of her disease and how, no longer depressed, she has stretched her own limits with opiods, and asks if she can … 23 $2.30 Add
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A Tale of Instability in Seven Parts
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A Tale of Instability in Seven Parts

Vertigo

From: On Opium

Through the metaphor and the physical condition of vertigo, the author describes a benign temporary condition of incapacitiating vertigo, an artist’s residency in Venice, and the experience … 13 $1.30 Add
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A Tale of Instability in Seven Parts
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A Tale of Instability in Seven Parts

Quake

From: On Opium

As the author describes the upending of her life: the losses of the past months and years: her love, her family, her body, her work, her income, her freedom—treasured friendships, even. she … 15 $1.50 Add