Economics

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Climate Justice?

Wake Up, Canada, and Smell the Coffee!

From: The Fair Trade Handbook

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This chapter concerns Canadian efforts to slow climate change, or the lack thereof. Continued inaction means that Indigenous peoples will be first and most effected. The author suggests … 11 $1.10 Add
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Conclusion

From: Someone To Talk To

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Conclusion: Political Implications and Moving Forward

From: Bombardier Abroad

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Additional Cases and Future Research – Final Thoughts 11 $1.10 Add
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Creating and Deepening Grower-Eater Relations

From: Growing and Eating Sustainably

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In this chapter the authors maintain that a stronger connection between growers and eaters is crucial for developing more environmentally sound and socially just food systems. In addition to … 28 $2.80 Add
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Data’s Move to the Front

From: Shifting the Balance

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Readings in part 1 of this text explore how companies combine intuition with data and analytics to drive competitive wedges in their markets. This chapter discusses the emergence of technologies … 5 $0.50 Add
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Demons for Negotiators

From: Negotiating So Everyone Wins

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The majority of difficulties that occur in a bargaining process arise out of errors made by the negotiators themselves which Dingwall breaks down into ego-creep, bias, neediness, naïve … 22 $2.20 Add
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Down to Business in the “New” Canada

From: Merchant Princes

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1867-1906. Examines how the family adapted to the new canada after confederation. The ropemaking business, the final days of wood, wind and sail, their shipping agency busines, looks at the union … 36 $3.60 Add
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Enclosures of Public Spaces and Infrastructure

From: Think Like a Commoner

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The city is one of the most fiercely contested arenas for market enclosures. Public squares, parks, walkways, sports arenas and the very face and identity of a city are being taken over by a cozy … 10 $1.00 Add
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Envisioning A Co-operative Economy

From: From Corporate Globalization to Global Co-operation

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Fifty Years in Indian Country

From: Canada Since 1960: A People's History

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This chapter will review Canadian Dimension’s coverage by decade in order to show the sweep of its coverage. This narrative also allows for showing the development of a distinctive … 22 $2.20 Add
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Gunboat Ed

From: The Fire and the Ashes

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In this chapter, Jackson discusses his time with the federal NDP caucus, then led by Ed Broadbent. 6 $0.60 Add
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Hiring Adolf H.

From: Big Business and Hitler

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Revisionist historian Jacques R. Pauwels discusses the role of industrialists and bankers in the political developments leading to Hitler being appointed as "Reich chancellor" in 1933. 6 $0.60 Add
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Inequality from the Bottom Up

From: The Age of Increasing Inequality

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As average incomes increase in a society, many cheap goods become unavailable and the cost of living for poor people rises. Although different poverty line methodologies produce somewhat … 23 $2.30 Add
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Interlude

From: Grocery Story

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This chapter describes alternative, viable, models for grocery stores and the "food shed" of local retailers and growers in Nelson, BC, and Viroqua, Wisconsin. The grocery store chains … 11 $1.10 Add
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Introduction of Part II

The Triad of Commoning

From: Free, Fair and Alive

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The introduction to the second part of the book explains that in the coming section, the authors set out to articulate a comprehensive framework, called the Triad, for commons and commoning. The … 8 $0.80 Add
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Jacobs’ Theory of Import Replacement

Section 2: Jacobs’ Urban Economics

From: Cities Matter

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Chapter 4 focuses on Jane Jacobs’ theory of import replacement, discussing local markets, variety, the example of Quebec and Québécois language and cultural preferences as an … 16 $1.60 Add