2019
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From ![]() Survivors StoriesRose From: The Hope that Remains |
Rose was eighteen and attended a boarding school during the genocide. She was taken hostage, during which time things happened that she cannot speak about. She finished school in Rwanda but she … | Christine Magill | 16 | 2019 | $1.60 Add |
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From ![]() Survivors StoriesAngelic From: The Hope that Remains |
People in Angelic’s life were attacked starting in 1991. She was a young adult, and early on in the genocide, her boyfriend was killed by one of his roommates. She was one of 43 people … | Christine Magill | 11 | 2019 | $1.10 Add |
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From ![]() Swinging for the FencesFrom: BlackBerry Town |
Howitt touches on the Unviersity of Waterloo and how it has developed into one of the most respected technology and business schools in Canada, in large part thanks to BlackBerry’s … | Chuck Howitt | 17 | 2019 | $1.70 Add |
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From ![]() Syria |
Chapter Ten focuses on Syria. Before the British and French divided Turkey’s West Asian possessions in 1920, Syria comprised territory covering today’s Palestine, Israel, Jordan, … | Stephen Gowans | 13 | 2019 | $1.30 Add |
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From ![]() Take Commoning to ScaleFrom: Free, Fair and Alive |
The final chapter addresses how commons can be scaled up, and why it is important to believe that commons have a significant contribution to make toward global change. The authors introduce the … | David Bollier | 30 | 2019 | $3.00 Add |
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From ![]() Taking it Day By DayFrom: About Face |
On Narcotics. The essays in the first section of the book discuss substance abuse. These readings include personal accounts of struggles with addiction in all its forms. The authors in these … | Jenine Glynn | 3 | 2019 | $0.30 Add |
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From ![]() Targeted Attacks: The Real Threats of Phishing, Spear Phishing, and Ransomware |
This chapter breaks down three specific types of cyber attacks: Phishing, Spear Phishing, and Ransomware. | Kathy Macdonald | 24 | 2019 | $2.40 Add |
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From ![]() Technical ProwessFrom: Charging Ahead |
This chapter explores Hydro-Quebec’s impressive technical systems. It discusses the laboratory in Varennes (part of the campus of the Hydro-Quebec’s research institute – … | Jean-Benoît Nadeau; Julie Barlow | 18 | 2019 | $1.80 Add |
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From ![]() Technological Integration Versus Technological InterferenceFrom: i-Minds, 2nd edition |
At the onset of the i-tech phenomenon, most of us first noted surface changes. For example, what we perceived as an emergent shallowness of information, a subtle lack of depth and length of … | Mari K Swingle | 12 | 2019 | $1.20 Add |
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From ![]() Technological UtopiasWorld's Fairs and Theme Parks From: The Culture of Nature |
The author explores World’s Fairs and theme parks, including Expo 67 (Montreal) and Expo 86 (Vancouver), to examine the process of technological development and its consequences on the … | Alexander Wilson | 38 | 2019 | $3.80 Add |
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From ![]() Testing the Power SystemFrom: Charging Ahead |
This chapter explores Hydro-Quebec’s current experimental projects/evolutions in the way that they are producing energy, looking at their experiments with solar, geothermal, and hydrogen … | Jean-Benoît Nadeau; Julie Barlow | 18 | 2019 | $1.80 Add |
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From ![]() ThailandRevolution and Counterrevolution Reloaded From: Counter Revolution |
Walden Bello | 18 | 2019 | $1.80 Add | |
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From ![]() Arbenz and the Fruit CompanyFrom: A Beauty that Hurts |
This chapter deals with the importance of the Arbenz period through the presidency of Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán and the agrarian issues that arose. | W. George Lovell | 6 | 2019 | $0.60 Add |
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From ![]() The Attention EconomyFrom: i-Minds, 2nd edition |
Tuning in at the moment is no longer sufficient. The media want our attention extended, continued, and reengaged after necessary absences such as work and sleep. | Mari K Swingle | 12 | 2019 | $1.20 Add |
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From ![]() The Battery of the North EastFrom: Charging Ahead |
This chapter is about Hydro-Quebec and energy-trading. | Jean-Benoît Nadeau; Julie Barlow | 19 | 2019 | $1.90 Add |
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From ![]() The Biological ScienceWhat's Really Going on in Our Brains? From: i-Minds, 2nd edition |
I am going to get down to the hard science: what really goes on in our brains when we overengage in i-tech. To this end, I will introduce modalities that permit us to examine the i-phenomenon at … | Mari K Swingle | 21 | 2019 | $2.10 Add |














