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  • Environmental Impacts of Transnational Corporations in the Global South

    Edited by Paul Cooney, William Sacher ...
    Series Book 33 - Research in Political Economy
    This volume explores the impact of Transnational Corporations (TNCs) on the environment of the Global South during this period of neoliberal globalization.Since the end of the 1970s, the role of TNCs in the global economy has developed significantly, and the subsequent changes to international institutions and the establishment of free trade zones have limited the effectiveness of environmental ... Read more

    $110.69 USD

  • Imperial Canada Inc.

    Legal Haven of Choice for the World's Mining Industries

    by William Sacher, Alain Deneault ...
    Translated by Fred A. Reed ...
    Imperial Canada Inc. sets out to ask a simple question: why is Canada home to more than 70% of the world’s mining companies?Created by the British North America Act of 1867, Canada, rather than turning away from its colonial past, actively embraced, appropriated, and perpetuated the imperial ambitions of its mother country. Two years later, it took possession of Rupert’s Land—all of the land ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Party of One

    Stephen Harper And Canada's Radical Makeover

    by Michael Harris ...
    InParty of One,investigative journalist Michael Harris closely examines the majority government of a prime minister essentially unchecked by the opposition and empowered by the general election victory of May 2011. Harris looks at Harper’s policies, instincts, and the often breathtaking gap between his stated political principles and his practices.Harris argues that Harper is more than a master of ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Klondike Fever: The Life And Death Of The Last Great Gold Rush

    by Pierre Berton ...
    "Absolutely first-rate."—The New YorkerThis thrilling story is at once first-rate history and first-rate entertainment. Incredible events occurred in North America after a decrepit steamboat docked at Seattle in 1897 containing two tons of pure gold. So frenzied was the clash for gold and so scant was information about conditions in the Klondike that the rush for riches became a kind of fabulous ... Read more

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  • Mountie Makers: Putting the Canadian in RCMP

    Putting the Canadian in RCMP

    by Robert Gordon Teather ...
    Bob Teather entered RCMP Basic Recruit Training in 1967 with no idea of what he was getting into. Along with 31 other confused young men, he found himself in Regina, Saskatchewan, as a lowly member of Troop 18. Bald, intimidated, and soon to be bruised, Bob began a six-month ordeal that he candidly recalls in this engaging book. Corporal Teather's story brings you close to six recruits from across ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Canadians

    A Portrait of a Country and Its People

    by Roy MacGregor ...
    Who are we? In Canadians, one of Canada’s most intelligent and beloved writers maps our national psyche in a wonderful and ambitious work. Canadians is an entertaining portrait of this country and its people, through its history, popular culture, literature, sport, landscape, and weather. In his pursuit of the Canadian national identity, MacGregor has travelled far and wide, taking our pulse, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Life of a Loyalist

    A Tale of Survival in Old Nova Scotia

    by Cathleen Fillmore ...
    Series series Amazing Stories
    "It was a dangerous time to be loyal to the Crown. The divisive war had pitted neighbour against neighbour and father against son." This book will be especially fascinating for all readers interested in: history, biography, and life as a Loyalist in the Maritimes. The life of young Christiana Margaret Davis, a Loyalist born in upstate New York, was turned upside down by the American Revolution. A ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Great Blackfoot Treaties

    by Hugh A. Dempsey ...
    The expansive ancestral territory of the Blackfoot Nation ranged from the North Saskatchewan River in Alberta to the Missouri River in Montana and from the Rocky Mountains east to the Cypress Hills. This buffalo-rich land sustained the Blackfoot for generations until the arrival of whiskey traders, unscrupulous wolfers, smallpox epidemics, and the encroachment of white settlers on traditional ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • People of the Sea

    by Clarence Vautier ...
    From bestselling author Clarence Vautier comes more stories of unsung heroes: the fishermen who made a living off the sea in Atlantic Canada. These stories are the biographies, family histories, and photograph collections of twenty-two highliners. During the twentieth century, these were the elite fishermen who consistently sailed home with the largest catches taken from the waters off ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • Canada's 1960s

    The Ironies of Identity in a Rebellious Era

    by Bryan Palmer ...
    Rebellious youth, the Cold War, New Left radicalism, Pierre Trudeau, Red Power, Quebec's call for Revolution, Marshall McLuhan: these are just some of the major forces and figures that come to mind at the slightest mention of the 1960s in Canada. Focusing on the major movements and personalities of the time, as well as the lasting influence of the period, Canada's 1960s examines the legacy of this ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Greatcoats and Glamour Boots

    Canadian Women at War, 1939-1945, Revised Edition

    by Carolyn Gossage ...
    Women in the military? To many, never was too soon. But by 1940, British women were out "doing their bit" for the war effort, and Canadians battled for that same right. Young Canadian women wanted to serve their country, "to free a man to fight," as the recruiting posters urged. By the war's end almost 50,000 of them were in the forces.Carolyn Gossage has compiled a fascinating collage of ... Read more

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  • Broken Shackles

    Old Man Henson From Slavery to Freedom

    Edited by Peter Meyler ...
    In 1889, Broken Shackles was published in Toronto under the pseudonym of Glenelg. This very unique book, containing the recollections of a resident of Owen Sound, Ontario, an African American known as Old Man Henson, was one of the very few books that documented the journey to Canada from the perspective of a person of African descent. Now, over 112 years later, a new edition of Broken Shackles is ... Read more

    $8.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus