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Tandem Travel: Reconsidering Road Narratives And Tactics For Subversive Travel, Nicole Emanuel Nov 2023

Tandem Travel: Reconsidering Road Narratives And Tactics For Subversive Travel, Nicole Emanuel

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Roads are frequently conceptualized as shared spaces that symbolize freedom, despite the fact that they are also tightly monitored sites where laws and public policy hold sway. The fundamental tension between movement on the one hand and restrictive regulation on the other makes the road a particularly paradoxical expression of “the commons.” Another contradictory aspect of roads is that they are often understood as atopic—places that are not really places, but merely a means of conquering time and space to connect a point of origin to a destination. What does it mean to live one’s daily life in such a …


Off By Heart Lake, Gayle I. Sacuta Nov 2023

Off By Heart Lake, Gayle I. Sacuta

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Memoir, history and critique of girlhood on a farm on the Alberta prairie in the 1970's and 1980's.


The Right To Be Cold: One Woman’S Fight To Protect The Arctic And Save The Planet From Climate Change By Sheila Watt-Cloutier, Leah Van Dyk Aug 2018

The Right To Be Cold: One Woman’S Fight To Protect The Arctic And Save The Planet From Climate Change By Sheila Watt-Cloutier, Leah Van Dyk

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Review of Sheila Watt-Cloutier's The Right to Be Cold: One Woman's Fight to Protect the Arctic and Save the Planet from Climate Change.


While Glaciers Slept: Being Human In A Time Of Climate Change By M Jackson, Stephen Siperstein Feb 2018

While Glaciers Slept: Being Human In A Time Of Climate Change By M Jackson, Stephen Siperstein

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Review of M. Jackson's While Glaciers Slept: Being Human in a Time of Climate Change.


Lines Of Flight: An Atomic Memoir By Julie Salverson, Ashley E. Reis Feb 2018

Lines Of Flight: An Atomic Memoir By Julie Salverson, Ashley E. Reis

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Review of Julie Salverson’s Lines of Flight: An Atomic Memoir.


Deep Salt Water By Marianne Apostolides, Jenna Gersie Aug 2017

Deep Salt Water By Marianne Apostolides, Jenna Gersie

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Review of Marianne Apostolide's Deep Salt Water.


The Moth Snowstorm By Michael Mccarthy, Joanna Streetly Aug 2017

The Moth Snowstorm By Michael Mccarthy, Joanna Streetly

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Review of Michael McCarthy's The Moth Snowstorm.


Born Out Of This By Christine Lowther, Erin Linn Mcmullan Feb 2016

Born Out Of This By Christine Lowther, Erin Linn Mcmullan

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Review of Christine Lowther's Born Out of This.


Becoming Wild: Living The Primitive Life On A West Coast Island By Nikki Van Schyndel, Maureen Scott Harris Jul 2015

Becoming Wild: Living The Primitive Life On A West Coast Island By Nikki Van Schyndel, Maureen Scott Harris

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Maureen Scott Harris reviews Becoming Wild: Living the Primitive Life on a West Coast Island, by Nikki Van Schyndel.