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From  A Parachute for Ralph |
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. | Richard Doiron | 5 | 2009 | $0.50 Add |
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From  A Plausable Future: Approaching ApocalypseFrom: 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 … | Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik | 24 | 2018 | $2.40 Add |
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From  A Political Agenda for Building Medicare’s Next StageFrom: 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 … | Doris Grinspun | 12 | 2007 | $1.20 Add |
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From A Possible Future: The World We Can WinFrom: 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 … | Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik | 23 | 2018 | $2.30 Add |
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From  A Professor’s LifeFrom: 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 … | Bill Morrison; Ken S. Coates | 35 | 2013 | $3.50 Add |
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From  A Quarter Century of Failed WarfareFrom: Disarming Conflict |
Ernie Regehr | 21 | 2015 | $2.10 Add | |
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From  A Roadmap to Well-BeingFrom: 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 … | Mark Anielski | 26 | 2018 | $2.60 Add |
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From  A Short History of WaterFrom: 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 … | Jerry Yudelson | 11 | 2010 | $1.10 Add |
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From A Strategy for Mental HealthFrom: Medicare |
Proposes a strategy for Mental Health in Canada | Patricia J. Martens | 8 | 2007 | $0.80 Add |
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From A Student’s Guide to UniversityFrom: 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 … | Bill Morrison; Ken S. Coates | 22 | 2013 | $2.20 Add |
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From  NEW! A Tale of Instability in Seven PartsLimits 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 … | Carlyn Zwarenstein | 23 | 2021 | $2.30 Add |
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From NEW! A Tale of Instability in Seven PartsVertigo 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 … | Carlyn Zwarenstein | 13 | 2021 | $1.30 Add |
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From NEW! A Tale of Instability in Seven PartsQuake 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 … | Carlyn Zwarenstein | 15 | 2021 | $1.50 Add |
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From NEW! A Tale of Instability in Seven PartsMonsters From: On Opium |
The author describes what suffering does to her body and mind and how the effort required to transcend it makes her feel like a monster. While her condition allows her to walk and run but not … | Carlyn Zwarenstein | 14 | 2021 | $1.40 Add |
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From NEW! A Tale of Instability in Seven PartsDross From: On Opium |
In this chapter, dross, the undesirable scum that rises to the top of molten metal and also the residue from previously smoked opium is applied as metaphor to junkies: the unwanted product of … | Carlyn Zwarenstein | 17 | 2021 | $1.70 Add |
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From  A Theory of Moral IndifferenceUnderstanding the Production of Harm by Capitalist Society From: Beyond Criminology |
Simon Pemberton | 19 | 2004 | $1.90 Add |
