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The Hub/Entrepot City

Section 3: Jacobs’ Spectrum of Economic Regions

From: Cities Matter

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Chapter 9 examines entrepot cities, which are cities that serve as warehouses to export product from a nearby supply region as it is waiting to be transported to other markets. It discusses … 6 $0.60 Add
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The Making of Marcel

From: Unicorn in the Woods

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In this chapter, Pitts explores the life of Marcel LeBrun, the CEO and co-founder of iMagicTV Inc., a company that made an early attempt at delivering video-on-demand over the internet. 10 $1.00 Add
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The Night They Almost Blew Us All to Kingdom Come

From: To Wawa with Love

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Talks about having to fill the fuel oil for the stove and a night where it exploded 4 $0.40 Add
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The origins of oil’s deep state in Canada

From: Oil’s Deep State

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Former Alberta opposition leader Kevin Taft uses Alberta as a case study to document the origins of the fossil feul industry in the province and it’s ties to government. 11 $1.10 Add
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The Outing

From: Len & Cub

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This chapter details the circumstances of Len’s outing in 1931, after which he was forced to leave Havelock. ; 11 $1.10 Add
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The Politics of Becoming

From: Songs Upon the Rivers

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The authors muse on the role Métis people played in the history of North America, and the way history has been represented/rewritten to exclude their participation in and influence on this … ; ; 33 $3.30 Add
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The Rice Chest

From: Three Funerals for my Father

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This chapter is told from the author’s perspective. She recalls going back to her childhood home with her daughters. 4 $0.40 Add
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The Rise and Fall of the Neo-Liberal Parties, 1982–1993

From: The Rise of the New West

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Looks at the rise and fall of neo-liberal parties in Canada between 1982-1993, analyzes the neo-liberal impact on the west in terms of their diversification strategies and the jeopardizing of the … 65 $6.50 Add
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The Scrambled Paradise

From: Lost Feast

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In this chapter Newman describes her time travelling through Hawaii and the biodiversity she witnessed there. Newman describes how after centuries of plant and animal invasions, both purposefully … 24 $2.40 Add
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The Second World War and After, 1939–1948

From: Rivals for Power: Ottawa and the Provinces

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Describes the impact of the second world war on the Canadian federation from 1939 to 1948. 17 $1.70 Add
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The Social Reproduction Strike

Life-Making Beyond Capitalism

From: Women and Work

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This chapter argues that building solidarity among different feminist groups is the means and end of the social reproduction strike. 24 $2.40 Add
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The Split

From: Sweethearts

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1960s Looks at the split of the unions into residential locals and the further fracturing of the unions. Zanini is convicted and sent to prison 14 $1.40 Add
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The True North Strong and Free

From: Imagined Truths

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The author talks about emigrating to Canada. 35 $3.50 Add
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The Western Door: Building Community Inside and Outside the Classroom

From: Circle Works

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The Youngbloods

From: Merchant Princes

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1910-1950. Examines the younger generations of the Stairs family and traces the family firm which was now an enterprise from prosperity to a selling off period 42 $4.20 Add
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Together Until the End!

From: Big Business and Hitler

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Revisionist historian Jacques R. Pauwels examines the period of 1941-1945 and the relationship between Nazism and corporate capitalism. 16 $1.60 Add