Activism & Social Movements
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From ![]() PrefaceFrom: "At the Barricades" |
Professor Borovoy describes how the memoir came to be written. | Alan Borovoy | 5 | 2014 | $0.50 Add |
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From ![]() PrefaceWhy Write This Book? From: Quiet No More |
Outlines the authors history of Activism and how he came to the point of writing this book. His qualifications on the subject and the focus of the book | Joel D. Harden | 7 | 2013 | $0.70 Add |
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From ![]() PrefaceTeaching Peace From: Educating for Action |
In an age of endless war, when history is in perpetual mourning, groaning under the burden of class oppression, peace is a necessary practice. In a world redolent of George Orwell’s novel … | Peter McLaren | 7 | 2014 | $0.70 Add |
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From ![]() PrefaceFrom: Almost Feral |
Gemma Hickey | 3 | 2019 | $0.30 Add | |
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From ![]() NEW! PrefaceFrom: Class Action |
The Preface reflects on the issues faced by the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario, or ETFO, in the 2019-2020 school year, as they fought against Doug Ford’s cuts to the … | Andy Hanson | 10 | 2021 | $1.00 Add |
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From ![]() PrefaceFrom: Fighting Dirty |
Poh-Gek Forkert | 3 | 2017 | $0.30 Add | |
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From ![]() NEW! PrefaceFrom: Thinking While Black |
In this preface chapter the author detailed their own acedmic career in Canada, intentions for the book and exploring the rebel nation of the 1960s and 1970s. | Daniel McNeil | 9 | 2022 | $0.90 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! PrefaceFrom: Harvesting Freedom |
Included in the preface is the poem I Am Many Things as well as the details of Gabriel Allahdua’s early life in St.Lucia. The preface also discusses the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program … | Edward Dunsworth | 13 | 2023 | $1.30 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Preface and IntroductionWhy Do We Need a “People’s History” for the Planet? From: Humans |
In this introductory chapter, the author explains that most histories examine the course of events from the perspective of elites, whereas this book embraces the method of social historians and … | Alvin Finkel | 9 | 2024 | $0.90 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 ![]() NEW! Preparing the Ground and Building Your ProfilePart 3. Beginning Your Campaign From: Women Winning Office |
In Preparing the Ground and Building Your Profile Nash discusses how to become known and seen in your area. The chapter explores outreach to Community Leaders, framing ones self as a Community … | Peggy Nash | 6 | 2022 | $0.60 Add |
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From ![]() Prescription HeroinFrom: Fighting For Space |
The Downtown Eastside had accomplished a lot as a community. In 2004, Dr. Martin Schechter had secured funding to launch a heroin-maintenance program out of a small clinic in the Downtown … | Travis Lupick | 29 | 2017 | $0.58 Add |
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From ![]() Persistent Poverty IntroductionThe Work of Hundreds of People From: Persistent Poverty |
The Introduction describes the process by which the the Interfaith Social Assistance Reform Coalition (ISARC) gathered the material for this book through a 2010 social audit process that engaged … | Brice Balmer; Jamie Swift; Mira Dineen | 5 | 2010 | $0.50 Add |
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From ![]() From: Whose Streets? |
In 2010 G20 leaders met in Toronto to pursue an agenda of bailouts and austerity measures. Unsurprisingly, thousands of people gathered in Toronto for ten days of action to oppose these … | David Wachsmuth; Tom Malleson | 15 | 2011 | $1.50 Add |
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From ![]() Prologue |
This section contains the prologue and a brief introduction. | Margaret Klein Salamon; Molly Gage | 13 | 2020 | $1.30 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 |



















