With her linen head scarf and white apron emblazoned with a red cross, the Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse, or VAD, has become a romantic emblem of the Great War.
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,Romanow, Roy
Summary:Income, education, employment, housing, the wider environment, and social supports; far more than the actions of physicians, nurses, and other health care providers, it is these conditions that mak
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,Arscott, Jane
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Summary:Following significant increases in women's electoral representation in the 1980s and '90s, progress has stalled.
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,Little, Edward
,High, Steven
Summary:Going Public responds to the urgent need to expand current thinking on what it means to co-create and to actively involve the public in research activities.
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Author:Bastien, Frédérick
,Roth, Käthe
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Genre: Canadian nonfiction, Political scienceAvailable Formats:
Author:Pavlich, George
,Unger, Matthew P.
Summary:Much critical scholarship has detailed the punitive effects of accusations that lead to criminalization.
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Author:Wang, Ning
Summary:Following Mao Zedong’s Anti-Rightist Campaign of 1957–58, Chinese intellectuals were subjected to “re-education” by the state.
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,Patten, Steve
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Summary:2016 Governor General's Literary Award Finalist. 2017 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize Winner. 2017 Joe Shuster Award Nominee. Teva Harrison was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer at the age of 37.
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Summary:Diamonds and Pearl is a gritty, compelling novel from #1 Essence bestselling author K'wan.They say that good girls like bad boys, and this was especially true for Pearl Stone, a child born of privi
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Author:Gaynor, Hazel
Summary:Ireland, 1912. Young Maggie Murphy sets sail on Titanic, though her sweetheart stays behind.
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Author:Ephron, Dan
Summary:The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin radically altered the future of both Israel and the Palestinians.
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Author:Heinlein, Robert A.
Summary:Jim Marlowe and his strange-looking Martian friend Willis are only allowed to travel so far.
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Author:Waal, F. B. M. de
Summary:What separates a human mind from an animal's? Is it the design of tools, sense of self, or grasp of past and future? These claims have been disproved outright by the study of animal cognition.
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