Sociology & Anthropology
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From ![]() The Dismal Arithmetic of WaterFrom: Back to the Well |
In this chapter, de Villiers outlines the anatomy of a water crisis, using the city of Sao Paulo Brazil as an example. He shows how limits in supply and distribution, in concert with growing … | Marq de Villiers | 12 | 2018 | $1.20 Add |
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From ![]() The Disorienting Disability Support MazeFrom: Persistent Poverty |
Brice Balmer; Jamie Swift; Mira Dineen | 10 | 2010 | $1.00 Add | |
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From ![]() The domestic wife: The problem with retro revival, the new motherhood, and the glamorization of pre-feminist gender RolesFrom: F-Bomb |
This chapter discusses the nostalgia-fueled revival of 20th century gender norms and the way in which the role of the housewife has come back into vogue. | Lauren McKeon | 29 | 2017 | $2.90 Add |
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From ![]() The Dominican Republic, 1963 |
In this chapter, Engler and Schalk examine the 1963 military coup against elected President Juan Bosch in the Dominican Republic and the 1965 US invasion that followed. | Owen Schalk; Yves Engler | 7 | 2024 | $0.70 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! The Dumpling in Me Honours the Dumpling in YouThe Filling |
Sylvia Putz discusses her love of Asian styles of dumplings, the experience of making dumplings with her book club, her friend Lucy and her Korean dumplings, bonding over food, and being like a … | Sylvia Putz | 8 | 2022 | $0.80 Add |
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From ![]() The Dutiful SonFrom: Imagined Truths |
The author further details his relationship with his mother. | Richard Lemm | 25 | 2021 | $2.50 Add |
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From ![]() The Duty of RepairFrom: Conflict Is Not Abuse |
In the Conclusion, the author explores how people with social commitments have a special responsibility to intervene to end shunning, facilitate communication, and do the work to reveal complex … | Sarah Schulman | 15 | 2016 | $0.15 Add |
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From ![]() The Dynamic Telos of History — A Shared Democratic World |
Conclusion | Réal Fillion | 8 | 2008 | $1.04 Add |
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From ![]() The Dynamics of RacismFrom: Uprooting Racism |
One of the purposes of racism and religious-based oppression is to keep people of color, Muslims, Jews, and others at the center of attention while keeping white people in general, and white male … | Paul Kivel | 39 | 2017 | $3.90 Add |
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From ![]() The Early Years of the Mission SchoolEducation and Discipline From: Victims of Benevolence |
Native children learned the skills they needed to survive, and the beliefs, values, and codes of behaviour appropriate to their society, by a trial-and error process of observing and imitating … | Elizabeth Furniss | 28 | 1992 | $0.56 Add |
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From ![]() The Eclipsed History of the CommonsFrom: Think Like a Commoner |
One of the most insidious things about enclosures is how they eradicate the culture of commons and our memory of them. The old ways of doing things; the social practices that once bound a people … | David Bollier | 17 | 2014 | $1.70 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Listening to the Voices of Niqab-Wearing WomenFrom: In Your Face |
In this chapter, Bahkt posits that most people in Canada have never actually conversed with a niqab-wearing woman. She attempts to rectify this situation by sharing some perspectives of women who … | Natasha Bakht | 32 | 2020 | $3.20 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Veiled Objections:Facing Public Opposition to the Niqab From: In Your Face |
This chapter is an attempt to analyze the growing agitation that has been expressed about Muslim women who cover their faces. | Natasha Bakht | 43 | 2020 | $4.30 Add |
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From ![]() The EditorsFrom: Subdivided |
Editor’s biographies. | Jay Pitter; John Lorinc | 1 | 2016 | $0.10 Add |
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From ![]() The Effects of HistoryFrom: Uprooting Racism |
This part of Uprooting Racism explores how white racism has defined and controlled specific other groups. All the sections are about white people and what we have done to people of color, even … | Paul Kivel | 73 | 2017 | $7.30 Add |
![]() The Einstein FileThe FBI’s Secret War Against the World’s Most Famous Scientist - New Updated Edition |
Einstein arrived in the United States in 1933, the year the Nazis rose to power in Germany. From that moment until he died in 1955, J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI—with other … | Ajamu Baraka; David Suzuki; Fred Jerome | 402 | 2018 | View |

















