Sociology & Anthropology
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From ![]() NEW! What Are the Alternatives?From: Solidarity Beyond Bars |
Chapter Five considers the alternatives to the existing forms of prison labour in Canada and considers proposals ranging from abolition and privatization to prisoners’ co-ops and sole … | Asaf Rashid; Jordan House | 20 | 2022 | $2.00 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! What Being Pro-Palestine Means to MeFrom: Razing Palestine |
In this chapter, Benembarek reflects on the personal risks of public pro-Palestinian solidarity. | 6 | 2025 | $0.60 Add | |
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From ![]() NEW! What Can “Settler of Colour” Teach Us?: A Conversation of the Complexities of Decolonization in White UniversitiesFrom: White Benevolence |
In chapter 10, Shaista Patel and Nisha Nath explore the idea of “settlers of colour,” in upholding ongoing colonial violence and Indigenous dispossession in North America. Building on … | Nisha Nath; Shaista Patel | 17 | 2022 | $1.70 Add |
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From ![]() What Can We Do?From: The Skin I'm In |
In this chapter, the author presents a variety of actions that can be taken to make schools more inclusive and supportive of black students. These actions include directly addressing the racism … | Christopher M. Spence | 10 | 1999 | $1.00 Add |
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From ![]() What Can’t Be Packed AwayFrom: The M Word |
Marita Dachsel reflects on moving, death, SIDS, superstition, names, nostalgia, child safety and freedom. | Marita Dachsel | 9 | 2014 | $0.90 Add |
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From ![]() What Color is WhiteFrom: Uprooting Racism |
White people have been led to believe racism is a question of particular acts of discrimination or violence. Calling someone a name, denying someone a job, excluding someone from a neighborhood … | Paul Kivel | 97 | 2017 | $9.70 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! What Difference Does It Make? |
This chapter describes the efforts of cyclists in Amsterdam to resist the encroachment of cars and keep that city bike-centric. He uses their efforts as a model for how change has to take place … | Sami Grover | 19 | 2021 | $1.90 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! What Do People With Disabilities Need to Enjoy Disability Rights |
The fifth chapter looks at the logical next step, at the gap between what people with disabilities in Canada actually experience, and what they could experience if their disability rights were … | Deborah Stienstra | 22 | 2020 | $2.20 Add |
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From ![]() What Do Police Do? |
This chapter examines the declining rate of crime in Canada, the amount of time police officers spend responding directly to crimes, and the rate at which Canadian police solve crimes. | Christopher J. Williams; John Sewell | 39 | 2021 | $3.90 Add |
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From ![]() What If |
This chapter is told from the author’s father’s perspective. It follows the aftermath of his sending his children away to escape the country. | Jolie Phuong Hoang | 2 | 2021 | $0.20 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! “What is a Jungle?” |
This chapter traces the mid- to late- 1950s struggle of Italian-Canadian workers to organize in Toronto’s residential building trades. Through the stories of Bruno Zanini, Charles Irvine, … | Gilberto Fernandes | 8 | 2026 | $0.80 Add |
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From ![]() What Is Capitalism?From: Ecology for the 99% |
This chapter explains capitalism as both an economic system and a form of social organization. It also explores how capitalism can be undemocratic and highlights the problems with capitalist companies. | Alain Savard; Arnaud Theurillat-Cloutier; Charles Simard; Clément de Gaulejac; Frédéric Legault | 8 | 2024 | $0.80 Add |
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From ![]() What is Good CommunicationFrom: Cracking the Boy Code |
• Social communication is the greatest communication challenge for boys • Vocabulary, phrasing, and tone set the stage for great conversations. • Get inside a boy’s mental … | Adam Cox | 14 | 2018 | $1.40 Add |
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From ![]() What Is It About Us That You Don’t LikeFrom: The Truth About Stories |
In this reading, Indigenous author and scholar Thomas King explores the idea that stories, both those we tell ourselves and those that are told to us by others, are foundational in establishing … | Thomas King | 32 | 2003 | $3.84 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! What is Public Safety?From: Razing Palestine |
In this chapter, Grzejszczak examines the tension between public safety and political speech through the story of Leila Marshy, a York Region paramedic terminated in June 2025 after defending a … | 6 | 2025 | $0.60 Add | |
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From ![]() NEW! What Is Safety?From: Messy Cities |
Kimahli Powell uses their experience with the Toronto-based charity, Rainbow Railroad, to explore what it means to provide a safe community for LGBTQIA+ individuals amidst a housing crisis. | Dylan Reid | 7 | 2025 | $0.70 Add |


















