2021
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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From Canadian Labour and COVID-19 |
Only by tearing down the false division between political and economic spheres and questioning the legitimacy of a capitalist economic system that continues to prioritize profits over people … | Larry Savage; Stephanie Ross | 15 | 2021 | $1.50 Add |
From NEW! Chapter 1I Shook Up the World |
In the first chapter of the Cocaine segment of the memoir, Wood talks about his experience relapsing onto cocaine at a Montreal strip club. Wood talks about his past dreams, his first gig at Yuk … | Alex Wood | 15 | 2021 | $1.50 Add |
From NEW! Chapter 1Deep Roots From: Mining Country |
This chapter discusses the earliest examples of mining in Canada. These include examples of metalwork and extraction practiced by pre-columbian indigenous communities as well as the first … | Arn Keeling; John Sandlos | 24 | 2021 | $2.40 Add |
From NEW! Chapter 2Dilemmas From: National Security Law 2e |
Readings in Part 1 of this title, "Structure", cover the fundamental principles of Canadian National Security Law. This chapter explores a variety of deliemmas faced in the preservation … | Craig Forcese; Leah West | 39 | 2021 | $3.90 Add |
From Chapter OneUnearthing the risk in Cascadia From: On Borrowed Time |
This chapter examines officials’ attempts to downplay or dismiss the risk of earthquakes since the discovery of the North American Pacific West Coast. Pieces together the events of the … | Gregor Craigie | 20 | 2021 | $2.00 Add |
From Come to CanadaFrom: Righting Canada's Wrongs: Anti-Semitism and the MS St. Louis |
This chapter provides an overview of Jewish immigration to Canada from the 18th to 20th centuries. It discusses the factors that drove immigration and the experiences of Jewish immigrants once … | Rona Arato | 12 | 2021 | $1.20 Add |
From NEW! Come to CanadaFrom: Righting Canada's Wrongs: Anti-Semitism and the MS St. Louis |
This chapter provides an overview of Jewish immigration to Canada from the 18th to 20th centuries. It discusses the factors that drove immigration and the experiences of Jewish immigrants once … | Rona Arato | 12 | 2021 | $1.20 Add |
From NEW! Constructing Public EducationFrom: Class Action |
In Constructing Public Education, Hanson provides a history of education in Canada, tracing the evolution of educational institutions and their systems and looking at how educators were trained … | Andy Hanson | 37 | 2021 | $3.70 Add |
From Counterplanning from the KitchenFrom: Patriarchy of the Wage |
This chapter responds to recent attacks on Wages for Housework, exploring feminism, capitalism, and marxism. It touches on topics such as the glorification of the family and unpaid labour, … | Silvia Federici | 17 | 2021 | $1.70 Add |
From Early LifeFrom: Asleep in the Deep |
The early life of Nursing Sister Anna Irene Stamers is described as well as the history of her family in Saint John, New Brunswick, including the untimely death of her father and the financial … | Dianne Kelly | 10 | 2021 | $1.00 Add |
From NEW! Electricity and SexFrom: Vancouver Vice |
This chapter provides a history of the West End, with a focus on the importance of electricity and sex in the neighbourhood’s development. | Aaron Chapman | 10 | 2021 | $1.00 Add |
From NEW! Examples of Autonomous or Semi-autonomous Vehicles Currently in ProductionFrom: Autonomous Vehicles |
In chapter two, Baker reviews all existing automated sensing systems being used in vehicles today, examining the varying levels and challenges of each. | Nathan Baker | 13 | 2021 | $1.30 Add |
From Fareed Zakaria in Conversation with Rudyard GriffithsApril 15, 2020 From: The World After Covid |
Fareed Zakara and Rudyard Griffiths discuss Covid-19 and its global impacts. Topics include the world’s transition into a post-American world and China’s current power and influence, … | Rudyard Griffiths | 13 | 2021 | $1.30 Add |
From NEW! Forerunners and Founders, 1627–1900 |
This chapter outlines the context for the emergence of a Jewish presence in Quebec; it examines where the Jewish population in Quebec came from, their integration, and the challenge of … | Pierre Anctil | 52 | 2021 | $5.20 Add |
From ForewordIs Broadway about Dollars and Cents? From: Bigotry on Broadway |
The author explores bigotry on Broadway, highlighting various concerning statistics. | Carla Blank | 24 | 2021 | $2.40 Add |
From NEW! Green CathedralFrom: In Praise of Retreat |
In this reading the author recounts their experience of leaving the city to a retreat in the forest and the positive psychological effect that the experience had on them. | Kirsteen MacLeod | 22 | 2021 | $2.20 Add |