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Canada in Question: Exploring Our Citizenship in the Twenty-First CenturyExploring pressing questions around Canadian citizenship, Canada in Question delves into contemporary issues that come into play in identifying what it means to be Canadian. Beginning with an update on the status of Canadian citizenship, Peter MacKinnon acknowledges that with the exception of Indigenous...
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Mexico City - The Delaplaine 2022 Long Weekend GuideA complete guide for everything you need to experience a great Long Weekend in MEXICO CITY, a fascinating city of over 21 million people. It's not as dangerous as a lot of other places in Mexico, and a visit here will be very rewarding.Updated...
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Canadian Colonialism: Past and PresentFor anyone interested in Canadian history and past and present racism in Canada, this is a thoroughly researched exploration of Canada's history of internal colonialism, starting in the mid-1800s. The author gives thirty examples of Canadian colonialism, including: Residential Schools; the Sixties Scoop; the...
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Vancouver Vice: Crime and Spectacle in the City's West EndThe late 1970s and early 1980s were a volatile period in the history of Vancouver, where broad social and cultural changes were afoot. This was perhaps most clearly evident in the West End, the well-known home to the city's tight-knit gay community that would...
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Checkpoint Zipolite: Quarantine in a Small Place"When I first committed to three full months in El Salvador, the feeling that I was signing up for the equivalent of marriage and reproduction was assuaged only by the awareness that, come March 2020, I'd be dashing around Mexico before flying to Istanbul...
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Haunting British Columbia: Ghostly Tales from the PastBroadcaster and bestselling author Mike McCardell haunts British Columbia's past in order to summon spellbinding tales of Western Canada. Reprising his 2013 bestseller Haunting Vancouver, Mike McCardell summons the ghost of real-life pioneer Jock Linn to provide hair-raising and humorous versions of what really...
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Murders on the Skeena: True Crime in the Old Canadian West, 1884-1914Part history, part true crime, Murders on the Skeena: True Crime in the Old Canadian West, 1884-1914 contains the true accounts of murders, crimes, and scandals--some of which remain unsolved to this day--in small-town northern British Columbia. With a focus on the victims as...
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Making Middle-Class Multiculturalism: Immigration Bureaucrats and Policymaking in Postwar CanadaIn the 1950s and 1960s, immigration bureaucrats in the Department of Citizenship and Immigration played an important yet unacknowledged role in transforming Canada's immigration policy. In response to external economic and political pressures for change, high-level bureaucrats developed new admissions criteria gradually and experimentally...
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Second ChancesThirteen-year-old Dale Melnyk finds himself stuck in an iron lung, desperately fighting for breath -- and wishing he could die. It is the worst outbreak of polio in the history of Winnipeg, and Dale is one of the many young victims being treated in...
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The Burning of the Valleys: Daring Raids from Canada Against the New York Frontier in the Fall of 1780In the fifth year of the War of Independence, while the Americans focused on the British thrust against the Carolinas, the Canadian Department waged a decisive campaign against the northern frontier of New York. Their primary target was the Mohawk River region, known to...
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Blue MarrowThe voices of Blue Marrow sing out from the past and the present. They are the voices of the Grandmothers, both personal and legendary. They share their wisdom, their lives, their dreams. They proclaim the injustice of colonialism, the violence of proselytism, and the...
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Playing with Osito Jouer avec Osito: bilingual English and French bilingue en Anglais et FrançaisOsito wants to play, but his fur is growing slowly and he's got the shivers. His new friend thinks covering this baby bear with honey and a coat of wild flowers is a good idea. Osito does get warm, but then the bees arrive,...
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Lost on the PrairieSet between Kansas and Saskatchewan in 1907, this middle-grade novel follows a young boy who gets separated from his family en route to Canada and must find his way alone across the immense prairie landscape.Following the sudden death of his eldest brother, twelve-year-old Peter...
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Surviving Mexico: Resistance and Resilience among Journalists in the Twenty-first CenturyMott KTA Journalism and Mass Communication Research Award, Kappa Tau Alpha Tankard Book Award, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) Knudson Latin America Prize, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) Since 2000, more than 150 journalists have been...
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The Oxford Handbook of the AztecsThe Oxford Handbook of the Aztecs, the first of its kind, provides a current overview of recent research on the Aztec empire, the best documented prehispanic society in the Americas. Chapters span from the establishment of Aztec city-states to the encounter with the Spanish...
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Demasiado Corazón / Too Much HeartMediante una intr pida trama de thriller, Demasiado coraz n nos muestra las redes implacables del poder que, oculto y asesino, impone siempre sus intereses por encima de los m s d biles. El doctor L zaro Alvarado, quien posee informaci n confidencial contra...
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Revolutionary Detroit: Portraits in Political and Cultural Change, 1760-1805The people of Detroit experienced the American revolutionary era in unique ways. More than any locale in North America, it was where French, British, American, and Native American cultures collided and melded during the second half of the eighteenth century. The British takeover of...
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Winter in Nunavut: English EditionWhat are some of the ways people in the North enjoy winter?This non-fiction book teaches children that even though the days are cold and dark in a Nunavut winter, there are a lot of outdoor activities to enjoy, such as snowmobiling, ice fishing and...
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Aztec Civilization: A History from Beginning to EndDiscover the remarkable history of the Aztec Civilization...The Aztec Empire dominated Mesoamerica for a relatively short time-less than one hundred years-but it is remembered today more than other ancient cultures in the region which sustained for much longer. Partly that is because this was...
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El Fixer / The FixerLa odisea, marcada por la adrenalina y el terror, que debe cruzar un Fixer para ingresar a las entrañas de los cárteles de la droga con el objetivo de lograr accesos a periodistas extranjeros. Numerosos periodistas norteamericanos, alemanes, ingleses, franceses... están interesados en cubrir...
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