Social Science
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Cultural Factors Define Implementation Strategies
A Practical Guide for an Uncertain Business Future by Stanley Remple
Strong business leadership built on a value-based foundation has the power to drive profit while improving the lives of business leaders, employees, and even those in the community. But a business leadership model must also reflect cultural...
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Ripples from the Rupununi
Dr. Aidun's Healing Journey by Brian H. Cameron
Somewhere over the rainforest in Guyana there’s a land called the Rupununi, a creek-crossed savannah inhabited for millennia by Indigenous people of great capacity. This is where Dr. Jamshid Aidun, a Persian Canadian surgeon and a humble man of...
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Project Opikihiwawin and the Sixties Scoop
How White Parents Helped Their Adopted Children Connect With Their Indigenous Heritage by Cheryl Simmonds and Jamie McKay
For decades, Indigenous children in Canada were taken from their families and placed in foster care or adopted into non-Indigenous homes—a practice most well-known as the Sixties Scoop but one that began years before and continues long after....
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Masters of Their Own Bodies
The Great Canadian Birth Control Trial by Peter Giuliani
Sex and the long arm of the Catholic Church. Eccentric millionaires and Canada's Eugenics Society. Poverty and intolerance trapping the working class. It’s 1936 during the Great Depression and the nation watches as a spectacular court case...
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Tracing Ma’di Roots and Connections
by Hicks Ambira
This is an educational book about the Ma'di, from Africa. The book is of interest to any person of Ma’di descent or anyone interested in African history. The Ma'di were traced from where they originated; where they lived and traveled; how the...
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Sail with the Tide
a Dad's View of Addiction by James W. Stewart
Sadly, few of us haven’t had our lives touched by addiction. Even more tragic, for many of us, it is our child who is suffering—and our child who we struggle to help. James W. Stewart is one such parent. When his late son, Joshua, started down...
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Outlaw Principles
by Ryan Wickham
IN A WORLD WHERE THE WEAK ARE PREYED UPON... ...crime goes unpunished and evil runs rampant in the streets, who will stand up to chaos and fight for justice? There is only one: an outlaw biker with dead set principles and dangerous methods that...
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The Practical Encyclopedia of Racial Equity in the Workplace
Resources for Every Stage of the Journey by Ann Curry-Stevens and Amilah Baksh
The Practical Encyclopedia of Racial Equity in the Workplace provides tools necessary to integrate racial equity into the fiber and culture of the workplace, reducing racial disparities between the experiences of racialized and white staff and...
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Am I Literate?
Redefining Literacy in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Kate Arthur
Kate grew up in a home where words mattered. Inspired by her family’s love of reading, she pursued a degree in English Literature and began a career as a publicist. Confident in her mastery of language, Kate believed she was literate—until her...
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Frauds, Phones & Fingerprints
Proving Your Identity in the Digital Age by Almis Ledas
The internet is a happy hunting ground for identity thieves, fraudsters and scammers. Criminal impersonation has evolved leaving established methods for protection against identity theft no longer effective. If you’re active online, it’s time to...
