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From  NEW! Chapter 7: The HenchmanFrom: The Killer's Henchman |
This chapter explores Covid-19 mitigation/responses with particular analysis of Operation Warp Speed, Washington’s Covid-19 vaccine program, which used public money, and capitalized on … | Stephen Gowans | 44 | 2022 | $4.40 Add |
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From  NEW! Chapter One of HomebaseFrom: Blind Persistence |
In this chapter, Wong traces a Chinese-American family’s story across four generations, from the mid-nineteenth century through the 1950s. | Shawn Wong | 18 | 2025 | $1.80 Add |
 Charging AheadHydro-Québec and the Future of Electricity |
Hydro-Québec manages one of the largest power grids on the continent. It is among the most profitable, the least expensive and the greenest. With a stunning renewable energy rate of 99.8 … | Jean-Benoît Nadeau; Julie Barlow | 320 | 2019 | View |
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From  NEW! Charlie Wilson’s War Redux? Operation Timber Sycamore and Other Covert Operations in SyriaFrom: Syria |
In this chapter, Kuzmarov and Kovalik examine Operation Timber Sycamore, a CIA covert programme (2013–2017) arming and training Syrian rebels to overthrow Bashar al-Assad’s government. | Dan Kovalik; Jeremy Kuzmarov | 13 | 2025 | $1.30 Add |
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From  Chile, 1973 |
In this chapter, Engler and Schalk examine Canada’s role in opposing Chile’s elected President Salvador Allende and its rapid support of General Pinochet’s dictatorship … | Owen Schalk; Yves Engler | 8 | 2024 | $0.80 Add |
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From  Chronology, Translator’s Note, and Notes |
This "chapter" includes a chronology of events, translator’s notes, and references. | Francesco Filippi | 25 | 2024 | $2.50 Add |
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From  NEW! Cities and Nation-StatesSection 2: Jacobs’ Urban Economics From: Cities Matter |
Chapter 6 explores the political and economic environments cities have to compete within their larger political structures, such as nation-states, federations, or confederations. It explores … | Charles-Albert Ramsay | 11 | 2022 | $1.10 Add |
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NEW! Cities MatterA Montrealer’s Ode to Jane Jacobs, Economist |
Why do cities exist? Can’t we find better ways of organizing life on earth? With the climate crisis and other environmental issues, are cities part of the problem? Or can they help solve … | Charles-Albert Ramsay | 152 | 2022 | View |
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From NEW! City InstabilitiesSection 2: Jacobs’ Urban Economics From: Cities Matter |
Chapter 5 examines the weaknesses of cities. The chapter focuses on exploring the built-in instabilities of cities such as congestion, pollution, crime, labour reducing process innovations, … | Charles-Albert Ramsay | 7 | 2022 | $0.70 Add |
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From Columbia, 1953 |
In this chapter, Engler and Schalk explores General Rojas Pinilla’s 1953 military coup in Colombia and Canada’s commercial entanglement with his dictatorial regime. | Owen Schalk; Yves Engler | 3 | 2024 | $0.30 Add |
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From  ConclusionFrom: Songs Upon the Rivers |
Michel Bouchard; Robert Foxcurran; Sébastien Malette | 8 | 2016 | $0.80 Add | |
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From  Conclusion |
In the Conclusion, Philpot reiterates the need for another look at the war in Rwanda. Between 1990 and 1994 the Anglosphere and Europe effectively wrung all decision-making powers out of the … | Robin Philpot | 10 | 2013 | $1.00 Add |
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From  ConclusionFrom: The History of Montréal |
Paul-André Linteau | 3 | 2013 | $0.30 Add | |
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From  ConclusionNecessary Changes |
The conclusion reiterates the need to strive towards better parental and gender equality in Quebec, reiterating key arguments and touching briefly on valuable topics/angles that the book did not … | Marilyse Hamelin | 18 | 2018 | $1.80 Add |
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From  Conclusion |
The conclusion reiterates key findings and ideas from this study. It concludes that the social policies of the Nordic countries are worth exploring as they serve as inspiring examples for Quebec … | Dominique Côté; Marie-France Raynault; Sébastien Chartrand | 4 | 2015 | $0.40 Add |
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From  ConclusionFrom: Let's Move On |
Paul Okalik | 3 | 2018 | $0.30 Add |
