Media & Society
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From  Appropriating the ImagePart III From: The Imaginary Indian |
Citing the example of General Motors and their Pontiac cars produced since 1925, the author explains the final stage in the creation of the Imaginary Indian. Not only are Indian images used to … | Daniel Francis | 24 | 1992 | $2.40 Add |
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From  Appropriating the ImagePart III From: The Imaginary Indian |
Citing the example of General Motors and their Pontiac cars produced since 1925, the author explains the final stage in the creation of the Imaginary Indian. Not only are Indian images used to … | Daniel Francis | 24 | 1992 | $2.40 Add |
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From  April 2020: Disaster in Residential CareFrom: Spin Doctors |
This chapter examines how Covid-19 impacted aged care facilities and residential homes. Loreto explores how politicians contributed to the rising death tolls of Canada’s elderly population, … | Nora Loreto | 27 | 2021 | $2.70 Add |
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From  NEW! "Are You Impressed?" |
The authors discuss their history with Andrew Scoppa and their interest in and knowledge of organized crime. Félix Séguin recounts his first meeting with Scoppa. | Eric Thibault; Félix Séguin | 8 | 2022 | $0.80 Add |
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From August 2020: The End of CERBFrom: Spin Doctors |
This chapter discuss Covid-19 during August 2020. Loreto examines the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (cerb); discussing who was eligible and when, how it impacted Canadians, and what the … | Nora Loreto | 22 | 2021 | $2.20 Add |
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From  Aunt Jemima in ChicagoFrom: Uncle |
In this chapter, Thompson explores the meaning of Uncle Tom within the context of the World’s Columbian Exposition in 1893. Here, Thompson suggests, Americans became increasingly obsessed … | Cheryl Thompson | 6 | 2021 | $0.60 Add |
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From  Back to BiologyPeigenetics and Vestibular Regulation From: i-Minds, 2nd edition |
Epigenetics simply means is how our individual genetics mix with all the potential influences in our individual environment. As we are increasingly learning, epigenetics are not only important, … | Mari K Swingle | 16 | 2019 | $1.60 Add |
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From  NEW! Bad, Ugly, Good, RepeatFrom: The Trauma Beat |
In this chapter, Cherry discusses the psychological impacts and ethical concerns of interviewing the family members of violent crime victims. Cherry explores varied responses to her survey: … | Tamara Cherry | 22 | 2023 | $2.20 Add |
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From  Baghdad Year ZeroFrom: The Next Big Thing |
"When we invited journalist and activist Naomi Klein to campus in the fall of 2004, five years after the international success of her bestselling first book, No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand … | Naomi Klein | 26 | 2014 | $2.60 Add |
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From Barack Obama and the Paradox of Black Political PowerFrom: Uncle |
This chapter examines the career of Barack Obama, whose presidential campaign was marked by accusations of disloyalty to the Black community. | Cheryl Thompson | 16 | 2021 | $1.60 Add |
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From Be Interesting, Or ElseFrom: The Next Big Thing |
"A decade after he gave Canadian journalism a kick in the backside as the founding editor of Conrad Black’s brash National Post newspaper, Ken Whyte came to campus. Most recently, as … | Ken Whyte | 20 | 2014 | $2.00 Add |
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From Benefactors of ChangeFrom: i-Minds, 2nd edition |
Who benefits from the propagation and consumption of sextech and pornography? And who loses? The industries involved, as too all spinoffs of depersonalized touch (such as massage parlors, … | Mari K Swingle | 9 | 2019 | $0.90 Add |
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From Beyond IllusionsSpatial Planning, Arbitrary Learning, and Geolocation Skills From: i-Minds, 2nd edition |
Excessive screen usage (gaming and beyond) is highly related, if not correlated, with the development of anxiety, depression, and ailments on the obsessive-compulsive spectrum. So here I present … | Mari K Swingle | 20 | 2019 | $2.00 Add |
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From  Beyond Policy Analysis:Methods for Qualitative Investigation From: Cultural Industries.ca |
Jeremy Shtern argues that in Canada many people practise “policy analysis,” but few have ever thought of this form of analysis as a methodological approach, one driven by certain … | Jeremy Shtern | 17 | 2012 | $1.70 Add |
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From  Big Oil and Think Tanks Besiege KyotoFrom: The Big Stall |
Examines the business led campaign to discredit the Kyoto Accord in the 1990s and 2000s. Big business lobbied for a "made in Canada" solution while funding a massive anti-Kyoto … | Donald Gutstein | 20 | 2018 | $2.00 Add |
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From  NEW! Black and BritishA Lived Contradiction From: Thinking While Black |
This chapter detailed Paul Gilroy’s life after 1968 and his interest in the rebel spirit of black American and Caribbean musicians. Topics include British immigration policy, political … | Daniel McNeil | 32 | 2022 | $3.20 Add |
