2024

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Konrad von Finckenstein: The Internet, Unbound

Konrad von Finckenstein: The Internet, Unbound

From: Canada Vs California

This chapter offers a profile on Konrad von Finckenstein the former chair of the Canadian Radio Television and Communications Committee from 2007-2012. In this profile the Author examines von … 3 $0.30 Add
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Lana Payne: Local News Is at the Tipping Point

Lana Payne: Local News Is at the Tipping Point

From: Canada Vs California

Howard Law Interviews Unifor National President Lana Payne. Speaking to the decimation of local news and the plight of Canadian journalists, and risks we face to democracy when we lose news programs. 2 $0.20 Add
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Land Is Life: The Prolonged Dispossession of Turkmens

Land Is Life: The Prolonged Dispossession of Turkmens

From: For Land and Culture

In this chapter, Vahabzadeh traces the prolonged dispossession of Turkmen peoples in northwestern Iran, from their Central Asian origins through Pahlavi-era land appropriation to the 1979 Turkmen … 28 $2.80 Add
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Landmines: The Ottawa Treaty and Beyond

Landmines: The Ottawa Treaty and Beyond

From: Lloyd Axelworthy

In this chapter, Axworthy discusses Canada’s role in launching the Ottawa Process in 1996 and the 1997 signing of a treaty banning anti-personnel landmines. 21 $2.10 Add
Law at Work

Law at Work

The Coercion and Co-option of the Working Class

This book uncovers how the legal system, through its structures and mechanisms, legitimizes and reinforces the exploitation of workers. Using historic and contemporary examples, Glasbeek … 354 View
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Lessons and Legacy

Lessons and Legacy

From: The Truth About the '37 Oshawa GM Strike

In this chapter, Leah examines how the 1937 Oshawa General Motors strike illustrates how rank-and-file workers, including a prominent group of women, won through dense steward representation and … 7 $0.70 Add
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Liberation

Liberation

From: Family Ties

This chapter discusses the summer of 1944, and how Soviet operations dismantled German defenses across Ukraine, dismantling the Ukrainian Auxiliary Police. 6 $0.60 Add
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Life behind the Lines and on the Home Front
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Life behind the Lines and on the Home Front

From: War Among the Clouds

This chapter shares how the airmen would spend their free time when poor flying conditions and decreasing military operations allowed them to participate in leisure activities. 19 $1.90 Add
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Lift-Off!
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Lift-Off!

From: The Shopify Story

This chapter discusses how Lütke and Lake sought to fill the gap in the e-commerce market by licensing their software, leading to the creation of the Shopify platform. 8 $0.80 Add
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Listening
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Listening

From: Living Disability

Jacqueline Valencia and Alexandria McDonough write about their relationship as mother-daughter and their experience commuting, particularly regarding Alex’s experience on the commute as an … ; 6 $0.60 Add
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Listening to Black and Indigenous Women and Debunking the Myth of Whiteness
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Listening to Black and Indigenous Women and Debunking the Myth of Whiteness

From: The Story is in Our Bones

This chapter explores the intersection of race, gender, and disability in relation to social and environmental issues. Lake discusses how white supremacy weakens progressive movements by … 17 $1.70 Add
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Listing on the Stock Market
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Listing on the Stock Market

From: The Shopify Story

This chapter discusses Shopify’s success following the implementation of their retail operating system. 10 $1.00 Add
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Living Conditions, Stress and the Human Body
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Living Conditions, Stress and the Human Body

From: About Canada: Health and Illness

Chapter Two analyzes the social determinants of health and their effect on individual health outcomes, and discusses the importance of addressing these underlying factors rather than simply … 16 $1.60 Add
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Living for the Land
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Living for the Land

From: When the Pine Needles Fall

In Chapter Nine Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel speaks about the role that optimistic thought about the future plays in the work of building a better world. ; ; ; 14 $1.40 Add
Lloyd Axelworthy

Lloyd Axelworthy

My Life in Politics

Axworthy served as MLA in the Manitoba legislature for six years followed by twenty-one years in the House of Commons, more than half of those in the cabinets of Pierre Trudeau, John Turner, and … 322 View
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Lord Durham’s “Radical” Intervention (1839) and Reaction’s Revenge (1849)

Lord Durham’s “Radical” Intervention (1839) and Reaction’s Revenge (1849)

From: Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada’s Origins 1500-1890

This chapter looks at the policies of Lord Durham which created the Province of Canada under the Act of Union of 1840 and implemented a common commercial system and punitive measures particularly … 7 $0.70 Add