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  • Sandakan brothel no. 8 an episode in the history of lower-class Japanese women
    Author:

    Yamazaki, Tomoko

    Summary:

    This is a pioneering work on "karayuki-san," impoverished Japanese women sent abroad to work as prostitutes from the 1860s to the 1920s.

    Genre: Political science, Social science

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      Publisher: Crane Library, Fri, 05/15/2015 - 12:00
  • Sociology in our times
    Author:

    Lothian Murray, Jane

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    Genre: Psychology, Social science, Instructional and educational works

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      Publisher: Crane Library, Fri, 05/15/2015 - 12:00
  • Advancing family theories
    Author:

    White, James M.

    Summary:

    Explores two contemporary theories of the family-rational choice theory & transition theory that illuminate what differing theories reveal about families.

    Genre: Social science

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      Publisher: Crane Library, Fri, 05/15/2015 - 12:00
  • Family theories an introduction
    Author:

    White, James M.

    Summary:

    Presents an introduction to theories of the family.

    Genre: Social science

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      Publisher: Crane Library, Fri, 05/15/2015 - 12:00
  • Essential law for social work practice in Canada
    Author:

    Regehr, Cheryl

    Summary:

    Essential Law for Social Work Practice in Canada addresses the need for an up-to-date, hands-on legal information guide that social workers can use as they interact with the Canadian federal and pr

    Genre: Law materials, Social science, Canadian nonfiction

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    • Login to access DAISY 202 - Full Text and Audio
      Running Time: 65:07:01
      Narrator: Apple Alex (synthetic)
      Publisher: BC Libraries Cooperative, Fri, 01/01/2016 - 12:00
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      Publisher: BC Libraries Cooperative, Fri, 01/01/2016 - 12:00
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      Publisher: Don Mills, Ontario, Canada : Oxford University Press, [2015], Fri, 05/27/2016 - 12:00
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      Publisher: Crane Library, Fri, 05/15/2015 - 12:00
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      Narrator: Multiple Readers
      Publisher: Crane Library, Sat, 01/01/2011 - 12:00
  • It takes a village and other lessons children teach us
    Author:

    Clinton, Hillary Rodham

    Summary:

    For more than twenty-five years, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton has made children her passion and her cause.

    Genre: Social science

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      Running Time: 26:08:27
      Narrator: Apple Alex (synthetic)
      Publisher: BC Libraries Cooperative, Fri, 01/01/2016 - 12:00
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      Publisher: BC Libraries Cooperative, Fri, 01/01/2016 - 12:00
  • Shame and necessity
    Author:

    Williams, Bernard Arthur Owen

    Summary:

    We tend to suppose that the ancient Greeks had primitive ideas of the self, of responsibility, freedom, and shame, and that now humanity has advanced from these to a more refined moral consciousnes

    Genre: Social science, Philosophy

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      Running Time: 17:21:58
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      Publisher: BC Libraries Cooperative, Fri, 01/01/2016 - 12:00
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      Running Time: 17:21:58
      Narrator: Apple Alex (synthetic)
      Publisher: BC Libraries Cooperative, Fri, 01/01/2016 - 12:00
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      Publisher: BC Libraries Cooperative, Fri, 01/01/2016 - 12:00
    • Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, c1993, Tue, 03/14/2017 - 12:00
  • Invisible north : the search for answers on a troubled reserve
    Author:

    Shimo-Barry, Alex

    Summary:

    When freelance journalist Alexandra Shimo arrives in Kashechewan, a fly-in, northern Ontario reserve, to investigate rumours of a fabricated water crisis and document its deplorable living conditio

    Genre: Social science, Canadian nonfiction, Indigenous materials

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  • Inside the mental : silence, stigma, psychiatry, and LSD
    Author:

    Parley, Kay

    Summary:

    Before she became a psychiatric nurse at "The Mental" in the 1950s, Kay Parley was a patient there, as were the father she barely remembered and the grandfather she'd never met.

    Genre: Biographies and autobiographies, Medicine, health and fitness, Social science

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      Running Time: 11:46:40
      Narrator: Multiple Readers
      Publisher: Crane Library, Sun, 01/01/2017 - 12:00
  • Holy war : cowboys, Indians, and 9/11s
    Author:

    Anderson, Mark Cronlund

    Summary:

    Noam Chomsky and George W. Bush seldom agree, but they both argued that 9/11 stood alone in American history.

    Genre: Social science, History and geography, Political science

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  • The unthinkable revolution in Iran
    Author:

    Kurzman, Charles

    Summary:

    Through interviews and eyewitness accounts, declassified security documents and underground pamphlets, Kurzman documents the overwhelming sense of confusion that gripped pre-revolutionary Iran, and

    Genre: Political science, Social science

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  • The great leveler : violence and the history of inequality from the Stone Age to the twenty-first century
    Author:

    Scheidel, Walter

    Summary:

    Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes.

    Genre: History and geography, Social science

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  • A Haida wedding
    Author:

    Davidson, Robert

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    Williams-Davidson, Terri-Lynn

    Summary:

    A visual and cultural celebration of a traditional Haida wedding ceremony, exploring its roots, rituals, symbolism, joyfulness, and contemporary significance for a thriving Indigenous Nation.

    Genre: Canadian nonfiction, Indigenous materials, Social science, Illustrated works

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