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As a society we are preoccupied with wellness, but uphold alcohol as a sort of magic elixir. When Whitaker started looking around for help after one too many benders, she found that the only systems in place to were archaic, patriarchal, and...

Describes the friendship between Sula and Nel, two intelligent black women, who are poor.

A seventeenth-century Dutch anatomist discovers the Achilles tendon by dissecting his own amputated leg. Chopin's heart is carried back to Warsaw in secret by his adoring sister. A woman must return to her native Poland in order to poison her...

Jack Shadbolt was inspired in his formative years by his contact withEmily Carr and with her brooding works portraying the remnants ofIndian villages against the overwhelming wilderness. He made sketchesof Indian artefacts and the Cowichan Reserve...

How can urban housing, and the land underneath, now account for half of all global wealth? According to Patrick Condon, the simple answer is that land has become an asset rather than a utility. If the rich only indulged themselves with gold,...