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Author:Hughes , Bob
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Author:Lights, Zion
Summary:The Ultimate Guide to Green Parenting is the first book of its kind.
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Author:Iacovetta, Franca
Summary:An in-depth study of European immigrants to Canada during the Cold War, Gatekeepers explores the interactions among these immigrants and the “gatekeepers”—mostly middl
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Author:Jeffries, Fiona
,Rediker, Marcus
,Federici, Silvia
,Harvey, David
,Sharma, Nandita
,Holloway, John
,Cacho, Lydia
,Moran, Sandra
,Esteva, Gustavo
,Mendez, Wendy
Summary:As the Egyptian revolution gained momentum in the winter of 2011, a common refrain echoed across Cairo’s Tahrir Square: “The wall of fear came down!” Mass protests against fear and authoritarianism
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Author:Dewar, Dale
,Oelck, Florian
Summary:The bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, brought radiation to international attention but the exact nature of what had been unleashed was still unclear to most.
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Author:Leddy, Mary Jo
Summary:Our Friendly Local Terrorist tells the story of the fourteen-year struggle of Suleyman Goven, a Kurd accused by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service of being a terrorist.
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Author:Chazan, May
,Helps, Lisa
,Stanley, Anna
,Thakkar, Sonali
Summary:Home and Native Land takes its vastly important topic and places it under a new, penetrating light—shifting focus from the present grounds of debate onto a more critical terrain.
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Author:Denniss, Richard
Summary:Affluenza has not just changed the world, it has also changed the way we see the world. Short of money? Borrow some. Caught in the rain? Buy an umbrella. Thirsty?
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Author:Slee, Tom
Summary:We live in a culture of choice. But, in an age of corporate dominance, our freedom to choose has taken on new meaning. Upset with your local big box store?
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Author:Messing, Karen
Summary:In 1978, when workers at a nearby phosphate refinery learned that the ore they processed was contaminated with radioactive dust, Karen Messing, then a new professor of molecular genetics, was calle
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Author:Nadeau-Dubois, Gabriel
,Lederhendler, Lazer
,Klein, Naomi
Summary:On February 7, 2012, as students in Quebec prepared to vote to go on strike, Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois gave a rousing speech: “What you do today will be remembered.
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Author:Ellwood, Wayne
Summary:Fully updated, this new edition of a best-selling No-Nonsense Guide examines the debt trap; the acceleration of neoliberalism and the free trade model; competition for energy resources; the links
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Author:Gray, Louise
Summary:“World music” is an awkward phrase.
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Author:Kinsman, Gary
,Buse, Dieter K.
,Steedman, Mercedes
Summary:Would you believe that RCMP operatives used to spy on Tupperware parties? In the 1950s and ’60s they did.
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Author:Tudge, Robin
Summary:Spying, once solely the domain of the KGB, CIA, CSIS, and MI5, has become part of everyday life.
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