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Big Oil and Think Tanks Besiege Kyoto

From: The Big Stall

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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 … 20 $2.00 Add
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Book Publishing:

Dying One Chapter(s) at a Time?

From: Cultural Industries.ca

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In Jeff Boggs’s article on book publishing the changing nature of the audience and technologies serves as the focus 16 $1.60 Add
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Enlarging the American Cinema

Armond White vs. the Straight Middle-Class White World (and the Black Bourgeoisie)

From: Thinking While Black

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In this chapter the author examines Armond White’s wildly overlooked film criticism of the 1980’s and 1990’s to shed light on his contributions to resistance aesthetics and film … 44 $4.40 Add
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Hips Don’t Lie

Chapter 4

From: Decolonize Hipsters

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In Hips Don’t Lie, Pierrot reflects on the present state of hipsterdom after the Black Lives Matter movement. Pierrot provides a call to action which must reflect on and move away from … 24 $2.40 Add
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July 2020: The Lie of Personal Responsibility

From: Spin Doctors

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In this chapter, Loreto examines the neoliberal politics employed by politicians and the media to encourage a sense of individual responsibility to prevent further spread of the virus. Loreto … 22 $2.20 Add
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Overexposed

From: The Trauma Beat

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In this chapter, Cherry explores the ethical issues surrounding crime scene photographs. Cherry reflects on her experiences as a reporter desperate to get the ‘body shot’, the high … 11 $1.10 Add
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Retreat, Reform, Restraint

From: Reset

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In the final chapter, the author turns to the question “What is to be done?” The negative implications of social media are increasingly acknowledged and well documented. But what to … 68 $6.80 Add
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The Biological Science

What's Really Going on in Our Brains?

From: i-Minds, 2nd edition

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I am going to get down to the hard science: what really goes on in our brains when we overengage in i-tech. To this end, I will introduce modalities that permit us to examine the i-phenomenon at … 21 $2.10 Add
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The Book

From: Inside the Montreal Mafia

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This chapter explores "The Book" and its power. ; 12 $1.20 Add
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The Changing Canadian Landscape

From: The Next Big Thing

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"In the fall of 2007, Toronto Star columnist Chantal Hébert came from Montreal thinking about new politics in Quebec from the perspective of one who spent a career writing about … 10 $1.00 Add
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The Criminal Law System

From: Fundamental Law for Journalists

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Chapter Five explains the Criminal Law System. Topics discussed include concepts in Criminal Law (Voluntariness, Causation, Strict Liability, Subjective, and Objective Mens Rea), murder, intent, … 48 $4.80 Add
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The Garden Invaded

The Harper Years

From: The Tangled Garden

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Developments in key Canadian creative industries (eg. television, film, newspapers) during Stephen Harper’s Conservative era (2006 to 2015); how the digital media produced a drastic decline … 37 $3.70 Add
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The Little Dumb Foundling

Hans Christian Andersen's Ugly Little Duckings

From: Disfigured

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Chapter 5 focuses on the work of Hans Christian Andersen, exploring topics including “The Little Mermaid”, Andersen’s own disability, Andersen’s book "The … 26 $2.60 Add
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What is to be Done?

From: What We Talk About When We Talk About War

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The author muses on Canadian culture and the ideas of epics and epic behaviour, which reduce the world to a dichotomy of black and white and as a result encourage militarism/"warrior … 46 $4.60 Add
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What is Wrong with Social Media?

An Anti-Capitalist Critique

From: The Socialist Register 2022

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Marcus Gilroy-Ware provides an authoritative and skeptical assessment of ‘what is wrong with social media’ and places the social pathologies they amplify within the capitalist … 20 $2.00 Add
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August 2020: The End of CERB

From: Spin Doctors

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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 … 22 $2.20 Add