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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From NEW! Hub Cities and Transport Costs Section 1: The Economist’s City From: Cities Matter View Baraka Books	Chapter 2 explores transportation networks and hub cities, discussing topics including networks, ‘Transport Cost’ theory, and more.	Charles-Albert Ramsay	6	2022	$0.60 Add
From Hubris From: History's People View House of Anansi Press	In this chapter, MacMillan examines how hubris shaped the actions of four leaders across the twentieth century: Woodrow Wilson, Margaret Thatcher, Joseph Stalin, and Adolf Hitler.	Margaret MacMillan	70	2015	$7.00 Add
From Human Moles in the "Lovely Land of War" From: The Great Class War 1914-1918 View James Lorimer and Company	Except in its opening and closing stages, the Great War is a “stationary war,” to be associated forever with concepts such as trenches, no man’s land, and barbed wire — …	Jacques R. Pauwels	33	2016	$3.30 Add
From Humanitarianism and the Invention of Emergency From: Slouching Towards Sirte View Baraka Books	In Chapter 5, Forte asks the reader to consider what the alternatives were to foreign intervention. He does this by criticizing popular myths that worked to legitimize military intervention and …	Maximilian C. Forte	30	2012	$3.00 Add
NEW! Humans The 300,000-Year Struggle for Equality James Lorimer and Company	Historian Alvin Finkel builds on the work of archaeologists, anthropologists and historians to present the very long view of the history of the human species. His focus is not on the leaders …		416		View
From Hundred Block Rock From: Fighting For Space View Arsenal Pulp Press	In the 1990s and early 2000s, Bud Osborn was part of a grassroots group of addicts who transformed how the City of Vancouver treats people addicted to drugs. He helped pioneer North …	Travis Lupick	25	2017	$0.50 Add
From NEW! Hungry for Something From: Woman, Watching View ECW Press	Chapter Three follows Louise’s time as a nurse during the First World War at a Russian POW camp on the Eastern Front. The chapter follows her first meeting and later marriage to Russian …	Merilyn Simonds	21	2022	$2.10 Add
From NEW! Hunt From: Tracking the Caribou Queen View NeWest Press	The chapter recounts Margie’s time with Lawrence, her first bird hunt, a malicious invitation from Mr. Puce, and reflections on the intentions of the teachers who came north.	Margaret Macpherson	14	2022	$1.40 Add
From Hunting, Fishing and Gathering From: The Beothuk View Breakwater Books	This chapter describes life in pre-contact Beothuk communities with a focus on food gathering throughout the year. This chapter also serves as a brief general overview of the seasonal cycles …	Ingeborg Marshall	6	2009	$0.60 Add
From Hydro World From: Charging Ahead View Baraka Books	This chapter explores Hydro-Quebec and international energy circles, and the work of Hydro-Quebec International (HQI).	Jean-Benoît Nadeau; Julie Barlow	10	2019	$1.00 Add
From NEW! “I am running” From: The Coutts Diaries View Sutherland House	In this chapter, Graham examines the dramatic final weeks of 1979, when the Liberal Party toppled Joe Clark’s government and faced a leadership crisis (as told by the diary of Jim Coutts, …	Ron Graham	12	2025	$1.20 Add
From NEW! “I Built an Empire” From: Militants, Mobsters and Mavericks View James Lorimer and Company	This chapter examines how John Stefanini reshaped Local 183, a construction labourers’ union, during the mid-1970s.	Gilberto Fernandes	14	2026	$1.40 Add
From NEW! I can’t find my body in this cold night Settler colonial disembodiment From: On Wholeness View House of Anansi Press	In this chapter, Christie-Peters examines settler colonial disembodiment as a mechanism of control and a strategy of Indigenous survival.	Quill Christie-Peters	24	2025	$2.40 Add
From I Do Not Have an Account in the Bank of Wars From: Pay No Heed to the Rockets View Collection: Witnesses to Global Conflict: Canadian Authors' Accounts Goose Lane Editions	In this chapter the author crosses into Israel to meet with Palestinian writers living there.	Marcello Di Cintio	42	2018	$4.20 Add
From I Don’t Just Sit There and Smile and Clap My Hands From: Let's Move On View Baraka Books	Okalik discusses the 2008 election, challenges and controversies faced by his administration, becoming a regular member of the Legislative Assembly and his view of the Aariak government, his …	Paul Okalik	8	2018	$0.80 Add
From NEW! I Pinch, Therefore I Am The Filling From: What We Talk About When We Talk About Dumplings View Coach House Books	Matthew Murtagh-Wu reflects on growing up in Vancouver’s Chinatown, his business the Dumpling King, his mama dumpling recipe, and the power of nostalgia.	Matthew Murtagh-Wu	6	2022	$0.60 Add