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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
Oak Island and Its Lost Treasure Third Edition Formac Publishing	Uncovering the British military’s role on Nova Scotia’s “Treasure Island” Civil engineers Graham Harris and Les MacPhie have spent over a decade investigating the enigma …		264	2013	View
From Obsuring a Crisis The Obstetricians' and Gynecologists' Job Action and Maternal Care in Alberta From: Care and Consequences View Fernwood Publishing		Jane Cawthorne	20	2000	$2.20 Add
From Of Resources and Constitutions: The Rising of the New West From: The Rise of the New West View James Lorimer and Company	1960s absence of general economic diversification causes the west to open their provinces to virtually unrestricted resource development. 1970s, the resource economy is not working and the west …	John F. Conway	40	2014	$4.00 Add
From Oil and the deep state From: Oil’s Deep State View James Lorimer and Company	Former Alberta opposition leader Kevin Taft analyzes how an economy heavily dependent on oil production sets the stage for a deep state with examples from around the world.	Kevin Taft	10	2017	$1.00 Add
Oil and World Politics The real story of today's conflict zones: Iraq, Afghanistan, Venezuela, Ukraine and more	This book identifies the underlying role played by the oil and gas resource and the oil industry in international affairs, with a focus on recent conflict zones. It discusses military …		280		View
From Oil-Lobby Power, Railway-Lobby Power From: The Lac-Mégantic Rail Disaster View James Lorimer and Company	Analyzes the rise of Stephen Harper against the backdrop of Big Oil interests. Identifies how oil lobby, backed by rail lobby, and supported by Harper pushed through additional deregulation. He …	Bruce Campbell	12	2018	$1.20 Add
Oil’s Deep State How the petroleum industry undermines democracy and stops action on global warming — in Alberta, and in Ottawa	Why have democratic governments failed to take serious steps to reduce carbon emissions despite dire warnings and compelling evidence of the profound and growing threat posed by global warming? …		256		View
From Old Dogs, New Tricks From: Unicorn in the Woods View Goose Lane Editions	This chapter concerns Fiddlehead, a data analytics firm in Moncton that partnered with McCain Foods.	Gordon Pitts	13	2020	$1.30 Add
From On Becoming an “Other” From: Experiencing Difference View Fernwood Publishing		Carolyn Ewoldt	9	2012	$0.99 Add
From On Nature’s Limits and the Human Condition Parrots and Peoples From: Peak Everything View New Society Publishers	People who live a civilized life are like birds in a cage. As long as we stay within well-defined social bounds (and assuming we are lucky enough to have been born in a wealthy parasitic society, …	Richard Heinberg	17	2010	$1.70 Add
From On Role-Plays, Games, and Simulations From: Roles of Resistance View Between The Lines	This section outlines the pedagogy behind the different role-play activities featured throughout the book, and includes a table of quantifiable outcomes for each game, role-plays, and simulations.	John-Henry Harter; Mark Leier	3	2024	$0.30 Add
From On Technology, Agriculture, and the Arts Fifty Million Farmers From: Peak Everything View New Society Publishers	There are reasons to think that our current anomalous abundance of inexpensive food may be only temporary; if so, present and future generations may become acquainted with that old, formerly …	Richard Heinberg	20	2010	$2.00 Add
From On Technology, Agriculture, and the Arts (post-) Hydrocarbon Aesthetics From: Peak Everything View New Society Publishers	Will industrial production survive in the post-hydrocarbon era? The answer will of course depend on how much energy humans will have at their disposal. The total amount, as well as the per capita …	Richard Heinberg	16	2010	$1.60 Add
From On the Body, Gender, and Performance From: Beyond the Periphery of the Skin View Between The Lines	In this chapter, feminist scholar Silvia Federici discusses the concept of gender as performace. She discusses the ways in which gender is an expression of internal and external forces.	Silvia Federici	7	2020	$0.70 Add
From NEW! On the Shubenacadie River: The Grassroots Grandmothers and the Fight against Alton Gas Part One: Dispossession at Home From: Capitalism and Dispossession View Fernwood Publishing	In Chapter 5, author Ingrid Waldron examines the success of the grassroots activism of the Mi’kmaq grandmothers of the Sipekne’katik First Nation near Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia who …	Ingrid Waldron	19	2022	$1.90 Add
From NEW! One foot in, one foot out The Trudeau record on infrastructure and public transit From: The Trudeau Record View James Lorimer and Company	This chapter discusses the Trudeau government’s investment in infrastructure and analyzes its commitment to public spending to realize affordable and accessible public transit.	Nate Wallace	16	2024	$1.60 Add