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Partner to peril
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Partner to peril

The Trudeau record on relations with China and emerging markets

From: The Trudeau Record

This chapter reviews the Trudeau government’s position on China and emerging global markets. 13 $1.30 Add
Patriarchy of the Wage

Patriarchy of the Wage

Notes on Marx, Gender, and Feminism

At a time when socialism is entering a historic crisis and we are witnessing a worldwide expansion of capitalist relations, a feminist rethinking of Marx’s work is vitally important. In … 144 View
Payback

Payback

Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth

Legendary poet, novelist, and essayist Margaret Atwood gives us a surprising look at the topic of debt — a timely subject during our current period of economic upheaval, caused by the … 242 View
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Payback

Payback

From: Payback

Payback is not a book about practical debt management or high finance, although it does touch upon these subjects. Rather, it is an investigation into the idea of debt as an ancient and central … 45 $5.40 Add
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Paying for Mobilization, Then and Now

Paying for Mobilization, Then and Now

From: A Good War

In Chapter 8, Klein tackles the question of who will pay for it. In the chapter he explores how the financial backing was generated during the mobilized for the the Second World War and how we … 22 $2.20 Add
Peak Everything

Peak Everything

Waking Up to the Century of Declines

A combination of wry commentary and sober forecasting on subjects as diverse as farming and industrial design, this book describes how to make the transition from The Age of Excess to the Era of … 240 View
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Peer Governance Through Commoning

Peer Governance Through Commoning

From: Free, Fair and Alive

This chapter considers the second aspect of the Triad framework, Peer Governance through Commoning. They name and describe ten dynamics of Peer Governance usually present in effective commons, … ; 44 $4.40 Add
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Perchance to Scale

Perchance to Scale

From: In The Business of Change

Though many social entrepreneurs are proponents of scale, the goal is a more difficult one for them to achieve than for traditional enterprises. For one thing, balancing the objectives of profit … 16 $1.60 Add
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Perfect Be Damned

Perfect Be Damned

From: The Great Greenwashing

From The Great Greenwashing: How Brands, Governments, and Influencers Are Lying to You 5 $0.50 Add
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Perserving for the Long Haul

Perserving for the Long Haul

From: Intrinsic Hope

Perseverance helps to nurture intrinsic hope because it gives us the determination to endure whatever happens. Perseverance persists — day after day, month after month, and year after year. … 15 $1.50 Add
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Personal Well-Being

Personal Well-Being

From: An Economy of Well-Being

* Well-Being is a Choice * Money, Your Life and Happiness 8 $0.80 Add
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Peru, 1992

Peru, 1992

From: Canada’s Long Fight Against Democracy

In this chapter, Engler and Schalk examine President Alberto Fujimori’s 1992 self-coup in Peru, where he dissolved his own congress with military backing. ; 4 $0.40 Add
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Peter Lougheed and the Rise of the Oil Sands

Peter Lougheed and the Rise of the Oil Sands

From: Oi's Deep State

Former Alberta opposition leader Kevin Taft examines Peter Lougheed’s government in Alberta and the rise of the oil sands paying particular attention to Lougheed’s stance against … 9 $0.90 Add
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Petro-Capitalism and the Tar Sands

Petro-Capitalism and the Tar Sands

Part I: Tar Sands Expansionism

From: A Line in the Tar Sands

In Chapter 1 Angela Carter uses petro-capitalism as a lens to capture the scale and complexity of the tar sands industry, focusing on our economic, political, and environmental costs of fossil … 13 $1.30 Add
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Petro-Chemical Legacies and Tar Sands Frontiers: Chemical Valley versus Environmental Justice

Petro-Chemical Legacies and Tar Sands Frontiers: Chemical Valley versus Environmental Justice

Part II: Communities and Resistance

From: A Line in the Tar Sands

In Chapter 13 Toban Black critically examines the conference titled “Bitumen—Adding Value: Canada’s National Opportunity” in May of 2013, discussing potential tar sands … 12 $1.20 Add
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Petroleum and Geopolitics

Petroleum and Geopolitics

From: Oil and World Politics

Discusses petroleum, the most valuable commodity in world trade, and its ties to politics and power. Introduces the links between governments and oil corporations, the history of petrodollars in … 30 $3.00 Add