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The scandalous history of neglect, abuse, and exploitation at a residential school for children—and the ongoing effects in the decades since it closed.In Indian School Road, journalist Chris Benjamin tackles the controversial and tragic history of Canada's Shubenacadie Indian Residential School, its predecessors, and its lasting effects, giving voice to multiple perspectives for the first time. Benjamin integrates research, interviews, and testimonies to gu...

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The daughter of an alcoholic desperate to be loved.

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Chris Benjamin

Demoralized by his job and dissatisfied with his life, Mark punches the clock with increasing indifference. He wanted to help people; he’d always believed that as social worker he would be able to make a difference in people’s lives. But after six years of bureaucracy and pushing paper Mark has lost hope.All that changes when he meets Bumi, an Indonesian restaurant worker. Moved from his small fishing village and sent to a residential school under the authoritarian Suharto regime, ...

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Chris Benjamin

Eco-Innovators profiles some of the region's most innovative and forward-thinking leaders in sustainability. These entrepreneurs and educators, activists and agitators, farmers and fishers have all made measurable contributions both in their respective fields of interest and in motivating others to make change. In the book, we meet Kim Thompson, a strawbale builder and consultant, who has recently brought her building experience to a renovation of an older house in downtown Halifax. Then t...

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In May, 2001, Chris Benjamin hitchhiked across Canada and volunteered on organic farms in British Columbia. He was in search of a good home, love and community, and perhaps a source of income to pay off his student loans.In Northern Ontario, Benjamin writes, “Big Al was my first encounter with what turned out to be a hitchhiking trope, the kind and generous – to his own kind at least – racist.” The trope got worse after September 11, which happened as Benjamin was leaving Prince Ru...

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Chris Benjamin

There are guides to reaching physical fitness and those for reaching mental fitnessbut there are very few books intended to help you reach spiritual fitness. In Spiritual Basic Training, author Chris Benjamin does just that, offering a motivating spark to ignite righteous living for Gods glory. Benjamin provides a positive message full of the Holy Scriptures, so every thought comes from the Bible. New believers will find guidance on how to start building a spiritual relationship with God. ...

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DEAN DE SERVIENTI

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Lyle Blaker, Michael David Axtell, A.W. Miller, Alfred Gingold, Becky Parker, Benjamin Getz, Charles Bice, Chris Abernathy, Cynthia de Pando, Darryl Fanaisie, David Learner, David Wood, Davide De Censo, Deva Marie, Dimitris Chavres, Fred Filbrich, J.S. Arquin, James Burton, Jez Jameson, Joanna Teller, Joshua Manning, Kevin Clay, Lamarr Gulley, Lavinia Carpentieri, Marion Franz, Monica Franz, Peter J. Borys, Sam Nanda, Scott Allen, Sura Siu, Will Tulin, Yoni Lotan

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QUANTUM TRILOGY

Darfur, Sudan. 2009. Two doctors employed by NGOs stumble across a strange metallic cylinder, which has been embedded for perhaps millions of years in desert rock. Mystified by the object, they gather four of the world’s leading experts in science and technology a computer scientist, a physicist, a biochemist, and a genetic researcher and head to London to study it thoroughly. The six have barely begun running tests on the cylinder, when they suddenly disappear telling family members not t...

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A.K. Duboff, Amy J. Murphy, Benjamin Wallace, Chris Reher, Christopher Boore, David Adams, David Bruns, Felix R. Savage, Marilyn Peake, J.G. Cressey, Michael Robertson, Nathan Van Coops, Paul Antony Jones, Ralph Kern, Robert Jeschonek

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At The Helm

Conflict across the cosmos. New frontiers discovered. What it means to be human reimagined.Dreams of tomorrow become reality in this fourth collection of bestselling authors and newly emerging writers from Sci-Fi Bridge. From the inner worlds of unforgettable characters to alien planets at the farthest reaches of our galaxy and beyond, our writers examine the human experience from within and without. They hold up a mirror to the human experience. Who are we as a species? Who do we ...

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Interventions

Global climate change is perceived to be one of the biggest challenges for international politics in the 21st century. This work seeks to fuse a global governance perspective together with different interpretive approaches, offering a novel way of looking at international climate politics. Equipped with a common interpretive tool-kit, the authors examine different issue-areas and excavate the contours of an overall pattern – the depoliticisation of climate governance. It is this concept wh...

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Benjamin Percy

Collects Predator Vs. Black Panther #1-4. Wakanda is the ultimate hunting ground for the Predator! You saw the Marvel Universe's most tenacious mutant go up against one of the greatest killing machines in history in PREDATOR VS. WOLVERINE - and survive. Now Earth lives on in Predator lore, a planet full of the most exhilarating prey they could imagine! And the strongest weapons in the Multiverse are in their sights. When a young Predator with something to prove comes for Wakanda's vibraniu...

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Nick Vivyan, Benjamin E. Lauderdale, Chris Hanretty

What is the nature of mass opinion on public policies? And what role do citizens' positions on policy issues play in their political choices? This book re-examines these questions, which lie at the heart of fundamental debates about whether democratic elections make policymakers responsive to citizens' policy preferences. The answers that political science currently provides to these questions tend to reflect one of two contrasting perspectives. The 'ideological voter' account suggests tha...

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Benjamin Hochman, Jason Motte

11 in '11 is a thoroughly reported chronicle of an unparalleled season, packed with interviews with key players, team executives, broadcasters, and moreOf the 11 World Series titles the St. Louis Cardinals have won in their formidable history, 2011's victory stands out as something different, something magical. It was the work of a team that seemingly had no business even playing in October yet one that stared down defeat over and over again, refusing to back down ...