2025
Showing 449–464 of 622 results
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From  NEW! RocketsFrom: Bit Player on Big Stages |
In this chapter, Turene discusses his amateur rocketry programme in Winnipeg in the late 1950s, which he started because of the launch of Sputnik. | Roger Turene | 9 | 2025 | $0.90 Add |
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From  NEW! Roman modelFrom: Imperialism |
In this chapter, Saul traces the Roman Empire from its 753 BC founding in Latium through its Mediterranean dominance by 130 BC, its collapse in 476, and the Byzantine successor’s fall in 1453. | Samir Saul | 6 | 2025 | $0.60 Add |
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From  NEW! Rueben Unka, YellowknifeFrom: Book of Hope |
This chapter follows Rueben Unka, a man from Fort Resolution whose life spans homelessness, addiction, and work on the survey team that discovered the Diavik Diamond Mine in the Northwest … | Agnes R. Pascal | 4 | 2025 | $0.40 Add |
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From NEW! Rumble in GotlieblandFrom: Bit Player on Big Stages |
In this chapter, Turene discusses his turbulent years within Canada’s Department of External Affairs under Under Secretary Allan Gotlieb. | Roger Turene | 9 | 2025 | $0.90 Add |
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From  NEW! “Running a government”From: The Coutts Diaries |
In this chapter, Graham examines the first weeks of the 1980 Trudeau government, as Finance Minister Jim Coutts navigated an economy strained by inflation and mortgage rates (as told by the diary … | Ron Graham | 15 | 2025 | $1.50 Add |
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From NEW! Ruth Wright, InuvikFrom: Book of Hope |
This chapter follows Ruth Wright of Inuvik, Northwest Territories, as she reflects on decades of family loss to cancer, beginning with her sister Ruby Ann in the 1970s and continuing through her … | Agnes R. Pascal | 6 | 2025 | $0.60 Add |
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From NEW! Rwanda and BurundiFrom: Bit Player on Big Stages |
In this chapter, Turene discusses Canadian diplomat Richard Howard’s 1974 journey through Rwanda and Burundi, a region still reeling from the 1972 Burundi genocide. | Roger Turene | 13 | 2025 | $1.30 Add |
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From  NEW! Samuel de Champlain and Nicolas de VignauFrom: Making of Canada |
In this chapter, Koabel traces how Samuel de Champlain built a permanent French presence along the St. Lawrence River in the early 1600s, anchored in the fur trade and Indigenous diplomacy. | Greg Koabel | 17 | 2025 | $1.70 Add |
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From NEW! Sandra Lynn Malcolm, InuvikFrom: Book of Hope |
This chapter follows Sandra Lynn Malcolm’s account of her husband David’s battle with clear cell renal carcinoma, beginning with a diagnosis in Inuvik, Northwest Territories, in … | Agnes R. Pascal | 6 | 2025 | $0.60 Add |
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From  NEW! SaskatchewanFrom: Canada's Main Street |
In this chapter, Baird traces the construction of the Trans-Canada Highway in Saskatchewan, completed in 1957. | Craig Baird | 12 | 2025 | $1.20 Add |
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From  NEW! Satisfying Our Thirst for AgencyFrom: Messy Cities |
Colin Ellard argues that our desire for messy cities is connected to the desire human beings feel towards the complexity of the natural world. | Dylan Reid | 6 | 2025 | $0.60 Add |
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From  NEW! ScareFrom: Seven Days in Halifax |
In this chapter, Ashe describes the events of the final live TV session of Halifax’s 1970 "Encounter on Urban Environment," as panelists prepared for their final presentation. … | Robert Ashe | 10 | 2025 | $1.00 Add |
 NEW! Searching for SerafimThe Life and Legacy of Serafim "Joe" Fortes |
In Searching for Serafim, author Ruby Smith Díaz seeks to unravel the complicated legacy of a local legend Serafim "Joe" Fortes. She draws from historical documents to form an … | Ruby Smith Diaz | 144 | 2025 | View |
Seven Days in HalifaxWhen citizens confronted the racists, liars and incompetents who ran their city |
Halifax today lives with the results of bad decisions made decades ago. A container port accessible only through narrow downtown streets. A park, bridge and port on the spot where Africville was … | Robert Ashe | 338 | 2025 | View |
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From  NEW! Shades of the Gulf of Tonkin: Chemical Weapons False FlagFrom: Syria |
In this chapter, Kuzmarov and Kovalik examine allegations of chemical weapons false flag operations in Syria from 2013 to 2018, arguing that rebel forces orchestrated attacks to justify Western … | Dan Kovalik; Jeremy Kuzmarov | 17 | 2025 | $1.70 Add |
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From NEW! ShingwaukonseFrom: Making of Canada |
In this chapter, Koabel examines the 1849 struggle of Ojibwe leader Shingwaukonse to secure mining royalties for his people on the shores of Lake Superior. | Greg Koabel | 18 | 2025 | $1.80 Add |
