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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From Chapter Four Mountains of fire From: On Borrowed Time View	Evaluating the destructive force of volcanoes, their proclivity for carnage, and their apparent unpredictability. Subsequently analyzes the science and warning signs that help predict eruptions …	Gregor Craigie	13	2021	$1.30 Add
From Chapter Four Continental War Brides From: Captured Hearts View	Chapter Four examines the experience of the war bride who came from the continent. Unlike their British counterparts, these brides from France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, and the Netherlands had …	Melynda Jarratt	20	2008	$2.00 Add
From Conclusion From: The Bitter Harvest of War View	-	Andrew Theobald	7	2008	$0.70 Add
From Doubleness Clarifies From: The M Word View	Kerry Clare reflects on reflects on her second pregnancy, abortion, miscarriage, unwanted pregnancy, and more.	Kerry Clare	9	2014	$0.90 Add
From Four: Floating Free From: The Imperilled Ocean View	In readings from this book Journalist Lauren Trethewey explores stories about the many ways in which people around the world interact with the ocean. In this chapter Trethewey provides the …	Laura Trethewey	27	2020	$2.70 Add
From Going Down to the Sea in Ships From: Wanderlust View	Chapter Five explores the history of sea travel and ships as methods of transportation. The chapter begins with the Greeks and Roman sailing across the Mediterranean world, charter ships of the …	Laura Byrne Paquet	27	2007	$2.70 Add
From I Do Not Have an Account in the Bank of Wars From: Pay No Heed to the Rockets View Collection: Witnesses to Global Conflict: Canadian Authors' Accounts	In this chapter the author crosses into Israel to meet with Palestinian writers living there.	Marcello Di Cintio	42	2018	$4.20 Add
From NEW! Len’s Camera From: Len & Cub View	This chapter talks about Len’s passion for photography and gives some context for photography in the early 1900s.	Dusty Green; Meredith J. Batt	14	2022	$1.40 Add
From Nursing in the Canadian Army Medical Corps Moore Baracks From: Asleep in the Deep View	Although Anna Stamers left no personal account or letters escribing her work, war diaries, records of service, newspaper reports, and letters and diaries of other nursing sisters give form and …	Dianne Kelly	18	2021	$1.80 Add
From NEW! Ostarbeiter in Germany From: Wanda’s War View	Chapter 4 discusses Wanda’s experience as a Ostarbeiter (eastern worker), one of the 1.6 million foreigner forced labourers used by the Nazi’s during the Second World War. The …	Marsha Faubert	16	2023	$1.60 Add
From Our bodies, our minds, mental shortcuts, and the media From: Too Dumb for Democracy? View	Chapter Four focuses on why it is so difficult to make well informed discussions. The chapter explores our biological and psychological motivations behind our abilities towards good political …	David Moscrop	27	2019	$2.70 Add
From NEW! Pandemic Insight It Takes a Team From: Shadows and Light View	Chapter Three focuses on the collaborative efforts within the hospitals to fight off the Covid-19 pandemic. Topics discussed include giving recognition to the behind the scenes staffing such as …	Heather Patterson	13	2022	$1.30 Add
From The domestic wife: The problem with retro revival, the new motherhood, and the glamorization of pre-feminist gender Roles From: F-Bomb View	This chapter discusses the nostalgia-fueled revival of 20th century gender norms and the way in which the role of the housewife has come back into vogue.	Lauren McKeon	29	2017	$2.90 Add
From The End of the Beginning From: Dangerous Enemy Sympathizers View	Camp B began to wind down as Italian prisoners were freed after the Allied armistice with Italy. By January 1945, there were only 185 internees in the camp, and with the German surrender in May, …	Andrew Theobald	14	2019	$1.40 Add
From NEW! The Fourteenth Mission: The Story of Joseph Laurie Cormier Chapter Four From: Bombs and Barbed Wire View	Chapter Four focuses on the story of Laurie Cormier of Moncton, New Brunswick, describing his time as a tail gunner for the No. 427 “Lion” Squadron of the RCAF, his capture as a …	Ronald Cormier	21	2022	$2.10 Add
From The War Becomes a Mission (Impossible) From: What We Talk About When We Talk About War View	This chapter focuses on Canadian public and military policy and the mythologisation of military history versus the reality of war. It discusses violence in our media and culture, "warrior …	Noah Richler	61	2012	$6.10 Add