Sociology & Anthropology
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From ![]() NEW! The Art of RetreatFrom: In Praise of Retreat |
In this chapter, the author explores the factors that motivate people to seek seclusion from the world. She discusses historical examples of pilgrims and hermits and what motivated their retreats. | Kirsteen MacLeod | 31 | 2021 | $3.10 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! The Art of the Ordinary: The Challenge of Defining Interabled RelationshipsFrom: Living Disability |
Athena Cooper challenges the common understanding of what it means to be in an interabled relationship, writing about how she uses her art to challenge the idea that her relationship is extraordinary. | Athena Cooper | 7 | 2024 | $0.70 Add |
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From ![]() “The Assassination”From: Fighting For Space |
Citing financial mismanagement, BCs provincial government removed Townsend, Evans, and the entire leadership of the Portland Hotel Society. The organization was stripped of its autonomy, and the … | Travis Lupick | 25 | 2017 | $0.50 Add |
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From ![]() The Assumption Iceberg |
In conflict, we judge our own actions by our motives. We judge others’ actions by the impact they have on us. Think of the events as the tip of an iceberg, visible to both people. Thoughts … | Gary Harper | 9 | 2004 | $0.90 Add |
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From ![]() The Attention EconomyFrom: i-Minds, 2nd edition |
Tuning in at the moment is no longer sufficient. The media want our attention extended, continued, and reengaged after necessary absences such as work and sleep. | Mari K Swingle | 12 | 2019 | $1.20 Add |
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From ![]() The Avenue Not TakenFrom: The Ward |
Michael McClelland | 3 | 2015 | $0.30 Add | |
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From ![]() NEW! The Backward CitySection 3: Jacobs’ Spectrum of Economic Regions From: Cities Matter |
Chapter 12 focuses on cities dubbed “backward,” calling them a category of Backward Cities and exploring how they can evolve into a more forward economy. This chapter discusses topics … | Charles-Albert Ramsay | 6 | 2022 | $0.60 Add |
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From ![]() The Bahamas Adventure of C. Powell MorganFrom: Sweethearts |
1960s .The syndicate continues to refine methods of money laundering. Examines the Atlantic Acceptance Coorporation and its Bahamas hotel/casino developments | Catherine Wismer | 20 | 2014 | $2.00 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! The Ballet of the Parking LotFrom: Messy Cities |
Brendan Stewart and Daniel Rotsztain write about the plazaPOPS initiative in Etobicoke North to illustrate the vibrancy of community life that strip malls generate and how these plazas can be … | Dylan Reid | 9 | 2025 | $0.90 Add |
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From ![]() The Bargain BuildersFrom: Sweethearts |
1960s the development of new building techniques that maximized profits by decreasing the need for skilled labour and finding cheaper materials. There are also inter-union disagreements for control | Catherine Wismer | 12 | 2014 | $1.20 Add |
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From ![]() The Basis of Modern SocietiesFrom: How Societies Work |
Joanne Naiman | 28 | 2012 | $4.48 Add | |
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From ![]() The Battery of the North EastFrom: Charging Ahead |
This chapter is about Hydro-Quebec and energy-trading. | Jean-Benoît Nadeau; Julie Barlow | 19 | 2019 | $1.90 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! The Beginning of the End |
This chapter continues to explore the aftermath of Scoppa’s arrest and his contact with the authors. | Eric Thibault; Félix Séguin | 19 | 2022 | $1.90 Add |
![]() The Beothuk |
A history of the Beothuk of Newfoundland. Exciting in its detail, this book gives us a rare picture of a lost people whose culture was destroyed after the arrival of white settlers. This title … | Ingeborg Marshall | 88 | 2009 | View |
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From ![]() The Best Interests of the ChildFrom: The M Word |
Fiona Tinwei Lam reflects on her life as a single mother in their thirties, the struggles of unwed and young mothers, single motherhood, and more. | Fiona Tinwei Lam | 14 | 2014 | $1.40 Add |
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From ![]() The Best Strategies for Reducing Social Inequalities in Health |
Social inequalities in health may now be clearly recognized, but this is not true of strategies for reducing them. This chapter describes two pioneering initiatives aimed at reducing social … | Dominique Côté; Marie-France Raynault; Sébastien Chartrand | 7 | 2015 | $0.70 Add |


















