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From: United Nations Law, Politics, and Practice

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 Topics in this chapter include early attempts at international cooperation prior to the 20th century and an overview of the structure of the book. 22 $2.20 Add
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From: Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Volume One: Summary

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 An overview of what Residential Schools were and provides the history of reconciliation in Canada. Defines reconciliation as a relationship. 26 $0.00 Add
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From: Rivals for Power: Ottawa and the Provinces

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 Provides an overview of the history of the Canadian federation outlining the difficulty that exists in separating provincial and federal responsibility. 8 $0.80 Add
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From: Titanic Remembered

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 An introduction that sums up why the author is qualified to write this book. It also outlines an exhibit at the Martime Museum of the Atlantic about the Titanic sinking 2 $0.20 Add
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From: In a Queer Country

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 Queer literature review; "Queer Country?" Conference (1996) 11 $0.11 Add
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From: From Subjects to Citizens

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From: The 1956 Hungarian Revolution

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From: Canada's Bastions of Empire

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 explains how the information of Canada’s defenses on the homefront are missing from the historical account of the Great War, outlines some geo-political information of importance to the … 9 $0.90 Add
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The Urgent Need for Wartime Labour

From: Harry Livingstone's Forgotten Men

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 A short history about why the British and French began to recruit Chinese labourers and formed the Chinese Labour Corps, and the role Canada and Harry Livingstone played in this history. (Chapter … 27 $2.70 Add
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From: The Culture of Nature

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 The author notes that the book is inspired by two events – a trip to Disney World and the Oka protests outside Montreal – and that he has written a cultural history of nature in North … 11 $1.10 Add
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From: Women and Work

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 The author notes that the book is about how feminists have understood women’s work, then provides a short examination of feminist theories of labour: equality, critical equality, and social … 9 $0.90 Add
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From: The Canadian Labour Movement

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 Author Craig Heron introduces the reader to the broad outlines of economic and social development in Canada that helped to shape the Canadian labour movement since the mid-nineteenth century. It … ; 14 $1.40 Add
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From: Winnipeg 1919

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 Norman Penner provides a brief summary of the events of the strike and subsequent legal action and provides context for the documents that make up the text, as well as a disussion of the role … 16 $1.60 Add
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From: The Hope that Remains

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 The author explains the commonalities within the stories of the survivors and how these themes can teach all of us how to live a better, more hopeful life. 2 $0.20 Add
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From: Righting Canada’s Wrongs: Italian Canadian Internment in the Second World War

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 The introduction provides a brief summary of the history of Italian immigrants in Canada and internment during the Second world War and outlines the goals of the book. ; 3 $0.30 Add
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A Few Acres of Snow

From: The Fall of New France

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 Sets up the background information to really understand the fall of new france through looking at The New World, King William’s War 1689-1697, Queen Anne’s War 1701-1713, King … 8 $0.80 Add