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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From Sharing Parental Leave– A Radical Step? From: Motherhood, The Mother of All Sexism View	Quebec is a trailblazer in North America when it comes to paternity leave, borrowing from a tried-and-true template popular in Scandinavian nations; however, fathers in Quebec are more hesitant …	Marilyse Hamelin	30	2018	$3.00 Add
From Sirte Keystone of Independence From: Slouching Towards Sirte View	In Chapter One Sirte: Keystone of Independence, Forte contrasts the city of Sirte– found to be in near total ruin by the end of the 2011 Libyan Civil War– to the Sirte which was once …	Maximilian C. Forte	39	2012	$3.90 Add
From Sirte Touchstone of Imperialism From: Slouching Towards Sirte View	In Chapter Two Sirte: Touchstone of Imperialism, Forte examines how Sirte represented a post-colonial Libya, as the seat of the Al-Fateh Revolution and later the focus of international attention …	Maximilian C. Forte	68	2012	$6.80 Add
Slouching Towards Sirte NATO's War on Libya and Africa	NATO’s war in Libya was proclaimed as a humanitarian intervention—bombing in the name of “saving lives.” Attempts at diplomacy were stifled. Peace talks were subverted. …	Maximilian C. Forte	344	2012	View
From Social Inequalities in Health A Real and Persistent Problem From: Scandinavian Common Sense View	The existence of social inequalities in health is now recognized as a very real and world-wide problem; this chapter examines systematic determinants of health, which are socially produced and …	Dominique Côté; Marie-France Raynault; Sébastien Chartrand	13	2015	$1.30 Add
Songs Upon the Rivers The Buried History of the French-Speaking Canadiens and Métis from the Great Lakes and the Mississippi across to the Pacific	“A major undertaking … a valuable contribution,” Canada’s History Long before the Davy Crocketts, the Daniel Boones and Jim Bridgers, the French had pushed far west and north establishing trade …	Michel Bouchard; Robert Foxcurran; Sébastien Malette	448	2016	View
From Southern Canada Did Not Get Developed Without National Support From: Let's Move On View	Okalik discusses his experiences with colleagues from other territories and provinces as well as with Greenland. He speaks more about his policy decisions and the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement.	Paul Okalik	12	2018	$1.20 Add
From St Albans Raid From: Montreal, City of Secrets View	This chapter looks at the St. Albans Raid, which resulted in the most northerly engagement of the Civil War.	Barry Sheehy; Cindy Wallace	11	2017	$1.10 Add
From Still Frozen in Time! From: Let's Move On View	Okalik describes his vision/ideals for progress in Nunavut.	Paul Okalik	9	2018	$0.90 Add
Storming the Old Boys’ Citadel Two Pioneer Women Architects of Nineteenth Century North America	“Women” and “architecture” were once mutually exclusive terms. In an 1891 address, Louise Blanchard Bethune declared, “it is hardly safe to assert” that a …	Carla Blank; Tania Martin	234	2014	View
From Sunday at the Cesspool Gil Courtemanche From: Rwanda and the New Scramble for Africa View	In Chapter 11, Philpot critiques Gil Courtemanche’s novel Sunday at the Pool in Kigali, in which Courtemanche describes himself as “an eye-witness report,” even though he was …	Robin Philpot	9	2013	$0.90 Add
From Supressing a Worldwide Movement of Liberty, Equality and the Unity of Humankind From: Patriots, Traitors and Empires View	Chapter seven, Suppressing a Worldwide Movement for Liberty, Equality, and the Unity of Humankind focuses on the ideology of the communist movements growing in number across the colonial world, …	Stephen Gowans	9	2018	$0.90 Add
From Sustainable Development at the Local Level From: Scandinavian Common Sense View	This chapter tackles sustainable development at the local level and highlights some projects undertaken under municipal mandates. This study is limited to the Nordic capitals — Stockholm, …	Dominique Côté; Marie-France Raynault; Sébastien Chartrand	23	2015	$2.30 Add
From Technical Prowess From: Charging Ahead View	This chapter explores Hydro-Quebec’s impressive technical systems. It discusses the laboratory in Varennes (part of the campus of the Hydro-Quebec’s research institute – …	Jean-Benoît Nadeau; Julie Barlow	18	2019	$1.80 Add
From Testing the Power System From: Charging Ahead View	This chapter explores Hydro-Quebec’s current experimental projects/evolutions in the way that they are producing energy, looking at their experiments with solar, geothermal, and hydrogen …	Jean-Benoît Nadeau; Julie Barlow	18	2019	$1.80 Add
From Textiles Go South SECTION FOUR- Tenacity and modernity From: A Distinct Alien Race View	This chapter explores the decline of the textile industry. By the mid-20th century the textile mills that attracted workers from Québec to the New England, and that once led the …	David Vermette	17	2018	$1.70 Add