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Digging Up the North Market

Digging Up the North Market

From: The Ward Uncovered

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Dinner on Mars
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Dinner on Mars

The Technologies That Will Feed the Red Planet and Transform Agriculture on Earth

From Impossible Burgers to lab-made sushi, two witty, plugged-in food scientists explore leading-edge AgTech for the answer to feeding a settlement on Mars — and 9 billion Earthlings too … ; 232 View
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Dinner with Ann

Dinner with Ann

From: Family Ties

This chapter focuses on a dinner the author had with Ann Charney, following his visit to Ukraine. It also discusses the Canadian public’s discomfort with the history of Ukrainian Nazi … 8 $0.80 Add
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Dippers

Dippers

From: Sweethearts

1950-1960. Italian Immigration to Canada in the early 1950s their need to find work and finding jubs in construction. Explores the creation of unions for housing workers 18 $1.80 Add
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Dirty Books and Dirty Looks
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Dirty Books and Dirty Looks

From: Vancouver Vice

In this chapter, Chapman describes the Vice squad’s efforts to bring down the Wayne Harris crime ring, and how these were disrupted by the new mayor of Vancouver’s focus on … 17 $1.70 Add
Disarming Conflict

Disarming Conflict

Why Peace Cannot Be Won on the Battlefield

Wars fought over the past quarter century have been a spectacular failure. The overwhelming majority end in military stalemate and are settled at the negotiating table, with the grievances that … 232 View
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Disarming Conflict

Disarming Conflict

A Treaty to Control the Arms Trade

From: Disarming Conflict

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Disarming Security

Disarming Security

Preventing War

From: Disarming Conflict

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Disarming the Bomb

Disarming the Bomb

Nuclear Disarmament

From: Disarming Conflict

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Disaster & Dominance

Disaster & Dominance

From: Samuel Cunard

1854-1868. Disaster strikes the Collins Line in the form of ship sinking, Samuel Cunard capitalizes on this disaster also examines the successes of other shipping lines and how they prospered … 14 $1.40 Add
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Discipline and Desertion

Discipline and Desertion

From: Gunboats on the Great Lakes 1866-68

Describes the discipline that was expected of British Navy sailors in the mid-1860s and details what happened to deserters. 23 $2.30 Add
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Disclosure

Disclosure

From: Between Certain Death and a Possible Future

In this chapter, Birch explores the many meaning of "disclosure" among gay men. 8 $0.80 Add
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Discovering America

Discovering America

From: The Einstein File

This chapter offers some historical context, discusses some major events in the lives of Einstein and his family, Einstein’s political beliefs and criticisms in both the US and Europe, his … 49 $4.90 Add
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Discovering Canada
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Discovering Canada

From: Bit Player on Big Stages

In this chapter, Turene examines his reassigment to the Personnel Operations Division in Ottawa in 1969, where he secures a UNESCO posting in Paris. 7 $0.70 Add
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Discovering Left Politics
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Discovering Left Politics

From: The Fire and the Ashes

This chapter details Jackson’s political awakening, the radicalism of the NDP in the 1960s, and his time at the LSE, where he studied with the Marxist theorist Ralph Miliband. 15 $1.50 Add
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Discriminatory — But Defensible?

Discriminatory — But Defensible?

From: Gay Marriage

Judge Ian H. Pitfield of the Supreme Court of Canada’s ruling in 2001 that excluding gays and lesbians from the institution of marriage was discriminniatory under the charter of rights and … ; ; ; 25 $2.50 Add