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"Rising Powers" and Authoritarian Populism

Beyond Northern Left Perspectives

From: Challenging the Right, Augmenting the Left

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The Cultural(ist) Logic of the Post–Cold War World – “Rising Power” Populism in Turkey and India – Conclusion ; 12 $1.20 Add
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4. The Inequality Turnaround

“Sharing the Dividends”

From: Earth for All

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Chapter 4 explores the challenges of the growing inequality across the globe. Topics discussing include economic inequality, privatization,  the creation of progressive taxation for … ; ; ; ; ; 18 $1.80 Add
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A “Square Deal” Delayed

From: Equal as Citizens

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Dominion-Provincial Conference on Reconstruction, August 6, 1945, Prime Minister and Canada’s Premiers meet to discuss the reconstruction of Canada, no agreements but paved the way for the … 18 $1.80 Add
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A Union for Everyone

From: A New Kind of Union

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Describes the continued efforts of the CEP and the CAW to negotiate the New Union Project from 2012-2013. Analyzes debates over how the new union can represent Canadians from a wide variety of … 38 $3.80 Add
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Academic health science centres

research, money, controversies, conflict of interest and independence

From: Doctors in Denial

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Describes and analyzes the money received by academic health science centres from the pharmaceutical industry for research and the conflicts that this money may create. 32 $3.20 Add
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Advanced Capitalist Mode of Thought: Bourgeois Ideology

From: Tipping Point for Advanced Capitalism

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In this chapter, Livingstone examines modes of thought that serve to shape peoples’ views of social reality, compare feudal and capitalist modes of thought and dominant ideas, and point to … 30 $3.00 Add
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Advocacy Think Tanks

From: Ruling Canada

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An “Unconscious Terrain of Habits”: Structural Violence against Women Labelled with Intellectual Disabilities

New Structures and New Discourses: The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same Who Decides Who is a(t) Risk? Creating Vulnerabilities Reinforcing “Otherness” and Normalizing Violence A Fragmented System: Managing Lives and Creating Divisions Creating Crises and Managing Risks Containing Sexuality Equality: Undoing the “Unconscious Terrain of Habits” References Videos

From: Not A New Problem

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Big Data and Untapped Insights

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. Topics in this chapter include the application of … 9 $0.90 Add
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Bison, Blue Jays, Rainbow and Walleye

Peace River Biodiversity

From: Damming the Peace

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B.C. wildlife biologist Brian Churchill describes B.C.’s Peace River Valley’s unique biodiversity and what would be destroyed by the Site C dam under construction there. Adjacent to … 16 $1.60 Add
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Boomtown

From: BlackBerry Town

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Howitt describes Research in Motion’s continued success, specifically from the point of view of several of the company’s key employees. 17 $1.70 Add
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Canada’s Oil and Gas:

Security, Sustainability, and Prosperity

From: Living with Uncle

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This chapter reviews Canada’s oil and natural gas outlook: remaining reserves and production; consumption, imports, and exports; and the unaccounted for and high costs of our current path. … ; 20 $2.00 Add
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Canadian Diplomatic Efforts to Sell the Tar Sands

Part I: Tar Sands Expansionism

From: A Line in the Tar Sands

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In Chapter 4 Yves Engler discusses Canadian diplomacy in the decades of its rapidly growing tar sands and its push for carbon-heavy oil globally. It discusses topics including international … 9 $0.90 Add
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Change for Good Action

Chapter 5

From: Change for Good

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Chapter 5 focuses on what the most innovative corporations are doing to increase the speed of social change by reflecting on how some large corporations have been able to pick up the pace of … 19 $1.90 Add
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Change Your Shape, Not Your Size

From: Curing Affluenza

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Chapter 5 examines how we choose aspects of society to change, discussing topics including the driving sectors of the economy,  neoliberalism, individuality and individualism, collective … 30 $3.00 Add