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Mexico City’s Eclectic Apartment Architecture
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Mexico City’s Eclectic Apartment Architecture

From: Messy Cities

Daniel Gordon writes about Mexico City’s apartment architecture, and the design guidelines across Canada that would label them undesirable, inappropriate, and problematic. 7 $0.70 Add
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MH2284

From: Three Funerals for my Father

This chapter is told from the author’s perspective. She continues to tell the story of her escape, starting with her arrival in Indonesia. 15 $1.50 Add
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Middle-Aged, Gifted and Black
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Middle-Aged, Gifted and Black

Structures of Feeling in the Black Atlantic

From: Thinking While Black

In this chapter the author connects Armond White’s film criticism in the New York Press and Paul Gilroy’s academic career at Goldsmiths College in London between the years of 1997 to … 23 $2.30 Add
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Migrant Organizing on the New Fault Lines of Global Capitalism

Migrant Organizing on the New Fault Lines of Global Capitalism

From: Essential Work Disposable Workers

This chapter illustrates how new unions and worker centres emerged to successfully organize in global cities like Toronto, New York and London and within the chokepoints of logistics hubs for … 14 $1.40 Add
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Migrant Workers Fight for the Entire Working Class

Migrant Workers Fight for the Entire Working Class

From: Essential Work Disposable Workers

This chapter is about how migrant and racialized worker organizations took leadership in broad-based campaigns to improve conditions for the entire working class. As one example, the chapter … 12 $1.20 Add
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Migration "Crises" and the Left

Migration "Crises" and the Left

In Search of the Political

From: Challenging the Right, Augmenting the Left

Governing Migrants through Criminalization – Governing Migrants through Humanitarianism – In Search of the Political 12 $1.20 Add
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Migration Dynamics of Agrarian Change

Migration Dynamics of Agrarian Change

From: Agrarian Change, Migration and Development

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Military Involvement

Military Involvement

From: Oak Island and Its Lost Treasure

This chapter summarizes the evidence for a military connection to Oak Island. What follows is a reconstruction of how the Flood Tunnel was excavated and the Smith’s Cove cofferdam … 24 $2.40 Add
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Minding the City
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Minding the City

From: Living Disability

Corey Bialek writes about what living with double depression means for going outside and getting around a city, and how the way we design public spaces impacts mental health. 10 $1.00 Add
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Minimizing Farming’s Water Needs

Minimizing Farming’s Water Needs

From: Back to the Well

In this chapter, de Villiers looks at the vast amount of water used by the agricultural sector and ways to reduce that total, either by changing how we grow crops or by changing which crops we grow. 16 $1.60 Add
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Minstrel Show Tom

Minstrel Show Tom

From: Uncle

This chapter examines the phenomenon of minstrelsy, and how Uncle Tom came to be depicted in minstrel shows. 11 $1.10 Add
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Mirrors or Mirage

Mirrors or Mirage

Political Parties and Grassroots Movements

From: Quiet No More

Chapter four surveys the relationship between progressive political parties and grassroots activism; a case is made that a grassroots influence in electoral politics is emerging, but one … 46 $4.60 Add
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Missionary Work

Missionary Work

The Fight for Jewish Souls

From: The Ward

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Mitigating Harm to Women

Mitigating Harm to Women

From: Beyond Shelters

Describes the development of the transition house movement in Newfoundland and Labrador and how these centres have become anchors for the protection and safety of women in their communities. … 18 $1.80 Add