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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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From One at the top, five million at the bottom: How we sold ourselves the equal opportunity lie and grew the violent push to keep women out of the workforceFrom: F-Bomb |
This chapter discusses the ways in which workplaces remain far from equal into the 21st century. | Lauren McKeon | 27 | 2017 | $2.70 Add |
From NEW! One Year InA Hopeful New Normal From: Shadows and Light |
Chapter Four examines the progress made and new challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic one year in by the winter of 2021. Topics discussed include the idea of the ‘New Normal,’ the … | Heather Patterson | 15 | 2022 | $1.50 Add |
From Our milieuFrom: Too Dumb for Democracy? |
Chapter Five explores the conditions under which we tend to make the best decisions about complex issues, political or otherwise. We do best when we have lots of time and resources at our … | David Moscrop | 11 | 2019 | $1.10 Add |
From Privatization and Its DiscontentsFrom: Back to the Well |
In this Chapter, de Villiers discusses the thorny issue of water privatization and commodification. He explores the difference between privatization of ownership and use and the ways in which … | Marq de Villiers | 45 | 2018 | $4.50 Add |
From Service in France at No. 1 Canadian General HospitalFrom: Asleep in the Deep |
Anna Stamers was transfered to France in 1916. Hospitals in France were set up to receive all incoming wounded from the Allied forces, as well as civilians and prisoners of war. Horrible … | Dianne Kelly | 32 | 2021 | $3.20 Add |
From The Changing Canadian LandscapeFrom: The Next Big Thing |
"In the fall of 2007, Toronto Star columnist Chantal Hébert came from Montreal thinking about new politics in Quebec from the perspective of one who spent a career writing about … | Chantal Hébert | 10 | 2014 | $1.00 Add |
From Through Allan’s Eyes |
Evelyn Butcher recounts the story of Allan. The story discuss his time as an athlete, experience in the special Olympics, special needs classes and programs in schools, and wanting to go to college. | Evelyn Butcher | 4 | 2009 | $0.40 Add |
From Unwed, Not DeadFrom: The M Word |
Myrl Coulter reflects on her youth in 1967 Winnipeg, teen pregnancy, unmarried mothers, adoption, boarding homes for unwed mothers, music, the Canadian Criminal Code, and more. | Myrl Coulter | 17 | 2014 | $1.70 Add |
From Waiting AbsurdNicosia/Lefkoşa From: Walls |
The author travels to Cyprus and discusses the wall that divides its territory and the Turkish and Greek Cypriots. He explores the history of this wall and the conflict between these two groups, … | Marcello Di Cintio | 31 | 2013 | $3.10 Add |
From What is to be Done? |
The author muses on Canadian culture and the ideas of epics and epic behaviour, which reduce the world to a dichotomy of black and white and as a result encourage militarism/"warrior … | Noah Richler | 46 | 2012 | $4.60 Add |
From NEW! A Tale of Instability in Seven PartsMonsters From: On Opium |
The author describes what suffering does to her body and mind and how the effort required to transcend it makes her feel like a monster. While her condition allows her to walk and run but not … | Carlyn Zwarenstein | 14 | 2021 | $1.40 Add |
From Are Dams Really that Bad?From: Back to the Well |
In this chapter, de Villiers discusses the controversies surrounding dams and hydroelectricity. Using a variety of case studies, he explores their benefits, as well as their impacts on both … | Marq de Villiers | 28 | 2018 | $2.80 Add |
From Be Interesting, Or ElseFrom: The Next Big Thing |
"A decade after he gave Canadian journalism a kick in the backside as the founding editor of Conrad Black’s brash National Post newspaper, Ken Whyte came to campus. Most recently, as … | Ken Whyte | 20 | 2014 | $2.00 Add |
From Chapter 6Building the Modern Fleet, 1945-2003 |
This chapter explores the history of the New Brunswick navy after the second world war and the special role played by New Brunswick in building the modern Canadian navy. It touches on significant … | Glenn Leonard; Marc Milner | 19 | 2010 | $1.90 Add |
From NEW! Chapter 6: The Preliminary Inquiry BeginsPart Three: High Theatre In the Lower Courts |
This chapter covers the first day of the inquiry of Leslie W. Lewis and Neil Sharkey’s fraud. Included in this chapter is witness testimony and further evidence, Leslie W. Lewis and Neil … | John S. Dellandrea | 18 | 2022 | $1.80 Add |
From Chapter SixThe big one coming to the bee hive state From: On Borrowed Time |
This chapter explores Salt Lake City, which, while not an obvious location, presents with a substantial earthquake risk and needs to prepare its infrastructure for such an event. | Gregor Craigie | 12 | 2021 | $1.20 Add |