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From  Family and Work-Life Balancing Policies |
This chapter examines the family policies of the Nordic countries, which emphasize financial support measures, allocation of parental leave, and work-life balance. | Dominique Côté; Marie-France Raynault; Sébastien Chartrand | 10 | 2015 | $1.00 Add |
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From  Franco-Americans Rescue King CottonSECTION TWO - The other side of the cotton From: A Distinct Alien Race |
This chapter further explores Franco-American history and the role that this group played in the cotton textile industry in America. It discusses the early and later mass emigration movements … | David Vermette | 31 | 2018 | $3.10 Add |
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From  Guilt by AssociationsFrom: The Einstein File |
This chapter further explores the FBI’s interest in Einstein and his political beliefs and activism, and particularly his little-known support for civil rights and outspoken opposition to … | Fred Jerome | 29 | 2018 | $2.90 Add |
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From  Heading for Confrontation |
This chapter explores escalating French-English tensions after 1793 in Canada. It touches on controversies over uniting Upper and Lower Canada, the Parti Patriote led by Louis-Joseph … | Jacques Lacoursière; Robin Philpot | 20 | 2002 | $2.00 Add |
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From  Humanitarianism and the Invention of EmergencyFrom: Slouching Towards Sirte |
In Chapter 5, Forte asks the reader to consider what the alternatives were to foreign intervention. He does this by criticizing popular myths that worked to legitimize military intervention and … | Maximilian C. Forte | 30 | 2012 | $3.00 Add |
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From  La Haute-Louisiane and the Far WestFrom: Songs Upon the Rivers |
This chapter looks at the history of French-descended Canadiens, Creole, and Métis populations in the area of Louisiana and the Far West. It looks at biases and inaccuracies in the … | Michel Bouchard; Robert Foxcurran; Sébastien Malette | 48 | 2016 | $4.80 Add |
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From  My Role Was to Lead and Make Things WorkFrom: Let's Move On |
Okalik discusses his time in office after the creation of Nunavut in 1999, speking about the Bathurst mandate and various political decisions and his involvement in them. | Paul Okalik | 8 | 2018 | $0.80 Add |
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From  PART 2 – New Technologies, Old ProblemsWorking Conditions and Wages From: Through the Mill |
This chapter explores the working conditions and wages throughout the 20th century for workers in the Quebec cotton textile industry. It looks at child labour, hours, working conditions, wages, … | Gail Cuthbert Brandt | 51 | 2018 | $5.10 Add |
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From  Return to Germany, March 1885 – July 1886: Seeking and Testing Academic Pursuits in Geography / Baffin-Land – Surveys and Inuit Place Names, 1885: Coping with Map Design and LanguageChapters 7 and 8 From: The Franz Boas Enigma |
Chapter 7 covers the period of Boas’ life after he returned to Germany, detailing his feelings, travels, research and lectures. Chapter 8 starts as Boas is finishing his influential book … | Ludger Müller-Wille | 16 | 2014 | $1.60 Add |
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From  Saving a Grand Old LadyPart II |
Part two of Saving a Grand Old Lady focuses on the life of Louise Bethune (born Jennie Louise Blanchard), one of the “exceptional women” admitted into the architecture profession … | Carla Blank; Tania Martin | 22 | 2014 | $2.20 Add |
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From  Sharing Parental Leave– A Radical Step? |
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 |
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From  The Ba’athists’ Islamic Ally |
There were two officially recognized Islamic states in the Middle East which played key roles in the conflict in Syria. One, Saudi Arabia, an important regional satellite of the United States, … | Stephen Gowans | 10 | 2017 | $1.00 Add |
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From  The Patriot State |
Chapter five, The Patriot State focuses on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) which formed under the Soviet influenced northern half the the peninsula. While the United States … | Stephen Gowans | 8 | 2018 | $0.80 Add |
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From  Trading with the Enemy |
This chapter looks at trade/economic ties and factors between America and Canada/specifically Montreal during this period. The cotton trade and key figures are explored. | Barry Sheehy; Cindy Wallace | 17 | 2017 | $1.70 Add |
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From A New Constitution in the Offing |
This chapter looks at the aftermath of the Act of Union. Topics include the controversy of deciding Canada’s capital, the formulation of even more distinct English and French Canadian … | Jacques Lacoursière; Robin Philpot | 15 | 2002 | $1.50 Add |
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From  An Industrial City (1850-1896)From: The History of Montréal |
This chapter explores the changes the city and its people underwent during industrialization, as well as demographic changes and language tensions in the city. Towards the halfway mark of the … | Paul-André Linteau | 14 | 2013 | $1.40 Add |
