Lifestyles of the really rich. Reproduction in Mexico. Sherldrake Island secrets.

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• The Daily Mail, New York Magazine, Canada Standard and Heat Street pick up coverage of new research from the John Molson School of Business that probes widely-held assumptions about the lifestyles of the wealthiest "one percent". Michael Carney, professor in the Department of Management, and Robert Nason, assistant professor in the same department, describe how the group of the wealthiest in the in the U.S. is actually made up of 1.6 million households with widely varying levels of wealth. The study, published in Business & Society, is part of this week's Concordia Spotlight on Business Ownership. 
• The University of North Carolina Press presents Reproduction and Its Discontents in Mexico — Childbirth and Contraception from 1750 to 1905, by Nora Jaffary, associate professor of History in the Faculty of Arts and Science. The brief includes excerpts of reviews by academics at Carleton University and Kansas State University.
• Acadie Nouvelle writes that the story of the leprosy colony of Sheldrake Island, at the mouth of New Brunswick's Miramichi River, will be included in the Lost Stories project, led by Ronald Rudin, history professor in the Faculty of Arts and Science and co-director of the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling. Lost Stories involves the collection of little-known stories of Canadians that will be published for Canada Day, 2017.

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