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Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies
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Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies

From the author of the best-selling Feminist City, this urbanite’s guide to gentrification knocks down the myths and exposes the forces behind the most urgent housing crisis of our time. … 258 View
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Getting Down to Work

Getting Down to Work

From: How We Changed Toronto

Deals with his first years in office – 1969 – 1972 30 $3.00 Add
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Going Beyond Representation

Going Beyond Representation

The Diversity Deficit in Local Government

From: Subdivided

The author argues that Torontonians face a critical choice between electing a new, more inclusive local government (new voices) or maintaining the status quo and an entrenched political class … 14 $1.40 Add
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Grade School

Grade School

From: South End Boy

1930s and 1940s Halifax. Elementary school 11 $1.10 Add
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Henry Box Brown, an International Fugitive

Henry Box Brown, an International Fugitive

Slavery, Resistance, and Imperialism

From: Black Geographies

In 1849 in Richmond, Virginia, the slave Henry Brown, with the help of a white shoe-dealer and a black freedman, camouflaged himself as “dry goods” by crawling into a wooden shipping … 22 $2.20 Add
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Here Before Christ

Here Before Christ

Stuart Hodgson and the Birth of the Modern Arctic

From: Umingmak

Readings in Part Two of this title entitled "Reaching All Northerners" discusses Stuard Hodgson’s first months in the Northwest Territories. Topics discussed include his grand … 9 $0.90 Add
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He's a Workhorse

He’s a Workhorse

Stuart Hodgson and the Birth of the Modern Arctic

From: Umingmak

Readings in Part Two of this title entitled "Reaching All Northerners" discusses Stuard Hodgson’s first months in the Northwest Territories. Topics discussed include his grand … 18 $1.80 Add
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High School

High School

From: South End Boy

1930s and 1940s Halifax. High school 10 $1.00 Add
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Hitchhiking, 1952–61 58

Hitchhiking, 1952–61 58

From: A Halifax Boyhood

Looks at the attitude towards hitchhiking in Halifax 1952-61 ; 3 $0.30 Add
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Home

Home

From: South End Boy

1930s and 1940s Halifax. Talks about the house he grew up in 7 $0.70 Add
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Homopoetics

Homopoetics

Queer Space and the Black Queer Diaspora

From: Black Geographies

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Hoopville, 1950–52 56

Hoopville, 1950–52 56

From: A Halifax Boyhood

Looks at Halifax hosting the university men’s basketball championship tournament from 1950-52 ; 3 $0.30 Add
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Housing:

Housing:

Keeping the Faith

From: How We Changed Toronto

1970s. The reform Council may have been inventive and proactive in undertaking such an ambitious affordable housing program enabled by the federal and provincial legislation, but that program … 16 $1.60 Add
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How Oceans Might Change Under PETM Conditions
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How Oceans Might Change Under PETM Conditions

From: Runaway Climate

How Oceans Might Change Under PETM Conditions: Ocean water temperature, acidity, sea-level rise, ocean currents, implications for humans 11 $1.10 Add
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How Oceans Might Change Under PETM Conditions
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How Oceans Might Change Under PETM Conditions

From: Runaway Climate

How Oceans Might Change Under PETM Conditions: Temperature, precipitation and aridity, changes to ecosystems, implications for humans, how hot is too hot? 16 $1.60 Add
How We Changed Toronto

How We Changed Toronto

The inside story of twelve creative, tumultuous years in civic life, 1969-1980

By the mid-1960s Toronto was well on its way to becoming Canada’s largest and most powerful city. One real estate firm aptly labelled it Boomtown. Expressways, subways, shopping centres, … 349 View