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From  NEW! “A beating every day”: The Story of Léo PitreChapter Ten From: Bombs and Barbed Wire |
Chapter Ten focuses on the story of Léo Pitre from Jacquet River, New Brunswick, describing his time in Hong Kong in 1941 with the Royal Rifles of Canada and the Winnipeg Grenadiers, capture … | Ronald Cormier | 21 | 2022 | $2.10 Add |
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From  South Pacific, Miss Saigon, Soft Power and MeFrom: Bigotry on Broadway |
This author recounts her experiences and perceptions of Anti-Asian bigotry in theatre/Broadway. | Aimee Phan | 10 | 2021 | $1.00 Add |
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From  9. In Persuit of the SeducerFrom: Jeannie's Demise |
- | Ian Radforth | 28 | 2020 | $2.80 Add |
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From  NEW! A Bad CollarFrom: Vancouver Vice |
This chapter examines the West End at the beginning of the 1980s, a situation Maclean’s magazine called "a curbside brothel open from noon to 4 a.m., seven days a week." It also … | Aaron Chapman | 13 | 2021 | $1.30 Add |
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From  A House DividedFrom: Gay Marriage |
The opposition forces get more organized and the division in the house of commons is thoroughly explored | Louisa Blair; Sylvain Larocque | 18 | 2006 | $1.80 Add |
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From  A Modern City Emerges (1945-1960)From: The History of Montréal |
The postwar period was a boom time for Montreal in terms of the city’s population, economy, and size. The period was spent making up for lost time, after the hardships of depression and … | Paul-André Linteau | 15 | 2013 | $1.50 Add |
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From  A Postcard from Germany |
This chapter is told from the author’s father’s perspective. He muses on emigration and escape from Vietnam, and recounts a scam and failed escape attempt. | Jolie Phuong Hoang | 4 | 2021 | $0.40 Add |
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From  NEW! AcknowledgementsFrom: White Riot |
This section includes: Acknowledgements, Works Cited, Further Reading, Index, and information about the contributors. | Henry Tsang | 14 | 2023 | $1.40 Add |
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From  NEW! AfterwordFrom: Earthkeeping |
The Afterword: Mars, Anyone?. | Gary Saunders | 7 | 2022 | $0.70 Add |
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From  AfterwordFrom: Women and Work |
A short examination of where the author’s three feminist theories of labour are today. | Susan Ferguson | 2 | 2020 | $0.20 Add |
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From  An Unsatisfied BeneficiaryFrom: Big Business and Hitler |
Revisionist historian Jacques R. Pauwels breaks down the different ways big business in Germany supported facism and how it relates to their support of Hitler from 1933-1945. | Jacques R. Pauwels | 7 | 2017 | $0.70 Add |
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From  NEW! AppendicesFrom: Bottoms Up |
Appendices include: Alcohol-Related Crimes and Court Cases, Eighteenth Century Tavern Owners in St. John’s, St. John’s Alcohol-Related Businesses from the Nineteenth Century until … | Sheilah Roberts Lukins | 25 | 2020 | $2.50 Add |
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From  NEW! Appendices |
The Appendices include biographical notes of those covered in the book, a list of the primary research sources, and an extract from the McDonald Commission Report. | Houda Asal | 12 | 2020 | $1.20 Add |
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From  Arrival and Reception: Hungarian Refugees, 1956–1957 |
The government of Canada is well organized to recruit, screen, transport, and receive large numbers of immigrants. The situation was not different in the mid-1950s. In 1956, 165,000 immigrants … | Peter Hidas | 33 | 2010 | $4.29 Add |
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From  Attempted GenocidePolitical Battles with Pierre Trudeau |
Indigenous activist Arthur Manuel examines Pierre Trudeau’s dealings with Indigenous people in Canada and the former prime minister’s policies of assimilation. He examines the 1969 … | Arthur Manuel | 6 | 2017 | $0.60 Add |
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From  August 1914Enthusiasm and Resignation (1) |
1914. The assassination in Sarajevo — basically a rather unimportant event — does not constitute a genuine casus belli. But it provides the elite with the pretext it needs to unleash … | Jacques R. Pauwels | 18 | 2016 | $1.80 Add |
