Social Science, Regional Studies
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Conscience and Community
A Citizen's Reader
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FINDING BETTER WAYS From designing a playground in your community to “countering the coalition of the cruel” in a troubled world, these short, punchy essays will help you to reflect and act. Here is a practical, readable, hopeful book for caring...
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Hromada: The Changing Ukrainian Community in Saskatchewan
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The story of any immigrant community, at its core, depicts the changing meaning of home and identity - the home and identity you leave behind; those which you build on new shores, in new places, in new ways. How any change to that home and...
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Gender and Property Rights
Critical Issues in the Context of SDG 5 with a Focus on Bangladesh
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On their list of 17 Sustainable Development Goals for all nations, the United Nations uses #5 “to achieve equality and empower all women and girls”. One of the nine targets under goal 5 is ‘gender equality in the ownership of productive assets,...
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From The Frying Pan Into The Fire
Memoir of a Zimbabwean
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Told with clarity, humour and insight, From the Frying Pan into the Fire lets us look into the turbulent history of Zimbabwe through the eyes of a native Zimbabwean educator. Born in a rural village in 1965, in what was then Rhodesia, young...
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A Happy Heart and One Slice Of Bread
Cori cuntenti e 'na fedda di pani
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Sicilian proverbs are a pathway into the reality of Sicilian culture over the centuries. They are the voices of its people that ring true from generation to generation. The proverbs are an important sub-text of their conversation. Every segment...
