2007

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Wanderlust

A Social History of Travel

Where did passports come from? Why did 1930s stewardesses carry wrenches? And how did teetotalers shape the modern vacation? Wanderlust answers these questions and more, as author Laura Byrne … 312 View
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“No One Knows the Mysteries at the Bottom of the Ocean”

From: Black Geographies

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Introduction to the themes of the book. Found in black geographies are a history of brutal segregation and erasure, but also processes that inform a different or new approach to the production of … ; 13 $1.30 Add
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Ancient Balances

From: Payback

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Payback is not a book about practical debt management or high finance, although it does touch upon these subjects. Rather, it is an investigation into the idea of debt as an ancient and central … 43 $5.16 Add
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Defining National Security

From: National Security Law

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Introduces national security by evaluating different definitions of national security and giving a brief overview of national security law, focusing on its structure, objectives, tools and … 11 $1.10 Add
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Introducing the Politics of Voting

From: The Politics of Voting

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Review of the contents of the book in relation to its two main themes of broadening the current terms of the Canadian voting system component of electoral reform debates and making politics … 11 $1.10 Add
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Introduction

From: Illusion or Opportunity

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Introduction

From: Transforming or Reforming Capitalism

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Introduction

From: Learning to Leave

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Introduction

From: Managing Diversity

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Introduction 15 $1.80 Add
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Introduction

From: Language Testing Reconsidered

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Introduction 6 $0.60 Add
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Introduction

From: Translating Canada

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Introduction ; 7 $0.70 Add
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Introduction: Borders, Borderlands, and Porosity

From: Borderlands

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Introduction 17 $1.36 Add
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Preface

From: Medicare

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Gives a definition of Medicare so as to pinpoint the difference between the term in Canada and the US, a brief history of Medicare in Canada, outlines the conference in 2007 that led to this book. ; 7 $0.70 Add
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Prologue

From: Not Just a Pretty Face

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The cosmetics industry is in desperate need of a makeover. It is the unregulated, poorly studied chemical industry in a bottle. Toxic chemicals linked to cancer, birth defects and learning … 4 $0.40 Add
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Transformation

Part I: Roots

From: Good Crop / Bad Crop

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Chapter 1 discusses agriculture and its relationship to the evolutionary process of seeds, the Green Revolution, the rise of transnational seed corporations, and more. 11 $1.10 Add
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Why Leave Home?

From: Wanderlust

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Chapter One asks the question why we travel, especially leisure travel. The chapter examines the motivations behind travel, provides a brief history of travel and travellers, and explains the … 5 $0.50 Add