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    Charting a Sustainable Future for Oceans in Canada

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  • Sustainable Food Futures

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    Series series Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment
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  • Hillbilly Women

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  • The Unwanted Sound of Everything We Want

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  • The (Post) Mistress eBook

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  • The Supreme Court

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    The Supreme Court grew out of a unique opportunity to interview all nine sitting Supreme Court Justices plus retired Justice O'Connor for a documentary on the Supreme Court. Through Brian Lamb and Susan Swain's interviews with our country's most influential judges, the book offers portraits of the Justices that introduces readers to the closed world of the Supreme Court, and what's it's really ... Leer más

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  • Peasants under Siege

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  • Breaking Clean

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