Sociology & Anthropology
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From  NEW! The Forward CitySection 3: Jacobs’ Spectrum of Economic Regions From: Cities Matter |
Chapter 7 Economic literature now uses the term Jacobs’ agglomeration, and the term “forward city” is original to this text. The chapter describes “Jacobs … | Charles-Albert Ramsay | 6 | 2022 | $0.60 Add |
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From  The Four Tragedies of Lac-Mégantic |
Describes the series of subsequent tragedies that befell the Lac-Mégantic community: widespread PTSD and other health problems; legal predators who exploited vulnerable victims’ … | Bruce Campbell | 11 | 2018 | $1.10 Add |
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From  NEW! The Fourth WaveNot the Best Summer Ever From: Shadows and Light |
Chapter Six focuses on the fourth wave and the changing attitudes towards the pandemic and healthcare workers. Topics discussed include protests against public health and vaccination, … | Heather Patterson | 18 | 2022 | $1.80 Add |
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From  The Fourth World Is Emerging: A Zombie Mine Resurrection and the Refusal of the Tsilhqot’in |
In Chapter 4, co-authors Dawn Hoogeveen (a non-Indigenous settler) and Russell Myers Ross (a member of the Tsilhqot’in Nation) examine the struggles to preserve Teztan Biny (Fish Lake), … | Dawn Hoogeveen; Russell Myers Ross | 20 | 2022 | $2.00 Add |
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From  NEW! The Fox and the Burglar |
This chapter examines the 1962 collapse of Toronto’s Brandon Union Group and the tangled web of organized crime, labour politics, and public safety that unfolded across Canada in the early 1960s. | Gilberto Fernandes | 12 | 2026 | $1.20 Add |
 The Franz Boas EnigmaInuit, Arctic, and Sciences |
“… Franz Boas has remained an enigma, so misunderstood as a person and so often misrepresented as an anthropologist.” William S. Willis, Jr. How did Franz Boas become the … | Ludger Müller-Wille | 188 | 2014 | View |
 NEW! The Future is DisabledProphecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs |
In The Future Is Disabled, Leah Laksmi Piepzna-Samarasinha asks some provocative questions: What if, in the near future, the majority of people will be disabled – and what if that’s … | Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha | 334 | 2022 | View |
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From  The Future is HereFrom: Charging Ahead |
This chapter explores challenges faced by Hydro-Quebec and the future of their system and technologies. It explores the possibility of H-Q getting involved in new energy alternatives, in … | Jean-Benoît Nadeau; Julie Barlow | 21 | 2019 | $2.10 Add |
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From NEW! The Future of Montreal and 2nd-rank CitiesSection 4: Cities as a Dynamic Economy From: Cities Matter |
Chapter 15 reflects on the future of the city of Montreal, exploring topics including the history of Montreal, Jacobs’ opinion on Montreal, comparison to Boston, the challenges of being a … | Charles-Albert Ramsay | 24 | 2022 | $2.40 Add |
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From  The Future of PowerLearning to Live Happily Within Limits From: Power |
In the concluding chapter, Heinberg explores the territory between human self-annihilation and sufficient self-restraint. | Richard Heinberg | 63 | 2021 | $6.30 Add |
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From  The Future of SentencingFrom: Law of Sentencing |
Explores the future of sentencing, considering resources, the politics of victimization and the concept of restorative justice. | Allan Manson | 12 | 2001 | $1.20 Add |
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From  The Future of the CommonsFrom: Think Like a Commoner |
There is much more that can be said about the commons — in greater depth, with greater precision, from different cultural perspectives, and with the wisdom of historians, poets and artists. … | David Bollier | 8 | 2014 | $0.80 Add |
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From  The Futures of Grassroots ActivismKey Themes to Keep in Mind From: Quiet No More |
Chapter six provides this book with the conclusion that brings together the insights of previous chapters. Above all, I argue that activists are faced with two important tasks: first, to embrace … | Joel D. Harden | 25 | 2013 | $2.50 Add |
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From  The GameFrom: The Teen Sex Trade |
A black Nova Scotian woman outlines her experience as a 17 year old who begins working in the sex trade at the urging of her boyfriend as the best way for the couple to make money. | Jade M. Brooks | 20 | 2017 | $2.00 Add |
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From  The Gatherer-Based ApproachFrom: Hope Is a Woman's Name |
In this chapter, Alh’jooj traces a gatherer-based strategy for social change in which Bedouin women in Rahat were trained as photographers and videographers beginning in 2004, with support … | Amal Elsana Alh'jooj | 3 | 2024 | $0.30 Add |
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From The Gendered Violence of Canadian Extraction |
In Chapter 2, author Rebecca Hall provides an expansive gendered analysis of the violence related to and actively caused by Canadian resource extraction. The chapter examines topics including … | Rebecca Hall | 22 | 2022 | $2.20 Add |
