2021

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An Overview of the Impact Assessment Act
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An Overview of the Impact Assessment Act

From: The Next Generation of Impact Assessment

This chapter provides a high-level overview of the IAA by examining the five key elements of the IAA regime design: triggering the assessment process, scoping, process options and design, … 18 $1.80 Add
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A Normal Person

A Normal Person

From: Man at the Airport

In this chapter, the author outlines how he became trapped in Malaysia after attempting to fly to Equador. 18 $1.80 Add
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A Note on Terms and Map of China and Surrounding Countries
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A Note on Terms and Map of China and Surrounding Countries

From: China Unbound

Notes on Terminology and Maps. 3 $0.30 Add
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A Plague of Humans

A Plague of Humans

From: A Brief History of the Earth's Climate

In this chapter Earle turns to the role of humanity in changing our planet’s climate. Important forces include agriculture, fossil fuel consumption, and total population. 14 $1.40 Add
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A Politically Correct Uncle Tom and an In-Your-Face Topsy

A Politically Correct Uncle Tom and an In-Your-Face Topsy

From: Uncle

In this chapter, Thompson explores the meanings of the made-for-TV movie version of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. 12 $1.20 Add
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A Portrait of Contemporary Neoliberalism
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A Portrait of Contemporary Neoliberalism

The Rise and Economic Consequences of the One per Cent

From: The Socialist Register 2022

Simon Mohun examines the massive growth of inequalities in income and wealth, which is perhaps the most commonly agreed-upon cause of polarization across the world today. Mohun argues that most … 20 $2.00 Add
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A Postcard from Germany

A Postcard from Germany

From: Three Funerals for my Father

This chapter is told from the author’s father’s perspective. He muses on emigration and escape from Vietnam, and recounts a scam and failed escape attempt. 4 $0.40 Add
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A Power Analysis: White Women and Institutional Access
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A Power Analysis: White Women and Institutional Access

From: What's Up With White Women

Navigating Sexism Benefiting from White Privilege Occupying the Buffer Zone ; 9 $0.90 Add
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A Provocation to Freedom
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A Provocation to Freedom

From: The Case for Basic Income

In the concluding chapter, the authors reconsider what counts as work, with an emphasis on the importance of care work. ; ; 7 $0.70 Add
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A Seat at the Economic Table

A Seat at the Economic Table

From: Indigenomics

Conclusion 6 $0.60 Add
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A Slowly Warming Sun

A Slowly Warming Sun

From: A Brief History of the Earth's Climate

This chapter considers the role of the sun in climate change. While the sun seems constant to human perception, in reality it has been slowly getting hotter for billions of years. When compared … 15 $1.50 Add
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A Special Kind of Evil

A Special Kind of Evil

From: On Love and Tyranny

This chapter concerns Arendt’s flight from Germany, and her arrival in Paris in 1933. It also details some of the history of anti-Semitism in Europe. 5 $0.50 Add
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A Story About the Toronto Purchase
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A Story About the Toronto Purchase

AGREEMENTS, NAMING, AND PLACES

From: Indigenous Toronto

A reading on the story of the Toronto purchase. 8 $0.80 Add
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A Tale of Instability in Seven Parts
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A Tale of Instability in Seven Parts

Limits

From: On Opium

The author describes her writing life in relation to the chronic pain and stiffness of her disease and how, no longer depressed, she has stretched her own limits with opiods, and asks if she can … 23 $2.30 Add
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A Tale of Instability in Seven Parts
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A Tale of Instability in Seven Parts

Vertigo

From: On Opium

Through the metaphor and the physical condition of vertigo, the author describes a benign temporary condition of incapacitiating vertigo, an artist’s residency in Venice, and the experience … 13 $1.30 Add
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A Tale of Instability in Seven Parts
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A Tale of Instability in Seven Parts

Quake

From: On Opium

As the author describes the upending of her life: the losses of the past months and years: her love, her family, her body, her work, her income, her freedom—treasured friendships, even. she … 15 $1.50 Add