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From  Zanini and IrvineFrom: Sweethearts |
1960s explores the disorganization of unions at this time and how Zanini and Irvine took advantage of this to gain power over the developers with their own union | Catherine Wismer | 19 | 2014 | $1.90 Add |
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From  A Matter of MendingFrom: The Ward Uncovered |
- | Matthew Beaudoin | 3 | 2018 | $0.30 Add |
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From  Finishing with the Old Regime, 1921–24From: Thirty Years' War |
Account of the arbitration relating to the 1921 takeover of the Toronto Railway Company’s transit operations. | C. Ian Kyer | 13 | 2015 | $1.30 Add |
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From  King of the WardFrom: The Ward |
- | Myer Siemiatycki | 4 | 2015 | $0.40 Add |
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From  NEW! Smart Cities, Big Data, and a Question of TrustThe Dream of the Smart City From: Dream States |
The Dream of the Smart City: Part 4 discusses questions of personal data. Topics discussed include open access, data and privacy, data bias, open data, and municipal dashboards. | John Lorinc | 17 | 2022 | $1.70 Add |
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From  The Duty of RepairFrom: Conflict Is Not Abuse |
In the Conclusion, the author explores how people with social commitments have a special responsibility to intervene to end shunning, facilitate communication, and do the work to reveal complex … | Sarah Schulman | 15 | 2016 | $0.15 Add |
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From  NEW! The FixFrom: Vancouver Vice |
In this chapter, Chapman explores an apparent suicide that may have been linked to Wayne Harris. | Aaron Chapman | 12 | 2021 | $1.20 Add |
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From  NEW! The Hub/Entrepot CitySection 3: Jacobs’ Spectrum of Economic Regions From: Cities Matter |
Chapter 9 examines entrepot cities, which are cities that serve as warehouses to export product from a nearby supply region as it is waiting to be transported to other markets. It discusses … | Charles-Albert Ramsay | 6 | 2022 | $0.60 Add |
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From The SplitFrom: Sweethearts |
1960s Looks at the split of the unions into residential locals and the further fracturing of the unions. Zanini is convicted and sent to prison | Catherine Wismer | 14 | 2014 | $1.40 Add |
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From NEW! A Bad CollarFrom: Vancouver Vice |
This chapter examines the West End at the beginning of the 1980s, a situation Maclean’s magazine called "a curbside brothel open from noon to 4 a.m., seven days a week." It also … | Aaron Chapman | 13 | 2021 | $1.30 Add |
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From Ceramics as Nineteenth-Century Social MediaFrom: The Ward Uncovered |
- | Holly Martelle | 6 | 2018 | $0.60 Add |
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From EpilogueLessons Learned From: Thirty Years' War |
Illustration of how the issues arising in the accounts of the transit dispute could be applied in a modern context. | C. Ian Kyer | 11 | 2015 | $1.10 Add |
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From NEW! Smart City Tech and the Promise of Green CitiesThe Dream of the Smart City From: Dream States |
The Dream of the Smart City: Part 5 explores the possibility of green cities with smart innovation. Topics discussed include post-industrial cities, climate change, pollution, urban … | John Lorinc | 16 | 2022 | $1.60 Add |
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From The Bahamas Adventure of C. Powell MorganFrom: Sweethearts |
1960s .The syndicate continues to refine methods of money laundering. Examines the Atlantic Acceptance Coorporation and its Bahamas hotel/casino developments | Catherine Wismer | 20 | 2014 | $2.00 Add |
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From NEW! The Supply RegionSection 3: Jacobs’ Spectrum of Economic Regions From: Cities Matter |
Chapter 10 explores supply regions also know as resource economies, which are areas that are endowed with highly demanded natural resources and exploited as such. This chapter discusses the … | Charles-Albert Ramsay | 5 | 2022 | $0.50 Add |
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From Where the Rich Went for ViceFrom: The Ward |
- | Michael Redhill | 3 | 2015 | $0.30 Add |
