2021

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Shifting the Balance
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Shifting the Balance

How Top Organizations Beat the Competition by Combining Intuition with Data

Digital transformation expert Mark Schrutt reveals how the world’s top companies are using vast amounts of data to inform their decisions, disrupt industries, and get closer to their … 253 View
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Shifting Winds
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Shifting Winds

From: Shifting the Balance

Readings in part 1 of this text explore how companies combine intuition with data and analytics to drive competitive wedges in their markets. This chapter discusses the shift to data driven … 11 $1.10 Add
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Short-term Solar Variations

Short-term Solar Variations

From: A Brief History of the Earth's Climate

This chapter details the role of solar variation, especially in the form of sun spots, in determining the climate of the Earth. 14 $1.40 Add
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Sight and Site on the Line
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Sight and Site on the Line

The Cultural Imaginary of Borderlands in North America

From: Borders, Culture, and Globalization

This chapter considers contemporary art and media projects located in North American border regions in the last decade and their role as critical practices and forms of translocal resistance … 22 $2.20 Add
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Signing up to Serve

Signing up to Serve

From: Asleep in the Deep

This chapter describes the distinctive Canadian Nursing Sister uniform and the procedures undergone to recruit and select nurses for the Canadian Army Medical Corp once war was declared. … 18 $1.80 Add
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Silences
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Silences

From: My Mother, My Translator

Talks about the story told within an author’s silence. What is revealed by the stories omitted. Singh illustrates this through the story of his mother’s older sister—a story she … 8 $0.80 Add
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Sins Invalid’s Origin Story

Sins Invalid’s Origin Story

From: Crip Kinship

Topics discussed include crip beauty and sexuality, ableism, historical eugenics, assumptions about disabled folks, intersectionality, medicalization, disability justice, activism through … 14 $1.40 Add
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Sleeping Car Porters and Uncle Ben

Sleeping Car Porters and Uncle Ben

From: Uncle

This chapter examines railway sleeping cars, the Black men who served as porters to tourists on the rails, and how these men were forced to conform to the Uncle Tom stereotype. 8 $0.80 Add
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Sliding Plates and Colliding Continents

Sliding Plates and Colliding Continents

From: A Brief History of the Earth's Climate

In this chapter, Earle explores the role of plate techtonics in the Earth’s climate. Key factors include albedo, continent drift, volcanism, and the formation of mountain ranges. 14 $1.40 Add
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Slogging towards Tomorrow

Slogging towards Tomorrow

From: Shift Change

This chapter examines the activities of the Hamilton Roundtable and other similar institutions, which sought to bridge the gaps between government, the non-profit sector, business, churches, and … 48 $4.80 Add
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Slow Season

Slow Season

Part 5: Surfacing

From: This is My Real Name

Chapter 15 concludes the book with Brunet’s return to Montreal, work at Sally’s Club and giving up stripping. 12 $1.20 Add
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Smoke
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Smoke

From: My Mother, My Translator

Singh shares a folktale told to him by his mother before telling a story from when he first moved to Canada. 9 $0.90 Add
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Social Democracy and Labour
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Social Democracy and Labour

From: The Fire and the Ashes

In this chapter, the author discusses the conditions and circumstances that labour movements faced during his career. Topics include the rise of student activism, the culture wars of the 1970s, … 7 $0.70 Add