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From ![]() NEW! Being the Best YouPart 5. Campaigning From: Women Winning Office |
In Being the Best You Nash provides her own advice to any candidate running for elected office, which is to be true to yourself but be the best you possible. She does this by exploring topics … | Peggy Nash | 7 | 2022 | $0.70 Add |
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From ![]() IntroductionAir Water, and Nova Scotia From: Fastest in the World |
A brief overview of the evolution of high speed transportation throughout the 20th century and an introduction to Nova Scotia’s role in the development of two record breaking watercraft: … | John Boileau | 4 | 2004 | $0.40 Add |
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From ![]() Belly of the BeastFrom: Alexa! |
Chronicles her time at the head of Nova Scotia’s NDP, and as the province’s only NDP MLA. Explores her work and legislative battles, her passion, charisma, and magnetism, as well as … | Stephen Kimber | 58 | 2021 | $5.80 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Belly UpFrom: Up the Coast |
Chapter Five focuses on the creation of the Willcock & Wankel Logging company, the timber industry and licences, “timber cruising,” uncle Harold and Ron, their life in Church House, their … | Kathryn Willcock | 30 | 2022 | $3.00 Add |
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From ![]() BelongingFrom: The Teen Sex Trade |
A black woman from Nova Scotia recounts how her relationship with her boyfriend when she was 16 became an obsession leading her mother to kick her out of the house. | Jade M. Brooks | 15 | 2017 | $1.50 Add |
![]() BelongingThe Paradox of Citizenship |
Never has the world experienced greater movement of peoples from one country to another, from one continent to another. These seismic shifts in population have brought about huge challenges for … | Adrienne Clarkson | 242 | 2014 | View |
![]() BelongingsThe Fight For Land and Food |
In Belongings, Sally Miller illustrates how food and farm crises result from adherence to the rules of private property. Miller looks at the state of farmland and farmers in Canada and across the … | Sally Miller | 205 | 2016 | View |
![]() NEW! Bench StrengthJudging a Century of Tax Avoidance in Canada |
Kerry Harnish, an expert in tax policy and a former senior official with Finance Canada, provides an authoritative account of the Supreme Court of Canada’s approach to income tax avoidance … | Kerry Harnish | 484 | 2025 | View |
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From ![]() Benefactors of ChangeFrom: i-Minds, 2nd edition |
Who benefits from the propagation and consumption of sextech and pornography? And who loses? The industries involved, as too all spinoffs of depersonalized touch (such as massage parlors, … | Mari K Swingle | 9 | 2019 | $0.90 Add |
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From ![]() Benevolent Oligarchy or “Political Octopus”?(1919-1921) From: Rebuilding Halifax |
Chapter 4 discusses the political and financial controversies that the Halifax relief commission became embroiled in after the end of the First World War, as reconstruction of the destroyed areas … | Barry Cahill | 16 | 2020 | $1.60 Add |
![]() Bent out of ShapeShame, Solidarity, and Women's Bodies at Work |
Award-winning ergonomist Karen Messing is talking with women—women who wire circuit boards, sew clothes, clean toilets, drive forklifts, care for children, serve food, run labs. What she … | Karen Messing | 276 | 2021 | View |
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From ![]() Portillo (2002-2004) and the Corruption of PowerFrom: A Beauty that Hurts |
This chapter discusses the presidency of Alfonso Portillo and his abuse of power. | W. George Lovell | 5 | 2019 | $0.50 Add |
![]() BerylThe Making of the Disability Activist |
A survivor of more than one hundred surgeries, a dangerous opioid addiction, and multiple suicide attempts, Beryl Potter devoted herself to bettering the lives of other people with disabilities … | Dustin Galer | 318 | 2023 | View |
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From ![]() Beside the Supreme Court benchA law clerk’s reflections on advocacy From: Advocates and Advocacy |
Personal reflections on the legal profession. | David Sandomierski | 3 | 2018 | $0.30 Add |
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From ![]() Best-before datePART 3: LIFE AFTER LEADING: THE NERVE TO REDEFINE YOURSELF From: Nerve |
The authors discuss the ending of a leadership position. They provide insight on their own experiences with selecting a successor, remaining focused through transitions, and how women can leave a … | Indira Samarasekera; Martha Piper | 10 | 2021 | $1.00 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Best Interests of the ChildFrom: Staying Power |
In this chapter, Sharman discusses how the legal standard governing custody disputes has shaped queer family life in Canada and the United States. | Zena Sharman | 24 | 2026 | $2.40 Add |



















