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Back to the Well

Rethinking the Future of Water

 Droughts. Floods. Contamination. Climate change. The perils to the global fresh-water supply have never been so clear or so numerous, as the crisis in Cape Town’s water supply in early 2018 … 378 View

F-Bomb

Dispatches from the War on Feminism

 From pop icons to working mothers, women are abandoning feminism in unprecedented numbers. Even scarier, they are also leading the charge to send it to its grave. Across North America, women head … 280 View

Pay No Heed to the Rockets

Palestine in the Present Tense

 Marcello Di Cintio first visited Palestine in 1999. Like most outsiders, the Palestinian narrative that he knew had been simplified by a seemingly unending struggle, a near-Sisyphean curse of … 264 View

The Imperilled Ocean

Human Stories From a Changing Sea

 An exploration of the earth’s last wild frontier, filled with high-stakes stories of people and places facing an uncertain future. On a life raft in the Mediterranean, a teenager from Ghana … 238 View
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A Few Assertions

From: Back to the Well

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 de Villiers begins the books with 4 assertions about our water future: 1. We aren’t doomed (yet). 2. There is not a global-scale water crisis. Rather, there are thousands of regional water … 4 $0.40 Add
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The Girl in the Green Dress

From: Pay No Heed to the Rockets

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 The introduction describes the experience of the author as he crosses the border into Palestine. 6 $0.60 Add
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Introduction: Learning to Float

From: The Imperilled Ocean

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 In readings from this book Journalist Lauren Trethewey explores storied about the many ways in which people around the world interact with the ocean. In the introduction Trethewey recounts a … 15 $1.50 Add
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We’ve got a long way to go, baby: Confronting the dangerous myth that we’ve made it

From: F-Bomb

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 In this chapter, the author confronts the dangerous 21st century myth that the push for gender equality has been a success and that the struggle is over. She argues that this is in no way the … 24 $2.40 Add
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Feminists eat their young: The fourth wave, a fractured sisterhood, and the cataclysmic divide between feminist generations

From: F-Bomb

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 In this chapter, the author discusses the plurality of definitions that are assigned to feminism by different groups and the often intergenerational conflict that occurs between movements with … 25 $2.50 Add
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One: Capturing the Water World

From: The Imperilled Ocean

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 In readings from this book Journalist Lauren Trethewey explores stories about the many ways in which people around the world interact with the ocean. In this chapter Trethewey explores the career … 23 $2.30 Add
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The Dismal Arithmetic of Water

From: Back to the Well

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 In this chapter, de Villiers outlines the anatomy of a water crisis, using the city of Sao Paulo Brazil as an example. He shows how limits in supply and distribution, in concert with growing … 12 $1.20 Add
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The Homeland is Where None of This Can Happen

From: Pay No Heed to the Rockets

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 This chapter describes the experiences of Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish from the 1940s to the present. 25 $2.50 Add
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F-bomb generation: Empowerment, millennial women, and the “I’m not a feminist, but…” choir

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 This chapter discusses sexist behaviour on Canadian university campuses and the push against feminism by progressive movements. 19 $1.90 Add