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The Nuclear Family

The Nuclear Family

From: Imagined Truths

The author explores more of his family’s history, his early life, and his relationship with his grandparents. 28 $2.80 Add
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The Oil Lamp

The Oil Lamp

From: Three Funerals for my Father

This chapter is told from the author’s father’s perspective. He and his wife discuss the future and critique the communist government. 3 $0.30 Add
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The One True Dumpling
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The One True Dumpling

The Sauce

From: What We Talk About When We Talk About Dumplings

Navneet Alang reflects on the authenticity of cuisine from various and massive diasporas, ownership over food, cultural appropriation and the dismissal of so-called ‘foreign’ food, … 6 $0.60 Add
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The Oneness of Humankind

The Oneness of Humankind

From: In Search of a Better World

In this reading, human rights lawyer Payam Akhavan discusses the efforts of people to come together and fight human rights abuses. The chapter includes a discussion of human rights in Afghanistan … 70 $8.40 Add
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The Original AI
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The Original AI

Animate Intelligence

From: The Web of Meaning

This chapter links the European loss of seeing the world as connected with the Scientific Revolution, and how that view has continued uninterrupted in Indigenous ways of seeing and knowing. … 26 $2.60 Add
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The Parable of the Textbook

The Parable of the Textbook

Education, Meritocracy, and Why History Matters

From: “Too Asian”?

Where did Maclean’s get the notion that they were honourably defending “merit-based” admissions policies against American racist policies? The idea that only considering … 12 $1.20 Add
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The Parent’s Role
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The Parent’s Role

From: Childhood Unplugged

In this chapter, Martinko explains the importance of parents modeling the screen habits they’d like their children to adopt. Martinko discusses various parenting styles and outlines their … 14 $1.40 Add
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The Path We’re On
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The Path We’re On

From: Future on Fire

Chapter 1 reflects on our current policies toward climate change and what is at risk if we maintain this status quo. Topics discussed include current government policies for reducing carbon … 18 $1.80 Add
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The Patterns of the Universe
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The Patterns of the Universe

From: The Web of Meaning

The chapter begins with the paradox of the Ship of Theseus, and continues with the the philosophy of flux of the Pre-Socratics and of the Song Dynasty of China. How things can be in constant flux … 31 $3.10 Add
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“The People We Think We Are”

“The People We Think We Are”

The Social Identities of Girls Involved in Prositution

From: Being Heard

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The Perils of Anger Mountain

The Perils of Anger Mountain

From: The Joy of Conflict Resolution

We react instinctively to a perceived attack with a fight, flight, or freeze response. A fight response places us squarely on the drama triangle of confrontation as either a hero or a villain. A … 14 $1.40 Add
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The Perogy Bees of the Prairies
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The Perogy Bees of the Prairies

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From: What We Talk About When We Talk About Dumplings

Julie Van Rosendaal reflects on her relationship with perogies and its ties to her prairie upbringing, Baba’s Homestyle Perogies in Saskatoon, Eastern European migration in Western Canada, … 5 $0.50 Add
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The Physics of Creation

The Physics of Creation

From: The Biology of Wonder

In this chapter, Weber examines how complex natural patterns reveal the interrelated nature of life and the anorganic environment. 18 $1.80 Add
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The Pleasure of an Inquiry: An Open Church

The Pleasure of an Inquiry: An Open Church

From: The First Jews in North America

The author continues to explore the tumultuous history of the Hart family and their life and treatment in Quebec, as well as his experiences researching this history. It touches on the end of … 24 $2.40 Add