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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From Whale Hunting on the New York Thruway From: Unicorn in the Woods View Goose Lane Editions	This chapter details Pitt’s visits to startup incubators in the United States, and explores several nascent companies with the potential to garner a billion-dollar valuation.	Gordon Pitts	13	2020	$1.30 Add
From Whales & Wildfires From: Samuel Cunard View Formac Publishing	Early 1800s. Looks at Samuel Cunard as he expands his enterprises into whaleing and timber and events that transpired to challenge these ventures. Also looks at artic expeditions	John Boileau	10	2006	$1.00 Add
From What Can Be Done? Decolonizing People and Spaces From: “Indians Wear Red” View Fernwood Publishing		Elizabeth Comack; Jim Silver; Larry Morrissette; Lawrence Deane	14	2013	$1.54 Add
From What Does It Mean to Be a Movement? A Proposal for a Coherent, Powerful, Indigenous-Led Movement Part III: Future Prospects From: A Line in the Tar Sands View Between The Lines	In Chapter 24 Emily Coats focuses on Indigenous-led movements in Northern Alberta, discussing climate change, climate injustices, pollution, the Crown and Canadian law, and the UN Declaration on …	Emily Coats	12	2014	$1.20 Add
From What If From: Three Funerals for my Father View twp	This chapter is told from the author’s father’s perspective. It follows the aftermath of his sending his children away to escape the country.	Jolie Phuong Hoang	2	2021	$0.20 Add
From What Is It About Us That You Don’t Like From: The Truth About Stories View House of Anansi Press	In this reading, Indigenous author and scholar Thomas King explores the idea that stories, both those we tell ourselves and those that are told to us by others, are foundational in establishing …	Thomas King	32	2003	$3.84 Add
NEW! What Is to Be Done James Lorimer and Company	The concluding chapter offers a short but not exhaustive list of practical, reasonably achieved changes that could be made if local leaders step forward and demand that police begin to grapple …	Christopher J. Williams; John Sewell	35	2021	$3.50 Add
From What is to be Done? From: What We Talk About When We Talk About War View Goose Lane Editions	The author muses on Canadian culture and the ideas of epics and epic behaviour, which reduce the world to a dichotomy of black and white and as a result encourage militarism/"warrior …	Noah Richler	46	2012	$4.60 Add
From What Survival Means From: Between Certain Death and a Possible Future View Arsenal Pulp Press	In this chapter, the author reflects on their time in Los Angeles in the 1990s, and her friendship with someone who was dying of AIDS.	Keiko Lane	12	2021	$1.20 Add
From What the F*ck? From: Stampede View Fernwood Publishing	In the opening chapter, the author describes her personal experiences of the Stampede, and how those prompted her to examine the event through a feminist lens.	Kimberley A. Williams	22	2021	$2.20 Add
From The International Stage From: The Reconciliation Manifesto View James Lorimer and Company	Indigenous activist Arthur Manuel recounts the activities of Indigenous people in Canada taking their fight for self-determination and recognition of rights to the international stage using …	Arthur Manuel	5	2017	$0.50 Add
From NEW! What They Deserve From: Seven Days in Halifax View Formac Publishing	In this chapter, Ashe describes the events of Day Four of Halifax’s 1970 “Encounter on Urban Environment,” focusing on government communications and journalism. Discussions …	Robert Ashe	12	2025	$1.20 Add
From What to Do? “You Must Move and Act” From: Circle Works View Fernwood Publishing		Fyre Jean Graveline	23	1998	$2.30 Add
NEW! What We Talk About When We Talk About Dumplings	Nearly every culture has a variation on the dumpling: histories, treatises, family legends, and recipes about the world’s favourite lump of carbs. If the …		234		View
What We Talk About When We Talk About War	An Amazon.ca Editor’s Pick for 2012 and a Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of 2012 Shortlisted, Governor General’s Award for Non-Fiction, Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing, and …		376		View
From What We’re Up Against The New Climate Denialism in Canada From: A Good War View ECW Press	In Chapter 2, Klein examines the present day political, economic, and cultural barriers we face in our efforts to begin to meaningfully fight climate change and climate emergences. The chapter …	Seth Klein	32	2020	$3.20 Add