Sociology & Anthropology

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On Becoming an “Other”

On Becoming an “Other”

From: Experiencing Difference

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On Being a Biophilist

On Being a Biophilist

An Injection of Nature Relatedness

From: Secret Life of Your Microbiome

We need deep exploration of the tiniest ecosystems in the gut. We need far more detail on the interactions between our nerve cells and the immune system. We are talking about connectivity to life … ; 27 $2.70 Add
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On Being Overinvested in Law as a Weapon Against Terrorism

On Being Overinvested in Law as a Weapon Against Terrorism

From: In The Balance

Considers the role of law as a weapon against terror in the United States, arguing that it is overinvested. The role of domestic intelligence and the overuse of judicial warrants are discussed. 26 $2.60 Add
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On Escalation

On Escalation

From: Conflict Is Not Abuse

This chapter explores the reasons why people are compelled to escalate. The centerpiece of this dynamic is the role of “bad” groups in encouraging bullying and shunning instead of … 31 $0.93 Add
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On Modaks: Offerings of Little Bliss
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On Modaks: Offerings of Little Bliss

The Filling

From: What We Talk About When We Talk About Dumplings

Mekhala Chaubal shares her love of madak, a cardamom infused steamed rice dumplings made as an offering to the indian god ganapati or ganesha, the tradition in Indian and in Toronto, making … 6 $0.60 Add
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On Nature's Limits and the Human Condition

On Nature’s Limits and the Human Condition

Parrots and Peoples

From: Peak Everything

People who live a civilized life are like birds in a cage. As long as we stay within well-defined social bounds (and assuming we are lucky enough to have been born in a wealthy parasitic society, … 17 $1.70 Add
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On Nature's Limits and the Human Condition

On Nature’s Limits and the Human Condition

Population, Resources, and Human Idealism

From: Peak Everything

No steady rate of growth in population or resource consumption is sustainable. During the course of the lecture, he asks, “Well, what can we do about this? What makes the population problem … 12 $1.20 Add
On Nostalgia

On Nostalgia

On Nostalgia is a panoramic cultural history of nostalgia, exploring how a force that started as a psychological diagnosis of soldiers fighting far from home has come become a quintessentially … 161 View
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On Technology, Agriculture, and the Arts

On Technology, Agriculture, and the Arts

Tools with a Life of Their Own

From: Peak Everything

In assessing and understanding technology and its effects on people and nature, it is at least as important to pay attention to the energy that drives our tools as to the tools themselves and the … 17 $1.70 Add
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On the Shubenacadie River: The Grassroots Grandmothers and the Fight against Alton Gas
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On the Shubenacadie River: The Grassroots Grandmothers and the Fight against Alton Gas

Part One: Dispossession at Home

From: Capitalism and Dispossession

In Chapter 5, author Ingrid Waldron examines the success of the grassroots activism of the Mi’kmaq grandmothers of the Sipekne’katik First Nation near Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia who … 19 $1.90 Add
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On to New Adventure

On to New Adventure

From: To Wawa with Love

The family journies back to Sault Ste. Marie 4 $0.40 Add
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One at the top, five million at the bottom: How we sold ourselves the equal opportunity lie and grew the violent push to keep women out of the workforce

One at the top, five million at the bottom: How we sold ourselves the equal opportunity lie and grew the violent push to keep women out of the workforce

From: F-Bomb

This chapter discusses the ways in which workplaces remain far from equal into the 21st century. 27 $2.70 Add
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One Day in a Cage

One Day in a Cage

Notes on the Temporary Detention Centre

From: Whose Streets?

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One Night in Huntsville

One Night in Huntsville

From: They Called Me Chocolate Rocket

A situation arrises involving the police in Huntsville, more experience coaching and what other things a coach is to his players ; 17 $1.70 Add