Social Science
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Stillness And Echoes
by Richard William Kirkpatrick-Thorne
Finality... ... It is the last dip that gets all toes wet, though throats stay parched long after the shadows fade. And if by some odd chance you look down upon memory and it remembers starlit nights under your watchful eye, perhaps fate may...
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Following the Martins
A Story of Bringing Hope In Peru, Zambia and Uganda by Allen Sackmann
Hajara, not yet 10, was a house girl, working dawn to dusk in a world of drudgery and abuse when Tom and Cheryl Martin rescued her. They found Kenny in the streets, an orphan with twisted limbs who desperately needed a wheelchair — and school...
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Iconic Ideas in the History of Social Thought
by Wsevolod W. Isajiw
The book distinguishes a number of types of social thought and traces their history from “tribal” times until present day. It shows that human beings thought systematically about their societies very early in their development, even if only...
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Stumbling Through Paradise
A Feast of Mercy for Manuel del Mundo by Eleanor Guerrero-Campbell
Stumbling Through Paradise: A Feast of Mercy for Manuel del Mundo follows the journey of one Filipino family, who leave everything behind in order to build a new life for themselves in Canada, and their struggle to find their way. Blocked from...
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A Wilderness of Rocks
The Impact of Relief Models on Data Science by Melanie Schleeter McCalmont
Discover the University of Wisconsin collection of historic relief models, or three-dimensional maps. The University of Wisconsin relief models were crafted from 1875-1943 at the dawn of the analytics age. Relief models are an extremely effective...
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Pay it Forward
A Mom's Journey through Healing and Recovery by Anna Clado
Anna Clado has endured a lot of blackness in her life. This Vancouver-based single mom was abused by a family member, betrayed by a husband, and devastated by the mental tyranny of a string of bad decisions. But she’s not complaining. Indeed,...
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When Things Seem Odd
Polly and the Internal Guardian by Michael Joseph Legare
As you will discover by reading this book, the term “stranger danger” is not only misleading to children, it actually does more harm than good. By the constant reminder that a child encounters by media, adults and television programs about never...
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Hornets in the Office
by Marie E. Rickwood
Elly Thomas is young, beautiful, and very well-trained to be a housewife. She fills this position above and beyond anyone’s expectations; however, after ten years of marriage and the birth of twin sons, now eight years old, Elly has become bored...
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Swarm Before Me
The Tragic Case of Becker v Pettkus by Samuel Schwisberg
On November 5, 1986, Rosa Becker, the estranged common law partner of a successful beekeeper in Eastern Ontario, shot herself in the head and died. That fatal shot reverberated throughout the Canadian legal system when her suicide note revealed...
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Homesteading and Stump Farming on the West Coast 1880-1930
Powell River, Lund, Stillwater & Mysterious Horseshoe Valley by Barbara Ann Lambert
Imagine obtaining one hundred and sixty acres of land for FREE! Then comes the real payment: the sweat and toil of living in a remote wilderness and clearing a landscape where the stumps left behind are so large and so numerous the best bet is to...
