Recreation & Leisure Studies
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From ![]() NEW! Chapter 8An Ecocentric Ethic From: Renewal |
This chapter discusses how we can create a new ethical framework centered around the preservation of all life. | Andres R. Edwards | 16 | 2020 | $1.60 Add |
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From ![]() Glen Stewart Ravine |
Naturalist Jason Ramsay-Brown describes Glen Stewart Ravine in Toronto’s Beach neighbourhood and the genetically-valuable population of red oak (quercus rubra) it supports. He illustrates … | Jason Ramsay-Brown | 4 | 2020 | $0.40 Add |
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From ![]() L’Amoreaux North Park and Passmore Forest |
Naturalist Jason Ramsay-Brown uses L’Amoreaux North Park and Passmore Forest, located in Toronto’s Highland Creek watershed, to illustrate how the growth of the city has impacted both … | Jason Ramsay-Brown | 6 | 2020 | $0.60 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Children at the VanguardFrom: Rebound |
In this chapter, the author writes about Lay-Up, a community sports organization that offers basketball and active lifestyle camps. | Perry King | 5 | 2021 | $0.50 Add |
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From ![]() Chocolate Rocket |
His years playing with the Maisonneuve Braves, his nickname "the chocolate rocket", the development of an illness, encounters with Maurice Richard | John Paris Jr.; Robert Ashe | 16 | 2014 | $1.60 Add |
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From ![]() City Parks on Occupied LandFrom: On This Patch of Grass |
Daisy Couture; Matt Hern; Sadie Courture; Selena Courture | 13 | 2018 | $1.30 Add | |
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From ![]() NEW! Coaching as If your Life Depended on ItFrom: Rebound |
This chapter examines the role of coaches and coaching in community sport. | Perry King | 5 | 2021 | $0.50 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Cricket Plays Here’From: Rebound |
In this chapter, King writes about cricket, the Caribbean-Canadian community, and Canadian immigration policy. | Perry King | 10 | 2021 | $1.00 Add |
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From ![]() Crossroads |
Meeting Whitney Houston, some career crossroads, further experiences with the knights | John Paris Jr.; Robert Ashe | 18 | 2014 | $1.80 Add |
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From ![]() Cycling to EmancipationFrom: Immodest and Sensational |
1880-1899. Examines the history of cycling in Canada and how a woman riding a bicycle in the 1890s became the epitome of the New Woman | M. Ann Hall | 9 | 2008 | $0.90 Add |
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From ![]() Envisioning Educational SuccessFrom: The Skin I'm In |
Christopher M. Spence | 13 | 1999 | $1.30 Add | |
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From ![]() EpilogueFrom: Immodest and Sensational |
Notes the problems with comparison of women’s sports to men’s sports and profiling the few to ignore the thousands of other athletes | M. Ann Hall | 4 | 2008 | $0.40 Add |
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From ![]() Experiences of Black People in Canadian SocietyFrom: The Skin I'm In |
In this chapter, the author provides a brief history of black people in Canada, and goes on to describe the continued prevalence of institutional racism in academic institutions and the workplace. | Christopher M. Spence | 4 | 1999 | $0.40 Add |
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From ![]() Fall: The Cooling Season |
Of all the seasons, we might consider fall as the true start of the new year. It is a time of new beginnings and sad endings as we say goodbye to the warmth and freedom of summer. Cup your ears … | Drew Monkman; Jacob Rodenburg | 67 | 2016 | $6.70 Add |
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From ![]() Favourite Daughters and Competing MothersFrom: Immodest and Sensational |
Examines some of the most accomplished female athletes of the 1950s | M. Ann Hall | 12 | 2008 | $1.20 Add |
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From ![]() Fighting for Gender EqualityFrom: Immodest and Sensational |
Examines feminist activism in women’s sports in canada from 1970 to 2008 | M. Ann Hall | 10 | 2008 | $1.00 Add |











