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From  Old Dogs, New TricksFrom: Unicorn in the Woods |
This chapter concerns Fiddlehead, a data analytics firm in Moncton that partnered with McCain Foods. | Gordon Pitts | 13 | 2020 | $1.30 Add |
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From  On Becoming an “Other”From: Experiencing Difference |
Carolyn Ewoldt | 9 | 2012 | $0.99 Add | |
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From  On Nature’s Limits and the Human ConditionParrots and Peoples From: Peak Everything |
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 |
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From  On Role-Plays, Games, and SimulationsFrom: Roles of Resistance |
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 |
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From On Technology, Agriculture, and the ArtsFifty Million Farmers From: Peak Everything |
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 |
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From On Technology, Agriculture, and the Arts(post-) Hydrocarbon Aesthetics From: Peak Everything |
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 |
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From  On the Body, Gender, and Performance |
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 |
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From  On the Shubenacadie River: The Grassroots Grandmothers and the Fight against Alton Gas |
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 successfully … | Ingrid Waldron | 19 | 2022 | $1.90 Add |
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From  NEW! One foot in, one foot outThe Trudeau record on infrastructure and public transit From: The Trudeau Record |
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 |
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From  NEW! Opening NightFrom: Seven Days in Halifax |
In this chapter, Ashe describes the events of Day Two of "Encounter on Urban Environment," focusing on the event’s first live televised town hall and the Nova Scotia … | Robert Ashe | 13 | 2025 | $1.30 Add |
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From  NEW! Optimism of the WillThere Is an Alternative |
This chapter considers what is needed to counter neoliberalism and comments on the positive signs of the rise in union activity and the common cause of diverse grassroots movements in advocating … | Alex Himelfarb | 22 | 2024 | $2.20 Add |
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From  Organizing for Socialism: The Communist Network of ItalyFrom: 21st Century Socialism |
Luciano Vasapollo; Mauro Casadio | 19 | 2011 | $2.09 Add | |
 Organizing the 1%How Corporate Power Works |
Canada is ruled by an organized minority of the 1%, a class of corporate owners, managers and bankers who amass wealth by controlling the large corporations at the core of the economy. But … | 184 | View | ||
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From  Organizing the Contending MassesFrom a Struggle With to a Struggle Against Capitalism |
The Search for Potential Anti-Capitalist Forces – A Radicalizing Detroit – Conclusions | Robert Latham | 12 | 2020 | $1.20 Add |
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From  Organizing the Market: The Canadian Wheat BoardFrom: Frontline Farmers |
The fifth chapter considers the history and role of the Canadian Wheat Board, as well as its impacts on farmers with interviews with Fred Tait and Stewart Wells. | André Magnan | 20 | 2019 | $2.00 Add |
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From Origins and Development of Sexual Work in the United States and Britain |
In this chapter, feminist scholar Silvia Federici explores sexual work as a component of capitalism. She suggests that capitalist systems seek to establish sex and reproduction as a utilitarian … | Silvia Federici | 17 | 2020 | $1.70 Add |
