Geography
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From  HomeFrom: South End Boy |
1930s and 1940s Halifax. Talks about the house he grew up in | Jim Bennet | 7 | 2015 | $0.70 Add |
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From  Identity and the CityThinking Through Diversity From: Subdivided |
Farhadi examines four individual stories of diversity in Toronto. | Beyhan Farhadi | 20 | 2016 | $2.00 Add |
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From  IntroductionCity of Men From: Feminist City |
Kern argues that women have always been viewed as a problem for the modern city: but there are alternatives grounded in ideas and notions of urban feminism. | Leslie Kern | 23 | 2019 | $2.30 Add |
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From  NEW! Introduction |
Naturalist Jason Ramsay-Brown defines Toronto’s ravines and urban forests as the city’s greatest civic treasure. He asserts that the definition of a "world class city" is … | Jason Ramsay-Brown | 2 | 2020 | $0.20 Add |
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From  Towards African Diaspora CitizenshipPoliticizing an Existing Global Geography From: Black Geographies |
The African diaspora is in effect an already existing globalization of African peoples, but it preceded the economic and communications structures now defined as globalization. To … | Babacar M'Bow; Carole Boyce Davies | 32 | 2007 | $3.20 Add |
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From  Walking TourFrom: Casa Loma |
A walking tour of the castle and grounds | Bill Freeman; Vincenzo Pietropaolo | 49 | 2016 | $4.90 Add |
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From “Sittin’ on Top of the World”The Challenges of Blues and Hip Hop Geography From: Black Geographies |
In 1930, the Mississippi Delta was already in the devastating grip of the Great Depression. Hunger, evictions, and terror would haunt the region for another four decades. We must ask how could a … | Clyde Woods | 36 | 2007 | $3.60 Add |
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From  NEW! 3. Gentrification is about Taste |
Chapter 3 focuses on how gentrification develops cultural capital or cultural power that feeds the continued gentrification of urban spaces. Topics discussed include the Cereal Killer Café … | Leslie Kern | 23 | 2022 | $2.30 Add |
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From  Chance of a LifetimeStuart Hodgson and the Birth of the Modern Arctic From: Umingmak |
Readings in Part One of this title entitled "A Leader in the Making" discuss Stuart Hodgson’s political background. The section discusses his appointment as Commissioner of the … | Jake Ootes | 7 | 2020 | $0.70 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 1Altona Forest |
Naturalist Jason Ramsay-Brown describes Altona Forest, an ecologically-rich natural area in the Petticoat Creek watershed on the border of Pickering and Toronto. He uses Altona to reflect upon … | Jason Ramsay-Brown | 5 | 2020 | $0.50 Add |
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From City of MomsFrom: Feminist City |
Kern examines how the bodies of pregnant women change the way they are perceived in public. | Leslie Kern | 37 | 2019 | $3.70 Add |
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From  Cunard School, 1943–46 17From: A Halifax Boyhood |
Looks at going to school at Cunard School in Jollimore up to grade four 1943-46 | Malcolm MacLeod; William D. Naftel | 5 | 2014 | $0.50 Add |
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From Doing Immigrant Resettlement RightFrom: Subdivided Collection: Immigrating to Canada |
This chapter argues for immigrants to be included in the political process. | Doug Saunders | 16 | 2016 | $1.60 Add |
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From From Poverty to ProsperityFrom: Casa Loma |
1859 – 1889. Looks at Henry Mill Pellatt and recounts his early toronto days, young man in a hurry, Rifleman Pellatt, Pellatt the Plunger | Bill Freeman; Vincenzo Pietropaolo | 7 | 2016 | $0.70 Add |
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From  Getting Down to WorkFrom: How We Changed Toronto |
Deals with his first years in office – 1969 – 1972 | John Sewell | 30 | 2015 | $3.00 Add |
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From SoundsFrom: South End Boy |
1930s and 1940s Halifax. Sounds of the city/time | Jim Bennet | 5 | 2015 | $0.50 Add |
