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Ask No Questions About Samosas
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Ask No Questions About Samosas

The Filling

From: What We Talk About When We Talk About Dumplings

Angela Misri reflects on how her mothers samosas and pakoras reflected her own upbringing in Kashmir, the rules of a Misiri kitchen, her relationship with her mother, longing for Canadian foods, … 11 $1.10 Add
Asleep in the Deep

Asleep in the Deep

Nursing Sister Anna Stamers and the First World War

On 27 June 1918, the Llandovery Castle, a Canadian hospital ship returning to England, was sunk by a German U-boat in contravention of international law. Two hundred and thirty-four crew members … 223 View
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Assembling Consent in Alberta: Hegemony and the Tar Sands

Assembling Consent in Alberta: Hegemony and the Tar Sands

Part I: Tar Sands Expansionism

From: A Line in the Tar Sands

In Chapter 2 Randolph Haluza-DeLay summarizes some of the key methods used to represent the tar sands and build public consent, to the continuing destruction they cause. Topics include public … 9 $0.90 Add
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Assorted Information (and Idiocies)

Assorted Information (and Idiocies)

Everything you always wanted to know about the Duce…that actually turns out to be false

From: Mussolini Also Did A Lot of Good

The author refutes various stories that have been invented around the figure of Mussolini and been spread around Italy over the years. 8 $0.80 Add
At Home

At Home

Talks with Canadian Artists about Place and Practice

In this intimate investigation of the artistic process, Lezli Rubin-Kunda explores the nuanced path of creative work and the way artists make sense of home and place within their art practice and … 232 View
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At Sea

At Sea

From: Titanic Remembered

Looks at the Journey of the Titanic on the Sea, looks at specific experiences by passengers, the dangerous of icebergs, analyzes the disaster of the sinking, the responses from the white star … 11 $1.10 Add
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At the Edge of Geologic Epochs

At the Edge of Geologic Epochs

From: Changing Tides

This chapter explores how indigenous world views might help us address climate change. Intergenerational equity: its prevalence in Indigenous world views and how it is being integrated into other … 10 $1.00 Add
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At the Parthenais Detention Centre

At the Parthenais Detention Centre

From: In Defiance

Actions of the police: protection or intimidation? ; 9 $0.90 Add
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Atlantic Canada in the TwentyFirst Century: Prospects for Regional Integration

Atlantic Canada in the TwentyFirst Century: Prospects for Regional Integration

From: Essential Readings in Canadian Government and Politics, 2nd Edition

2004 article by Robert Finbow examining the institutional, economic, cultural and historical distinctions between the Atlantic provinces, and assessing prospects for integration or cooperation in … ; ; 10 $1.00 Add
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August 1914

August 1914

Enthusiasm and Resignation (1)

From: The Great Class War 1914-1918

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 … 18 $1.80 Add
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August 1914

August 1914

Enthusiasm and Resignation (2)

From: The Great Class War 1914-1918

1914. Why do the plebeians go to war so meekly? Because they have been indoctrinated to do so in an extremely effective fashion by the school and the church, or compelled by compulsory military … 20 $2.00 Add
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Aunt Jemima in Chicago

Aunt Jemima in Chicago

From: Uncle

In this chapter, Thompson explores the meaning of Uncle Tom within the context of the World’s Columbian Exposition in 1893. Here, Thompson suggests, Americans became increasingly obsessed … 6 $0.60 Add
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Author's Note

Author’s Note

From: Legacy

Author’s Note and Acknowledgements 19 $1.90 Add
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Author's Update

Author’s Update

From: The Einstein File

The author discusses the aftermath of the first publication of this book in 2002. He critiques Genius, the 2017 ten-part series on Einstein that aired on the National Geographic cable channel. He … 28 $2.80 Add
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Avaluqanngittuq: Imagining Inuit Futures through Multimedia/Digital Storytelling
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Avaluqanngittuq: Imagining Inuit Futures through Multimedia/Digital Storytelling

Community and Sovereighty: Section 3

From: Qummut Qukiria!

This chapter is an interactive chapter with a video component that can be found online, it is an exploration of Inuit futures as the world becomes more urban, and technologically advice, focusing … ; ; 18 $1.80 Add