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If You Build It, They Will Come: Resorts and Theme Parks

If You Build It, They Will Come: Resorts and Theme Parks

From: Wanderlust

Chapter Ten explores the history of Resorts and Theme Parks. The chapter discusses topics including the birth of seaside resorts, holiday camps, ski resorts, Disneyland, shopping centres and malls. 15 $1.50 Add
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If You Can Hear the Rockets, Then You are Alive

If You Can Hear the Rockets, Then You are Alive

From: Pay No Heed to the Rockets

In this chapter, the author travels to the Gaza Strip, and explores how artists there are able to find beauty in even the most unstable places. 44 $4.40 Add
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I’m Just So Tired of All These Star Wars

I’m Just So Tired of All These Star Wars

On Art and Nostalgia

From: On Nostalgia

Modern nostalgia in novel and flim is discussed, using examples of Ready Player One, Back to the Future, American Graffitti, Indiana Jones, and the introduction of prequels with Star Wars. … 22 $2.20 Add
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I'm Out!

I’m Out!

From: Let's Move On

Okalik critiques the state of Canadian politics/the liberal party, Inuit exclusion from the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, and lack of support for Northern Canada, … 11 $1.10 Add
Imagined Truths

Imagined Truths

Myths from a Draft-Dodging Poet

Memory is not only selective, it’s an amazing liar, con artist and spin doctor. History is what we choose to remember about the past in order to justify the present. Richard Lemm grew up in … 272 View
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Imagining an Intercultural Nation:

Imagining an Intercultural Nation:

A Moment in Canadian Queer Cinema

From: In a Queer Country

James Allan’s "Imagining an Intercultural Nation: A Moment in Canadian Queer Cinema" explores three films of recent years which feature gay topics, Kanada by Mike Holboom, Love … 27 $0.54 Add
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Immigration and "Medical Manpower"
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Immigration and "Medical Manpower"

1968 and the Awkward Introduction of Medicare in Canada

From: 1968 in Canada

The year 1968 witnessed the launch of medicare, a public program so important that 50 years later many Canadians identify universal health insurance as a defining feature of our national … 17 $1.70 Add
Immodest and Sensational

Immodest and Sensational

150 Years of Canadian Women in Sports

With the Canadian women’s Olympic hockey team and other high-profile female athletes in recent years drawing a healthy share of the sports media limelight, there is a perception that … 96 View
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Imperialism

Imperialism

From: Israel, A Beachhead in the Middle East

Chapter Four focuses on Israel’s ties to imperialism. The chapter explores how Israel had aided in the imperial mission of the West in the Middle East and how its own interests tie in with … 12 $1.20 Add
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Imperialism

Imperialism

From: Patriots, Traitors and Empires

Chapter two, Imperialism focuses on defining imperialism and how it relates to both the history of Korea and its present day geopolitics. Imperialism is the activity, enterprise and methodology … 17 $1.70 Add
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Imperialist Friends and Foes on the Road to a Great War

Imperialist Friends and Foes on the Road to a Great War

From: The Great Class War 1914-1918

The imperialist rivalries heat up as a result of the rapidly increasing importance of new raw materials such as rubber and oil. War becomes more and more likely and ultimately inevitable. The … 21 $2.10 Add
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Impermanent Homes

Impermanent Homes

From: At Home

Chapter 11 features interviews with Jacky Sawatzky and Jeroen Witvliet. This chapter focuses on artists who find belonging and home in any place they are travelling. 12 $1.20 Add
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Implementing Federalism, 1867–1878

Implementing Federalism, 1867–1878

From: Rivals for Power: Ottawa and the Provinces

Describes developments in federal provincial relations from 1867-1878, including the incorporation of three new provinces. 20 $2.00 Add
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Implementing the Image

Implementing the Image

Part IV

From: The Imaginary Indian

Images have consequences in the real world: ideas have results. The Imaginary Indian does not exist in a void. In their relations with Native people over the years, non-Native Canadians have put … 25 $2.50 Add
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Implementing the Image

Part IV

From: The Imaginary Indian, 1st Edition

Images have consequences in the real world: ideas have results. The Imaginary Indian does not exist in a void. In their relations with Native people over the years, non-Native Canadians have put … 25 $0.50 Add
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Important Evidence is Revealed

Important Evidence is Revealed

From: Oak Island and Its Lost Treasure

1909-1943, Captain Harry Bowdoin of New York and the Old Gold Salvage and Wrecking Company and the important evidence that they found, edwin Hamilton, 21 $2.10 Add