Baraka Books

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Through the Mill

Girls and Women in the Quebec Cotton Textile Industry, 1881-1951

 Girls and women were essential to industrialization in Canada, particularly in the cotton textile industry, which was concentrated in Quebec. In 1891, for example, more than 2000 girls and women … 324 View

Washington’s Long War on Syria

 When President Barack Obama demanded formally in the summer of 2011 that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad step down, it was not the first time Washington had sought regime change in Damascus. The … 280 View
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From: The Franz Boas Enigma

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Foreword and a Letter

From: Motherhood, The Mother of All Sexism

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 A Foreword and a Letter from the author entitled "Building on Quebec’s Experience in Parental Equality" for the English translation’s readers. 10 $1.00 Add
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From: The Einstein File

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 Forewords: "Einstein and McCarthyism – Old and New" by Ajamu Baraka, "Squelching Scientists Then and Now" by David Suzuki ; 7 $0.70 Add
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Hard Slow Beginnings

From: A People's History of Quebec

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 This chapter explores Quebec’s early history, starting in 1534. It touches on key figures, tensions, and events in this early period. ; 11 $1.10 Add
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Hochelaga

From: The History of Montréal

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 This chapter looks at the early history of the island of Montreal and its colonization by the French. It looks at the Iroquoian/Indigenous and French perspective on this history. 9 $0.90 Add
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The Future of Electricity

From: Charging Ahead

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Liberalism and the New Scramble for Africa

From: Slouching Towards Sirte

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Introduction

From: Through the Mill

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From: Songs Upon the Rivers

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From: Rwanda and the New Scramble for Africa

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 In the introduction, Robert Philpot reflects on the upcoming twentieth anniversary of the shooting down of the Rwandan president’s plane which triggered war, destruction, and massacres in … 16 $1.60 Add
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From: Scandinavian Common Sense

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 The introduction outlines the book’s goal of examining the strengths of the Nordic model by studying and evaluating the strengths of these countries’ public policies; it states that … ; ; 6 $0.60 Add
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From: Washington's Long War on Syria

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 From 1963 onward, Syrian governments in which Ba’ath Arab Socialist Party members Hafez al-Assad and his son Bashar played principal roles, were committed to the Arab nationalist values of … 28 $2.80 Add
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Introduction

From: Montreal, City of Secrets

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From: Storming the Old Boys’ Citadel

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 The introduction provides a brief history of architecture in the United States and Canada, the evolution of the laws, regulations, and standards that shaped modern architecture. It then provides … ; 22 $2.20 Add