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From status to contract: Toward new legal forms of worker subjugation

From: Law at Work

This chapter explores the evolution of labour legislation, highlighting the role these laws played in limiting workers’ rights and reinforcing class hierarchies. It also analyzes collective … 18 $1.80 Add
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Chapter 1

The Labyrinth

From: The Invisibles

In this chapter, Candow explores the complex bureaucratic, financial, and military apparatus that governed the British Empire’s operations overseas. 9 $0.90 Add
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The Place of an Election in the Comprehensive Political Law Cycle

From: Anatomy of an Election

A list of the elements of a policy cycle and highlighting where an election fits into the cylce. 2 $0.20 Add
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Chapter 1: Arrival
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Chapter 1: Arrival

PART I: RED HORIZONS

From: Dinner on Mars

In Chapter 1 the authors imagine what a Martian city would look like in the year 2080. Discussing the chosen location of the city, water access, resources and extraction, food, and how it would … ; 7 $0.70 Add
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Chapter 1: Capitalist Crisis and Expansion, 1890-1914
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Chapter 1: Capitalist Crisis and Expansion, 1890-1914

From: Capitalism and Colonialism

This chapter recounts how the Depression of the 1890s was followed in the first decades of the twentieth century by enormous growth in mining, railroads and industry. 6 $0.60 Add
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Chapter 1: Querencia
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Chapter 1: Querencia

From: Searching for Serafim

This chapter recounts the early life and background of Serafim Fortes. Included is an image of a handwritten note signed by Serafim. 5 $0.50 Add
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Chapter 1: Radical Indigenous Economic Exclusion
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Chapter 1: Radical Indigenous Economic Exclusion

From: The Rise of Indigenous Economic Power

This chapter explores how the process of “othering”, inherent in the policies of the Indian Act, has reinforced systemic inequality and exclusion of Indigenous peoples in Canada. 8 $0.80 Add
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Chapter 1 : The Box
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Chapter 1 : The Box

Part One: An Art History Mystery

From: The Great Canadian Art Fraud Case

The author details the start of his research by finding a box with papers, notebooks, poems, and essay once belonging to one of the main subjects and artists of the book, William Firth MacGregor. 14 $1.40 Add
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Chapter 10

From: Northern Wildflower

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Killing the Wittigo

From: Legacy

In the final chapter, the author discusses a variety of initiatives across Canada that Indigenous communities are undertaking to facilitate healing. 57 $5.70 Add
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The Scrambled Paradise

The Scrambled Paradise

From: Lost Feast

In this chapter Newman describes her time travelling through Hawaii and the biodiversity she witnessed there. Newman describes how after centuries of plant and animal invasions, both purposefully … 24 $2.40 Add
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Extrinsic Influences on the 43rd Federal General Election

From: Anatomy of an Election

A brief overview of global and provincial events that influenced electoral politics in 2019. 5 $0.50 Add
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Chapter 10: Ballrooms of Mars
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Chapter 10: Ballrooms of Mars

PART IV: RED DAWN

From: Dinner on Mars

Chapter 10 offers a reflection on what a night out would look like for both the authors in the Martian city in 2080. Discussion recreation, work life, pubs, music and dancing, first and second … ; 10 $1.00 Add
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Chapter 10: The Inuit Confront Capitalism and Colonialism in the 1920s
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Chapter 10: The Inuit Confront Capitalism and Colonialism in the 1920s

From: Capitalism and Colonialism

This chapter looks at how Inuit life was transformed by the fur trade, the church, state policing, and resource exploitation. 8 $0.80 Add
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Chapter 10: William Firth MacGregor and the End of the Inquiry
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Chapter 10: William Firth MacGregor and the End of the Inquiry

Part Three: High Theatre In the Lower Courts

From: The Great Canadian Art Fraud Case

In this chapter the inquiry concludes with the testimony of William MacGregor and his unintentional involvement in the fraudulent Group of Seven paintings being sold. 10 $1.00 Add
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Chapter 11

From: Northern Wildflower

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