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Behind the mask

Behind the mask

From: The Wheel of Things

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Introduction

Introduction

Air Water, and Nova Scotia

From: Fastest in the World

A brief overview of the evolution of high speed transportation throughout the 20th century and an introduction to Nova Scotia’s role in the development of two record breaking watercraft: … 4 $0.40 Add
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Belly Up
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Belly Up

From: Up the Coast

Chapter Five focuses on the creation of the Willcock & Wankel Logging company, the timber industry and licences, “timber cruising,” uncle Harold and Ron, their life in Church House, their … 30 $3.00 Add
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Benevolent Oligarchy or “Political Octopus”?

Benevolent Oligarchy or “Political Octopus”?

(1919-1921)

From: Rebuilding Halifax

Chapter 4 discusses the political and financial controversies that the Halifax relief commission became embroiled in after the end of the First World War, as reconstruction of the destroyed areas … 16 $1.60 Add
Bent out of Shape

Bent out of Shape

Shame, Solidarity, and Women's Bodies at Work

Award-winning ergonomist Karen Messing is talking with women—women who wire circuit boards, sew clothes, clean toilets, drive forklifts, care for children, serve food, run labs. What she … 276 View
Beryl

Beryl

The Making of the Disability Activist

A survivor of more than one hundred surgeries, a dangerous opioid addiction, and multiple suicide attempts, Beryl Potter devoted herself to bettering the lives of other people with disabilities … 318 View
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Betraying a Comrade

Betraying a Comrade

From: A Communist for the RCMP

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Better Hitler than “Rosenfeld”

Better Hitler than “Rosenfeld”

From: Big Business and Hitler

Revisionist historian Jacques R. Pauwels examines the great depression (1929-1929) in America and how the tides were shifting for the American elite. He focusses on the rise of anti-semitism in … 17 $1.70 Add
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Between Canadians and Culture
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Between Canadians and Culture

The First Year of the CRTC

From: 1968 in Canada

This chapter considers the first year of the Canadian Radio-Television Commission, the country’s broadcasting (and eventually, telecommunications) regulator. The establishment of the CRTC … 19 $1.90 Add
Between Certain Death and a Possible Future

Between Certain Death and a Possible Future

Queer Writing on Growing Up with the AIDS Crisis

Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing up with the AIDS Crisis offers crucial stories from this missing generation in AIDS literature and cultural politics. This … 368 View
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Between Certain Death and a Possible Future

Between Certain Death and a Possible Future

An Introduction

From: Between Certain Death and a Possible Future

The editor of the collection frames introduces the volume by exploring his youthful feelings about his sexuality, and the onset of the AIDS epidemic. 6 $0.60 Add
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Between Morgenthau and Moscow

Between Morgenthau and Moscow

From: Big Business and Hitler

Revisionist historian Jacques R. Pauwels examines the impact of the war on American corporate operations in Germany, with focus on the year 1948. 7 $0.70 Add
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Beyond a Bowl of Spaghetti:

Beyond a Bowl of Spaghetti:

Lansky and Luciano

From: Sweethearts

1920-1949. Looks at Luciano and Lanskey who made their fortune during prohibition and how their operation entered toronto 13 $1.30 Add
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Beyond Bonne Bay

Beyond Bonne Bay

From: No Place For A Woman

Down to Sally’s Cove – The New Road Northward – Centennial on the Upper Humber – Chasing the Herrings – Back to Exploits – Among the Scots of the Codroy … 42 $4.20 Add
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Beyond Economic Nationalism:

Beyond Economic Nationalism:

Clashes with Canadian Capitalism

From: Canada Since 1960: A People's History

From a left perspective examining economic nationalism and the clash against capitalism ; 34 $3.40 Add