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Disarming Conflict

A Treaty to Control the Arms Trade

From: Disarming Conflict

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Discipline and Desertion

From: Gunboats on the Great Lakes 1866-68

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Describes the discipline that was expected of British Navy sailors in the mid-1860s and details what happened to deserters. 23 $2.30 Add
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Divide et Impera

From: Washington's Long War on Syria

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Mass movements can be organized around different aspects of personal identity such as race, class, religion, sect, ethnicity, language, sex, and position within the international division of … 15 $1.50 Add
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Don’t Let Them Bully You

A Business Interlude

From: Unsettling Canada

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Don’t Let them Bully You explores Manuel’s own reaction to the stagnation of the Indigenous people’s movement in Canada in the 1980’s, which happened despite the success … 16 $1.60 Add
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E-tipayimsoowin

From: Ohpikiihaakan-ohpihmeh (Raised Somewhere Else)

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Ella on the Radio, and the Lomond Venture

From: No Place For A Woman

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The opening sections of the book provide a brief biography of Ella Manuel, describing her Newfoundland upbringing, travels, and relationships throughout her life. 4 $0.40 Add
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Epilogue

Chinese Canadians

From: Righting Canada’s Wrongs: The Chinese Head Tax

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This chapter briefly describes the diversity of the Chinese Canadian community today. It illustrates this with drawings, photographs, documents and firsthand accounts. 4 $0.40 Add
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Epilogue

From: Titanic Remembered

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The impact of the Titanic Sinking is overviewed 2 $0.20 Add
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Epilogue

From: Resistance and Renewal

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The fall of residential schools. The aftermath and how it shaped the education of Native children in the times to come. 25 $0.50 Add
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Ervin Chartrand, Selkirk, Métis/Salteaux

“They said I fit the description because I looked like six other kids with leather vests and long hair who looked Indian.”

From: How We Go Home

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Ervin Chartrand, of Selkirk, Manitoba is of Métis/Salteaux descent. He describes his childhood characterized by a lack of belonging, and joining a street gang at the age of fourteen. He … 19 $1.90 Add
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Eve of Destruction

From: The Lac-Mégantic Rail Disaster

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Analyzes how by 2012 the conditions were set for some kind of rail disaster: too litte regulation and few qualified inspectors. Montreal, Maine, and Atlantic Railway was unprepared for … 18 $1.80 Add
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Facing and Resisting KCA / Radius Gold and Tahoe Resources on the Ground

From: Testimonio

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Essays in this section: Interview: Yuri Melini, ILO 169 and Community Defence – Tahoe Resources’ Violent Mining Operation – The Peaceful Encampment at La Puya – Guatemalan … ; 27 $2.70 Add
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Flight Patterns

A Century of Air Travel

From: Wanderlust

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Chapter Eight examines the history of air travel. The chapter follows air travel from the invention of flight to the development of aviation, early airlines, rise of Pan Am, types of air crafts, … 34 $3.40 Add
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Four Murals

AGREEMENTS, NAMING, AND PLACES

From: Indigenous Toronto

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This reading explores the Anishinaabe creation story and Indigenous murals around Toronto and their meanings. Photos included. 10 $1.00 Add
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From Backbencher to Minister

From: The Golden Age of Liberalism

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1971-1974. His return to New Brunswick to teach which quickly morphed into the decision to run in the constiuency of Westmorland-Kent for the Liberal Party and his life as an MP 28 $2.80 Add
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From the Inside

One Prisoner's Perspective

From: Between Certain Death and a Possible Future

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This chapter examines the author’s experiences with AIDS and HIV as an inmate in the Florida Department of Corrections. 9 $0.90 Add