2019

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Going Blue – One Community at a Time

Going Blue – One Community at a Time

From: Whose Water Is It, Anyway?

The final chapter of this title explores ongoing Blue Community movements in Africa and Asia as well as a vision for the future of global water security. 21 $2.10 Add
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Engage, Connect, Protect

Going International

From: Engage, Connect, Protect

This chapter explains how the author met her husband and business partner, as well as the path that led them to their work in green career development, tree planting and carbon off-set work in Africa. 16 $1.60 Add
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Going Mobile

Going Mobile

From: BlackBerry Town

Howitt details the creation and rollout of the Inter@ctive Pager 900. Examines the leadup to Research in Motion’s first smartphone. 11 $1.10 Add
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Governance and Safety: Electromagnetic Explorations

Governance and Safety: Electromagnetic Explorations

From: i-Minds, 2nd edition

Electromagnetic concerns receive little attention because indeed they are hard to present in lay terms. Here is my attempt. 13 $1.30 Add
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Governance Part One: Self-Governance and the Rise of the Attention Economy

Governance Part One: Self-Governance and the Rise of the Attention Economy

From: i-Minds, 2nd edition

The biggest commodity of the digital age is not our money but our data. This is true, but the not-so-secret reason our data is so valuable is that it offers access to our attention. Attention is … 9 $0.90 Add
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Governance Part Two: Crossing the Floor and the Perils of Protection

Governance Part Two: Crossing the Floor and the Perils of Protection

From: i-Minds, 2nd edition

It is more than likely that the majority of the brilliant minds of Silicon Valley, were completely unaware that their work would be, could be, weaponized. Many of these people including those who … 15 $1.50 Add
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Resisting Least Resistance

Resisting Least Resistance

From: Changing Tides

This chapter follows Frid’s own personal evolution in dealing with Inside Knowledge—the heaviness of knowing, in intimate detail, the damage caused by human actions on the planet. In … 12 $1.20 Add
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Gravity Suspended

Gravity Suspended

From: Changing Tides

This chapter follows the author, Alejandro Frid’s personal experiences conducting dive surveys for rockfish—a genus of long-lived, marine fishes that are easy to overfish—as … 12 $1.20 Add
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Grocery Stores

Grocery Stores

The Food System’s Control Center

From: Grocery Story

The anti-competetive business as usual practiced by Canada’s grocery giants and the testing of the boundaries of the law is described. Lost in this regime is flavour, genetic diversity, and … 25 $2.50 Add
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Group Applications in Nature-based Therapy

Group Applications in Nature-based Therapy

From: Nature-Based Therapy

The therapeutic factors of instillation of hope, universality, imparting information, altruism, development of socializing techniques, imitative behavior, group cohesiveness, and existential … ; ; 17 $1.70 Add
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Growing Food Co-ops, Growing the Movement

Growing Food Co-ops, Growing the Movement

From: Grocery Story

The Kootenay Co-op expansion to a new location is described through member loans and– a first in food co-op history– as a developer of Nelson Commons, residential units above the … 12 $1.20 Add
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Guidance, Culpability, and Mistake of Law

Guidance, Culpability, and Mistake of Law

From: Sovereignty, Restraint, and Guidance

Chapter 12 examines the doctrine that errors of law cannot excuse. The doctrine has sometimes been criticized as unfair to defendants. But from a guidance-centred perspective, it would be … 31 $3.10 Add
Harry Livingstone's Forgotten Men

Harry Livingstone’s Forgotten Men

Canadians and the Chinese Labour Corps in the First World War

Harry Livingstone was a small town doctor from Listowel, Ontario when he felt the pull of patriotism that led him to volunteer in the First World War. In 1917, Livingstone found himself embarking … 504 View
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He Has Multiple Addictions: Sex, Gambling, Video Games, Alcohol and Drugs

He Has Multiple Addictions: Sex, Gambling, Video Games, Alcohol and Drugs

From: About Face

The readings in the second section of the book discuss other forms of addictions that are not narcotics based. These include sex, video games, gambling and social media. The readings in this … 6 $0.60 Add
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Here Come the Bad Guys

Here Come the Bad Guys

From: Dangerous Enemy Sympathizers

After the departure of the Jewish internees in the summer of 1941, Camp B held a mix of Germans, German-Canadians, as well as other Canadians and men from all over Europe. If the tragedy of the … 50 $5.00 Add
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Historical Attitudes Towards Death and Dying

Historical Attitudes Towards Death and Dying

From: Social Perspectives on Death and Dying

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