History
Showing 1105–1120 of 3972 results
| Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
From ![]() Digging Up the North MarketFrom: The Ward Uncovered |
Peter Popkin | 8 | 2018 | $0.80 Add | |
![]() NEW! Dinner on MarsThe 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 … | Evan D. G. Fraser; Lenore Newman | 232 | 2022 | View |
|
From ![]() Dinner with AnnFrom: 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 … | Peter McFarlane | 8 | 2024 | $0.80 Add |
|
From ![]() DippersFrom: 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 | Catherine Wismer | 18 | 2014 | $1.80 Add |
|
From ![]() NEW! Dirty Books and Dirty LooksFrom: 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 … | Aaron Chapman | 17 | 2021 | $1.70 Add |
![]() Disarming ConflictWhy 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 … | Ernie Regehr | 232 | 2015 | View |
|
From ![]() Disarming ConflictA Treaty to Control the Arms Trade From: Disarming Conflict |
Ernie Regehr | 21 | 2015 | $2.10 Add | |
|
From ![]() Disarming SecurityPreventing War From: Disarming Conflict |
Ernie Regehr | 19 | 2015 | $1.90 Add | |
|
From ![]() Disarming the BombNuclear Disarmament From: Disarming Conflict |
Ernie Regehr | 23 | 2015 | $2.30 Add | |
|
From ![]() Disaster & DominanceFrom: 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 … | John Boileau | 14 | 2006 | $1.40 Add |
|
From ![]() Discipline and Desertion |
Describes the discipline that was expected of British Navy sailors in the mid-1860s and details what happened to deserters. | Cheryl MacDonald | 23 | 2017 | $2.30 Add |
|
From ![]() Disclosure |
In this chapter, Birch explores the many meaning of "disclosure" among gay men. | Robert Birch | 8 | 2021 | $0.80 Add |
|
From ![]() Discovering AmericaFrom: 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 … | Fred Jerome | 49 | 2018 | $4.90 Add |
|
From ![]() NEW! Discovering CanadaFrom: 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. | Roger Turene | 7 | 2025 | $0.70 Add |
|
From ![]() NEW! Discovering Left PoliticsFrom: 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. | Andrew Jackson | 15 | 2021 | $1.50 Add |
|
From ![]() 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 … | Benjamin Waterhouse; Louisa Blair; Robert Chodos; Sylvain Larocque | 25 | 2006 | $2.50 Add |
















