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Planning - Before the Flight
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Planning – Before the Flight

From: This Is Your Captain Speaking

Chapter 1 explores the planning that takes place before a flight. The chapter includes descriptions of author Doug Morris’ life and path towards aviation, the motivations behind becoming a … 33 $3.30 Add
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Planning Smart Cities
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Planning Smart Cities

The Dream of the Smart City

From: Dream States

The Dream of the Smart City: Part 3 explores planning smart cities. Topics discussed include transportation, census data,  what is meant by urban ‘blight’, public and city … 15 $1.50 Add
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Plans to Conciliate the Beothuk

Plans to Conciliate the Beothuk

From: The Beothuk

This chapter explorers how the colonial government in Newfoundland interacted with the Beothuk around the turn of the 19th century. 4 $0.40 Add
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Playing with a Dead Fly

Playing with a Dead Fly

From: To Wawa with Love

Talks about an incident at school and how he got in trouble and was given the strap by the teacher 5 $0.50 Add
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Please, We All Gonna Get It

Please, We All Gonna Get It

Trans Women on Inevitability, Health Care, and the Cure

From: Between Certain Death and a Possible Future

In this conversation, the authors share their experiences accessing health care, their thoughts on trans representation and chosen families, their relationship to the HIV/AIDS crisis, and their … 12 $1.20 Add
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Plus ça Change

Plus ça Change

From: The Lac-Mégantic Rail Disaster

Analyzes the Trudeau government’s record on rail safety and concludes it has not changed the fundamental deregulation approach of the Harper government. Concludes that questions about what … 14 $1.40 Add
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Policing The Lord's Day

Policing The Lord’s Day

From: The Ward

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Polished Apples
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Polished Apples

From: Seven Days in Halifax

In this chapter, Ashe describes the events of Day Five of Halifax’s 1970 "Encounter on Urban Environment," on sessions schools. He examines how Halifax school administrators … 7 $0.70 Add
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Political Boss

Political Boss

From: Cheated

Chapter Two delves into the year 1896 when the Wilfrid Laurier Liberals took office with a focus on the life of cabinet minister Clifford Sifton. ; 20 $2.00 Add
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Political Highs and Lows

Political Highs and Lows

From: Charging Ahead

This chapter looks at politics, evolutions in the energy industry, and Hydro-Quebec’s future. ; 10 $1.00 Add
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Politics and Family Ties, 1876–80

Politics and Family Ties, 1876–80

From: Lawyers, Families, and Businesses

Discusses the role politics played in restructuring the firm in the mid-1870s, when many departures and arrivals occurred. 15 $1.50 Add
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Pompey Rumsey and Cairo
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Pompey Rumsey and Cairo

A Black Loyalist Love Story

From: Black Loyalists in New Brunswick

This chapter describes the relationship between Pompey Rumsey and Cairo and explores the discrimination that was faced by someone who married an enslaved person. 13 $1.30 Add
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Popular Reaction to the First World War and the 1930s Great Depression
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Popular Reaction to the First World War and the 1930s Great Depression

From: Humans

This chapter examines popular resistance during the First World War and its aftermath. It also reviews the efforts to find a more humane alternative to the capitalist economic system, … 48 $4.80 Add
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Porcelain Legs

From: The Whole Animal

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Portrait of a Publisher
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Portrait of a Publisher

Jack McClelland and McClelland & Stewart in 1968

From: 1968 in Canada

Nineteen sixty-eight was a tremendously eventful year for publisher Jack McClelland and his publishing house, McClelland & Stewart. On the one hand, spurred by funding opportunities initiated … 19 $1.90 Add