Goose Lane Editions

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Privatization and Its Discontents

Privatization and Its Discontents

From: Back to the Well

In this Chapter, de Villiers discusses the thorny issue of water privatization and commodification. He explores the difference between privatization of ownership and use and the ways in which … 45 $4.50 Add
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Prologue
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Prologue

From: On Opium

The author describes feeling trapped since her body began to turn against her many years ago, when she first started to suffer the intense joint stiffness and accompanying pain that would turn … 3 $0.30 Add
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Alexa!
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Prologue

From: Alexa!

A brief look at Alexa’s entry into the political fray and the women who inspired, supported, and pushed her to make such a difficult decision. Also a glimpse of the relationship and history … 6 $0.60 Add
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Public matters, grey matter

Public matters, grey matter

The brain and decision-making

From: Too Dumb for Democracy?

Chapter One explores the roots of our bad political decisions; but the author argues that none of those reasons are excuses for us to throw up our arms and say, “Well, what can you do? We … 30 $3.00 Add
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Putting on the Ritz

Putting on the Ritz

Hotels and Other Homes Away from Home

From: Wanderlust

Chapter Four focuses on hotels, inns, and other homes one uses while traveling. The chapter explores the history of hotels dating back to 1500 BC in Crete, to Roman Villa’s, Middle Eastern … 29 $2.90 Add
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Reading for Love

Reading for Love

From: Breaking the Word Barrier

Kathie Goggin recounts the story of Bev. The story discusses his family’s illiteracy, challenges in school, being experienced for jobs but not qualified as he could not past tests, his … 5 $0.50 Add
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Reading Is Magic

Reading Is Magic

From: Breaking the Word Barrier

Forward from Lieutenant-Governor Herménégilde Chiasson. 4 $0.40 Add
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Reason for hope: The young women and girls who are giving misogyny the middle finger

Reason for hope: The young women and girls who are giving misogyny the middle finger

From: F-Bomb

In this chapter the author profiles young women who are the new generation of the feminist movemnt. 23 $2.30 Add
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Reframing the Debate

Reframing the Debate

From: Back to the Well

In this chapter, de Villiers begins approaching solutions for water crises by asking us to reframe the issue, by thinking and acting on a local level. 6 $0.60 Add
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Remembering
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Remembering

Part Eight

From: Earthkeeping

Part Eight contains the sections: Neil Van Nostrand, Ecologist, Hezekiah and the Pine, A Rose for Mary Matilda, Remembering Lucy and Helen, Lloyd S. Hawboldt, and Bug Man. These stories are about … 31 $3.10 Add
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Revisiting SakKijâjuk, Tending the Kidlik-Four Generations of Tradition and Innovation on the Labrador Coast
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Revisiting SakKijâjuk, Tending the Kidlik-Four Generations of Tradition and Innovation on the Labrador Coast

Community and Sovereighty: Section 3

From: Qummut Qukiria!

This chapter reflects on the SakKijâjuk: Art and Craft from Nunatsiavut, the first comprehensive nationally touring exhibition on Nunatsiavummiut art and art history in Canada. The chapter … 14 $1.40 Add
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Right Here, Right Now

Right Here, Right Now

From: At Home

Chapter 8 features an interview with Stan Krzyzanowski. This chapter discusses artists who are inspired by the details of day-to-day life and who explore how the place where one lives can create … 9 $0.90 Add
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Rivers and Lakes in Trouble

Rivers and Lakes in Trouble

From: Back to the Well

In this chapter, de Villiers explores how surface water – lakes and rivers – are some of the most vulnerable to contamination and destruction as a result of human action. 27 $2.70 Add
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Robin

Robin

From: The M Word

Alison Pick reflects on her pregnancy and miscarriage of her daughter, Robin. 15 $1.50 Add
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Alexa!
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Running From Hounds

From: Alexa!

The budding of Alexa’s political career, the chapter explores her flirtation with the Liberal Party and her commitment to civic service and progress in Halifax, all while dancing ever … 38 $3.80 Add