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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
NEW! The Farmer’s Office Second Edition	The Farmer’s Office, Second Edition is the complete guide to starting, managing, and growing an agricultural or farm business. Fully updated and expanded to include tutorials on basic …		338		View
From NEW! The Fight Against Inequality From: The Fire and the Ashes View Between The Lines	In this chapter, Jackson writes about the Great Recession of 2008-2009, and suggests that the functioning of democracies relies on economic and social equality. The best way to achieve this …	Andrew Jackson	5	2021	$0.50 Add
From NEW! The Fight for Water Justice From: Still Hopeful View ECW Press	In Chapter Four Barlow focuses on the fight for water justice and her own activism. The chapter focuses on topics such as the commercialization of Canadian water, the North American Free Trade …	Maude Barlow	41	2022	$4.10 Add
From NEW! The Financial Meltdown and Other Morbid Symptoms From: Breaking Free of Neoliberalism: Canada's Challenge View James Lorimer and Company	This chapter examines the financial crisis of 2007-2008 and movements such as the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street in its aftermath.	Alex Himelfarb	15	2024	$1.50 Add
From The Financier From: Merchant Princes View James Lorimer and Company	1897-1901. Examines some of John F Stair’s work as a financier with focus paid to manufacturing, industrial endeavors, and shipbuilding	James D. Frost	26	2003	$2.60 Add
From The FIPA and the courts From: Sold Down the Yangtze View James Lorimer and Company	This example shows how investor-state arbitrators can review a country’s highest courts, and order its people to pay for whatever the arbitrators order as a protection for foreign …	Gus Van Harten	14	2015	$1.40 Add
From The FIPA media blitz From: Sold Down the Yangtze View James Lorimer and Company	Analyzes the media’s poorly informed spin on the FIPA and how this fueled government led propaganda	Gus Van Harten	11	2015	$1.10 Add
NEW! The Fire and the Ashes Rekindling Democratic Socialism Between The Lines	In The Fire and the Ashes, long-time union economist and policy analyst Andrew Jackson looks back on a fascinating career in the labour movement, the NDP, and left politics, combining keen …	Andrew Jackson	180	2021	View
From The First World War and the Twenties, 1911–1929 From: Rivals for Power: Ottawa and the Provinces View James Lorimer and Company	Describes Ottawa’s efforts to supersede provincial powers especially concerning natural resources from 1911-1929.	Ed Whitcomb	17	2017	$1.70 Add
From The Food Co-op Waves From: Grocery Story View New Society Publishers	This chapter describes Black American and working-class consumer co-ops founded in the 1930s Great Depression, many of which, resembling conventional grocery stores, are still in operation while …	John Steinman	18	2019	$1.80 Add
From NEW! The Forward City Section 3: Jacobs’ Spectrum of Economic Regions From: Cities Matter View bar	Chapter 7 Economic literature now uses the term Jacobs’ agglomeration, and the term “forward city” is original to this text. The chapter describes “Jacobs …	Charles-Albert Ramsay	6	2022	$0.60 Add
From NEW! The Fourth World Is Emerging: A Zombie Mine Resurrection and the Refusal of the Tsilhqot’in Part One: Dispossession at Home From: Capitalism and Dispossession View Fernwood Publishing	In Chapter 4, co-authors Dawn Hoogeveen (a non-Indigenous settler) and Russell Myers Ross (a member of the Tsilhqot’in Nation) examine the struggles to preserve Teztan Biny (Fish Lake), …	Dawn Hoogeveen; Russell Myers Ross	20	2022	$2.00 Add
The Future of Capitalism Katrina Vanden Heuvel and Yanis Varoufakis vs. Arthur Brooks and David Brooks House of Anansi Press	The twenty-fifth semi-annual Munk Debate, held on December 4, 2019, pits editorial director and publisher of the Nation Katrina vanden Heuvel and former finance minister of Greece Yanis …	Arthur Brooks; David Brooks; Katrina Vanden Heuvel; Yanis Varoufakis	142	2020	View
From NEW! The Future of Montreal and 2nd-rank Cities Section 4: Cities as a Dynamic Economy From: Cities Matter View bar	Chapter 15 reflects on the future of the city of Montreal, exploring topics including the history of Montreal, Jacobs’ opinion on Montreal, comparison to Boston, the challenges of being a …	Charles-Albert Ramsay	24	2022	$2.40 Add
From The Future of the Commons From: Think Like a Commoner View New Society Publishers	There is much more that can be said about the commons — in greater depth, with greater precision, from different cultural perspectives, and with the wisdom of historians, poets and artists. …	David Bollier	8	2014	$0.80 Add
From The Future of Work From: Basic Income For Canadians View James Lorimer and Company	This chapter looks at our relationship with work as individuals and as a society and how basic income will fundamentally change that relationship.	Evelyn L. Forget	16	2020	$1.60 Add